Full Disclosure: Sick of Blue Screens? Get a Mac!

PC World ^ | From the September 2002 issue of PC World magazine | Stephen Manes

[toupsie]

Do us all a favor and Switch! Imagine a Free Republic without a daily virus alert...

:^P

[Fred Mertz]

But now they're bringing up the Blue Screen of Death!

I learned what the BSD was last month on my work PC.

Never experienced it on my iMac.

[isthisnickcool]

If OS X were available for the machine you have now, wouldn't you be frustrated enough with Windows to give it a try?

The OS X core is built around BSD. Something I have been using on Intel for years. Linux also runs on Intel chips. Neither one crashes. Or, at least mine never have.

Don't need a MAC.

[Wright is right!]

I've only had one BSD on this HP machine. Usually the problem is that the system just locks up totally or the dreaded "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."

Michael

[Weimdog]

G3 IMac w/ OSX at home, G4 tower with 22" display at work for those wonderful OSX graphics.

The only gripe I have is the limited amount of games developed for Mac :(

[John Jorsett]

Tired of a larger selection of software? Tired of paying lower prices for your hardware? Get a Mac, by all means.

Since switching to Windows 2000 and XP, I haven't had a Blue Screen of Death. I'd seriously consider a Mac if I could get as large a selection of software and hardware as I can with a PC. However, Apple's proprietary design and lack of market share has put a serious crimp into that possibility.

[ken5050]

Except for the Justive Dept going ballistic....the perfect solution would be for Gates to spend a few of his cash horde and buy Apple.....

[toupsie]

Tired of a larger selection of software? Tired of paying lower prices for your hardware? Get a Mac, by all means.

I think I can do without the 65,000 programs that run on Windows called 'Viruses'. 16,000 applications is enough for me. How many word processors do you need to write a letter to your Congressman?

[Gorzaloon]

The only gripe I have is the limited amount of games developed for Mac :(

The upside is that no one writes viruses and trojans for them.

However, if everyone switched to them, that would change quickly.

It's a rhetorical discussion anyway. It has been a long,long, slow public illness. If their market share does not drastically increase and reach the point that more killer apps are written for it, a kind of "critical mass", none of this will matter. The discussion had not really been about which system is "best" For whatever reason, the Marketplace voted.

VHS was quite inferior to Beta, but the non-illuminated marketplace did not care. It often does not reward the "best" for whatever reason.

[toupsie]

However, Apple's proprietary design and lack of market share has put a serious crimp into that possibility.

I have the same opinion about Porche. Their proprietary design and lack of market share has put a serious crimp in my desire to buy one. Who would want to own a car that has less that 1% of the US auto market? That's even smaller than Apple's share of the OS market!!! You would have to be nuts. Think that fuel injector from your Ford Focus is going to work in a Porche 911? Think again!

American's like to have no choice. Thank God Microsoft is there to satisfy our desire for homogeneous computing.

[Blue Screen of Death]

I object to this entire thread!

[monday]

"The only gripe I have is the limited amount of games developed for Mac :( "

Don't forget the price. I still don't have money to waste. If they sold for the same price as a PC I wouldn't mind a Mac.

[monday]

"How many word processors do you need to write a letter to your Congressman? "

Heck..you don't even need a computer. Pen and paper would be alot cheaper.

[HAL9000]

Think that fuel injector from your Ford Focus is going to work in a Porche 911?

I tend to think of the Mac more as a Cadillac and Wintel as a Ford Pinto, without the huge price difference.

[Tickle Me Pank]

Have 4 PCs on my home network, all running Win2K for 2 yrs now. Have never had a BSOD on any of them.

[toupsie]

Have 4 PCs on my home network, all running Win2K for 2 yrs now. Have never had a BSOD on any of them

Do you have the Zip Code for Hell? I want to check on Weather.com to see if it is freezing over! :)