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Rendezvous, Microsoft And Apple
serendigital writes "MacCentral reports that a BusinessWeek article entitled: 'A Rendezvous with Redmond?' has -- with Rendezvous -- created an actual threat to Microsoft. As reported by MacCentral, it's interesting to note that BusinesWeek's 'Byte of the Apple' columnist Charles Haddad is on temporary leave and this article was written by a substitute columnist."
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It's interesting to see recently how the editors and a lot of the readers are falling over themselves to get on the Apple bandwagon.
These same people who cry "Free as in Freedom" when cheering for Linux and hating Microsoft salivate at all the closed Mac hardware and beg for Apple' iron fist that is just as tight at MS's.
No matter who wins in the MS and Apple battle, Linux will lose if it loses the mindshare and support that it once had from the front running zealot.
SIG:Slashdot: indymedia for nerds.
Big Fat Hairy Deal. What we really want to know as Apple users is if it comes in Blueberry, Raspberry, or Tangerine colors. Don't confuse us with all of the technical mimbo-jumbo.
All I asked for was a rainbow to fulfill my homosexuality! RAINBOW! I WANNA RAAAAINBOOOW!
Where's my rainbow? I know you straight people took it. You're always taking our rainbows. I don't get why; we gay people identify with the rainbow, because, uhh... you know... uhhh...
We identify with the RAAAAINBOOOOW! Because we're fags! YEAH!
I don't want to try running an office full of Macs just because they can network easily with my MP3 player. If they're going into a photojournalist's office or a print shop, fine, but as advanced and smooth as the interface is it's the unfortunate truth that it is still hard to do anything meaningful with a Mac.
From the I'm-so-clever-I-make-my-balls-ache department
Something to do with Apple! Basically pointless, but "Apple" is mentioned and let's not fool ourselves! Apple, apple, apple. Sir Isaac Newton, gravity? I rest my case.
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (dual 1GHZ G4 tower) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 1GHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
I'd like to hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
First I read "and this article was written by a substitute communist". Nah, this is America.
That's just cool. I've been looking at getting a mac since OS X came out, and this is just one more reason to do it. Plus, I think iPods rock, and I'd love one of them... oh if I only had money... My one question about Rendezvous is this: How secure is it? Could anyone with a powerbook sit just outside the walls of your company and have their system "just work" on your network? Could someone go near your house and print a 200 page document in the middle of the night, and you wake up out of paper and ink? How hard is it to make things "just not work"?
~Jon~
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And it's precisely those obstacles, such as proprietary file formats, that have kept Windows the default operating system in the U.S. I don't blame Microsoft for protecting its markets. But you gotta love Apple for breaking this thing open and showing consumers and businesses how much they can save when things that are normally painful all of a sudden just work.
those proprietary formats that can be edited by all kinds of software?
i think the fact that you'll pay about twice as much for a mac as for a comparable pc offsets the the fact that you have to spend an extra minute setting the PC up (assuming that the Mac doesn't crash and you need to find a paperclip somewhere to reset it).
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Yes, the hamburger joint across the street is a threat to McDonald's. Get real. Apple has less than 2% of the market. Until they manage to have decent hardware and stellar Windows emulation, they're not getting any more.
You're so clever... ...and also definitely gay.
I've found that it's best to pee before whacking off. It's worth the extra minute.
No no no. The parent troll was talking about truly meaningful things. Here are some examples:
.wmv file so you couldn't preview it you had all 1.2GB)
- Reaching 1 giga-fps in Halflife. Now try again in millions of colors!
- Finally hooking up with that hot Sim next door, and you SimMom says you are finally old enough to start SimDating!
- Downoading 4 hours of that God damn "lightning bolt!" video playing over and over again because someone told you it was Harry Potter (luckily it was a
- Spending a weekend learning about and disabling 72 Windows services that no one besides Microsoft would ever need you to have (dang, OS X only has like, what, 8 services? oh wait...)
- Fighting tooth and nail to keep the latest and greatest intrusive advertisement from taking over your desktop.
- And last, but most certainly not least, let us not forget the hardest meaningful thing to do on a Mac: making it look like a poor Aqua rip-off.
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