Posted on 02/18/2008 8:43:10 AM PST by rivercat
http://www.thestreet.com/video/index.html?bcpid=1078966384&bclid=1137812485&bctid=1420178886
Intel-based Macs can run Windows, so the limitation you cited is no longer applicable. Today's Macs can run more software than a PC.
You do not want my wife posting here about her experience with this computer trust me. I am the rational one. We would have to bleep her responses. The clean version of her usual comment is “I just want it to work.”
You are right about one thing though I do not want to have to learn a whole new way to compute. Here is my final example. When my wife was looking for a new car we drove 9 different models of mid-size SUV. American, European, Japanese, Korean, all different, but we didn’t have to learn how to drive all over again when we went from one car to another. It seems from all the Mac post I have gotten back the consensus is that it is my fault that after 12 years of computing I am not willing to learn an all new way of doing things and be happy about it. Sorry I am too old to relearn everything I know about computing. I will admit we made a huge mistake buying into the hype about Macs. We will probably end up paying for that mistake by taking a bath trying to unload this thing. Live and learn.
You do not want my wife posting here about her experience with this computer trust me. I am the rational one. We would have to bleep her responses. The clean version of her usual comment is “I just want it to work.”
You are right about one thing though I do not want to have to learn a whole new way to compute. Here is my final example. When my wife was looking for a new car we drove 9 different models of mid-size SUV. American, European, Japanese, Korean, all different, but we didn’t have to learn how to drive all over again when we went from one car to another. It seems from all the Mac post I have gotten back the consensus is that it is my fault that after 12 years of computing I am not willing to learn an all new way of doing things and be happy about it. Sorry I am too old to relearn everything I know about computing. I will admit we made a huge mistake buying into the hype about Macs. We will probably end up paying for that mistake by taking a bath trying to unload this thing. Live and learn.
My Mac-compatible WindowsMedia (which is one of the few Microsoft programs permitted in my Microsoft-Free Zone) opens automatically when I click a video link.
“doesn’t know that the eject removable media key doubles as the power key”
And why would anyone know or suspect that a button designated the CD/DVD eject button would also be considered a power key? You guys really don’t see how unintuitive that is? Would it have cost Mr. Job that much to put a little light bulb or the word power next to the eject arrow?
Good my doesn’t. I even have WMP on my dock and I still have to go through the whole selection/application/WMP/OK process to get it to run a WMV file.
I will admit you giuys all seem to have great computers and I am happy for you, but ours doesn’t work like you guys say yours does. I wish it would. I paid a lot of money for it, it is very pretty and compact and does my wifes pictures well, but as for the day to day use it just doesn’t do anything easy. Everything takes extra steps. Granted we are talking using MS software on a Mac and maybe that is the problem. Maybe if all our friends sent things to us in QT and we had the Mac word processing program etc. things would work better, I don’t know. Even our son who has a iBook, iPhone, iTunes and Apple TV bought a cheap PC for his store use. We tried to get him to buy our Mac with the Office Suite already loaded and he declined saying he had tried that and it didn’t work as well as MS Office on a PC.
Yes, hence the now super variety of PC based “designer boxes” for every whim and taste.
This whole argument reminds me of the scene from a movie where deniro is going at length over how a lexus is just a toyota with an emblem.
It harkens back when we USED to talk about IBM vs Apple rather than Windows vs Mac.
Marketing is either,
less than X
same as X
better than X
Mac has rested its perception marketing at the last one.
They are not.
Mac OS X is derived from BSD UNIX. The Linux kernel was basically written from scratch, but is more closely related to Sys V.
Please see the UNIX family tree.
That would be because Apple won't sell OSX to run on anything but it's own hardware. I've heard rumors that Apple will license OSX to Dell.
They're similar enough that Linux users can easily migrate to Macs and continue to use the command line interface they're accustomed to.
I heard that rumor too, but I doubt it. I'd rather see Apple spinoff a separate company to target enterprise and business users.
I’m thinking Apple will eventually sell a dongle chip to motherboard manufacturers that will allow OSX to be installed.
Apple can no more control its market than IBM could in the 80s. It can die trying, however.
There's been some speculation that Apple could sell iPods with Mac OS X installed on the disk drive. Just plug the iPod into a PC with a USB/Firewire cable and boot up. The iPod would be the dongle.
If Apple's business ever slows down, they can easily release a generic version of Mac OS X and generate billions in fresh revenue. But the support costs would be higher, and the quality of the user experience wouldn't as good. I hope they won't ever need to go down that route, but it is good to have it as an available option, just in case.
I think selling a chip to quality motherboard manufacturers like Asus would be the way to go. Dell motherboards, at least at the low end, are such crap, that I wouldn’t want to be associated with them.
Of course, the easiest migration path would be just to install Linux on one’s Mac.
Hi blu. I have a question that’s been puzzling me for weeks.
I receive weekly newsletters from one of my children’s teachers. The file is a .doc and while it will download fine, when I click to open it, I get a jumping Microsoft Word icon. It says it’s Microsoft Office 2004 Test Drive; good for 30 days.
Now why would Apple be advertising for Microsoft? Are they trying to get us to buy the Microsoft package for the mac? And is there a security risk if or once a Microsoft product is installed? Or, is that just if I were to use Explorer to surf the net?
I’m so afraid I’m going to screw something up.
We use our PC’s as record keepers to keep track of actual money made using a Mac for production. No snobs, just jobs.
don’t use Explorer, use Safari or Firefox. Faster, better.
OH, and Apple is advertising for Microsoft because Micro did us such a BIG favor and made Word 2008 for Mac, after taking a few years off.
Ironically, one of my Asus motherboards died just a few minutes ago. I'll see if it can be repaired tomorrow.
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