Ten years ago, when everyone thought Apple would cack it, I was a fierce Apple partisan. I’d been using Macs since they existed (MacPlus with no hard drive, bitches!!!) and I’d try to convince friends, bosses, anyone to go Mac. What if my favourite computer disappeared? and so on.
Now in this age of iPods, Pixar, and Intel chips, Apple’s future is looking assured, and I’ve calmed down a lot. I still wouldn’t use anything but a Mac, but I tell people that most systems are pretty good and they can all do pretty much the same things. Try them all and then use what you like.
Even so, it’s nice to see an occasional article like this one in Popular Mechanics, where they compare Macs and PCs. Not surprising was that the testers like Macs better. Rather surprising was that Macs run Vista faster in emulation than the PCs themselves. Quite surprising was that Macs were a bit cheaper.
Have a read, and then come back and sledge the OS of your choice.
17 April 2008 at 4:04 pm
Linux forever!
17 April 2008 at 4:58 pm
ahhh, Linux. I live in an office of Linux beleivers. Its as evengelical as the old Mac os users were.
Its funny, no matter what the individual users are using, and no matter how many people say it is going away any day now (usually microsoft) the truth is most large businesses have the DB2 database (thats what oracle tried to rip off) and os400 running on the backend. It is so stable that many companies don’t even know thats what they have running on the backend.
For my personal computer I have a mac mini running tiger and also xp on my screen cube through VMWare fusion.
I find that they both work just about as well and as you allknow I am no longer much of a true beleiver in anything except my own personal responsability.