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(Unverified)Jan 23rd 2009 7:13PM
This doesn't seem like a good combo to me. Mac sells overpriced hardware and MS sells overpriced software. They don't seem like a fitting couple.
Then again this is the free beta.
(Unverified)Jan 23rd 2009 7:28PM
Heh, well, free is part of why it's fun. Other than the Mac mini, which is insanely overpriced for its specs, Mac hardware is about on-par with any other manufacturer...and you tend to get better quality components. So it's all a tradeoff, but you aren't getting screwed if you are buying for quality.
AnatidaeJan 24th 2009 4:25AM
Wait, I'm sorry. Apple hardware is on-par price wise with PC computers and better components? No way. That is just not true.
There are soooo many different PC brands that sell the same raw part configuration of an Apple computer for less than the Apple sticker. Once you break open that Mac, the inside core components are not superior to a PC. Intel is intel, NVidia is Nvidia, etc... Apple sources their stuff from the same place many PC makers do to. It isn't like they put magic dust on their hard drives to prevent them from crashing any more than another drive out there.
Now, design, flare, a sense of being part of a member's only club. That Apple has in spades. Apple does deliver on the pretty. But I can hit a Frys and build out a computer to run circles around a $4000+ mac for less than $2000. It might not look as pretty, but it will be fast.
Other than looks, Apple gives you a great OS. Why in the world do you all want to put Windows 7 on your pretty macs?! Is it a chance to get up to speed for the MS bashing that will come?
I am a computer is a computer guy. I could give a crap what machine I use as long as it does the job. But as a graphic artist I have lots of friends who preach to me the Steve Job's gospel. Yet they too seem to show off how their macs run Windows so well. All the while telling me how they think the OS sucks, how they have all the apps they need on their mac and the windows only apps are not worth their time anyway. How all the good games are on Mac too. And how their hardware is just as good for the price they spent as any PC - or better.
And so I find it incredibly funny to see Apple hardware owners shoving beta Windows 7 on their Macs. God help us if MS actually pulls it off and makes Windows 7 more enticing than OS X in visuals and functionality.
I wonder with all the Apple marketing out there if they have somehow tricked the public into thinking Apple makes the leading OS now. And now MS is some kind of underdog in the OS race. Is the desire to get Windows 7 up and running on the Mac a secret desire to root for the underdog?
(Unverified)Feb 12th 2009 2:30PM
Well said....you just stole my words...
But at the end of the end...Mac still makes great computers....but for MS...not sure...somehow "Microsoft makes good software" doesn't quite sound right.
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