“While Boot Camp is being painted as a big win for Microsoft, it’s not. Apple currently holds anywhere from three to five per cent of PC market share. Many of the True Believers aren’t going to let Win XP and its propensity for viruses near their sacred white boxes, so Microsoft will be lucky if it picks up a two per cent to 2.5 per cent one-time overall surge in Win XP sales. Still, Microsoft will no doubt get around to shipping a shrink-wrapped version of Win XP for iMac for placement on store shelves,” Doug Mohney writes for The Inquirer.
“And can we talk about the so called ‘superior hardware’ Apple is bragging about? Having moved from the superior PowerPC chips to allegedly-inferior Intel chips has – by Apple’s own propaganda – boosted performance anywhere from three to four times from the ‘old’ hardware. Various benchmark results floating around on the InterWeb are showing that in an ‘ahem’ chips-to-chips/box-to-box comparison, an Apple Intel box with a PC Intel box come out in a dead heat. A better looking case and ditching all the legacy ports (parallel, serial, PS/2 mouse & keyboard) makes for more elegant design, but superior performance isn’t a part of that mix – unless you’re comparing it to Apple’s last-generation hardware,” Mohney writes.
Full article, “There’s nothing superior about Apple hardware,” here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple deserves to brag about their superior hardware because, ahem, they offer superior hardware. Apple consistently scores at the top of multiple independent consumer satisfaction surveys year after year after year. Macs are designed better and last longer than the typical box assemblers’ product. Trying to shift from Apple “bragging” about “superior hardware” to an argument about “superior performance” doesn’t cut it either, as we happen to understand English and can also spot the debating tactics of a four-year-old quite easily. It’s too bad that The Inquirer dilutes what could have been an interesting article with yet another blatant troll for hits.
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Does MacDude write for The Inquirer now?
i’m definitely all for apple and macs, but thats a rather pompous sounding headline…. not the best way to attract possible switchers eh
“Does MacDude write for The Inquirer now?”
MacDude probably owns The Inquirer.
Forget the Mac’s market share – isn’t it time they just referred to the “millions of satisfied Mac users round the world”?
And as for hardware, my beautiful, functional 60 month old Powerbook (Ti) was wowing Win users this weekend – to the extent they bought a hardback book online from iPhoto of the weekends’ photos.
Don’t tell me there is PC hardware that would be doing that… even after 12 months.
How many stories do we need about Boot Camp?
WE GET IT!
“While Boot Camp is being painted as a big win for Microsoft…”
Microsoft PR may have spun it as a win for MS, but elsewhere I have only seen it “painted” as a big win for Apple. Windows users who want the superior hardware will buy Macs to run Windows, but many will eventually migrate to Mac OS X because they can compare the two side-by-side for the first time. So Apple wins with (1) increased Mac sales and later with (2) increased Mac OS X usership.
@ Jim>
I’m not sure you can classify anything MacDude does as “writing” in the sense that sentient lifeforms understand the word.
It’s more the random outpourings of MacDude’s several neurons, which means there are probably only about 15 “statements” that it is instinctively programmed to make when presented with Macintosh-oriented external stimuli.
Yep I agree my powerbook definately looks superior next to any pc laptop. What pc has a keyboard that looks like ours. Or has backlit lighting as nice as ours. NO ONE
>Yep I agree my powerbook definately>
Yes “definitely” is spelled incorrectly almost as many times as “separately”
MW – put, as in -put in an “i”.
When I try to install Boot Camp I get the message–
“Boot Camp Assistant cannot be installed on this computer.”
Why not?
I am running a Mac G5, 2.5G dual with 1.5G of ram.
How do I know if my mac is “Intel based”?
My bad, yeah as you can tell spelling isn’t my forte
Full Disclosure: I am excited about Boot Camp.
BUT – Once again, Apple is taking advantage of the “open standards” concepts they cheered for to improve their bottom line, while freezing out the competition by refusing to license their own stuff. More anti-competitive behavior that will only serve to eventually bite them in the ass.
When Microsoft releases the Windows patch that prevents it from running on Mac hardware, I’ll be sad, but turnabout is FairPlay. It will serve them right.
APPLE – If you can read this, please stop being weasels. You’re making me look bad.
Bob – yeah, there’s bound to be a lot of jerks calling you names in the next several moments. Ignore them.
G5’s are not Intel-based. Only the new Core Solo and Core Duo iMacs, MacBookPros, and Mac mini systems are.
If Apple’s hardware were 2 sticks and a hammer BUT ran OS X – I’d still use Apple Macintosh as opposed to anything running Anything Windows.
For me it isn’t the hardware that is the deterrent in the PC world – it is Microsoft Windows.
Let’s face it. I pay more for Apple’s hardware BECAUSE it runs OS X. Forget that it runs windows – don’t care. Windows is now just another terrible App that I can run on my Mac – IF I WANT TO.
EZ Mac,
If you really do use a Mac enable your universal spell checker and take advantage of your superior OS.
Stop embarrassing yourself or admit you are being forced into using Windows at work or something.
Yeah, I’ve got some g4 macs, and one intel mac.
the way you tell what kind of mac you have is go to the blue apple in the upper left hand corner of the screen, click on it, and select “about this mac”
it the screen that pops up it will tell you.
But like it was said earlier… it’s the new macs only. The g4 and g5 macs can’t use this new technology.
No Bob we won’t call you an idiot. I will say PC Apologist is a loser though.
PC Apologist–
Why would Microsoft release a patch to prevent Windows from running on Mac hardware? They’re in the business to sell software, and they don’t sell hardware (outside of the XBox), so doing so would just hurt their own sales. Even as a strategy to hurt the competition (being Apple), again so what? People who buy Apple want Mac OS X, and could give a flying puck that Microsoft blocks Windows. Just from a PR standpoint it would make Microsoft look stupid (which it is, but that’s beside the point).
“.. it’s the new macs only. The g4 and g5 macs can’t use this new technology”
Even if I were tempted to I couldn’t? Thank God I got a dual G5 !!
Let’s see, windows can run on Macs but Apple’s OS can not run on Dell PCs.
there is going to be anti-trust lawsuits sooner or later by dell, sony, microsoft, etc..
Hemorrhoid Rage –
Retribution. Apple has the market-leading music store and refuses to license FairPlay to Microsoft to use in their PlaysForSure galaxy, for no other reason than to harm the competition.
Apple also locks MS’s partners (Dell, eMachines, etc.) out of using their OS.
Now they want to grow their own sales by taking advantage of an open standard operating system to further harm MS (by harming those same partners).
What’s bad for Dell is bad for Microsoft. If you were them, you’d retaliate. Windows sales for Mac systems are NOT going to even register a blip on MS’s radar — preventing it won’t hurt them. For that matter, they should announce that they don’t support Apple hardware, wait a year, and then publish the patch, just so they can hear the Appleheads cry about how they paid for it and NOW it doesn’t work.
This is an opportunity for MS to get what they want from Apple – a move toward fair competitive practices by licensing FairPlay. As usual, MS will blow it, but you gotta hope for good over evil.
I think anti-trust problems tend to happen to companies that have an overwhelming market share. Can we say MS a few years back? This is not the case for Apple with its 2.3% world/4.3% US market share. This is something that even the most rabid Apple and Doze people should be able to agree on. This is nothing more than the use of a competitive advantage.
But then again, with some of the politicians we have in the US (or France too, for that matter) you never know who might want to try to score a few points by taking down a computer darling.
@ Laura >
Dell sells more PCs in one quarter than Apple sells in an entire year, so the likelihood of them pursuing an anti-trust suit against Apple is pretty slim.
Apple offers overhyped crap hardware for brainwashed Macfags and fashion lemmings.