“For many years there have been several operating systems to choose from, but the newest ones – those based on a Linux kernel – have usually been hard to use, at least for the average user. Times have definitely changed. Get your hands on a recent version of, say, Xandros Desktop and you’d almost swear you’d been working with it forever,” Michael Desmond writes for PC World. “None of this means you’ll automatically dump Windows (unless you’ve simply grown tired of Microsoft, as some vocal computer users have). It does, however, mean you have choices. Do a little shopping around and you may find an operating system that works better for you.”
“Apple recently rolled out an update of Mac OS X, code-named Tiger, that offers some refinements to the already polished system. Its new integrated desktop search tool, Spotlight, adds instant system search, while the Safari 2.0 web browser now has support for RSS and Atom feeds, used by many blogs. There are also the somewhat bemusing Dashboard features, which should invite a surge of useful desktop modules for doing everything from telling the time to connecting to internet-based data sources,” Desmond writes. “Of course, anyone who buys a new Apple computer also gets the iLife package, including iTunes, iMovies, iPhoto and iDVD. This refined and tightly integrated software makes Apple the best overall platform for consumer-based media editing and management.”
Full article here.
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MLB Baseball’s Barry Bonds uses Apple PowerBook, iPhoto, iDVD to mark daughter’s graduation – June 14, 2005
PC World names Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger ‘Best Operating System” – June 01, 2005
Mossberg: Apple’s iPhoto bests Google’s Picasa – March 30, 2005
Apple Announces iLife ’05, features new versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD & GarageBand – January 11, 2005
ComputerWorld: Apple’s 17-inch PowerBook ‘the creme de la creme’ laptop – June 17, 2004
Sorry Windows users – to get iLife you’ll have to get a Mac – February 09, 2004
Baltimore Sun: iLife devoid of ‘hassles and conflicts common to the PC world’ – February 13, 2003
Wall Street Journal’s Mossberg says iDVD output ‘by far the best’ compared to PC rivals – December 18, 2002
Knight Ridder Newspapers: Apple’s iDVD best choice for DVD creation – October 20, 2002
Of course it does.
Everyone in the real IT world knows that only Microsoft offers the market true media choices, unlike Apple which locks you into a proprietary format. IT professionals relish these choices.
Apple may be flashier, but Redmond is the true hub of innovation that will take us into the next century and beyond.
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Windows XP is so awesome. It is beautiful, intuitive, and rock solid.
You can get more software for Windows, like viruses. Mac OS X sucks, since there are zero viruses for it. There isn’t even any spyware available for Mac OS X! What kind of OS doesn’t even have spyware? Such crap.
I hate iTunes, since it gives you the choice of either Mac or Windows. Windows Media Audio is far better, since it locks you into the proprietary Windows platform.
IT professionals know that Windows XP is far more stable and virus-free than silly stuff like Linux and Mac OS X, and it is obviously better since it costs three times more than Mac OS X.
your slipping, Sput- that’s at least 3 posts where you have failed to mention .NET.
BTW, isn’t .NET proprietary?
It’s the end of the world!
Seriously, I think they’re going to change they’re name to PC & Mac Magazine or something, with all the positive reveiws of Macs and such they’re giving.
“Of course, anyone who buys a new Apple computer also gets the iLife package, including iTunes, iMovies, iPhoto and iDVD. This refined and tightly integrated software makes Apple the best overall platform for consumer-based media editing and management.”
Me love.
This is the market Apple is building on. The corporate landscape is saturated and flat. M$ and PC hardware builders have had their way. Let them eat cake. But today, entrepreneurs and the consumer will drive the direction of personal computing. And Apple will provide the solutions for their needs.
Whazzat! one of these Spuntiks aint real, yo.
After 20 years of childish remarks on which OS is better…who really gives a flying fuck. Name me one thing I cant do with my pc that i can do with a mac and Visa Versa…I use them both, I enjoy them both..Get the hell over it bitches..
Get a life people…
g$, Proprietary software will always be better than open source (unfortunately) So go “Sell” you non-proprietary for “free” and live on peanuts the rest of your life…The arguement software being prop. is dead. You cant make money giving shit away. Apple is Proprietary, MS is Proprietary..Get over it retards….
Where has stantheidiot been? Sputnik is getting lonely
“Name me one thing I cant do with my pc that i can do with a mac and Visa Versa”
Being screwed by malware, keyloggers, adware, spyware and viruses. You can’t on a Mac.
Run natively Unix and Linux applications. You can’t on Windows.
To Butt Pirate:
I know one thing you can do on your PC that I can’t do on my Mac– get a virus infection! With a name like butt pirate, I’d imagine you’re all about the viral infections anyway, ya lobotomized in-bred dim-witted freak!
Proprietary software always better than open source? From which planet are you coming from?
UHUHIEHOHOEHUHOHHEHOAEHAHAHAHAHAUHAHAHAHAHAH
What a troll.
The monkeys are seriously flinging poo today! WWHHAAAHHH!! WHHAAAHHH! *splat* Oooo! Ooo! WHHHAAHHH!!!!!
you know those new fancy window’s commercials that microsoft is paying millions of dollars for? they where made on macs!!!! microsoft can’t even get the creatives to use their own products for their own adds. put that in your “real it world” cup and swish it around for a while.
Google for Open Software Foundation and for Richard Stallman.
You might learn something.
sheeess Some ignorant people…
How’s Garage Band working out on that PC of yours? And iMovie HD?
Guess you’ll have to settle for second best on those, because you won’t find that much power AND that much ease in one place without a Mac.
You’ll also have to pay, but I got iLife free
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form article: “…best overall platform for consumer-based media editing and management.”
Not professional-based media editing and management, but
consumer-based media editing and management.
Great for mom and grandma, but you want to do serious stuff, Windows is the better way to go.
You know, I used to think that Sputnik was just a troll in a gasoline suit playing with a butane lighter, but his tongue-in-cheek “opinion” is just his (her?) way of conveying the simplistic mentality of the vast numbers of Windows users, as well as the knee-jerk reactions of Windows sysadmins who feel threatened by other operating systems. Sputnik’s opinion is well worth reading, if only just to understand exactly how difficult the uphill battle Apple faces to gain acceptance in the “real IT world”. I used to be exasperated that anyone could be that closed-minded, but his posts are valuable reminders that it ain’t gonna be easy.
That being said, I think it’s in extremely poor taste for folks angered by his posts to submit comments under his (or anyone else’s) name. If someone deserves to be flamed, flame away, but flame them for what they said, not for what someone pretending to be them says.
Wiser than Janice,
See Apple’s Final Cut Pro.
The company I’m currently contracting with uses Final Cut Pro studios for production on multi-million dollar accounts.
See also Apple’s Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2, and DVD Studio Pro 4 — all PRO apps making huge gains in creative markets.
iPodder, You are dumber than your name would suggest…
How about you Google “Making a life giving away software.”
Oh and Its not my problem OSS is where it is today, I enjoy making software for any platform, the problem isnt open source, the problem is the Zero balance in your bank account after working on a project for a year or two.
If I had a need for making music, I could easily aquire Protools, which blows GB out of the water.
Oh, and what are these viruses, malware, spyware [bs] you all speak of, I havent had one since 95…?
Oboviously all of your emotions got in the way here. I own a mac and a pc..and as I said before, “I use them both, I enjoy them both”…
God you peeps are A.N.A.L.
(MW?) I’m an avid Mac user, but that doesnt keep me out of the “HOT” seat from those who are closed minded on anything else. I think you all eat, sleep, and shit apple…thats sad, sick, but mostly just sad.
Sputnik,
You said, “Everyone in the real IT world knows that only Microsoft offers the market true media choices…”
Well there’s media and there’s media. The following is a news item from The Australian newspaper June 14, 2005.
No freedom online
Beijing: Users of Microsoft’s new China-based internet portal were blocked yesterday from using the words “democracy”, “freedom” and “human rights” in an apparent move by the US software giant to appease Beijing. Other words that could not be used on Microsoft’s free online blog service MSN Spaces include “Taiwan independence” and “demonstration”. Microsoft refused to comment.
Ok so Microsoft refused to comment how about you Sputnik? You’re always singing the praise about Microsoft. Do you support this blatant attack on free speech and human rights? C’mon Sput me mate let ‘er rip. We all await your support for free speech, or Microsoft.
indeed Wiser, consumer-based media like the entire trilogy of Star Wars,
Lord of the Rings, Pixar titles, etc. Nothing professional. NOTHING.
Hey Viridian..How about practicing what YOU preach
“but flame them for what they said, not for what someone pretending to be them says.”
You’ve flamed my ass for what someone else said at least one hundred times…
Butt: UHUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHUHAHUHUAHAHAHAHAHHAHAUHAUH
ahhh, Apple could go Intel but something will never change. Idiots will still be idiots. Ahh, reassuring.
As the true idiots you are proving, you confound Open Source SW and Free Software Foundation as in *free beer*. Also Linux is Open Source, idiot.
bikersrule
Have you ever been to china? I suggest you ride your bicycle over there and yell FREE china from Communism and bring in “Democracy”…See the reaction from the local government, If you not dead in 24 hrs, or locked up, let me know..
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