You know that Mac vs PC music in EVERY ad? Do you think it sounds like baby music? Because everyone at Gizmodo just got into a huge debate over it and are not talking to each other now. Tiebreaker please?
Surprisingly, our our poll yesterday revealed that Mac owners were running neck and neck with PC owners, each commanding 41% of the vote. Although Mac owners have maintained an extremely slight edge over the last few hours in actual numbers.
Now that Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are both out in the wild, it is time, once again, to take stock of the state of home computing. That is to say, are you using a Mac or a PC?
See what I meant? The command + C and command + V t-shirts look so much better. And I'd rather have daughters than sons. The latter are just too rambosterous. [Flickr via Geeks Are Sexy]
NPD's Household Penetration Study found a 3% uptick in Mac households for 2009. This makes sense! What's surprising (or not) is that of the 12% of homes with a Mac, less than 2% are Mac-exclusive.
Who would win in a chess match between Mac and PC? Chess seems like PC's game, but winning won't be easy on a board that's Apple's home turf.
Apple's Leopard PC icon set the standard for anti-PC snark, but the PCSim iPhone app, which promises 99 percent of a PC's functionality with a BSOD, viruses and long startup time, nicely continues that tradition of dickitude. [iTunes via Wired]
Most people seem to take a hard line when it comes to their OS, but Adam's Windows to Mac adventure has got me wondering—how many converts are out there?
About a month ago, after multiple laptop disasters that in all likelihood were my fault, I decided to switch to a Mac after a lifetime of PC use. How's it been?
Regular people are probably confused by the re-inflamed Mac vs. PC ad war, which now focuses on price. Never fear, CNBC's Jim Goldman breaks down the true cost of PCs. Wait, Macs come with Photoshop?
Have you watched Apple's new Hodgman ads? The "legal copy" ad is the most cutting—every time Hodgman says how easy-to-use PCs are, a wall of fine print explodes upwards. MacJournals has transcribed all of it.
Either that or their agency just really loves Thomas Friedman. Anyhow, Microsoft's $300 million campaign to return fire after Apple's "Mac vs. PC" ads with our buddy John Hodgman-which, like it or not, were a wildly successful campaign and definitely helped shape the public's perception of Vista-has begun with this…
Apple's Mac OS X had a good year last year, according to Net Applications. Market share for OS X climbed to 7.31% for the month of December, 2007, up from 6.38% in February, a 14.57% increase. How about the Windows OSes? Why, they're at a paltry 91.79 % of the market. [Net Applications]
"The fastest Windows notebook we tested this year is a Mac," writes PC World about the MacBook Pro after it scored an 88 on its WorldBench 6 Beta 2 benchmark. Only problem is, it looks like that same publication reviewed a Eurocom D900C Phantom-X laptop that achieved a better score on that same benchmark, a 97…
For Mac fans, there is good news and bad news coming out today from analyst Gene Munster of investment bank Piper Jaffray. The most notable aspect of Apple's skyrocketing popularity is the fact that the company shipped 2.16 million Macs in the third quarter of this year. The part of the analyst's report that might…
Click to viewHey PC fanboys, now you can use this shot of a Windows XP display at an AT&T store when those smug Mac worshipers tell you about how such-and-such Zune commercial was made on a Mac, and how "all media types and artists" use Macs. Windows runs the world, baby. (Thanks, Paul!)
They're using the same music from the US spots, but there's a different attitude with these Brits. Still, same idea—the PC guy is a bit overweight, has a big nose and is just not nearly the hepcat the Mac dude is. Anyway, they just sound so, uh, polite compared with us crude Americans.
A message to those PR people, engineers, product managers, VPs and CEOs at Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo, and our other favorite PC makers: Don't let the people in charge of putting these demos on your machines ruin your computers. Please, fight back, for our sake, and for the sake of your reputations.
Novell decided to jump on the Mac vs. PC parody bandwagon, with the zillionth imitation of those spots. But now they bring Linux into the equation, represented by an attractive young lady. While she is quite eye-catching, we would like to have seen a hotter babe to go along with the indescribable beauty of Ubuntu, or…
