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Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista?
aalobode writes "The New York Times is running an article on the narrowing window that Apple has for beating Microsoft's Vista. According the Times, not enough has been done to capitalize on the Mac user experience versus the 'world of hurt that is Vista'. It also points out that that restructuring of Apple leaves ambiguities about Apple's exact commitment to the computer end of its business. The article calls MS Vista's certified vendors, developers and driver writers a flywheel that takes a while coming up to speed - and then becomes unstoppable."
Vista is the worst thing I've ever installed on a PC. I have a quite high end system. Core 2 Duo running at 3.2Ghz with 2GB ram. Still after a few months use I struggle with constantly disc swapping and 5 minutes waiting everytime I alt-tab out games, for example Warcraft 3. After a week without a reboot Vista use 1.8GB of memory. Some is probably caching, however as I said I struggle with a lot of swapping to the disc and a reboot of Vista helps A LOT!
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In two years people will say that 2GB ram for Vista is minimum, and recommended amount of memory is 8GB ram(No I'm not joking). It's like when WinXP was released, 128MB was minimum, and recommended was 512MB. Today it's 256MB minimum and 1GB recommended.
My laptop with WinXP and 512MB ram is way more responsive than my desktop with Vista and 2GB ram
The only thing Apple needs is more (especially high end)games and I'm sure people will get a Mac next time. Imagine if Crysis were only to be released on a Mac!
Two things are stopping Apple from having the percentage of market share that Microsoft has:
1. Fucked up pricing (why spend $$$$ more when you can get a PC that does the same thing for less?).
Why should a user have to pay for OS updates (they're free and frequent with MS, yet you have to pay for each version of OSX)? Why do Apple Mac's cost so much when they're really just a closed up PC with different OS and fancier cases?
2. Holier-than-thou attitude.
Don't deny it. When it comes to the 'Mac culture', it's a resounding "my Mac is better than your PC because... blah blah blah...." with much chest beating. Majority of PC users don't actually care about Mac's. If anything, they wouldn't mind one. Most don't go into an Apple shop and say "Your dumb Mac can't play S.T.A.L.K.E.R.". Even support. iPods suck balls hard. I used to work in a retail store that sold iPods when they first came out. I had to call Apple 3 times in the first week with faulty units. I got 3 different D.O.A. policies from 3 different Indian call centre workers (yea, that iPod that you overpaid for sure didn't go into tech support). Ranging from 'Two week DOA policy, send it back to the distributor' to 'We're Apple, we have no DOA policy'. One tech support guy had the balls to tell a customer 'We don't manufacture faulty products, you clearly broke it' when it had the infamous frowny face error.
Look, if a Mac was given to me, I'd love it. Truly, they're great at what they do. Better than PC's in some areas. But the reasons Apple aren't the company they should be, appear to be the fact they don't want to be #1. Maybe Steve Jobs likes to be the underdog. I don't know.
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>(On compatibility, I just can't help remembering all the whining that went on when XP was released and didn't run all DOS programs perfectly. We've been here before, guys. We got over it.)
>I'm a pragmatist who values having different tools for different jobs... and I have to say, I wish there were more of us around. This constant bickering and zealotry is nothing if not tedious.
If there were more of you around we'd be stuck at upgrading PCs every two year just to maintain format compatibility. But this is just my opinion. A fact is that you put the label zealotry on a movement which is quite more complex. Another fact is that your original comment put Microsoft vista usability on top of the mac forgetting that people need something more than the OS to work with, and that mac environment runs circles around microsoft whatever in that regard.
I'm a pragmatist who values having old programs working on newer hardware.
And apple always let its superiority fade when it achieved some, since the first '80s. Sadly.
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How about improving quality? At this point I wouldn't use either if they were free, Free, or less-than-free.
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Boy, you sound like a gentoo person - making everything fucking tougher than it has to be.
Perhaps instead of compiling a kernel you could learn how to Google for help.
If you want to run a Mac, learn how they work instead of trying to make it work like a linux box.
VLC on a Mac? You are one serious fucktard.
The opposite of progress is congress
"Huge opportunity dooms Apple (Again!)"
Their main claim to doom is that people can't put their hands on a Mac in a retail setting. That's neither true nor relevant. There are plenty of places to put you hands on a Mac. The value of that five minutes of exposure is also debatable.
I don't know much about the author but a quick review shows he's not an advocate of freedom or even choice. The more I dig, the worse it gets. He seems to like M$ and has book titles like, "The Microsoft Way: The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts Its Competition". Other major titles show equal lack of insight or forsight. It's amazing that the NYT would listen to someone like that, but hey he's a business professor who lives in San Jose, so he must know something ... right?
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.