Mac Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Posted on 11/10/2009 1:18:17 AM PST by Swordmaker
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Apple$ have fans, Micrsoft$ have critics
All the problems with Snow Leopard and lack of quality control at Apple discouraged me from making the switch from PC to Apple . I was SO close , too , ready to push the ORDER button ...but read about so many people with various problems with the new iMacs on the Apple fanboy sites ...
windows 7 is better choice. I’m much happier with it than vista
I can assure the author that Windows XP will not "happily" run on 64MB of RAM! You wouldn't want any less than 256MB and you really need a full gig to get it truly "happy."
The cult of Steve Jobs is beyond creepy. Mac wishes it had their sales.
Mac sales are off the charts my friend.
don’t forget that Windows may have problems but you can play around with it’s setup much more than Apple which ties you to it’s own h/w. Of course, I’d prefer Linux, but for an end-user who wants a cheap comp, Windows is the way.
APPLE sales are off the charts. Mac sales have had a large percentage gain of a very tiny number.
The iPod brought Apple back from the brink. With the iTunes stores, the various iPods, and the iPhones, Apple is no longer a computer company.
It might sell some pricey systems as a side note, but Apple is a music and gadget maker. Proprietary works for a handheld device, but there aren’t very many people who’ll accept a closed system for their workstation.
Are they higher than PC? And I mean overall.
There were VERY few problems with Snow Leopard... and you had none of them. Very few Mac users had any problems at all.
I agree. We have had “0” issues with Snow Leopard in this household. Pure FUD.
Idiocy comes to mind in addition to being FUD.
Mac sales have had a large percentage gain of a very tiny number.APPLE sales are off the charts.
The iPod brought Apple back from the brink. With the iTunes stores, the various iPods, and the iPhones, Apple is no longer a computer company.
Apple sells some very nice medium and high-end desktops; my own is a 20" iMac. For less money than I gave for it, they now sell units with better displays. Full Stop.It might sell some pricey systems as a side note, but Apple is a music and gadget maker. Proprietary works for a handheld device, but there aren’t very many people who’ll accept a closed system for their workstation.It is also true that Apple's vision of the personal utility of the microchip does not end with desktop PCs. Apple leads in sales of computers in the price range in which it chooses to compete - not least, in the market for good laptops, and also for computers which are also telephones or music boxes.
Which is more "proprietary" - Microsoft's Windows, with its secret code base from the ground up, or OS X with its Unix base? The only OS of note which isn't at all proprietary is Linux - with a whopping 1% market share, small even compared with OS X which IIRC is approaching 10% in the US.
A key difference between Microsoft (and by extension, the whole "PC" world) and Apple is that the latter actually has a minimum equipment list and enforces it. There comes a point where trying to maintain full compatibility with old hardware is of marginal benefit; if you're going to stop supporting it, then do so with clarity. This is more important when the old hardware is very different from the new, and costly to support with little benefit - in this case, non-Intel hardware.
There are so many WTF’s in this middle school term paper calling it such is almost too nice.
What a biased set of tests. I upgraded directly from 10.4 to 10.6 and haven’t had any problems at all.
What’s more the upgrade only cost me $29. A comparable upgrade from XP or Vista to Windows 7 would be $219 !!
It’s nice not having viruses any more. I haven’t had a single computer virus since I switched to Mac.
Yep.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.