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Why Microsoft Is Beating Apple At Its Own Game
ttom writes "OSWeekly.com looks at Microsoft's promotional strategy and concludes that Microsoft is beating Apple at its own game." From the article: "Apple is to blame for this, at least to some extent. They just had to go and release Boot Camp, didn't they? By the way, please don't take my sarcastic tone as an expression of my dissatisfaction for the product. I think it's great, and I really never expected to see something like Boot Camp come out of the Apple Camp. I know that users have bombarded them with requests for officially allowing Windows usage on a Mac, and the fact that they yielded to these requests is interesting because they've emphasized the OS X and Windows experiences as being completely separate for quite some time."
and pay ten times the price as a normal pc (slight exageration)...
This implies you haven't rebooted on LEGITIMATE patching recently http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/200
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It may well be far easier to go from new Mac to another new Mac. The fact remains that for some reason you wanted to do a fairly major hardware upgrade to your fathers PC. Perhaps a new PC would be a better option... however, with non-Mac systems you have those options. With a Mac you don't.
Not saying one is better, just seems funny to slam one system for being difficult to upgrade while praising a system where that isn't even an option.
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More like 0mph once you try to do any of the things most Mac users buy a Mac computer for, such as video editing for one example. The rest of the Mac users buy a Mac because it is easy to use and has a broad range of software, neither of which Linux has, unless you talk about the "10,000 applications Debian ships", many of which are libraries, with the rest being crappy alphas or developer tools. The only good applications Linux has are all either available on OS X or have better OS X counterparts. Any missing can generally be run using fink and X11.
Oh, wait, what am I thinking?!?! 2006 is the year of the Linux desktop!!! *bursts appendix laughing*
"Macintosh computing experience" - No thanks I walk past straight past boots the chemist and shop at superdrug instead :P
Have people here not see the OSx86 project? Since Mac was forced to use Intel chips (points at Xbox 360) they had to make an x86 OS that would run on these new chips. Some people got together and hacked the Mac kernel and made a version of OSX that would run on any Intel AND AMD PC system. I've tried it, got all of my hardware to work, and now have a duel boot. Why you might ask? Because for one, I can, two, it runs faster than what I've seen it run on a Mac Book Pro! Apple would make more money if they would officially make their OS run on PC's... I would actually buy this just to have it for testing! I like Mac, but I have a HUGE problem with not being able to build it. If I could build a Mac cheaper than buying a pre-built one (like the PC I'm using now) I would! Also, I would LOVE to see Apple include more game support! I'm an avid gamer and don't understand why there are not as many games on Mac that there are on XP? The only thing I've heard is DirectX and CPU... Has someone besides transgaming thought of making a wine based program for Macs that would allow games to run, and at full speeds? P.S. I love it when anyone says Microsoft or Mac in a news post today... In my mind, when I see either of these two words in a post on /. it means, "Instant Flame War Detected!" ROFL