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04/09/09
04/05/09
Some would hail him as a hero, but most would just call him a dork.
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That said, if this were done with regular people, I'll bet that a great deal of them would get a Mac simply because they're not paying a single cent for it.
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04/04/09
Coexistence is cool.
04/04/09
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lol
04/04/09
I will say though, Microsoft marketing = most effective troll ever.
04/04/09
One even goes to the point of mocking with characterizations in satire.
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PCs have definite advantages in certain areas. But to put all your weight only behind price undercuts the actual benefits of owning a PC and doesn't actually do the platform proper justice.
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So often I've had to bite my tongue when family members bought computers primarily based on which one cost less.
04/04/09
Personally, I go to a MicroCenter and price out PC and Mac and I use both.
That said, I have also found that there is an advantage on the PC side if you buy hardware on a pre-built basis, and in come cases, with a disparate advantage when you DIY it, since Apple doesn't offer that ability (short of Psystaring/Hackintoshing your OSX-based computer.)
As an OS agnostic person who uses Linux, Windows and OSX, I'm a firm believer that "The Apple Tax" is alive and well from both a software and hardware standpoint.
Granted YMMV.
04/04/09
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Definitely an Apple fanboy this editor is. That's it! I'm submitting my application to Gizmodo and destroying all Apple fanboy groups in there. It just sickens me!
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MACINTOSH KILLS BABIES. BOOOO!
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I always found it incredibly ironic that Apple was running a multi-million dollar ad campaign claiming that Microsoft was wasting millions of dollars on selling a product nobody wanted.
Recap:
1) Apple has less than 10% of the market.
2) Apple is probably spending 10x as much per user as Microsoft on marketing
3) Microsoft is the one trying to spend tons of money on marketing.. wait what?
04/05/09
Re: 2)
Did you just pull that # out of your @$$? Fiscal 2008, Apple advertising budget: $486m; Microsoft: $1.2b.
Their commercials generally target different audiences. Apple -> Direct consumers, Microsoft -> Businesses. And the focus of their ads are not the same either. Apple: iPods, Computers as a whole (Software + hardware) since they control both. MS isn't as much in the hardware game, so it's pretty much all software advertising, except rarely to the general consumer. They've only recently shifted that focus to try and dispel the negative perceptions (not all unwarranted) of the public.
oh, and you're all Big Vaginas for arguing about Macs and PCs. Are you all so bigoted that you can't accept different people want and will pay for different things? You nerds ever look at designer fashions? Cars? Now those things are way overpriced. A freakin purse can cost more than a MBP. Crazy.
Full disclosure: I don't own any Macs or iPods. Not willing to pay for it. Do own some Apple stock though.
04/05/09
Without a full breakdown of the numbers it is completely irrelevant...
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I'd rather watch an ad with Lauren in it than another shot of Warren Cheswick spouting half-truths and lies.
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04/06/09
You mean Warren Cheswick and John Hodgman.
04/04/09
Well duh. Because they are.
04/05/09
Computer shopper: "I think I probably only need about $800 worth of laptop."
Mac: "Too bad bitch! $1300, NOW!"
03/27/09
Some facts:
In terms of software, from what I can tell of the internals (having programmed for both Windows and Mac OS X), Mac OS X is technically superior.
Windows, the operating system, is much more expensive.
I usually expect Macs to cost more (although I personally view this price premium as worth it), but last night I tried to configure a Dell like a Mac Pro. I chose to ignore the fact that the Mac Pro would still be technically faster due to its use of the Nehalem architecture, and configure the two at the same clock speed anyway. 8-core, 6-gig of memory on the mac, 4 gig on the Dell. Three 500GB hard drives on the Dell, three 650GB hard drives on the Mac. Faster graphics on the Mac (I think, but I'm not an expert on graphics cards).
In short: The Mac was cheaper. I was shocked.
The laptop shown had integrated graphics, etc. It was very low-end. Its 4 gig of memory were DDR2. It was shiny, and had a 17in screen, but that's about all it had.
End facts. Just wanted to get those pesky things out of the way.
For a workstation, my first choice would always be a Mac.
For a server, my first choice would be non-Apple hardware with Ubuntu or similar on it. Apple are not, in my opinion, server experts.
03/27/09