I wont be able to ugprade the graphics card unless ATI or Nvidia release something special for Macs. ![]() I am intending on investing in a Mac workstation once Leopard is out but despite dumping a ton of money into that system, I dont think I will still have the flexibility or rather the software ecosystem that is present with Windows. I know Macs are excellent and yet I keep on using Linux and Windows simply because Linux is free, Windows came bundled and I have a lot of apps I use that are Windows only games for example. But it takes time for people to give up something they have tried for so long and revert to something completely different no matter how hassle free it is. If they backed up their statements by pointing to a 3rd party piece of software and a lack of internal process monitoring / securing your servers, well…Īgreed. If someone in the “media” started on about how your primary OS was just damned insecure and you should consider buying Windows (hey, conveniently, we also have security companies adds along the sidebar so you can purchase extra peace of mind for your new glorious OS). ![]() Face it, it’s human nature to defend what you believe in. I must admit that I still browse their site, but it’s mostly to get a quick look at headlines and a good laugh.Īs for the blogger, the Mac users mentality is similar to a Linux/BSD user’s when someone starts spouting about Windows being more stable and less vulnerable to exploits than a typical Linux distro or PCBSD. Reading ZDNet is something of an exercise in frustration for professionals who work with multiple operating systems daily and take the time to know their strengths and weaknesses. I think that many just get tired of people making statements about which they don’t understand. What you have to prove is that for a cost effective PC, there is a lower price Mac equivalent. You cannot prove Macs are cost effective by proving you cannot buy them for less elsewhere. No, you cannot, and it is still too expensive for what the complainers need. It is a characteristic of the cult marketing that what people do nowadays when making Mac price comparisons is, take a product people find too expensive, and then say you cannot buy it anyplace else for less. But it is more, and different, car than most of us need or want. You cannot duplicate it for less from another supplier. Like a fully loaded Maybach is too expensive. They mean, too expensive in the sense of, more than or different from what they need, and that there are cost effective alternatives. When people say Macs are too expensive, they don’t mean too expensive for what they are. If what you are looking for is a more cost effective piece of hardware for laptop computing, its easy. ![]() If what you are looking for is identical hardware at a lower price, probably you will not find it. Exactly as I far from believe that every PC buyer is in love with Windows for its weaknesses, but rather I tend to see it as a general satisfaction with being able to use Windows for anything… After all, Windows is everywhere… It’s by no means a ‘default decision’ of the average computer buyer, and I think this needs to be acknowledged before implying that someone’s stupid for having actually chosen to choose… Their logic is that Mac users are more or less stupid to own a Mac, just as some Mac users tend to think of Windows users for owning a PC, but the really wrong thing here is that Mac users make an obvious choice by purchasing a Mac… The thing that upsets me the most is that in their argumentation, so many PC users don’t see how they might be wrongly mistaken for being one of the many many millions of Windows users who has made no other choice by buying a PC with Windows on it than actually wanting a computer, with ‘computer’ being synonymous with ‘Windows-based’… …but if I’d want it like Windows, I’d choose Windows. I wish some of your fellow Macophiles wouldn’t insist on hoping on just about every tech forum declaring loudly why and how Macs are superior in every single way: hardware-wise (even though it’s generic) and software-wise (even though you can get much the same stuff (and more) on windows)
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