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From: limerick
Originally Posted by rworne,Jul 24 2006, 11:06 PM
You views are the ones that are antiquated. Macs are now not much different than a mid to high-end notebook. The CPU is intel and intel AFAIR makes the motherboards.
They are assembled in the same factory that makes Dell notebooks. Macs have been non-proprietary since the early iMac days of 1998 or so.
You can even install and run XP on an intel Mac using bootcamp with no performance penalty.
Apple has been making great inroads into the PC market with their notebooks and the iMacs are also quite popular. You should check out last week's quarterly announcements. Right now they have a 12% share of the notebook market. Considering all the companies out there marketing notebooks, that's not bad at all - Dell's running what? 29%?
They are assembled in the same factory that makes Dell notebooks. Macs have been non-proprietary since the early iMac days of 1998 or so.
You can even install and run XP on an intel Mac using bootcamp with no performance penalty.
Apple has been making great inroads into the PC market with their notebooks and the iMacs are also quite popular. You should check out last week's quarterly announcements. Right now they have a 12% share of the notebook market. Considering all the companies out there marketing notebooks, that's not bad at all - Dell's running what? 29%?
Hell I've been owned.
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Originally Posted by Saki GT,Jul 24 2006, 11:37 PM
I'm beginning to think exceltoexcel doesn't like Macs.
I don't hate them but WTF would anyone even think that they are worth the crap.
Now if they trully were a better quality product that ran Windows Then they should just make their OS X available to PC users.
Why not let it run on a PC? Then we can all switch to apples OS X since there isn't any difference between them and Dell, gateway right? Instead of paying huge amounts of money for a system that when made by any other major company usually costs less, we could just install it on an emachine and be just as good as all the elite MAC users
... It all about screwing their customers.THAT'S the problem, if they even thought about working with Microsoft to create a single standard everyday multipurpose OS then they would be no different than gateway, dell etc... Instead they try to create a divide that has never had much of a prayer to work.
This is like Sony realizing they are going to die in the video tape market and coming out with a betamax player that also plays standard VHS tapes.
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Originally Posted by exceltoexcel,Jul 25 2006, 11:33 AM
I don't hate them but WTF would anyone even think that they are worth the crap.
Now if they trully were a better quality product that ran Windows Then they should just make their OS X available to PC users.
Why not let it run on a PC? Then we can all switch to apples OS X since there isn't any difference between them and Dell, gateway right? Instead of paying huge amounts of money for a system that when made by any other major company usually costs less, we could just install it on an emachine and be just as good as all the elite MAC users
... It all about screwing their customers.THAT'S the problem, if they even thought about working with Microsoft to create a single standard everyday multipurpose OS then they would be no different than gateway, dell etc... Instead they try to create a divide that has never had much of a prayer to work.
This is like Sony realizing they are going to die in the video tape market and coming out with a betamax player that also plays standard VHS tapes.
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Originally Posted by exceltoexcel,Jul 25 2006, 02:33 PM
I don't hate them but WTF would anyone even think that they are worth the crap.
Why not let it run on a PC? Then we can all switch to apples OS X since there isn't any difference between them and Dell, gateway right? Instead of paying huge amounts of money for a system that when made by any other major company usually costs less, we could just install it on an emachine and be just as good as all the elite MAC users
... It all about screwing their customers.As for paying huge amounts of money, Apples cost the same as comparably equipped Windows computers from Sony, Dell, HP, etc.
[QUOTE]THAT'S the problem, if they even thought about working with Microsoft to create a single standard everyday multipurpose OS then they would be no different than gateway, dell etc...
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From: limerick
Originally Posted by superjimbo,Jul 25 2006, 06:19 PM
so have you ever actually owned a mac? because if you haven't, you bitch a lot about something you don't seem to have much exposure to. On the flip side, I'm betting that many of the mac people on this board have a good amount of experience with PCs.
