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PC Users Switch to Apple

Posted by pudge on from the my-name-is-pudge-and-i-am-a-slashdot-editor dept.

JHromadka writes "Apple has setup a special website with real users explaining why they switched from the PC to the Mac. There's a full compliment of commercials, Mac OS X reviews, the works. Now we know why they didn't renew that agreement with Microsoft. :)" I like the commercials, they're funny, though probably not so much intentionally. Apparently the commercials begin airing this week.

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  1. I'm switching this week by swagr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Quite honestly, I love Linux. I use it as a destop and a server on several PCs.
    Laptops are another story...
    I've owned 3 PC laptops in the last 5 years, and never had Linux working 100% on any of them.

    Power management has never worked 100% properly for me. Even though I can get hardware video acceleration, switching to a tty, then back, breaks XFree and freezes my machine. etc... Basically the Open Source community can't keep up with the proprietary innovations going into new laptops.

    Enter OSX. Now I know I can get a cutting edge Laptop, who's hardware is 100% supported by a UNIX based OS, at a reasonable price. I don't remember an opportuinity like this existing before.

    I'm trading my (almost) new PC laptop for an (almost) new iBook this week.

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