APPL 118.45 share - market cap- 105.49bn
MSFT 18.76 share - market cap- 166.79bn
Those stupid people at Apple... are gaining!
Posted on 04/07/2009 2:10:36 AM PDT by dennisw
As they didn't arrive until the 80's, I have questions.
I've had PC's for about 15 years. Built my own and bought some. Never once had a virus. Some spybots but never a virus. I've had everything from W 3.1 to now, Vista (which I kind of like). The laptop that's running it has 4gb of memory. A Toshiba that I got from Newegg.com for $599. I could get three of those for the price of a Mac.
People who are emotionally involved with their operating systems are just weird.
I buy PC’s just to stick it to the smarmy little democrats who think owning a mac is . . . well . . . pc.
Thanks for playing into a pun-derful support of the analogy.
How many guys trade in the wife for a different model due to "old *soft*ware" on their own part, if you catch my drift?
Point taken on the engineering software.
Cheers!
All of the "jazzy looking features" can easily be turned off. The result is a superfast, efficient, and stable OS, if you have the hardware to back it up (i.e., don't expect Vista to run well with 256mb of RAM).
My first Apple was an Apple II in the late 1970's and I still own my 1st PC, a 5100 series from the early 1980's.
I sadly had to give up mine as well, the electric bills were killing me.
I loved playing Pong on it though ;)
You can Penguify your present machine free.
http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com
You can even keep your present Windows partiton and make the machine bisexual, and boot from either.
Only a moron would buy a PC!
Did you actually own a cray? What model?
Macs are nice when you need to run X on something and you don’t enjoy your computer looking like crap =) Cygwin is just way too frustrating to try to use, and Linux is typically okay (Ubuntu and Debian’s whole Apt-get architecture have made it *way* nicer in the last few years), but it seems like actually getting sound, wi-fi and printing to work successfully is hit-or-miss way more than I would like.
APPL 118.45 share - market cap- 105.49bn
MSFT 18.76 share - market cap- 166.79bn
Those stupid people at Apple... are gaining!
The Mac are in the same category as Beta VCR's were.....better product, but the demand for them just isn't there.
Even there, the Mac pic should show only one wire - using Bluetooth for keyboard & mouse interface.
One thing left out of the article is the quality of the hardware. I went through two Sony laptops before switching to the Mac. The sony laptops both began having major hardware malfunctions before they were a year old and Sony was not at all cooperative in getting them fixed. With my second one the bottom of the case melted due to overheating and Sony refused to fix it, claiming user negligence. I have had Macs for three years now with almost no problems. When i did have a hardware problem with my MacBook, the folks in the Apple store fixed it for free while I waited. As for the operating system, Mac does everything I want without concerns about viruses or adware.
Sure, if you are looking for a small, light laptop the Mac is not the way to go, but I can think of no other good reason for not buying a mac.
This.
For all the verbiage, the author points out that even Microsoft won't advertise Windows Vista anymore, confirming that practically the only reason for a PC is Win7.
The only thing keeping me looking at PCs for my next computer is the sheer miniscule form factor of Sony's Vaio ultraportables (I'm wearing out my second one now). The Mac Air, and rumored Mac "netbook", will likely win me over.
The Macs are more in the same category as a Ferrari... and you don't usually build your own Ferrari! You can make a look-a-like (Vista 7), but it just ain't the same thing! Plus, I can RUN Vista & on my Macs!!! (but I don't need it!)
Your comparison picture is striking. I’ve had the iMac for a couple of years now and it’s great!
Lovelorn ex-Cray.Wow. There are still a few alive, huh? I cut my teeth on Cray's early CDC models; the 3XXX model mainframes.
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