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Apple's Device Model Beats the PC Way
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Walt Mossberg argues in the Wall Street Journal that Apple's model for PCs and devices is beating Microsoft's. In early battles for dominance of the PC market, Microsoft's component-based platform crushed Apple's end-to-end model, he says. But in today's post-PC era, where the focus is on music players, game consoles and cellphones, the end-to-end model is the early winner. From the column: 'Even the Mac isn't as closed as its critics charge. It's still designed to work with Apple's own operating system and software. But it can handle all the common files Windows uses, can network with Windows machines, and can use all of the common Windows printers, scanners, keyboards and mice. The Mac gives you the same access to the Internet as Windows. Heck, the newest Macs can even run Windows itself.'"
from the journalist-gets-paid-to-state-the-obvious dept.
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Walt Mossberg things Macs are better than PC's?!?!?! Impossible!
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when did the PC die? Netcraft never mentioned that!
I like building my own PC's,
Really? I find the soldering work to be a bitch.
And you know just how manufacturers like to give it to you...
The other Macs really are difficult to upgrade. Just take a stroll into an Apple store, pick up a Mac Mini and see if you can tell how to even open the case.
What is the deal with this fear of the Mac mini?
Hard-core overclocking freaks, who think nothing of sinking an entire $1500 game PC into a bath of cooking oil as a solution to keep the processor cool at 112% of the reccommended clock speed, are suddenly terrified of using a putty knife to back a few soft plastic clips on the CASE of a $600 computer.
"Woah! d00d, I heard a rumor on Slashdot that Apple might void your warranty if you even add memory to it! Better just put it up on a pedistal and never even look directly at it, or it might a'splode! I'll call a Certified tech to get this keyboard plugged in."
All I can do is shake my head in disgust.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
"Heck, you can't hardly find a mother board these days without sound and network not built in."
I won't not fail to come back and not read this post when I don't have less time on my hands to not figure out what it doesn't say.
Or something.
I just filed 4 new patents based on your post. Thanks!