Funnily enough, Macs are great machines for running Vista. They’re new, they’re fast and they exceed Vista’s demanding specs. They can even run OS X and Windows at the same time.
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been running Vista on a quad-Xeon Mac Pro. Click the link to see how it’s working out.
The Mac Pro is a very fast and capable OS X machine, but it’s an even faster Windows Vista machine.
Vista really flies on this beast, and feels like it’s faster than OS X – it boots faster, folders burst open and apps launch instantly.
(The Mac Pro has two dual-core 2.66GHz Xeon chips; 3GBs of RAM; and a medium-range NVidia GeForce 7300 GT graphics card)
I’m especially delighted with Vista’s “glass” Aero interface, which works in all its glory on this machine.
The OS is dark and handsome. It’s really quite exciting. Like the Zune’s interface, it’s artfully done. The beautifully-rendered shadow effects and transparency give Vista a greater “depth” than OS X, which looks a little flat and well… old fashioned in comparison. I know this is because Vista’s new and novel, but it makes OS X look dated.
Thing is, after I got Vista set up, I’m like, what now? I noodled about a bit, but I’ve no real use for it. My entire computing life is already in OS X. The eye candy is nice, but I’m already committed. I guess that’s what a lot of Windows users think when they look at the Mac.
I still don’t know how people complaint about spyware, I really don’t know what that is.
…but to my point. Behold! your transformation into a very efficient PC clone is total now. You run Windows faster than OSX. And your fanboys have not detected the conversion. You can be proud, my grasshopper.
I didn’t write young grasshopper because steve jobs is way past young.
Spyware is the thing that owns your PC at the moment, unless you are running anti spyware software….and if you are running unti spyware software…you know all about spyware.
I used to be a pc support technician. I bought my first mac a few months ago. It’s a strange feeling to get on the computer and actually get something done with minimal fuss – I actually have more time to do other things. I now recommend macs to anyone who comes to me with a pc issue. It’s much cheaper than paying me hundreds of dollars every few months to clean malware off of a pc.
I ask again, what is spyware? why do you have it and I don’t? hmmmm. I maybe losing countless hours daily getting rid of it, yet I am not.
#23 – JB
That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout. That was the rationale behind the Mac from the very beginning; it’s a tool to make your work easier, not transform you into a computer expert.
But M$ & Friends realized early on that there were beaucoup bucks to be made by making it difficult – thus was the billion-dollar Windows support industry born. And of course, there have always been that type of person who thinks medicine has to taste bad in order to be any good, so likewise, if a computer is too easy to use (i.e. the Mac), then it must not be a “real” computer…
I was wondering where PC and Mac folks met to duke it out. Now I know. For any of you who are confused, let me summarize my lifetime battle with both. I started out with Apple from the very beginning – buying one of the first 100 Apple IIs to teach high school students. Then in the early to mid 80s, Apple closed its architecture and IBM opened theirs. Apple Lisa – oh man what a painful venture. By then I had a computer store and was delighted to watch Apple get knocked off of its high horse as schools started learning that they could actually do work with a PC.and that parents weren’t buying Apple boxes. But low and behold, I had kids, and school projects, and friends that wanted videos turned into DVDs. So although I’ve been in IT for years, and almost always PC shops, I bought a G5 iMac and suddenly all the schoolwork, movies, photo albums, and DVDs get done in record time with spectacular results. No more fighting with Adobe Premier or Microsoft Movie. We still game on the 5 XP machines I own (we have to), but now we are seriously considering replacing the machine I am on now with an Intel based 23 inch iMac so we can get the best of both worlds. It is still a PC world out there ladies and gentleman, but I reluctantly admit that I would abandon my PCs for Macs if only companies wrote software for it. Until they do, I gotta keep running XP. Parents, save yourself a lot of headaches – Buy a mac for work and a game console for games.