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Congratulations Frank, It's a PC!
published on 28.06.2009, 22:06:55. Category: no category
published on 28.06.2009, 22:06:55. Category: no category
I've got to say, I'm just about tired of the ignorant "laptop hunter" commercials from Microsoft. They've been reeling since 2006 from the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commericals produced by Apple, wherein the PC is played brilliantly by John Hodgeman, as a nerdy, happless oaf who doesn't seem to be able to get over his inferiority complex he battles when in the company of his friend, Mac, played by too-hipster-for-some Justin Long. Now, I'm not going to say that the Mac commericals don't take liberties on rare occassion, I've yet to see them use straight up class-warfare techniques to sell their products. The Mac vs. PC commercials use humor to present their case, and apparently have been very effective for Apple. Apple sales are up. People are moving over to OS X. While Windows die-hards love to tout the massively higher number of Windows machines in the market vs. Apple machines, they overlook the fact that Apple's market share has quadrupled in the past few years or so, and the fact that Windows machines are used by businesses and other primarily due to their lower cost, not to their superiority. And I'll be the first to insult my fellow Mac-lovers by saying that I hated OS 9 and every OS prior to OS X. Hated them. So during this period while pre-OS X Windows users like me were scoffing at the higher prices of Macs, and their OS of yesterday, Windows was picking up market share left and right. And frankly, because OS X, I understand why that was because I didn't use Macs. I custom built Windows machines into rack-mount recording studio systems in 1997, before you could buy one for that purpose, even wrote articles for major magazines like Electronic Musician to teach others how to do it.
For many years, I was an avowed Apple critic. For a couple of years I even consulted AMD in helping them shape their marketing message to the pro audio and enterainment community, and of course, AMD machines were powered by Windows. I built my own machines, from the ground up, but the truth is that I, like many other Windows users, rarely kept the top screwed on the case, because I was always inside the think tinkering around with something that was going wrong.
But something happened that changed my mind, and that was the introduction of OS X. OS X is a superior operating system. Period. It is faster, more stable, nearly bullet-proof when it comes to viruses and malware, and with the introduction of Intel-based processors in the machines, the Mac is now capable of running ever OS one could want to run. I can uninstall applications without hassle. When I went to a hotel the other day and needed to use the printer in their business center, I simply plugged the USB cable from the printer into my Mac, and it showed up ready to print. No drawn out downloading of drivers and installations, restarting, etc, it just worked. When I take photos and want to get them off my camera, I plug it into my Mac, it shows up and I get the photos off of it. No drivers, no hassles. Because of Core Audio, more audio interfaces that I plug into my machine simply show up in the Audio/MIDI setup screen and are available instantly. I like that.
When we installed a MOTU 2408 system in a PC in the studio, it wouldn't work. We had to call MOTU and get help. It took us three hours to get it working. When we took the same card and put it into the Mac Pro, we ran the install program from MOTU, hooked up the inteface and started recording in about 5 minutes. You tell me why that was.
So I have to laugh at Laptop Hunter ads when I see some misinformed moron saying "Macs are more about the looks than the power" while ignoring the fact that the machine he said that about ran a faster Intel process then the machine he purchased. And another idiot in one of the ads said he wanted a versitle machine with expandability. Now, there's not a lot of modding one can do with a laptop no matter what brand, but please, somebody explain to me how a one-trick-pony Windows-based machine came be more versitile than a machine that allows me to boot OS X, Linux, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows Vista, simultaneously as I can do using Parallels and VMWare Fusion.
I love this Laptop Hunter spoof I found on YouTube, where they take a homeless guy and let him buy a laptop.
Yes, Mac machines cost more. If that's your only concern, well, have it your way and step over a dollar to pick up that dime. When your four year old laptop is worth 80% less than you paid for it with your laptop hunter money, while the Mac you could have bought has retained 55% of its resale value as a used machine, tell me about value then. Mac computers hold their value better than a Honda automobile. And if you will only ever need to run your cheaply-made, ultra-hot, fragile HP or Toshiba to use MS Office and surf the web, well, then by all means, stay out of the Mac world.
If you want to be the target of millions of viruses and malware programs (*yes, millions), and if you want to have to deal with annual subscription fees to pay for anti-virus software and other hidden costs of Windows ownership, stick with Windows. If you like being in a demographic that makes "FinallyFast.com" a company you might actually want to do business with, then buy that Windows machine. But ask yourself, why are there no "FinallyFast.com" kind of companies out there for Mac machines? Why is it that even a brand-new Windows machine, according to that company's ads, can start to feel like its slowing down and barely moving? Why buy something that is the daily target of jerks around the world who think that writing viruses is fun?
Another thing I'm tired of hearing is this rediculous myth that the only reason Macs don't have all of the virus problems is that virus writers want to make the biggest impact with their attacks and thus they stick to Windows users because there are more of them. That's just crap. You don't think these hacker stars in their viral-writing-cliques wouldn't want to have bragging rights to writing the first major Mac virus that takes down Mac users around the world so they can brag about knocking the no-virus bragging of Mac users off their high horse? Puh-lease. You bet your bippy that if these virus writers were capable of writing a virus to attack OS X, they'd do so in a heartbeat. But they don't, do they? They don't because OS X is a very secure system, and to date nobody has been able to attack it with a real virus. If one of these clowns could write a virus to take down OS X and deprive Apple of these "bullet-proof" bragging rights, you know that's what they'd do, but they can't do it, so they don't. It has nothing to do with the install base. Period. End of discussion.
So congratulations Frank, you got a PC. It was cheap. You're hipper because your not a Mac user. You're stuck with Windows, or if you cna figure out how to use it to dual-boot, Linux, or if you're a real smart cookie, you might be able to Hackintosh it, but then you'd just be a geek that really wants a Mac but can't afford it. And you can take that money you're saving and use it to buy anti-virus software and annual subscriptions to its updates, use it to pay for repair services, or use it to pay for that FinallyFast.com service.
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For many years, I was an avowed Apple critic. For a couple of years I even consulted AMD in helping them shape their marketing message to the pro audio and enterainment community, and of course, AMD machines were powered by Windows. I built my own machines, from the ground up, but the truth is that I, like many other Windows users, rarely kept the top screwed on the case, because I was always inside the think tinkering around with something that was going wrong.
But something happened that changed my mind, and that was the introduction of OS X. OS X is a superior operating system. Period. It is faster, more stable, nearly bullet-proof when it comes to viruses and malware, and with the introduction of Intel-based processors in the machines, the Mac is now capable of running ever OS one could want to run. I can uninstall applications without hassle. When I went to a hotel the other day and needed to use the printer in their business center, I simply plugged the USB cable from the printer into my Mac, and it showed up ready to print. No drawn out downloading of drivers and installations, restarting, etc, it just worked. When I take photos and want to get them off my camera, I plug it into my Mac, it shows up and I get the photos off of it. No drivers, no hassles. Because of Core Audio, more audio interfaces that I plug into my machine simply show up in the Audio/MIDI setup screen and are available instantly. I like that.
When we installed a MOTU 2408 system in a PC in the studio, it wouldn't work. We had to call MOTU and get help. It took us three hours to get it working. When we took the same card and put it into the Mac Pro, we ran the install program from MOTU, hooked up the inteface and started recording in about 5 minutes. You tell me why that was.
So I have to laugh at Laptop Hunter ads when I see some misinformed moron saying "Macs are more about the looks than the power" while ignoring the fact that the machine he said that about ran a faster Intel process then the machine he purchased. And another idiot in one of the ads said he wanted a versitle machine with expandability. Now, there's not a lot of modding one can do with a laptop no matter what brand, but please, somebody explain to me how a one-trick-pony Windows-based machine came be more versitile than a machine that allows me to boot OS X, Linux, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows Vista, simultaneously as I can do using Parallels and VMWare Fusion.
I love this Laptop Hunter spoof I found on YouTube, where they take a homeless guy and let him buy a laptop.
Yes, Mac machines cost more. If that's your only concern, well, have it your way and step over a dollar to pick up that dime. When your four year old laptop is worth 80% less than you paid for it with your laptop hunter money, while the Mac you could have bought has retained 55% of its resale value as a used machine, tell me about value then. Mac computers hold their value better than a Honda automobile. And if you will only ever need to run your cheaply-made, ultra-hot, fragile HP or Toshiba to use MS Office and surf the web, well, then by all means, stay out of the Mac world.
If you want to be the target of millions of viruses and malware programs (*yes, millions), and if you want to have to deal with annual subscription fees to pay for anti-virus software and other hidden costs of Windows ownership, stick with Windows. If you like being in a demographic that makes "FinallyFast.com" a company you might actually want to do business with, then buy that Windows machine. But ask yourself, why are there no "FinallyFast.com" kind of companies out there for Mac machines? Why is it that even a brand-new Windows machine, according to that company's ads, can start to feel like its slowing down and barely moving? Why buy something that is the daily target of jerks around the world who think that writing viruses is fun?
Another thing I'm tired of hearing is this rediculous myth that the only reason Macs don't have all of the virus problems is that virus writers want to make the biggest impact with their attacks and thus they stick to Windows users because there are more of them. That's just crap. You don't think these hacker stars in their viral-writing-cliques wouldn't want to have bragging rights to writing the first major Mac virus that takes down Mac users around the world so they can brag about knocking the no-virus bragging of Mac users off their high horse? Puh-lease. You bet your bippy that if these virus writers were capable of writing a virus to attack OS X, they'd do so in a heartbeat. But they don't, do they? They don't because OS X is a very secure system, and to date nobody has been able to attack it with a real virus. If one of these clowns could write a virus to take down OS X and deprive Apple of these "bullet-proof" bragging rights, you know that's what they'd do, but they can't do it, so they don't. It has nothing to do with the install base. Period. End of discussion.
So congratulations Frank, you got a PC. It was cheap. You're hipper because your not a Mac user. You're stuck with Windows, or if you cna figure out how to use it to dual-boot, Linux, or if you're a real smart cookie, you might be able to Hackintosh it, but then you'd just be a geek that really wants a Mac but can't afford it. And you can take that money you're saving and use it to buy anti-virus software and annual subscriptions to its updates, use it to pay for repair services, or use it to pay for that FinallyFast.com service.
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