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Windows Expert Jumps Ship
An anonymous reader writes to let us know that Scott Finnie, Computerworld's Windows expert, has given the final verdict to Windows after 3 months of using a Mac. And the verdict is: "Sayonara." Finnie is known to readers here for his many reviews of Vista as it progressed to release. Quoting: "If you give the Mac three months, as I did, you won't go back either. The hardest part is paying for it — everything after that gets easier and easier. Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro. But the darn thing is worth every penny."
what's that you're sitting on? OH THE WADS OF MONEY YOU JUST SAVED!
... just have personal exp. with dell].
Honestly, y0 h0 h0 and a bottle of rum, macs are good computers [I guess...] but dell + linux works just fine [I imagine acer+linux or hp+linux work fine too
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Sounds great! I'm going to go buy a mac right now! I can't wait to see how well my games run on it.
That old canard is getting very tired. When compared to equivalent hardware and bundles, Macs are very competitive.
What IS true is that the least expensive mac is more expensive than the least expensive PC. But, of course, the least expensive PC is invariably a cheap piece of crap one step up from a calculator.
Apple was always cooler and "better" than Windows, but Apple always found a way to screw it up. I think we would all like to see a world where MS didn't have such a ridiculouly large piece of the desktop, and Apple is still the best bet, but they have a very long way to go.
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And most of the things that stopped Apple from suceeding are still true, i.e.
- they are still a lot more expensive (at least for a good laptop),
- The software choice on Windows is still infinitely better,
- The commodity hardware makers still aren't allowed to make platforms that host Apple's choices. (I think)
- Probably some other things that I have forgotten
So I guess Apple won't make much progress (again). Even if they are better (again).
What are these hybric cars you speak of? There isn't anything a Mac can do that a PC can't. I have crashed there OS several times, so it can't run stable. I can't remember the last time I had XP crash, although it does happen. I can recall sitting in class, closed the lid on my iBook, opened it up, BSOD (Black Screen of Death) Linux doesn't run nearly enough apps in native mode to make it a viable alternative. No Adobe Creative Suite, etc. Running servers it is awesome obvioulsy, and my first choice (Free+Stable=Can't be beat) I prefer XP for my creative work. My iBook is only used for mobile file access and web surfing. beyond that it's pretty well useless. Not powerful enough to run photoshop or many apps like the newer macs can (Its a g3 900mhz) and the screen is way too small. My PC i built however, has faster ram (800mhz, capable of 1000mhz), more mobo options, should be able to OC my e6400 faster than any Mac. I don't even know if you can OC an Intel based mac. I would assume so. Higher FSB, better graphics card, etc. All for about $1000 less than a Mac. There are very few legitimate reasons to own a Mac over a PC. If you can't secure a PC, Like shiny things, Can't build your own computer, have fleece, need to look cool... buy a mac. But if you actaully need to do something.. PC/Nux.
I use a Creative Audigy 4 Pro card with 2 Firewire ports. I capture video through them to Adobe Premiere Pro from my Sony Camera. I know a lot of people like Final Cut pro on the MAC, but I find Premiere to be fine. I use Adobe Encore and Nero Vision to create DVDs.
My hardware aint cute, so I guess you got me.
this doesn't make the guy a respectable source by any means. How hard is it to write super shiny reviews at a fifth grade level? I don't care what this guy thinks about a computing experience, whether it be Windows, Mac or Linux. I don't know why Mac products are trendy, they are generally less complete, annoyingly simplistic and the apple kernel (XNU) is a cluster fucked Mach + Freebsd combo. OSX sucks for scientific computing and it annoying for anyone who actually wants to do work. Windows and OSX user interfaces continue to decay as time goes on. So who cares what this guy does in his personal time.
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I'm surprised you would act incredulous, because the fact of Microsoft's abuse of its monopoly position has been clearly documented in a court of law.
Really? When? The only thing I can think of is that DOJ trial of a couple of years ago when a bunch of failing companies petitioned the government to put MS out of business because they couldn't make their failed models work. AOL, Netscape, Sun...bunch of whiny losers who can't put out a good product to save their lives (literally) and it's all MS' fault their businesses barely scrape by, if at all. True, over a decade ago MS told people they had to sell all of their computers with Windows, that practice was stopped in 1995. The reason vendors sell computers with Windows is because that's what people want. Dell sells Linux as an option, and according to them less than one order in a thousand requests it. Similarly with HP and IBM. As for the original article: I gave OSX a year and dumped it because it was a pain in the ass to use. Pretty, but a pain in the ass. I'll just stick with my Windows box where everything just works all the time.
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