it's called Trojan Horse marketing. You let the peecee buyers keep their XP (not because of how good it is, either) and then they realize how much better OSX is, and they switch permenantly...

 

peole have ALWAYS been putting windows OSs on mac macines. they just started specifically designing some windows operating systems to work on macs now.

well most people are paying between 150 and 200 for XP pro...but you're right its a lot better than 3.5k. you could have a car into 12s on that kind of money.

 

They had windows OS workin on power pc and moto mac b4? what version? Puttin windows software on mac is all that i'd heard of untill the intel mac came out.

 

they had windows emulators for the mac for years, but that was a slow option.

now you can actually dual boot either windows or osx at startup. actually, I read somewhere you can also triboot with the option of booting into linux.

furthermore, there's a company called Parallels that allows you to have windows actually running side by side OSX (versus emulation).

macs rool.

 

Unfortunately, short of just repeating this over and over again, you can't actually justify this at all.

And do you really think MS would allow Apple to ship Vista on its computers as part of a hostile takeover marketing plan? If you actually read about Vista, you might start to realize why they're considering it. It's a totally restructured kernel and a totally new OS, despite the same looks. For example, you can plug in a USB jump drive and have Vista utilize it as extra system RAM (not virtual memory, RAM). Then if you unplug it at some random time, nothing bad happens... the computer just goes back to normal.

And just to try and help you into the light a little, here's an interesting link. http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB2005.html

To summarize:

This bulletin provides a year-end summary of software vulnerabilities that were identified between January 2005 and December 2005. The information is presented only as a index with links to the US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin the information was published in. There were 5198 reported vulnerabilities: 812 Windows operating system vulnerabilities; 2328 Unix/Linux operating vulnerabilities; and 2058 Multiple operating system vulnerabilities.



And which one is OSX built on? Say it with me kids...

 

vista? don't you mean vapor? as in vaporware???

lol.

it's only four years late to market and encroaching on 5.

oh, as in operating vulnerabilities?

try viruses, spyware and malware -- as in 120,000 + for peecees.

and then say zero for macs.

btw, vista will be nothing more than a stripped down of its promised self, because microsoft can't fix all of its bugs.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1942232,00.asp

by the time it's released apple will already be shipping OSX 10.5, forcing microsoft to play catch up once again.

sadly, vista is only gonna be a sad attempt at mimicking OSX (circa 2004). lol.

 

Wait, I missed the part where MS tried to mimic OSX or "catch up" at all... Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was predominantly the other way around (remember all those slick UI changes and nice new features in OSX that were already in Windows?)

Of course Windows will be more vulnerable to AdWare and SpyWare... they give out SDKs to anyone who asks. But the source code is still more secure. Incidentally enough, zero is also the number of viruses, spyware, and malware that have ever been left on a computer I've touched. It's the user that makes Windows weak in the eyes of the Mac Ministers, since they just can't figure it out. But I guess "stick with what you know" is never a bad motto.

Apple just sits in the elitist tower hoping that everyone will suddenly decide to switch over and basking in their own ignorance. And it seems they've managed to garner quite a following of much the same mentality.

And please stop calling them peecees for your sake and mine... I feel like I'm talking to a 10-year-old.

 

uh, what hole have you been living in?

microsoft has ALWAYS been stealing user interfaces from apple. lol.

bet you didn't know microsoft office was first designed for macs did you? that's because microsoft didn't have a GRAPHICAL USER interface at the time. they had something called DOS. lol.

they created "windows" after realizing the success of apple's graphical user interface, and they've been stealing OS interfaces from apple ever since.

as for being elitists (lol), call us what you will, but you get what you pay for. you can have a econobox or you can have a sports car.

I choose to shell out more than a few hundred bucks for something that's invaluable to me.

 

Honestly the only reason Mac is still around is there glorified walkman (iPOD) tHEY HAD TOO STEAL THEIR OS FROM BSD (Linux VARIANT) Mac has a whole 2% market share on the Comp industry, thats why people don't bother attacking those computers.( Nobody has them) The only way they could stay competative was to hire Intel to make their Chipsets, because they were losing the Megahertz war.

 

yeah, sure.

PC Magazine: Apple Power Mac G5 Quad delivers 'performance numbers we've never seen before'

Friday, December 23, 2005 - 01:29 AM EDT



"Apple professionals expect a speed bump with each successive Power Mac model that comes out, and the 2.5-GHz Power Mac G5 Quad delivers a doozy of one. With the first Intel-powered consumer Macs rumored to be right around the corner (they may be announced at the MacWorld Expo in early January), it is interesting that Apple would release the G5 Quad as the probable last hurrah for the PowerPC processor—but at least they're going out on top," Joel Santo Domingo writes for PC Magazine.

"Is it worth upgrading to the new G5 Quad? The answer is a resounding yes for those who need (and can justify) the power and expense. The dual G5 cores in each of the two CPUs push the G5 Quad to performance numbers we've never seen before. With four true cores working on the same task, the G5 Quad powered through our new Adobe Photoshop CS2 tests at a speedy 57 seconds. The previous Power Mac Dual (2.7 GHz) took 1 minute 14 seconds to do the same ten tasks (30 percent longer), and the Dell XPS 600 took 1:03 (a still-significant 11 percent difference). Though 11 percent doesn't seem like much, it can really add up over the course of a day or week, especially on time-sensitive projects," Santo Domingo writes.

"The Quad G5 got the highest score we've ever seen on the CPU-stressing CineBench rendering test: 1,104. The Pentium EE840 overclocked to 3.6 GHz recently got a 667, and an Athlon 64 4800+ overclocked to 2.7 GHz scored 775," Santo Domingo writes. "We recommend that professional businesses such as design and engineering firms continue to buy PowerPC-based Power Macs. Intel-native and universal binary software (software that contains both PowerPC and Intel optimized code) are likely to lag behind the introduction of the Intel Macs by several months to a year. Since non-Intel-optimized programs are likely to remain current for several years after the introduction of Intel Macs in 2006 and 2007, it behooves current Mac houses to buy the current PowerPC Macs as their last pre-Intel upgrade."

Full review (4.5 out of 5 stars) here.



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