Posted on 07/29/2012 8:43:21 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
I heard Rush gloating about AirPlay the other day and all I could think of was “Slingbox! Rush is talking about Slingbox.” Isn’t it about 2-3 years old? Sure it is because I could watch a computer screen remotely on a tv set using Slingbox but I guess that must have been through Windows and Apple is only now getting around to it.
I love it when Rush brags about some new whizbang Apple has come out with that I’ve been able to do for quite awhile. Yes, I know sometimes Apple comes out with stuff before a Windows equivalent comes out but I bet there are just as many things Windows users have done that Apple users like Rush regard as some new revelation when it has actually been available to the rest of us for a few years.
I have stayed away from Apple because all my programs are Windows based. Can I now use an Apple and install all my WIN bases programs?
I suppose if you legally hobble your competitors enough, you can certainly have the decency to make a reasonable experience. But please, nothing Apple has done failed to exist before on the Windows platform.
How Apple has escaped the monopolistic practices punishments that Microsoft has experienced I do not understand. I could see the outrage tomorrow of Microsoft required nearly every financial transaction on their machines to go through a single payment processor, yet this is not only accepted practice on all of Apple's platforms, Apple gets to keep a hefty 30% premium on every transaction. I certainly appreciate not having a daddy and daddy approve what software can be offered, much less what can be purchased.
I guess if you love big government, Apple is your choice. But I can't get beyond the surrendering the freedom of my choice to avoid danger. And yes, I know I can run Windows software on Apple hardware, but why not just buy the same hardware cheaper from one of 20 vendors? It is like the liberal argument for gun banning - if all guns were banned, bad guys wouldn't have them, and you'd be safer, so their theory goes. I think the UK shows how well that works.
I'd love to see what Microsoft can come up with if it had their legal shackles shattered.
Most Excel users, even 'power users' use about 10% of Excel functionality.
I found the transition from Lotus 1-2-3 to Excel difficult at first. Excel with VBA is almost magical.
Reasons 1 thru 10 not to get MacBook Airs: The high prices for them. For most of what the vast majority of people need a laptop or ultrabook/MacAirBook, a $699 ultrabook will be more than enough, versus the price of a MacBook Air at around $1300.
Then, Mountain Lion, which is still the OS with around 5-6% of the world’s market share for OSes. Why limit yourself?
The only reasons for getting a MacBoor Air: a decorative device, and bragging rights for being the only kids on the block that can afford them.
And I know there are lefty sympathizers within the Linux community, but that's a big difference from the companies that produce the products supporting lefty causes.
Any suggestions?
No, but Virtual Box (free) or VMware Fusion (inexpensive) allows one to run any Windows app on a Mac.
Mark
Fedora 17.
Except you're losing out on MacOS, which as I pointed out is a big value-add to the Mac platform.
Plus if you look at resale value, the Mac might even be a better deal monetarily.
Just for fun, why don't you link the $699 ultrabook you think is comparable to an Air?
"Then, Mountain Lion, which is still the OS with around 5-6% of the world’s market share for OSes. Why limit yourself?"
I'm sure you don't drive a Porsche either. After all, Porsche only has 0.1% of the world automotive market...
Plus, as I've pointed out numerous times, Macs will run Windows fine.
"The only reasons for getting a MacBoor Air: a decorative device, and bragging rights for being the only kids on the block that can afford them."
None are so blind as those who will not see.
PC World is just another tech pundit lost in the “Apple can do no wrong, Microsoft can do no right” echo chamber. But whether or not someone likes Windows 8 is a matter of personal taste, and that’s all there is to it.
I should have added in my previous post that although I have enjoyed some Apple products in the past, I despise the company’s secretive nature and its politics. Apple plays the press and public like a $2 violin, stoking the rumor mill when they need some free publicity. I prefer Microsoft’s open approach. Windows 8 is out there months before release. They make no secret of their product road map, and allow customers to make informed decisions well before launch. I also despised Steve Jobs because he was a hypocritical billionaire ultra-liberal who kissed up to Clinton and Obama. I hated putting money in his pocket.
Apple does not have a good future as anything other than a niche market.
They base their business model on keeping everything proprietary. Not everyone wants to be locked in to one set of applications and/or technologies. As a matter of fact as the market is now proving most people don’t.
It was the new ivy bridge Macbook Air 11, ordered on line from Apple, it was near maxed out, i7, 8 gig memory, 256 ssd, $1805 out the door..
It came with Lion and I installed Mountain Lion...I set up Boot Camp with Windows 7...then I set up VM Fusion using Window 7 in Boot Camp
Now I've been working computes since 1980...(Field engineer on mini systems, then 3th lever tech support, now network engineer) ...I work with computes...lots of them ... And Ive worked with lots of different computer OS's
Sorry but OSX, Lion or Mountain Lion, is just hokey and crippled (or I should say the Mac OSX shell over what is left of a UNIX OS is just hokey and crippled)
And why, why, why, to Mac people rave about Mac getting thing that Window has been doing for years as if Mac just invented it?...It just shows Mac uses have no real awareness of other computers and so have no other point of reference...
Mountain Lion..now you can wireless send your display to your HDTV...Oh wow...it called WiDi, its build in to the Intel chips and windows has been doing it for two years!
Running other OS in virtual machine?...doing it in windows for years..and can do it for free
The bottom line is this:
A Mac can run Window OS in a virtual machine...
And a Mac needs to run Window OS in a virtual machine just do a lot things window user take for granted or do for free with freeware
And a PC running Window OS can run Mac OSX in a virtual machine (search on-line)..and do it for free
But a PC running Window OS has no need to run Mac OSX to do anything.
Check our PinguyOS...
Apple can’t even get my iPhone they promised could do voice command to actually dial the phone properly.
Me: “Call Wife Mobile”
iPhone: “Calling 911”
cancel
Me: “Call Wife Mobile”
iPhone: “Playing songs by Rush”
cancel
Me: “Call Wife Mobile”
iPhone: “Calling Scott Work”
cancel
Sorry, buy my next phone will be an Anroid model that does speech recognition perfectly already. I’ve had it with Apple. Apple had their chance.
Except you're missing out on a ton of great Mac-only software. Oh well, your loss.
Have fun with the hassle of running Windows too...you can really only appreciate how bad it is once you're running something better.
The hardware was very nice...and the track pad was great..
Did miss the second mouse but the two finger click for right click was fine...
And I'm not being sarcastic..returning then mac to the Apple store was great...despite the hippie vibe..
It was very fast and efficient...they do have there act together
The worse thing about Apple is Apple fanboy userbase..
They blow so much BS smoke all over the internet you really have a hard time geting trueful useful info on the dam thing... their the "Stepford Wives" of computer uses
The hardware was very nice...and the track pad was great..
Did miss the second mouse but the two finger click for right click was fine...
And I'm not being sarcastic..returning the mac to the Apple store was great...despite the hippie vibe..
It was very fast and efficient...they do have their act together
The worse thing about Apple is Apple fanboy userbase..
They blow so much BS smoke all over the internet you really have a hard time geting trueful useful info on the dam thing... their the "Stepford Wives" of computer uses
But the Apple OS doesn't support VBA. Excel without VBA is like comparing a Yugo to a Ferrari.
...Sorry that just does not fly...
It's like cars that gauges and now have "idiot lights"...
Mac takes the "idiot light" approach in computers and boiled it down to just one "check engine light", take to apple
Its a "seal the box, keep user in dark, no checking you own oil"approach
The "gauges, know what going on, simple self service" approach of Windows confuses mac user...I know how to to check my own oil...
My computers, running any OS, will out perform most any Mac users pc and do more because I service and maintain my computers
Mac locks down and cripples their stuff to keep you from "breaking it" just like corporate IT Nazi do with company PC's
It's a socialist nanny state approach
Great if you are afraid to move out of Mommy's basement out in to the scare worlds of danger..
...Learn how to run an unlocked open system and embrace freedoms with all it's personal responsibility...
Personal responsibility has its hassle but its worth it...
Think of it like owning a gun..sure you could shoot your foot off... if your an idiot...
That why you learn to respect and use a tool "loaded with the safety off"
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