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Michael Dell Says Windows 7 Will Make You Love PCs
ruphus13 writes "In a recent talk at the Churchill Club, Michael Dell addressed several topics, including the fact that Windows 7 is poised to take advantage of the upgrade cycle. Dell has always been a strong MS OEM ally and it is now hoping to cash in again from the impending upgrades. From the post: 'Dell made plain several times that he sees the installed base of technology as very old, and sees a coming "refresh cycle" for which he has high hopes. "The latest generation of chips from Intel is strong, particularly Nehalem," he said, adding, "and Windows 7 is on its way." (The operating system arrives Oct. 22nd, although Microsoft's large-volume licensees are already getting it.) He pointed out that many business are running Windows XP, which is eight years old. "I've been using Windows 7 for a long time now," he said, "and if you get the latest processor technology and Office 2010 with it, you will love your PC again. It's a dramatic improvement."'"
... which runs Slackware.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
"Waaaah! I can't cope with difference and didn't wanna stick with it".
Fair enough that you personally don't like like Mac. Sorry, but this is what a lot of readers 'hear', even if you have been very reasonable about you being just one case. However, in the real world you have to work with software and systems you don't like (I'm a Linux and Java guy and am often forced to work with Windows and .NET, ugh!). Do yourself a favour and give it more time before you sell the Mac.
Yup - never mind that 4667 is a company that emphasizes HARDWARE, as opposed to MS which emphasizes software. If you want to buy the Mac hardware, then do it. But please, don't whine about PC's because microsoft isn't interested in building PC hardware. If they did, then we'd have the cult of personality for 5t3^3, as off color as that might seem.
So let me get this straight, you're criticizing Apple because they update their OS and hardware regularly? Mac OS X usually has been $129, that's it, not $300+ bucks for XP/Vista/Win 7 Professsional Ultimate Enterprise Edition. One price and you get it all.
And XP costing virtually nothing to operate? So your comparison is the price to upgrade Apple software and hardware versus the cost to just operate an XP machine? Talk about an apples to oranges comparison.
Sorry, XP cost a LOT to operate. On top of the bloated price for a version of the OS that is even usable I'd have to add it the time spent maintaining the the swiss cheese OS from viruses and other malware. Slower and slower performance as Windows bloat hits the registry. Clock cycles wasted on anti-virus. Time wasted scanning for spyware. Time spent reinstalling the OS when you just can't fix the bloat or get rid of all the spyware any more. No, XP is plenty expensive.