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Five reasons a Windows fan also loves the Mac | |
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| Time: 15:02 EST/20:02 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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The war between Mac and PC fans at times makes the country's political and cultural wars look like kindergarten spats. As a long-time PC user, I've been in the middle of it. But after living with a Mac for two weeks and writing my article, Living on Air: A Windows guru spends two weeks with a Mac, I've come up with the five top reason a Windows fan can love the Mac as well. | ||
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| #1 By 3 (86.1.33.75) at 4/16/2009 4:07:57 PM |
| Wow someone with some sense to see people can actually like and use both - a Spring miracle. |
| #2 By 9589 (75.183.112.191) at 4/16/2009 4:38:52 PM |
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Anyone that is doing any serious computing is using Windows and Windows based software anyway. There really isn't a "war" from that standpoint.
With the dearth of great software for the Apple it is almost impossible to not use Windows and Windows based software. There are simply hundreds of thousands of titles to choose from and there are no industries that someone hasn't written software for that runs on Windows. You just can't say that for the Apple. I support Macs and frankly there is nothing there for me or any of my team members. We only have them around to check our code to ensure that those that go to our web sites using a Mac will have a great experience as well as their Windows counterparts. Stats wise, Apple is about 3-4% of our web traffic. |
| #3 By 143 (216.205.223.146) at 4/16/2009 4:44:12 PM |
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If Mac's all vanished would anybody notice?
I don't think anything would be disrupted if Mac's vanished. |
| #4 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at 4/16/2009 7:12:54 PM |
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we now only have one Mac. Designers have moved over to Windows Vista. We maintain one mini that we turn on to update, then test our SES software in and we shut it back off.
Frankly, we got sick of the two we had. They proved to be the most unreliable machines we had in our shop. One designer would always remark: "it's mad..." as it would randomly restart. Cute way to look at it, I guess. Not very productive, however. Nothing against people who like Macs, I'm just not paying for them and we are by no means cheap. The guys run some serious rigs that cost a mint despite being built in-house. Face it, a top end i7 machine isn't on the low end and top end GPU's are very dear. Software is even more costly and we can't afford to waste it on low-end hardware. Perhaps for single end users, certain Macs offer something I'm missing. I just don't see it and I'm known for running every OS there is just to explore it. I really liked Xandros, for example, but never get over how it just does not compare to the fit and finish of Windows, which we can make purr so sweetly that it is literally a joy to use. We've found we can shape it any way we need to for customers and watching them use it brings us real joy. |
| #5 By 89249 (72.213.159.4) at 4/16/2009 10:58:01 PM |
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W/O reading the article
1) The Case 2) The Case 3) The Case 4) The Case 5) The Case |
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