Ahh, this is home...

Submitted by 1337Goose on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 2:34pm

It warms my heart when any article mentioning Apple is met by staunch resistance and camaraderie against Apple. 

Max PC, where people understand you... 

~Goose

 Edit: Except for that one dude that just posted the same thing like 18 times... 

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I hate the proprietary ways

Submitted by popstop785 on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 11:13am

I hate the proprietary ways of Apple and that is why I will never purchase a product by them. Unless they change their ways of course... and lose that snotty, arrogant, blind, uneducated pride.

 

Besides, the beta of Win7 had me sold. Besides, as a college student, I only had to pay $30 for my copy of Win7. :)

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It'll be an interesting

Submitted by MleB on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:23am

It'll be an interesting competition, especially as Snow Leopard has been suffering from bad press / user angst lately.

OS issues aside however, I can see how users may be attracted to a Mac, what with their standardized (albeit sometimes dodgy) build quality. Buy a Mac and you can be. more or less, assured of what you are buying. Use Boot Camp (or Parallels or VMWare) and install Win7 and you can have the best of both worlds.

That said, I recently paid 1/3 the price of the cheapest MacBook here and got myself a netbook that is capable of doing everything I need of a computer - and faster than my 'old' Vista machine, at that.

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I had a =( face when I couldn't find this option...

Submitted by zerokool on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 9:49am

Why o why is there no option to disable pointer acceleration in the mouse options page??? Had to run a script to fix it that's just sad =( That's also why I will never buy a Mac =P

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Windows 7 vs. OSX Snow Leopard

Submitted by ExarKun1138 on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 9:27am

Well, I can say for certain, that Apple can no longer diss Windows. Windows 7, which I have been running the Professional version for 2 weeks now(full release not an RC), is very very nice indeed. It's the best OS from Microsoft, and I feel, even when I compare it to OSX SL, it's even the best OS right now, period! MS should have no problems with this one, except maybe the price. I think MS would be smarter to lower the price so more people would feel like upgrading from XP or Vista and not feel like they had their wallet ripped off!

Anyone running Vista SP2 should DEFINITELY upgrade to Windows 7(Pro, or Ultimate....leave the Home editions for the newbies), and anyone who has stuck with XP, don't worry, this version of Windows is better than XP, faster, more stable, and you get a superior GUI and feature set with Windows 7.  

And NO, I don't work for Microsoft. I have been running XP before Windows 7 since 2002, and refused to go Vista once I tried it. I went with Windows 7 as an experiment, and will not "downgrade" back to XP. Windows 7, to use a Maximum PC slogan, KICKS ASS!

 

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I can see that

Submitted by TheFreeman on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 8:20am

I can see it boosting the sale of Macs. 

I am (as I would like to think) a PC, but I bought a 13" MacBook Pro over the summer because my Dell XPS M1530 started randomly falling apart and I noticed that the MacBooks generally have better build quality.

Once I get my hands on a full copy of Win 7 it is going on my MacBook. I bought this MacBook with the intention of putting Windows on it.

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I can see that

Submitted by TheFreeman on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 8:20am

I can see it boosting the sale of Macs. 

I am (as I would like to think) a PC, but I bought a 13" MacBook Pro over the summer because my Dell XPS M1530 started randomly falling apart and I noticed that the MacBooks generally have better build quality.

Once I get my hands on a full copy of Win 7 it is going on my MacBook. I bought this MacBook with the intention of putting Windows on it.

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I can see that

Submitted by TheFreeman on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 8:19am

I can see it boosting the sale of Macs. 

I am (as I would like to think) a PC, but I bought a 13" MacBook Pro over the summer because my Dell XPS M1530 started randomly falling apart and I noticed that the MacBooks generally have better build quality.

Once I get my hands on a full copy of Win 7 it is going on my MacBook. I bought this MacBook with the intention of putting Windows on it.

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I can see that

Submitted by TheFreeman on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 8:19am

I can see it boosting the sale of Macs. 

I am (as I would like to think) a PC, but I bought a 13" MacBook Pro over the summer because my Dell XPS M1530 started randomly falling apart and I noticed that the MacBooks generally have better build quality.

Once I get my hands on a full copy of Win 7 it is going on my MacBook. I bought this MacBook with the intention of putting Windows on it.

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I can see that

Submitted by TheFreeman on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 8:19am

I can see it boosting the sale of Macs. 

I am (as I would like to think) a PC, but I bought a 13" MacBook Pro over the summer because my Dell XPS M1530 started randomly falling apart and I noticed that the MacBooks generally have better build quality.

Once I get my hands on a full copy of Win 7 it is going on my MacBook. I bought this MacBook with the intention of putting Windows on it.

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I can see that

Submitted by TheFreeman on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 8:19am

I can see it boosting the sale of Macs. 

I am (as I would like to think) a PC, but I bought a 13" MacBook Pro over the summer because my Dell XPS M1530 started randomly falling apart and I noticed that the MacBooks generally have better build quality.

Once I get my hands on a full copy of Win 7 it is going on my MacBook. I bought this MacBook with the intention of putting Windows on it.

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Show me the history

Submitted by YoshiHNS on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 7:50am

If only they provided a nice, clear picture of the graph they're basing the report on. No idea what the vertical axis is, but I'm assuming it's apple hardware sales. The graph would be even better if they put the dates of Mac OS releases on there as well.

From what I see, laptop sales have been steadily increasing over the last couple of years. Probably because that's when the macbook had enough power/speed to do what most people need, and it was a laptop.

Should note that there was no increase around the XP release. Major increases were seen around Win2K and Vista. So a bad OS increases mac sales, while a good OS does nothing. Makes sense. When an OS is about to come out, people probably wait for it to be released before buying. Most of these people are probably PC people. So if the OS is good, people buy it and no new Mac customers. If it's bad, people don't understand downgrading OS or anything else most of us would consider simple, and just jump to mac since that 'works'.

 Don't think Windows 7 will decrease or increase mac sales. Just a matter of shutting up all those people who mindlessly shout how window's sucks just because of the poor vista release.

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Hmmm

Submitted by nmanguy on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 7:38am

Maybe they buy a Mac to run boot camp, while still fitting in with their "cool" co-workers.

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