Windows Vista is krap

[DexDexter]

Linux? Don't make me laugh.

You just can't get it up and running

I actually have both Vista and Ubuntu and ever since I installed Ubuntu, I've very rarely used Vista since it's so so slow even with the effects disabled. You need to know a little bit about computers with Linux, what hardware to use etc. but in every day use, this is just soooooo much nicer. And really I couldn't care less about Linux being Finnish.

[Valve Bounce]

Hey guys!! the OP is a spoof - I was just funning. I don't hate Vista - I'm still using XP home edition on my almost 6 year old PC, which I have been informed by both DELL and Cyberscrub that my PC is supposed to be dead. Then I downloaded ASHAMPOO's HDD Control for a trial and it tells me my PC is excellent. The only problem is that the hard drive is running at 62 degrees C.

[Valve Bounce]

Yes, write an article about it. I'm not Bernie so nobody cares what I say. Apple is more evil than Hitler and Microsoft combined though.

I would love to be able to edit the subtitles in that Hitler skit in the OP to refer to both Bernie and Max. Now that would be a gem!!

[veeten]

then again, Betamax was better than VHS in all respects, and how did that particular competition turn out? VHS outselling Beta by a mile, all because there were more units on the shelves where you could choose from, and the ease of replacement of parts because of their availability and interchangeability. All of this leads to lower cost of unit production.

Beta was the opposite, and this led to its marginalisation in the overall market.

In some ways, it is the same way with the Windows/Mac competition, where you have several makers of PC's, and all the choices of what you want, versus being, virtually, locked into Apple's high cost, soup-to-nuts world.
And, as we can see by the overall sales numbers, still hasn't caught up to the number of Windows-based machines.

It's a glorified minority, but still a minority...

[Daniel]

OSX is Mac
Cheap is not alway the answer
I will agree for games the PC is the best
Some people have to work and run a business.
Mac has the same array of software
Mac has way better connectivity to networks and wireless
Mac has no viruses
Macs usually stays running
Macs are much easier to use and most things are well thought out
There is a reason Mac are now around 50% or greater of the market in upscale universities

I will agree with the linux comment.

Yes cheap is not the answer which is why none of the PC's I ever build is cheap. This means they're almost always very reliable.

Software? Same array? Give me a break.

Better connectivity? Bollocks.

Viruses? Well viruses are out of fashion tbh, it's more malware and trojan horses these days.

My PC runs 24/7 and I only switch it off when we go away for the weekend or something. It does this flawlessly.

Macs are easier to use? Perhaps Mac's are more simple but simplicity isn't necessarily everything you want in a computer. I'll admit that some things in Windows aren't perhaps very well thought out sometimes though.

50% of the universities in the US run Mac's? So basically what you're saying is that Apple has probably sold Macs to 50% of the universities in the US at a loss or perhaps even paid them to take them so as to attempt to induct people into the Mac way of life. In my 6 years of working out in the wild I've probably worked alongside a few thousand people through various companies and I think perhaps a dozen of those people were using Mac's in a work environment. Why would I want to go to university and be forced to use something which is hugely different to what most companies are using? This is the same reason why Linux will never be hugely widespread, there aren't enough end users in the workplace using them to convince a huge amount of schools to get kids using them at an early age so there's no point in workplaces moving to Linux for most things.

[Daniel]

You just can't get it up and running

I actually have both Vista and Ubuntu and ever since I installed Ubuntu, I've very rarely used Vista since it's so so slow even with the effects disabled. You need to know a little bit about computers with Linux, what hardware to use etc. but in every day use, this is just soooooo much nicer. And really I couldn't care less about Linux being Finnish.

Well I've used Redhat in a work environment but it was always crashing on me. To be fair this was more down to hardware as they were running it on Pentium 2's but then again this is the cause of 99.99% of crashes on Windows PC's. I'd like to try Linux on a PC at home more as a server than anything and when I upgrade to a new PC in perhaps a year or two's time I'll play around with it.

Vista runs fine on all but the cheapest and nastiest PC's and decent PC components are quite cheap these days so you don't need to have a slow PC

[odykas]

M$ is evil

[Daniel]

M$ is evil

Shaddaup Macboi

[Roamy]

Yes cheap is not the answer which is why none of the PC's I ever build is cheap. This means they're almost always very reliable.

Software? Same array? Give me a break.

Better connectivity? Bollocks.

Viruses? Well viruses are out of fashion tbh, it's more malware and trojan horses these days.

My PC runs 24/7 and I only switch it off when we go away for the weekend or something. It does this flawlessly.

Macs are easier to use? Perhaps Mac's are more simple but simplicity isn't necessarily everything you want in a computer. I'll admit that some things in Windows aren't perhaps very well thought out sometimes though.

50% of the universities in the US run Mac's? So basically what you're saying is that Apple has probably sold Macs to 50% of the universities in the US at a loss or perhaps even paid them to take them so as to attempt to induct people into the Mac way of life. In my 6 years of working out in the wild I've probably worked alongside a few thousand people through various companies and I think perhaps a dozen of those people were using Mac's in a work environment. Why would I want to go to university and be forced to use something which is hugely different to what most companies are using? This is the same reason why Linux will never be hugely widespread, there aren't enough end users in the workplace using them to convince a huge amount of schools to get kids using them at an early age so there's no point in workplaces moving to Linux for most things.

Quite typical comments for a Windows user. Now tell us your experience with Mac OSX 10.4 or higher.

[race aficionado]

then again, Betamax was better than VHS in all respects, and how did that particular competition turn out? VHS outselling Beta by a mile, all because there were more units on the shelves where you could choose from, and the ease of replacement of parts because of their availability and interchangeability. All of this leads to lower cost of unit production.

Beta was the opposite, and this led to its marginalisation in the overall market.

In some ways, it is the same way with the Windows/Mac competition, where you have several makers of PC's, and all the choices of what you want, versus being, virtually, locked into Apple's high cost, soup-to-nuts world.
And, as we can see by the overall sales numbers, still hasn't caught up to the number of Windows-based machines.

It's a glorified minority, but still a minority...

V10 - that Betamax comparison has always been spot on.
I was an original Betamax owner -(Sony had the market in Colombia - but soon VHS came in with all it's different brands)

To each his own of course. Many complain about the price of the Macs but in this case you get what you pay for.

Mac has always been good to me.

Steve Job and his team Rocks.
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