In a stunning video display, David Pogue of the NYTimes outlines quite clearly the differences between the new and innovative Microsoft Vista operating system and Mac OSX. He does a great job of dispelling the rumors that Vista is a cheap imitation and rip off of the Mac’s OSX which has been around for years. Check it out: Review: Windows Vista.
Finally, everything’s cleared up now.
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We have a machine running Vista at work now for development. The sad thing is, it is a Duo-Core 3ghz Processor with 1GB of RAM and just the OS alone takes up about 50% of the entire resources. Good luck running this on one of the many Dell’s HP’s etc out there with celeron processors. It simply wont work.
While I must say OSX is by no means “Cutting Edge” as all those features they are referring too have been around a lot longer than OSX, I do get what they are saying.
Most of all the visual stylings, sidebars, search options, etc, etc were all invented in open source Linux and other developers.
MS could come back and say, hey whats the difference with the new mac’s they are using intel…and so on. And face it 80% of mac users still use MS Office too.
Again, my stance is MS is far from perfect, but until Apple is willing to make a $400 complete computer with a flat screen and printer, sorry Apple will continue to be a minority player in the market.
The one to watch will be Google and Sun. If Google buys Firefox & Thunderbird as expected, I would say within 5 years Google will release an open source OS based off of Solaris and some Linux versions. If they can keep developing things like Open Office and such, MS could be in for a real challenge for once.
and that’s perfectly fine with me! maybe that’s part of their point and their strategy. maybe they want to be “elitist” and by doing so be a more secure computer because they’re a minority… which is perfectly fine with me!
i’m glad apple isn’t about total world domination!
I assume you own a hand built Bentley for a car as well. I mean, they are the best built, and arent out for world domination. Think about the statement you are making. Just because they cost more, buy them? Sorry, I dont have thousands of dollars to throw at a computer, when a $400 one will suffice. Maybe instead of paying $1500 for an Apple, you buy 3 PC’s and donate 2 of them?
wow, your last comment had nothing to do with what i said…
It just sounds like you are saying (as most apple users do) if you dont use a Mac you are stupid or inferior.
I think Microsoft is junk, I dont deny that, but it works for what I use it for and 99% of the world uses it in business apps, etc so I have to use it. It is much much cheaper, thus another reason I use it.
I have a mac at work and granted it does run smoother with less errors, etc, it isnt perfect, and frankly, for the money they spent on it, I would rather have that in a bonus check!
“if you don’t use a mac you are stupid or inferior” ~ your words not mine!
i don’t think you’re stupid or inferior, i just wonder why you wouldn’t want a better computing experience!
the funny thing is that many people say that microsoft is junk, yet they continue to buy it. if you were to take a pc and add all the cost of software in it, then take a mac and add all the cost of software to it you might just be surprised at how close you come out. instead of paying $400 for a PC operating system (for the ultimate version of Vista which has the exact same features as the regular OSX), i only pay $125 for X.
the list could go on…
so, even though the computer itself may be more expensive, everything else if rather cheap… it’s just a matter of where you want to pay–upfront or for the rest of your life. (this doesn’t even take into consideration repair costs for a pc–i’ve owned macs for 6 years and haven’t spent a dime on repair costs.)
I was the founder and previous President and owner of 3 technology groups in Chicago before I retired last year. One of them was a prime design group (DeepLabs.com and Design-Engine.com) that has won awards for design. One of them was a graphics rendering group that was sold to a major graphics design company (Clicks Interactive). All 3 were PC-based due to ROI reasons.
When I was still a tech evangelist, I repeatedly proved to customers of mine that PCs had the best ROI for reasons that were not readily visible or easily discovered when looking at previous history. Most were not convinced until I laid out an offer to not just buy back all hardware and software for 1 year, but to refund all their money they spent on my labor and my employees. Over the 12 years that I actively managed the businesses, I had absolutely ZERO requests for refunds. ZERO. Some of these firms would spend a quarter million on us in labor alone in 1 year — and they had the chance to get their money back without question. None did. Why? Things worked well enough AND their cost to train was about 90% less than a Mac AND they could replace anything with more commodity hardware AND they had a faster upgrade path in terms of becoming more efficient.
A PC is cheaper, but replacing that PC as technology gains new efficiencies is cheaper, too. Most offices that I worked with saw that reducing a 10 second task to 4 seconds was one of the most significant gains for ROI possible. This means that rendering a screen display in half the time was worth the additional $800 a year to stay on top of newer technology. Macs did not have this upgrade path, PCs did (replace motherboard or processor).
Is the Mac “easier” for new users? Yes. Is it more stable? Possibly (my PCs at home haven’t crashed in over 30 months, and I never reboot most of them). Is it less virus-prone? Sure, but I’ve never had a virus or spyware on any PC in my home.
It is a myth that the Mac is “cheaper” or “more efficient” or “better” — the market has responded repeatedly to that thought by showing that PCs still outsell Macs. If something costs more but saves you money in the long run, no amount of marketing or “false teaching” will prevent it from being a best seller.
Really the best answer is open source. Free/Open BSD or Linux because there is no cost to anything. Open Office, Firefox, etc, etc are all good options.
Point is my $400 computer comes with all the software I need on it, and everything else added such as Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, etc are the same costs for PC’s or Mac’s. As far as Vista goes, no thanks, I dont need a resources hog or the visual aspects of things.