BRLawyer said:
Sorry, but you really don't get my point. If you really need to run Winblows, you WILL buy a PC, period.
Then you said...
Again, my opinion is that this will be nice ONLY to those that are ALREADY willing/drooling to buy a Mac. No one thinking about PCs will end up buying Macs because they "may" boot Winblows
So which one is it? People pay premiums for Sony Vaio all-in-ones all the time, and I'll be the first to state that they are ugly. I know a lot of my friends who are just regular folks really love the hardware design (especially the maglock on the laptops) but they need Windows for certain things, like Visual Studio, etc, etc. If the apple guy could say, "For $150 you can boot XP on this iMac too," what in the heck is wrong with that?
And the examples you gave are, to be honest, very irrelevant in my view, as I've never heard of "Revit"...Architectural CAD has always been better on Macs, and I know several offices that just rely on Apples for their work. As for AutoCAD, they are already considering a version for Mac, not to mention the gamut of CAD/rendering packages that exist on the Mac for ages.
The Mac
was a nice platform until it looked like Apple would tank in the 90s. I've used: Softplan, VertexBD, ArchiCAD versions 7 through 9, AutoCAD, Form Z, VectorWorks, Architectural Desktop, 3dsmax, BOA (now discontinued), ChiefArchitect, and many, many more. I can tell you, and anyone else who has used BIM (building information modeling) can tell you, that everything out there that isn't Revit is simply a toy or a poor excuse for "virtual paperspace." It would be like me telling you that a console text editor was just as usable as FrontPage (or heaven forbid, Microsoft Word).
The gaming industry on PCs is drowning, and you know that. The bulk of sales goes to consoles, and even big houses are already releasing their titles on XBoxes and PSs only, so this is a moot point.
Except for the biggest and most profitable games out right now - MMORPGs like WoW (already ported) and FPS games that hardcore gamers (like the ones who give about $220 million to Alienware every year) won't use on a console.
Again, my opinion is that this will be nice ONLY to those that are ALREADY willing/drooling to buy a Mac. No one thinking about PCs will end up buying Macs because they "may" boot Winblows...besides, Apple will NOT (and SHOULD NOT) support Windows. So apart from hardcore gamers and geeks, the normal consumer will not care about dual-boot capability; this's a fact.
You seem to be unable to grasp the concept that there are windows applications which won't be ported to OS X within the next two years, and that people want to use those programs with 100% speed and compatibility.
Think about the changes Mac has had in just the past five years: OS 9 to OS X - rewrite your software! From PowerPC to Intel - rewrite your software again! You're not going to get serious development from the mainstream until you stick with a platform that doesn't break previous applications. An exe that runs on Windows 95 - (that's 11 years ago!) - will STILL run on Windows XP without a problem, at full speed, with no emulation software necessary.
Remember, no one ever got fired for using Microsoft, and they've got 90% of the market because of that idea. If you're going to seriously challange their marketshare, you have to have a better attitude than telling anyone who uses Windows apps to go climb a tree. Then again, maybe you and Steve have more in common that I thought...
