“Right about now, Dell has to be wondering: ‘Intel was it something we said?’ If Dell actually gives voice to the question, though, I expect Intel would confide, ‘Nah. It was something you did — building boring computers. But it’s not just you. Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo pretty much bore users to tears, too,’;” Rich Smith writes for The Motley Fool.
“Recognizing that the EBA (‘Everybody But Apple’) computer makers have gotten stuck in a decades-long rut of churning out plain beige, or occasionally grey, boxes as their primary form of desktop computing power, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced a new contest on Tuesday. Intel will pay some lucky computer-maker $1 million to design a desktop computer with a modicum more style than the floor protectors sitting under our desks,” Smith writes. “As a computer user, I can only hope Intel gets some good bites with its offer. As Apple has proven time and time again, there’s no reason on earth why a PC must resemble a big tin box. Style and performance need not be mutually exclusive properties. In short, we EBA users have suffered under the Beige Regime for far too long, and it’s time for a change.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What exactly about “Macs can run Mac OS X and WIndows natively” doesn’t Mr. Smith understand? We’re just wondering why he hasn’t already gotten himself a Mac, if he really wants the best designed Intel-powered personal computer, that’s all. He is right about one thing: for most of the world, “it’s time for a change.”
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Intel launches $1 million contest for more Mac-like PCs – September 27, 2006
Apple Boot Camp’s ‘Windows Insecurity Blanket’ helps buyers decide to switch to Macs – May 19, 2006
Dude, you got a Dell? What are you, stupid? Only Apple Macs run both Mac OS X and Windows! – April 05, 2006
Why buy a Dell when Apple’s Intel-based computers will run both Mac OS X and Windows? – June 08, 2005
OS is a POS, so why spend on a box that is otherwise?
Yes, Delldo, you smell. Must be because the batteries got too hot…
Jonathon Ive is only the start. You need engineers to be able to build what he designs, software engineers to ensure it all works and a production team to be able to get the factories to build millions of reliable copies of them. Plus a good feedback system to fix problems all the way back to Jono. This is rare and certainly not cheap.
Would a corporate buy this when he can get a clone for $200 cheaper? Definitely not. Repairs and ROI are not his problem, but the help desk.
Red Raw aka MacDude ?
Hyundais look really snazzy nowadays, almost like some type of Lexus, BUT, anybody with a Lexus would laugh at you for even making the comparison. Unsavvy consumers who think a nice looking PC with Vista is similar to a Mac, probably don’t deserve a Mac in the first place. People know where they belong in a life, and the few who want better, will buy a Mac, not the rest of the sheep. Macs will never be for the majority, neither will PHds, ivy league universities, or ferraris.
Cpt. Obvious
you missed the obvious….
and MDN’s point.
Hey “red Raw …”
“1: Microsoft copies Mac OS X with Vista, makes it secure and reliable.”
M$ has announced *every* release from Windoze 95 on to be more “secure and reliable.” Do you really think they will this time? If you do, I’ve got some prime ocean-front land in Colorado I’d like to sell you…
“If PC makers make cool looking computers and Vista is secure and reliable, then why buy a hardware/OS monopoly machine when you just buy a OS monopoly and ANY hardware you want?”
What dont you understand about the phrase “I would rather cut off my arms and legs than use windows.” ??
Do you people really think that its as good, or even could be as good?? its like saying chevy is going to put BMW out of business… crazy idiots; step one; try it; step 2; realize what you have been missing; step 3; SLAP.
Vista will be an improvement, but I cannot wait to see Leopard. I believe the reason that things have been so quiet is because Apple is planning on changing the game again somehow. Leopard is going to make the shiny-shiny Vista seem gaudy and far behind, even as it’s released.
Sony makes cool looking laptop computers. But they run Windows.
They don’t even get a second thought.
skin deep PC beauty
Uh huh,
‘I’ve got some prime ocean-front land in Colorado I’d like to sell you…’
According to Greenpeace, at the rate we are all burning fossil fuels, there should be some prime ocean-front land in Colorado by the end of the decade.
If Greenpeace says it, it must be true. They would never lie to promote a cause.
tt,
Intel aren’t having this contest for you…it’s for the other 95% of computer users on the planet.
They all do use Windows, and likely will continue to.
I don’t understand all of this Apple is about to take over the market, market share just keeps going up talk. Did any of you notice that Mac market share has actually gone down this year?
Granted it has only gone down a small percent (4% to 3.79%), but down hardly tells me we’ll own the market any day now either.
Seems like we’re buying into our own hype…but non Mac users aren’t.
Remember, Vista only needs to be good enough. If the Fisher Price looking XP was good enough, Windows users are going to be elated at SP3, I mean Vista.
So, it’s the freaking EBA then? I’ve been looking for a rather concise, and well… nice way of referring to this lot of do nothing sons of b(&%^&iches;, mofo-ing no can design rat bast%$#s, get your reaking P.O.S^&t ugly ass machine out of my F’ing face companies for a while now, thanks! Yeah…the EBA, thinking I prolly ought to use that instead of all that other.
‘Nobody does it better… makes me feel sad for the rest.’
“EBA” – The poor guy even coined an acronym for it. If he wants a better-designed Windows PC, then get a Mac. Why wait for something to surface from Intel’s contest?
Fool is a Real Fool!
What part of AAPL does he not understand?
If you bought AAPL 1 year ago you got heavy rice for your $´s.
I bought my shares when they were under $15 and before the split.
(I can predict the future)
My AAPL case is now more than 11 times the investment I made and it will double within one year. (Live and learn)
AAPL rocks. Dump Dell and save your money without the Motley Fools.
Never mind the boxes, what about the notebooks? I look around my office at the notebooks that my co-workers have, and they’re just like the towers – black, chrome, blue LED’s. They just look ugly to me next to any of Apple’s notebooks.
Only advantage I see in having a PC is ability to customize your own hardware. I have Macs and PCs at home. I have a desktop PC tower with a TV Tuner capture card from ATI that I added to the PC myself — I also added a DVD writer disc drive to my PC which originally did not have any of those features. My PC runs Windows XP Professional with MS Office 2002 for Windows.
I have 2 Macs a PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X Panther and an Intel based Apple Mac Mini (the 2nd gen Mac Mini with 80 Gb hard drive) running Mac OS X Tiger with Front Row. Only problem with using Mac is I can’t customize my own hardware. However, Apple’s Mac OS X is better than running Microsoft Windows and if buying a Mac is the only way to run Mac OS X then I would prefer to buy both Macs for OS X and PCs to run Windows even though Macs can now run Windows.