Re: Caution: response to long winded post ahead!
Originally posted by Grokgod
Mcrain : Stated that he was researching why people like macs so much. That should be SO obvious, who likes ugly things?
Your betray your motives with this method.
You seek the justification of your actions by following the opinions of others, so that you can feel secure in buying a Mac. This is an example of why you first bought a Pcee in the first place. And why many others have, its the herd mentality!
People that have bought the Mac did so because they wanted a unit that fits their needs and works. They didnt seek out justification by watching others. This is an obvious character flaw.
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Drop the comparisions tween Pcees and Mac!
The only relative comparision is tween available hardware and what Apple should use.
You said that you didnt want to buy a machine that was more expensive and over a gigahertz slower than Wintel.
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Your concept of OSX on a Wintel box is infantile, I won't address it because I am trying to be civil!
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- Solid Info: Stop the useless comparisions. Osx is totally different and will mature into a global open source OS instead of the invasive privacy intruding big brother bloated clip art of an os that is Windows! Its a matter of mature understanding of the nature tween the two from a philosophical perspective. There are things more important than how fast something claims to go. Better to understand the context of where it is going! ( ohhh i like that one@!)
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Many things seem to be happening, sadly not good.
Well, well, well. I'm surprised, quite surprised. I bought a PC at a time when Apple was selling gumdrops that maxed out at speeds that were ludicriously slow. Lots of little girls liked the cutsy colors, but I was looking for something a little more appropriate for business meetings and court. In addition, apple's stability at the time was no better than PC's.
Now, rather than following any herd, I'm researching to determine whether apple is a better machine. I hear and listen to Mac users make claims about how superior the mac is, however, some claims should be easily supportable. Others require use with a machine.
I have had the opportunity to use G4 towers, G4 TiBooks, and a G3 iBook, and am thoroughly impressed with the usability and features offered on those computers. I also like the look and feel of the OS better than anything offered by M$.
That being said, I also hear and listen to lots and lots of Mac users on these threads that bitch and moan about how apple needs this, or needs that. In fact, this thread starts with a mac person suggesting that mac could be in trouble if it doesn't do something soon. So, instead of blindly following the heard of lemmings over the cliff, I continue my research to determine whether buying an apple (a machine I think is nicer) is a mistake.
As for OSX on a wintel box being a silly idea, sure, OSX on a wintel box wouldn't be as good and would make all the high and mighty mac users feel betrayed, but if it increased apple's market share from 4% to >10% would that necessarily be a bad thing?
Apple has several issues to overcome if it hopes to convince a large portion of current PC users to buy apple. That's a fact of life. I've "seen the light," and to suggest that it is wrong to assist others to see the light by making software and hardware available is, as you would say, infantile.
Here I am, a current PC user who is beginning to embrase apple and its products, and what do I get? Beraded. Good thing you don't work for apple's PR department.
