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…

…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.

Well, Omar, I’ve used PCs since ’82 up til ’00. I’ve used Macs since ’84. In 23 years, I’ve always had at least one Mac; I sold the last PC I owned in ’99, when I snapped that it failed my personal cost / benefit analysis. If I were a gamer, other than the Sims and the Myst series, I’d probably have an XP box, but 7 years of freedom from virus worries, spyware, the endless stream of patches…, and, of course, everyone’s favorite computing phenomenon, the BSOD. It’s like living in an alternate universe, not having to even think about those things. My Macs work without crashing, they’re secure, and there’s no drudgery involved with using them.

So, like most people who have long experience with both platforms, I went with the Mac. When I get my first Intel Mac, I’ll run Parallels – but so I can run x86 Solaris, not Windows.

One simple observation, make of it what you will; I’ve built PCs, trained users and done end-user Windows and Mac support for quite a long time. A good number of people along the way have told me how much they hate computers, how they use ‘em only because they have to, that they can’t fathom those other people who actually enjoy the damn things. Virtually all of those people were Win users who had never used a Mac. Like I said, make of that what you will.

Here’s a fact that has never changed: Windows users switch to Macs allatime; Mac users very, very rarely switch to Windows – and of those few, a significant percentage only do it because they have to, not voluntarily.

Thassright! Now your Win installation can become spyware-infested at blinding speed! Think of the time you’ll save on your daily critical security patches and virus scans! Hell, you might even have time left over to run applications!

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#14 – GregA

“Is it me or does the osx theme look all playskool compared to the vista theme?”

Yeah, it’s you.

otherwise,
Peace

Or rather than buy a piece of crap Alienware you could build your own and save even more money.

That and even cult of mac people admit that vista now has a better eye candy than osx.

Is it me or does the osx theme look all playskool compared to the vista theme?

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Chances are, this genius hasn’t realized he can turn up the speed in which folders are opened under OS X.