Posted on 03/08/2005 12:06:04 PM PST by r5boston
I am curious, take a look at Xandros V3 and see how close that Distro is coming to what YOU want?
Microsoft is not on the ropes. It's not even near the ropes. There is room in the market for Mac, Linux and Windows. No one is going under anytime soon.
"Whoop-dee-doo. Pat yourself on the back. Macs are overpriced boutique toys."
Macs are not toys-- they used to be overpriced but they are coming closer in line with PC's. But there is a trade-off for the price you pay: an OS that is clearly superior to any Windows version, and simplicity of set up and use. If that's worth it to you (as it is me) you gladly pay the extra money.
I've used Macs for 15 years and owned four. I just like a premium product.
Glenn, please don't shatter anyone's delusions. I'd prefer it if people thought that Macs were serious competition to PCs. It makes these threads more interesting...
Games
Games,
and Games.
And I'm not the only one by a long shot.
Your rhetoric doesn't meet reality. Look inside your Mac. You'll find most of the same equipment that you find inside an equivalent PC. Its so-called "superiority" is primarily a product of your imagination. I don't have issues with Windows or my PC. But, then again, I buy good hardware, I don't install unknown crapware from email and the Web, I use a firewall, and my machine receives automatic updates, as needed. No maintenance required. You Mac fanboys are living in some kind of reality distortion field, circa 1995.
It depends on what you're talking about. Apple did do a 100% operating system switchover a few years back, meaning none of the old programs will run natively. There are a couple ways around this. One, you can run the old Mac OS under the new Mac OS, running your application within it (actually getting better performance than running the old OS alone). From the developer side, most applications could be easily tweaked to run under the new OS through a compatibility API (published long before the OS was released so everyone could get their apps ready), although most have been more extensively modified to run under OS X natively.
But all of this is why the OS is so good -- they threw out the old trash. Meanwhile, Windows is still burdened with old, nasty architecture problems because it is still backwards compatible.
Read the flippin' link, wiseass boy.
Macs are probably the better machine but most software now is being developed to run primarily on Windows based PCs. Trying to bridge the gap is a major league headache so most companies have phased out Macs. 25 years ago Beta was better quality than VHS but VHS had the 6 hour mode and was cheaper. Economics/Marketplace 101.
I bought a Play station for games. That seems to be working out pretty well for me as I haven't even fired up my windows machine in over 2 years.
Windows in the server space will be around 60% in 3 years. I don't know where it currently is.
Windows will be untouched on the desktop for at least the next half decade and possibly a full decade. Linux won't rise to the occasion anytime soon and Mac never will.
Uh...what product of Microsoft's does the Ipod compete with?
DUH!
That you're an individual with an opinion. Boy, that was a tough one.
LOL. When it was current it wasn't trash. Those of us who ran NT 4.0 starting about 1995 had a significant period of 32 bit reliability before MAC got to OS10. I haven't had a PC crash due to software in nearly 10 years.
Here's a clue, fanboy. The conspiracy theory put forth by your "source" posits that MS is trying to lock out iPods in order to give its online music store an edge. There's no support for such a theory. The technology cited is optional and policy-driven by system administrators -- not Microsoft -- so, by all means, give my regards to Grassy Knoll...
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