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Windows 7 is going to kill the overpriced Mac business model. This severe recession is also impacting Mac sales since many of the liberals and artistic types made money on Wall Street and our financial sector which is undergoing major shrinkage
I’m a penguin.
Hard to generalize from this.
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I predict that Mac will survive, because of the quality of the product.
Plus PC’s are PRONE to viruses.
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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.
Only a moron would buy a PC!
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.
That said, I've made the switch to an all-Mac environment over the last year. I recently bought a Mac mini and installed Windows XP on it with Boot Camp to run a few Windows apps I needed - it makes an outstanding Windows PC.
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1600-by-1200
What an insane resolution for a 13.3 inch screen! One would need a magnifying class to work on that. Unless he is speaking of the capability, which many computers can put that out to an external monitor (assuming that is what his intent is... I don't think there is a 13 inch screen made with that sort of resolution).
I dunno, My good computer broke down and I am using the old one. I don’t get into fancy graphics, or use the computer for gaming, after all, I am old.
The computer is basically used for word processing, access to the internet, which is on linux so I do not have to worry about viruses. The only reason I use windows is to use some programs that I have acquired over the years. I still use old finance programs that I purchased in 1995. Word Perfect 6.0a still works for me, and don’t see the need to change.
So I still dual boot. Ah, Maybe quadro boot. I am using Windows Millenium, Windows XP Pro, Linux Mandrake 8.0 and SUSE 10.0. They all have their purposes for my enjoyment.
All the arguments about operating systems really doesn’t affect me, cuz I can do everything I want to do with what is available. A lot better than an IBM Selectic. I would like to try an Apple for fun, but for me I do not see the purpose of the expense.
I actually wonder how many people are really using the maximum capabilities of their computers or only want to have the newest and best thing?
For me the computer is a deliverance over a typewriter.
Blessings, Greg
I have been running XP Pro since about 6 months after it came out. I have never had to reinstall it or anything else other than a few service packs and critical updates. Auto update is turned off BTW. I can do everything I want on this computer even thought the hardware is now about 4 years behind the current, it was high end performance when new. Custom built myself.
I turn it on, run it all day, it does everything I want it to do without so much as a hiccup, and I want it to do a lot. I shut it down at end of day and tomorrow is the same.
It does video flawlessly (high end VC 4 years ago), often 50 to 60 tabs open in FireFox, one of my music playlists playing music in background...unless I am watching a streaming video, with word processor and Google Earth running also, while downloading a video in one of the open tabs. Just smoothhhhhhhh. Why would I upgrade?
I just don’t get this need to keep upgrading. To do what? Spend more money?
Of course I know about hardware and OS’s and how to protect my system, that I am sure is a big part why I have been trouble free for so long.
Oh and yes I have upgraded to hardware a few times over the years, but not in the last 4 years other than a second larger hard drive and monitor. I also ran XP Pro on my laptop for 5 1/2 years till the TFT died. I am thinking of getting a new laptop and installing XP Pro on it too.
Maybe Linux as a second OS, just for fun.
Vista nah....Leopard or Tiger, don’t make me laugh....Windows 7 .....not gonna happen!
Thanks.
Are you still glad you got the laptop you chose?
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