“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.
Advertisements:
• Apple’s brand new iPod Hi-Fi speaker system. Home stereo. Reinvented. Available now for $349 with free shipping.
• Apple’s new Mac mini. Intel Core, up to 4 times faster. Starting at just $599. Free shipping.
• MacBook Pro. The first Mac notebook built upon Intel Core Duo with iLife ’06, Front Row and built-in iSight. Starting at $1999. Free shipping.
• iMac. Twice as amazing — Intel Core Duo, iLife ’06, Front Row media experience, Apple Remote, built-in iSight. Starting at $1299. Free shipping.
• iPod Radio Remote. Listen to FM radio on your iPod and control everything with a convenient wired remote. Just $49.
• iPod. 15,000 songs. 25,000 photos. 150 hours of video. The new iPod. 30GB and 60GB models start at just $299. Free shipping.
• Connect iPod to your television set with the iPod AV Cable. Just $19.
Related articles:
Apple Mac desktops, portables top PC Magazine’s 2005 Reader Satisfaction survey – August 24, 2005
Apple continues to lead in customer satisfaction, Dell loses more ground – August 16, 2005
Apple Computer products top PC Magazine’s annual ‘Best of the Year’ survey – December 16, 2004
Apple Macintosh leads in personal computer customer satisfaction – August 24, 2004
Apple Macs top PC Magazine’s ’17th Annual Reader Satisfaction Survey’ – August 10, 2004
Apple leads PC Magazine’s 16th annual Service and Reliability Survey – July 10, 2003
“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…”
So this person lives in the universe where the Yankees win the World Series every year?
It’s idiotic, myopic headlines like “Apple’s superior hardware can now run Microsoft’s inferior Windows XP” that make me almost never bother reading MacDailyNews. (Oh, and the annoying popunder ads, which no other Mac news site does.) Grow up!
Ignore Reality Check, It’s just MacDude again… More than anything he hates being ignored…
the “InterWeb” ? what the hell is that?
MW: movement, as in something I felt in my bowels when I read Mohney’s stupid, ahem, ‘inferior’ aritcle.
the “InterWeb” ? what the hell is that?
MW: movement, as in something I felt in my bowels when I read Mohney’s stupid, ahem, ‘inferior’ aritcle.
the “InterWeb” ? what the hell is that?
MW: movement, as in something I felt in my bowels when I read Mohney’s stupid, ahem, ‘inferior’ aritcle.
the “InterWeb” ? what the hell is that?
MW: movement, as in something I felt in my bowels when I read Mohney’s stupid, ahem, ‘inferior’ aritcle.
Doug has the FIRST part right at least, it won’t impact MS sales that much but it won’t impact Apple PC sales that much either. Watch and see for yourself…
PC Apologist said:
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.
WRONG.
MS has it’s own DRM…WMA. Licensing Apples Fairplay would kill MS’s ability to license WMA. What profit does MS make from licensing Fairplay? None. Apple is not selling Windows or supporting Windows. Anyone can buy A Windows license that wants to. MS will not stop them. MS has to support their own software. Most Mac users will not buy Windows. People that like Apple’s OS & Hardware will use it as a transitional OS. If they don’t like OSX…well they have not lost anything on their investment they can run Windows. Does MS support Windows on a box that is built by a user? What’s the difference between that & supporting it on Apple Hardware? Apple Makes it’s money on Hardware. All the software that Apple sells & gives away is to push hardware sales. That is where their profit lies. Letting Dell, HP sell OSX would hurt their profit margins. I’m not saying it won’t happen…just not now. Windows is open…you’re funny. Do some research on OSX…it may suprise you on how much “Open” technologies it uses. Look up darwin on Mac OSX to start. All this does is take away the fear of losing you’re Windows investment. Apple just took away another reason for not buying a Mac. Apple is in business to make a profit. Hardware is where Apple makes a profit. Your point of view is childish & ignorant. This pretty much sums it up…read it & learn something.
http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/asinine_and_or_risky_ideas
Why are you here reality check? Cruising? Bend over I’ll drive you to Cleveland.
g4 and g5 just get http://www.iemulator.com
I laugh when MDN refers to Apple with “superior” hardware compared to Windows based PC’s. Talk about being blind up the ass.
The entire current Mac lineup lags behind high end PC’s in every technological segment….CPU/graphics/memory/etc…
Macs are designed better? With what, made in China parts? Apple even licenses ASUS (PC vendor) to make their ibooks for them.
MDN….blowing so much smoke every single day.