InformationWeek Reviews Vista vs. Mac OSX

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=196800670

As someone who picked up a MacBook in November, I can wholeheartedly agree
with the conclusions in this article.

There's nothing like a totally unbiased review... And that's nothing like a
totally unbiased review.

"Bill Marriott" <zuidema@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=196800670
>
> As someone who picked up a MacBook in November, I can wholeheartedly agree
> with the conclusions in this article.
>

Brian W wrote:
> There's nothing like a totally unbiased review... And that's nothing
> like a totally unbiased review.

BS. The only thing that holds people back from buying a MAC is the price.

Alias
>
> "Bill Marriott" <zuidema@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> news:uTK9RjmMHHA.3872@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=196800670
>>
>> As someone who picked up a MacBook in November, I can wholeheartedly
>> agree with the conclusions in this article.
>>
>

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
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> Brian W wrote:
>> There's nothing like a totally unbiased review... And that's nothing like a totally unbiased
>> review.
>
> BS. The only thing that holds people back from buying a MAC is the price.
>
> Alias

Perhaps, that should be *most* people.

If I wanted a MAC I would buy one, I don't want one.
I've thought about it, and a couple months back- I almost
bought a new MacBook Pro. It was a compulsive thing.
Luckily, I realized how very little I actually wanted an Apple
product.


-Michael

The only thing holding me back from a Mac is most of the hardware that I
have that will not work with it and most of the software that I use that
will not run on it.

Apart from that, the Mac is great.

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
news:uYVQiOnMHHA.3288@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Brian W wrote:
>> There's nothing like a totally unbiased review... And that's nothing like
>> a totally unbiased review.
>
> BS. The only thing that holds people back from buying a MAC is the price.
>
> Alias
>>
>> "Bill Marriott" <zuidema@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:uTK9RjmMHHA.3872@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=196800670
>>>
>>> As someone who picked up a MacBook in November, I can wholeheartedly
>>> agree with the conclusions in this article.
>>>
>>

Bobby wrote:
> The only thing holding me back from a Mac is most of the hardware that I
> have that will not work with it and most of the software that I use that
> will not run on it.

Huh? What hardware? MACs come with their own hardware. What software
that you can't get for a MAC?
>
> Apart from that, the Mac is great.

I still think it's the price that holds most people back, compared to
the price of a PC.

Alias
>
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
> news:uYVQiOnMHHA.3288@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Brian W wrote:
>>> There's nothing like a totally unbiased review... And that's nothing
>>> like a totally unbiased review.
>>
>> BS. The only thing that holds people back from buying a MAC is the price.
>>
>> Alias
>>>
>>> "Bill Marriott" <zuidema@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
>>> news:uTK9RjmMHHA.3872@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=196800670
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As someone who picked up a MacBook in November, I can wholeheartedly
>>>> agree with the conclusions in this article.
>>>>
>>>
>

Maybe, but it's pretty easy to call someone you disagree with "biased."
You'll have to give a little more meat than that to persuade people the
author isn't spot-on. The examples he gives are really good ones, especially
with respect to UAC.

I had not owned a Mac in more than 10 years. I bought my MacBook because I
needed to test sites on Safari and software under Mac OSX. And because it
could run Windows -- either natively via BootCamp or as a virtual machine
with Parallels. (And it does so, beautifully.) Nevertheless, I'm finding the
call of Mac OSX to be quite seductive. I find it cleaner, faster, less
obtrusive, and better integrated than Vista.

Moving to Vista will require, for many people, additional investment in new
hardware and upgrades/replacement of software and utilities, etc. Given
that, it's quite reasonable to migrate to Mac OSX instead. Maybe I'll be
more keen on Vista when my sound card, fax modem, scanner, database
software, RAD tool, and graphics applications work properly with it. (Mac
OSX already runs them just fine today. Well, okay, not the sound card.)

"Brian W" <brian.NOSPAMwescombe@PLEASEntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> There's nothing like a totally unbiased review... And that's nothing like
> a totally unbiased review.
>
> "Bill Marriott" <zuidema@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> news:uTK9RjmMHHA.3872@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=196800670
>>
>> As someone who picked up a MacBook in November, I can wholeheartedly
>> agree with the conclusions in this article.
>>
>

On 07/01/2007 in message <6j8oh.34708$1W1.21944@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>
Brian W wrote:

>There's nothing like a totally unbiased review... And that's nothing like
>a totally unbiased review.

In what way? I think it's pretty honest, and it reflects all the issues I
have with Vista. Be good if MS read it and bring out SP1 within the next
couple of weeks.

--
Jeff Gaines

Some of what you say is true. However, "for many people",
their first encounter with Vista will be on a new computer-
they aren't going to have to worry about doing anything different
than when they bought a new computer with XP on it. They'll
have to get used to a new OS, but so did everyone else when they
moved from Win98.

The fact of the matter, users don't have to do anything, especially,
not right now. There is absolutely nothing wrong with staying with
XP until they decide to buy another computer. As part of new computer
purchase, Vista will be a bargain. And, XP will be supported for a few
more years. There's no rush, there's no need to buy any additional
hardware or upgrades.

Really, it's not "many", but *most* users will not experience Vista until
it's time for a new computer. If they rush out to buy a new computer
just to get Vista, while there was nothing wrong with what they had-
oh well, their choice. They certainly don't have to.


-Michael

"Bill Marriott" <zuidema@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> Maybe, but it's pretty easy to call someone you disagree with "biased." You'll have to give a
> little more meat than that to persuade people the author isn't spot-on. The examples he gives
> are really good ones, especially with respect to UAC.
>
> I had not owned a Mac in more than 10 years. I bought my MacBook because I needed to test
> sites on Safari and software under Mac OSX. And because it could run Windows -- either
> natively via BootCamp or as a virtual machine with Parallels. (And it does so, beautifully.)
> Nevertheless, I'm finding the call of Mac OSX to be quite seductive. I find it cleaner,
> faster, less obtrusive, and better integrated than Vista.
>
> Moving to Vista will require, for many people, additional investment in new hardware and
> upgrades/replacement of software and utilities, etc. Given that, it's quite reasonable to
> migrate to Mac OSX instead. Maybe I'll be more keen on Vista when my sound card, fax modem,
> scanner, database software, RAD tool, and graphics applications work properly with it. (Mac
> OSX already runs them just fine today. Well, okay, not the sound card.)
>
> "Brian W" <brian.NOSPAMwescombe@PLEASEntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:6j8oh.34708$1W1.21944@newsfe4-win.ntli.net...
>> There's nothing like a totally unbiased review... And that's nothing like a totally unbiased
>> review.
>>
>> "Bill Marriott" <zuidema@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:uTK9RjmMHHA.3872@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=196800670
>>>
>>> As someone who picked up a MacBook in November, I can wholeheartedly agree with the
>>> conclusions in this article.
>>>
>>
>
>

Apple really does need to look at profit margins in manufacturing hardware
for 5 per cent of the market versus potential profits for selling just the
OS and perhaps garnering 10 or 15 per cent of the market. Microsoft's rapid
rise and Bill Gates rocketing from broke college drop out to the richest man
in the world is plenty of proof that the profits are in shipping 2 dollar
CDs for 200 dollars, not in shipping 1000 dollar hardware for 1500 dollars.

Dale

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.es> wrote in message
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> Brian W wrote:
>> There's nothing like a totally unbiased review... And that's nothing like
>> a totally unbiased review.
>
> BS. The only thing that holds people back from buying a MAC is the price.
>
> Alias
>>
>> "Bill Marriott" <zuidema@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:uTK9RjmMHHA.3872@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> http://www.informationweek.com/news/...leID=196800670
>>>
>>> As someone who picked up a MacBook in November, I can wholeheartedly
>>> agree with the conclusions in this article.
>>>
>>