Comments on: Macenstein Goes Overboard with Vista Coffin Article… http://www.philoking.com/2008/01/14/macenstein-goes-overboard-with-vista-coffin-article/ Computing for the OS Agnostic Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:10:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Azizi Khan http://www.philoking.com/2008/01/14/macenstein-goes-overboard-with-vista-coffin-article/comment-page-1/#comment-22755 Azizi Khan Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:57:10 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2008/01/14/macenstein-goes-overboard-with-vista-coffin-article/#comment-22755 I recently bought a Macbook Pro 13". Why ? It was cheaper than a Dell by a couple of hundred bucks because Apple FINALLY decided to drop its prices. Mind you I'm a through and through PC guy. My day job involves Microsoft .Net. I can assure you outside the "reality distortion field" all is not good for OSX. You know Apple as a company doesn't have a Netware driver out of the box ??? After all these years ???? How dumb is that ??? Windows does it out of the box. See the thing with Apple is - here it is - its always 90% of something. Thats it. They make products that are always 90%. Never 100%. Don't believe me ? 1. The IPod is now on its 6th generation. It still doesn't have radio. 2. The IPhone with its current latest incarnation still CANT DO what 10 year old phones did out of the box. (Ie, sms, mms etc ) 3. OSX with no netware. 4. Non removable batteries. 5. Macbook Pros don't have a hinge for the SD card readers allowing dust to get in. 6. ITunes to any music product from Apple DOES NOT HAVE A STOP BUTTON. You pause it and lock it. If you don't you drain your battery. Great! And the list goes on. So what does Apple do ? They will fill the rest with the reality distortion. "Steve says you don't need radio on the IPod". "Steve says you can do this with Safari" "Steve says because you have 7 hours of battery, you don't need to replace it." (Of course i do, if I worked on the flight in ECONOMY class and have to work into a presentation!) "Steve says netbook market is shit" (Do you want to bet they will deliver another pretty 90% product ?) I was in Malaysia and I happened to walk past a Apple booth with minions talking about, get this, Safari. FFS its a browser!!! Move on with your life. Apple needs its secrecy and its RDF to survive. Unlike other manufacturers they can't deliver a product as is. You can always be assured a very pretty, technically moderate product. But I like my Macbook. I run VM Ware Fusion and run all Windows applications on it. Why ? It was cheaper. AK. I recently bought a Macbook Pro 13″. Why ? It was cheaper than a Dell by a couple of hundred bucks because Apple FINALLY decided to drop its prices.

Mind you I’m a through and through PC guy. My day job involves Microsoft .Net.

I can assure you outside the “reality distortion field” all is not good for OSX.

You know Apple as a company doesn’t have a Netware driver out of the box ??? After all these years ???? How dumb is that ??? Windows does it out of the box.

See the thing with Apple is – here it is – its always 90% of something. Thats it. They make products that are always 90%. Never 100%. Don’t believe me ?

1. The IPod is now on its 6th generation. It still doesn’t have radio.
2. The IPhone with its current latest incarnation still CANT DO what 10 year old phones did out of the box. (Ie, sms, mms etc )
3. OSX with no netware.
4. Non removable batteries.
5. Macbook Pros don’t have a hinge for the SD card readers allowing dust to get in.
6. ITunes to any music product from Apple DOES NOT HAVE A STOP BUTTON. You pause it and lock it. If you don’t you drain your battery. Great!

And the list goes on. So what does Apple do ? They will fill the rest with the reality distortion.

“Steve says you don’t need radio on the IPod”.
“Steve says you can do this with Safari”
“Steve says because you have 7 hours of battery, you don’t need to replace it.” (Of course i do, if I worked on the flight in ECONOMY class and have to work into a presentation!)
“Steve says netbook market is shit” (Do you want to bet they will deliver another pretty 90% product ?)

I was in Malaysia and I happened to walk past a Apple booth with minions talking about, get this, Safari. FFS its a browser!!! Move on with your life.

Apple needs its secrecy and its RDF to survive. Unlike other manufacturers they can’t deliver a product as is. You can always be assured a very pretty, technically moderate product.

But I like my Macbook. I run VM Ware Fusion and run all Windows applications on it. Why ? It was cheaper.

AK.

]]> By: Jason Burns http://www.philoking.com/2008/01/14/macenstein-goes-overboard-with-vista-coffin-article/comment-page-1/#comment-16975 Jason Burns Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:32:12 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2008/01/14/macenstein-goes-overboard-with-vista-coffin-article/#comment-16975 Arturo » I don't think there is really a concern with losing market share. Fortunately for Microsoft there are umpteen million windows PC selling a day, and every major software app and hardware is being producted for the platform. I think Windows 7 will make some serious headway by leaving the legacy garbage behind and starting new. Arturo » I don’t think there is really a concern with losing market share. Fortunately for Microsoft there are umpteen million windows PC selling a day, and every major software app and hardware is being producted for the platform. I think Windows 7 will make some serious headway by leaving the legacy garbage behind and starting new.

]]> By: Arturo http://www.philoking.com/2008/01/14/macenstein-goes-overboard-with-vista-coffin-article/comment-page-1/#comment-16974 Arturo Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:31:07 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2008/01/14/macenstein-goes-overboard-with-vista-coffin-article/#comment-16974 I agree that people should give any new (Microsoft) OS a chance to prove itself. When Windows 2000 came out everyone waited for SP1 before they would actually install it. But I must say that I'm quite baffled why Microsoft takes this hard approach with Vista. I mean, when I bought the first PC with XP (1.8Ghz, 512Mb, nvidia) installed, it booted in about 20 seconds. Nice and fast. Sure there where problems video drivers etc in the beginning, but XP was far far superior to win 98/ME (2000 was used for businesses mostly) When i bought a new laptop not so long ago (tablet, dual core 64bit, 2Gigs, nvidia, etc) it was far slower booting than my first XP machine. On top of that most all DirectX apps ran to 50% slower. Lots of BIG software had glitches like Adobe Photoshop. And I still don't know why they made that security advisor so annoying (rename 1 file in explorer and get 3 confirmation messages. Yes i know i can disable it). Now with vista it is much harder to see if indeed it is that much better than XP. For me at least :) Sure Leopard and any linux distro has issues to , but i think that Microsoft is going to loose market share with their current attitude. I agree that people should give any new (Microsoft) OS a chance to prove itself. When Windows 2000 came out everyone waited for SP1 before they would actually install it.

But I must say that I’m quite baffled why Microsoft takes this hard approach with Vista. I mean, when I bought the first PC with XP (1.8Ghz, 512Mb, nvidia) installed, it booted in about 20 seconds. Nice and fast. Sure there where problems video drivers etc in the beginning, but XP was far far superior to win 98/ME (2000 was used for businesses mostly)

When i bought a new laptop not so long ago (tablet, dual core 64bit, 2Gigs, nvidia, etc) it was far slower booting than my first XP machine. On top of that most all DirectX apps ran to 50% slower. Lots of BIG software had glitches like Adobe Photoshop. And I still don’t know why they made that security advisor so annoying (rename 1 file in explorer and get 3 confirmation messages. Yes i know i can disable it).

Now with vista it is much harder to see if indeed it is that much better than XP. For me at least :)

Sure Leopard and any linux distro has issues to , but i think that Microsoft is going to loose market share with their current attitude.

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