I wonder if this will end up being like one of those Cell Phone Signal Booster stickers. Where, we want to believe it's better so much that we'll make ourselves believe.

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Not a new phenomenon for Microsoft.

Or Apple for that matter. They do it too.

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Let me get back on my facebook account...

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He actually has a point. There are a LOT of people unhappy with Vista. Both those who have never used it, and those who have. Personally I find Vista to be a step backward from XP, as do many IT professionals who have to support it daily.

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As for paying more for inferior hardware, well that comes down more to personal preference. To some people the design considerations make the hardware worth buying. For others not supporting Microsoft does. For others yet maybe they just buy it to piss you off because you cannot afford it?

I bought my Macbook Pro because it was durable, reliable, cost just as much as a comparable Dell, IBM, or HP at the time. It could also run OSX which I enjoy using, as well as Windows XP/Vista. I bought my Mac Mini because at the time there was nothing else like it on the market in that form factor. I had very limited space and needed a multimedia machine. I also happen to like using front row.

I also own a gaming PC. Quad Core, 8 gig ram, 10k RPM drive... Works great. With the monitor it cost more than buying an iMac.

I buy Macs because I appreciate the hardware build, I appreciate the user interface, and I can afford to comfortably pay the premium price to get it. When I get home at the end of the day after supporting Windows XP, Vista, 2003, 2008, OSX 10.4-10.5, Centos 5.1-5.2, and Ubuntu I really just don't want to have to tear MY PC apart to make it "Just work" because there's a bios issue that keeps the machine from coming out of hibernation permanently unless I clear the bios.

Issues I don't typically run into when using my Macs. I'm rather OS agnostic, and I poke fun at both OSX and Windows.

But then again, I'm also the guy who will go to a higher end electronics store and pay $100-200 more just to have a better shopping experience... Without buying the Pear speaker cables.

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@MINI Driver: Was that not what you were going for? This is your chance to redeem yourself...

@Lite: is combing the desert.: See the first part. Where would saying something 'nice' come into play while agreeing or disagreeing with someone's stance, especially here? "I don't see eye to eye with you on this matter. Lovely hair, by the way! And isn't this weather just fine?"

And what does being around for a while have to do with anything? If he really was serious, then how does frequency of posts or longevity negate a stupid comment that's been pasted over with an overused, unoriginal joke?

And he might have a point to you, fellow He-Man Windows hater. But parroting 'Get a Mac' ads and old people who hear "the Vista isn't as good as the Mac according to that friendly young man on the television commercials" doesn't necessarily mean "a LOT of people" are "unhappy" with Vista. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. Maybe this is yet another case of the outspoken minority being heard over the quietly pleased majority, and thus making it seem like more people are effected than actually are (this happens quite a bit). But I'll tell you whose opinion matters the most in this regard -- mine. I have Vista, I love it and although there are issues, I find it much more enjoyable than my frequent (daily) Apple experiences, both regarding OSX and beyond it.

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It also takes up more than 2x the room, has more than 2x as many cables dangling off of it.

For some people space matters. The number of visible cords matters. For some people, design matters. For others, not so much.

For a gaming machine where I'll periodically be dragging the internals out and replacing them, the iMac doesn't makes as much sense though. So instead I have to loom the cables to keep them nicely bundled, only, they're all of different lengths, so that doesn't work so well.

But let's see, I have to somehow hide. Speaker cables, Speaker power wires. USB cable. Ethernet cable. Power cable, charger cable for mouse, monitor cable, and power cable for monitor.

Vs 1 cable for the iMac and everything else is wireless.

Some people cannot fathom paying more for design. Others can, and will. It doesn't make them stupid, it makes them rich enough to pay to not have to deal with an additional hassle. I could change my own oil if I wanted to. I'd just rather pay someone else to deal with it. My time has a certain level of value on it that I place.

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So, you end up disabling it outright, and then put up with the "Your machine is insecure" messages that pop up repeatedly without warning.

Multiple Anti-Virus software brands begin acting strangely if the machine ever crashes/fails to shut down cleanly/loses power suddenly. Especially Trend. (Which, I'd blame the anti-virus company if it weren't multiple vendors and only Vista that does this. XP seems immune to the issue). Everything from hanging the machine during updates to telling you to please stay off the internet until mommy and daddy resets permission levels.

It runs slower than XP, removed some nice functionality (such as being able to export mail profile settings) that XP had. I have yet to have anyone make a valid argument for any business to use XP over Vista. Let alone for home users. And that is where Vista fails. It's slower, requires more expensive hardware, and more memory to run while it isn't really any more stable than XP is with no real added benefit.

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How about you, do you want to buy it?

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remorse feels even worse. I apologize

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