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I remember the old Mac comercials from early 2000's, and then this came out...loved it
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxPXFptzQRY"]YouTube - Mac Gamer Spoof[/ame]
I remember the old Mac comercials from early 2000's, and then this came out...loved it
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxPXFptzQRY"]YouTube - Mac Gamer Spoof[/ame]
Thats the point exactly. That is the reason that Macs work so well. They only want it to work on their specific hardware. Which is also why they are so expensive. The difference is that you can never balance price you want, with performance you want. You get high-price with medium to high performance. There is no economy option.
Of course it doesn't make sense. It's Apple.
(no offense.... lol)
~Lordbob
I know, but needless to say it was just an experiment to see for myself if I still missed the mac OS, and now i'm back to a raid set of W7.
My point was, as Lord Bob has understood, was to make my Mac owning pal understand why he and I both preached the 'it just works' mantra but now I say, it's not so. It took a load of effort to make it run on my machine which is a quarter of the cost of his apple store spec'd unit.
The cheapest they do now is the mac mini, which in itself still needs monitor and KB and mouse, so ultimately never really works out that cheap.
I just wanted to say, I really appreciate this post. It's nice to see a Mac user actually use logical reasoning.
I'll start off saying (and you can search my old posts) that I am not a Mac Fanatic, but I'm having a hard time believing this story regarding the ads. Apple's legal department is not going to call MS's marketing group and complain about an ad, this just doesn't make sense.
Now for my commentary.
Many people make the mistake of looking at Apple as a software company, but they are not. Apple is first and foremost a hardware company. They happen to make an OS to run on their hardware, but it isn't really their main product. This OS is visually very nice, and even the most die-hard MS supporter should recognize the attention to detail that Apple puts into OSX. Apple also has some very highly regarded UX folks that know how to make even complicated apps easy to understand.
The problem is that the Mac User base is mistaking pretty with bullet-proof. While OSX is built on Unix, Apple made a few decisions that have made OSX less than secure. Apple seems to think they are immune, and there will be a day that some blackhat org is going to lay waste to OSX, just to prove a point.
The point you are making about Windows and hardware is huge. Apple has to only support a very small configuration set, and they are more than willing to obsolete an entire line to move forward. Their userbase is so small, relative to MS, that they really don't care who they screw.
MS, on the other hand, has made a business decision to support backwards compatability. Many suggest this stunts Window's growth, but is why MS has about a 93% Userbase worldwide. On top of that, MS supports basically an infinite configuration set of hardware. Linux comes pretty close to supporting the same set, and includes completely different architectures that Windows doesn't.
What Windows has is a standard. Everyone knows Windows and Windows programs. And while the GUI between Vista and XP is visually different, the basic functions are the same. The number of mouse-clicks hasn't really changed.
PhreePhly
"I wonder how Apple & MS would react to a commercial for Linux OS PC's "
They would just laugh it off like everybody else does.