More on PC versus Mac versus Why you’ll love a Mac
On Every time someone buys a Mac, Steve Jobs drowns a kitten, ‘blair’ commented: “It is amusing that they refer to it as PC vs Mac, rather than Windows vs Mac, as if they own the PC world. I own a PC, but it runs Linux, not rubbish Windows.”
This nicely highlights one of the problems Microsoft has when trying to fight Apple. Apple owns everything, so it can advertise a complete solution. Because Microsoft is peddling software, it can’t. That’s presumably the main reason why Apple’s website has loads of pictures of shiny computers running its software, and Microsoft’s equivalent has a strange woman who looks like she wants to leap out of the screen and bite off your nose.
That said, it’s curious that Microsoft offers this many screen grabs of Windows 7 on its anti-Mac page: none at all. Words are all very well, but showing why you think your stuff is best makes more sense, unless, of course, your arguments stop holding up when you try to do so.
That’s all well, and I know I’d love a Mac, but they do cost quite a bit. And -for the most part- lack the hardware oomph to justify their price. Do look lovely though, mind.
Ah, just give me an open source Amiga and I’ll be happy.
Depends on what you’re comparing them against. Compare a Mac against an equivalent PC (both in terms of the technical specifications and quality industrial design) and there’s naff-all in it most of the time. Of course, there are myriad bargain-basement PCs, but Apple doesn’t go for that space. (See also: the iPhone versus the slew of low-end Android devices that have suddenly appeared.)
As for the Amiga, no thanks. That platform could have been huge, but today it’s a footnote. You’d have to be crazy to use one.
Actually I was thinking more about an Amiga equivalent to be precise. Something powerful, cheap, innovative and, well, open-source.