Posted on 10/20/2001 11:49:24 AM PDT by CheneyChick
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:16:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Mac heads shouldn't get too upset when they see how closely Windows XP apes Apple's OS X. In the long run, imitation can only help Jobs & Co.
Even though Windows XP won't be officially released until Oct. 25, I can hear the Mac faithful howling already. Once again, Mac heads are accusing Microsoft of building its latest PC operating system on innovations pioneered at Apple. And, quite frankly, they have a point. New XP features such as Windows Movie Maker, My Pictures, and the revamped Windows Media Player strike me as awfully similar to Apple's iMovie, Image Capture, and iTunes software.
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The ONLY way APPLE will take over the market (and they SHOULD because it has ALWAYS been superior) is to be priced $200 cheaper and RUN ALL EXISTING WINDOWS SOFTWARE.
If I could buy a mac tomorrow and could install everything I have now I would in a heartbeat...MAC just never quite seems to know anything about marketing. Only about building superior products...
Thank you for that brief but insightful product review, you ever think of writing for PC World???
:)
Ooo... if that's how you treat your friends...!
Bumping you anyway, 'Tino.
Be careful!
The Mac is nice, but the real difference between the Mac and Windows has nothing to do with technology.
It's like the difference between Los Angeles and San Jose -- they're both nice, they both have strengths and weaknesses, but Los Angeles is a VASTLY larger community...
The Mac is nice and has strengths (and weaknesses) all its own. But it's like San Jose -- it's a small community.
When new things become available, they ALWAYS will become available first for Windows. When new capabilities are added to old stuff, they will always be added to Windows first. When cool, small, freaky things are marketed by small companies with small budgets, they will always appear for Windows first because that's where the largest possible return is...
Don't be suckered in by culture advertising and culture public relations campaigns. The Mac is great if you have a parituclar range of uses planned and don't expect to be flexing and experimenting in the future with all the weird things that may become available. As an old timer (I used to program the Mac in assembly using the old phone book IM) learn from my mistake -- if you can only afford one system, stick with a Windows system. San Jose is nice, but Los Angeles has many more opportunities for fun and adventure.
Mark W.
Providing the people what they want at a price they can afford was innovative at the time.
You must be forgetting PhotoShop: MacOS is the platform of choice for Photoshop AND PhotoShop was first written for the Mac....
Anyone who argues against the Mac OS or Apple hardware has not spent much time with them. And Macs are the most tweakable machines ever made (except, I admit the iMac). PeeCee's NEED to be tweaked just to be usable.
Every true computer geek, PC or Mac faithful, at least respects OSX. It is a powerful, beautiful thing.
If I want to interact with the Windows world, I've got MacLinkPlus, a dynamite translating engine. Granted, I've also got MS Office for Mac, but if I didn't, I could still translate docs and graphics into other formats I could read.
Further, I've got Virtual PC, a Wintel software emulator. I can run ANY Windows program on my Mac. Graphics-heavy programs are admittedly a bit slow, but it's really not a concern for me.
PCs are completely incapable of running a "Virtual Mac" because of the inherent inferiority of their chip architecture. That's why their "Pseudo Mac" OS, Windows consumes so much more code to perform similar functions.
And PCs are ugly.
I know quite a few people with Macs and none of them have MS Office.....Appleworks is $375 cheaper and does everything most people need to do.
It is like some liberal redistribution of PC mediocrity. It is just a different type
of computer.
If you are the kind of person that buys a refrigerator to learn how refrigerators work
then a PC is definitely for you. On the other hand, if you really just needed to keep
food cold then your probably a mac person. Plain and simple.
control freak, hobbyist ====> PC
get job done & go home ===> mac
Personally I like UNIX so I am a mac user.
Mac OS X 10.1 is the best 'NIX out there. Provided complete with Apache and Samba it is
a great system. With the newest version of Microsoft Office I am set!
A system where you can grep the awk of your sed of your Perl script just as easy as you can
Photoshop, Final Cut, or Microsoft Office. What's not to like there!
Some Apple systems cost a little more (some imac's are cheaper than comparable wintel systems).
But we all know that sometimes you have to pay more to get more. We can't all have nice things.
Sorry.
Oh, and if the sight of Aqua blue and silver cases really gives you the hebe-jebe's I
have some bad news for you.
Apple is now doing well enough that they are opening their own retail outlets all over
the country. Yes Apple is doing quite well, showing a decent profit in their recent
quarterly despite any economic slowdown.
Coming soon to a location near you! They're everywhere! Run awaaaay! Fleeeeee!
(It'll be ok, I promise.)
Yeah, but there's one thing Appleworks doesn't do; one thing that Word does so well....
corrupt files
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