Apple’s “new 24-inch iMac [and all current Mac models] can run Windows — after all, it’s an Intel PC — and you can even switch almost instantly between the Mac’s regular programs and any Windows programs. All you have to do is buy a Mac and install Windows on it in some spare hard drive space,” Al Fasoldt writes for Technofile Online.
Fasoldt writes, “The only thing Apple couldn’t do in its stunning design was to make Windows as safe as OS X. If you run Windows on what is otherwise the safest do-everything home computer around, you’ll have a Windows PC. It will be just as dangerous as every other Windows PC. With Windows running on an OS X Mac, you have all the problems of Windows running on an ugly beige box.”
Fasoldt writes, “Sometimes I’m convinced that Microsoft puts drugs in the water supply. These drugs block the neural transmitters that would allow Windows users to realize that Mac OS X actually does run the kind of software they want to have. Like Microsoft Word. Or Photoshop. Or MSN Messenger. Or AOL. You see what I mean.”
“Oh, of course I’m just being cute. There’s no drjghs inh th wahug suprlj,” Fasoldt writes. “Odh. I’mg feeklng dizrhy. I lovn Windzo. I lovn Windzo!”
Full article, from October 1, 2006 (somehow we missed it, but we thought you’d enjoy it anyway), with more about Apple vs. PC box assemblers in the field of computer design here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Always Right” for the heads up.]
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Dude, you got a Dell? What are you, stupid? Only Apple Macs run both Mac OS X and Windows! – April 05, 2006
Intel-based Macs running both Mac OS X and Windows will be good for Apple – June 10, 2005
It’s very MDN
Bloody brilliant article!
MDNMW: “ever” as in “Ever see Steve Ballmer and Bigfoot in the same room together? UH HUH! THOUGHT SO!
I think Ballmer puts water in his drugs. Too much water…
I think Ballmer puts water in his drugs. Too much water…
I think Ballmer puts water in his drugs. Too much water…
Most people use Windows. Ergo, Windows must be better.
What kind of writer is that one? Drugs in the water supply?
He says “Oh, of course I’m just being cute. There’s no drjghs inh th wahug suprlj,” Fasoldt writes. “Odh. I’mg feeklng dizrhy. I lovn Windzo. I lovn Windzo!”
Well, isn’t that logic appliable to everyone who loves some product he bought? What about Apple products lovers? Are then on drugs (different from what are using Microsoft in the water supply, of course) also? Are Apple and Microsoft drug companies? Are they going to base the manufacturing process in Colombia or something? Is it just a Windows thing? Why doesn’t he write something like ” i Love my Applez iPoz, and now we have Intelz Inzide ,we can goez for world dominationz.wOOt”
Bah, there are someones who want attention writing silly things. And the ones echoing that low-live form of journalism are going downhill very very fast.
…you can even switch almost instantly between the Mac’s regular programs and any Windows programs. All you have to do is buy a Mac and buy Parallels Workstation and buy and install Windows on it in some spare hard drive space…
BootCamp is free, but hardly instant.
While it is good to see this guy coming around (hasn’t he been a pro-Windows raver in the past?), he still has a way to go. Omitting vital details is an oh-so-Windows trait.
Just the same, it’s a good start.
My apologies! I confused Mr. Fasoldt with someone else! And he is even from my part of the world!
Nothing wrong with the water supplye heeeeeereer
It’s all people know. that’s what they know and are afraid to leap into the chasm of change, unless handheld by a person who knows better.
I may have 2 family members swithed on their next computer upgrade.
Thanks MDN, every article like this one is feeding the ever growing appetite for Apple Macs…
..and helps to make Windows look incredibly decrepit and useless.
Try and learn to use your Mac properly and you don’t have to say any ads that you choose not to see…get with it, you’re not in Windows now.
Oh, and make your point without being so melodramatic and crapping on the page next time.
Hey MacMania!
Right on!…..years ago I saw a bumper sticker . . .”eat shit, 99 trillion flys can’t be wrong!”
that would be F L I E S . Pardon my spelling
Oh there are plenty of mindless, ignorant moron lemmings out there to saturate the Windblows market, don’t worry!
I knew it! First Bill Gates stole Steve Jobs’ OS. Now Steve Ballwarmer is stealing Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field!
There are so much windows, and so little people see through them.
The trouble is, despite the evidence placed before them, some die-hard Windows users just won’t accept the Macintosh alternative.
My older brother, for example, proclaims that he’d rather use ‘a proper Windows computer’ than a Macintosh – despite having the same Intel chip, but not the associated virus’, spyware and malware.
He just doesn’t care about the Macintosh’s dual OS capabilities.
OK, OS X is more secure than Windows and Macs are more stylish and functional than PCs. So, really, why do people still buy PCs, Fasoldt? It seems that many folks are simply willing to buy the least expensive PC that has backward computability with pre-existing software, irrespective of the potential security risks or archaic and convoluted architecture of Windows. Unless Apple is willing to sell bargain basement computers, many PC users will not switch. Besides, if Apple ever did announce a $199.99 “Super-special Rock-bottom” low-end Mac, Fasoldt and other condescending snobs would shudder or faint at the thought that their cherished premier computer manufacturer was imitating the cut-rate offers made other PC manufacturers.
And why do some any OS X users like Fasoldt seem so intractably inconsolable about the fact that Macs lag behind Windows PCs according to whatever measure of patronage or installed base? Are these people so insecure in their selection of Mac that they will only feel vindicated about their choice of OS unless a majority of other individuals make an identical choice? Maybe some OS X users are deluding themselves about their superior intelligence and expert judgment, and have to compensate for their own unrelenting apprehension by making childish school-yard jokes.
Apple will succeed by developing great software and hardware, and not interminably comparing themselves to others. Apple’s immediate and long-term success is less about being as ubiquitous as Microsoft or just like all other PC manufacturers, as it is Apple making desirable and innovative products. Put this issue to rest kids and move on.
Not only does the Mac have Word and Photoshop, it had them first!
Of course, in the case of Word, by “first” I mean “before Windows”.
WHAT IF?
In the next few years Vista comes to be known as a very safe operating system and Microsoft buys Adobe?
Will all those nice, new shiny MacIntels be switched over to Vista and Apple becomes just another PC vendor?
Scary huh?
Then again, what if pigs fly?
Vista might look slick, but it still behaves like XP, cluttered interface and all.
Rabid Dog,
You been drinking some of that water too?
Methinks Vista will be about as successful as Zune. Sure MS will jam it down everyone’s throats via pre-installs (think Windows ME), but that doesn’t mean it’ll be good.
As for security, MS has be fighting the Windows epidemic for at least ten (TEN!) years. You think they’re going to magically & finally get it right, on such a long-delayed code base?
And Adobe? If MS buys them they’ll just vanish into the blob. It’ll do for Adobe what it did for Virtual PC.
Huh?
I reckon that you are a Pommy bastard.
am i right or…. am i right – fess up dude.
i mean to say “interminably”
You are incorrect, but thanks for playing.
This is getting old.
I keep saying “that guy is from Syracuse” every time Al gets his article on MDN.
Whoops.
All of those who buy PC’s for Christmas with the promise of a “Free” “upgrade” to Vista, are gonna be pissed next year when their free version of Vista is a hobbled, non-Aero nightmare. Really these people will only care about Aero. How many people will upgrade to the full version for $299? Not many, that would double their investment. Microsoft may want to hire more security in Redmond.
Huh?
Ok … but with “50/50” and “dial a friend” gone and my only life line left being – “ask the audience” i am going to take the plunge and say that … ohh … umm … that you are – hum … err … ohh … well, wot with your nefarious and scandalous writing style n’ all … yer know, all em … ostentatious words n’ that –
i reckon you must be from superfluousland.
So – “lock it in Eddie” – Huh?’s a superfluouslite.
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Sorry… i must be compensating for my unrelenting apprehension of Apple Mac-ness by making childish school-yard jokes. Wot with all em the years n’ years of scorn and ridicule put on me by the “Windows fundamentalists” … baaaah, bleat, bleat, for my decision to go the Apple Mac way, they were so fecking full of themselves.
Well, i say … “dial – 3825-633” to youse all.
Except all em luvly windah’s peeps who weren’t or aren’t like that, i likes’em, and why not?
I’m not arrogant. Really. I just don’t have any personality…
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Thank you for your attention – over to you.
i hope the “dial – 3825-633” bit works.
This is fun eh.
“Will all those nice, new shiny MacIntels be switched over to Vista and Apple becomes just another PC vendor?”
That’s the planned next step for Apple’s Intel migration.
Look for Mac preloaded with Vista Q1/Q2 next year.
“It’ll do for Adobe what it did for Virtual PC.”
Virtual PC is a great application, and free now. I’s now Windows only, but hey, who but few Mac fanboys cares about that? You can always run Virtual PC on you Mac via Boot Camp.
VistaComingPreloadedOnAMacNearYou & Rabid Dog:
Well, I understand how a Windows user, with very limited grasp of the facts would come to this conclusion, but leaving aside the economic disaster that would befall Apple (and that’s the real reason why you suggest it), if this were their plan why did they ask Adobe, Quark & Microsoft to rewrite their apps (no mean task), for Intel if they were just going to move to Vista?
If this was their plan all along, why did they not simply put off the Intel migration until Vista was ready? Then they could simply annouce that Mac OS X was dead and they were going to become a PC vendor.
All these years you’ve apologised for Windows, saying the next version will be better, and here you are saying that Vista will solve all of Windows inherant problems. Didn’t you say that about 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP?
What if in the next few years people realise that this version of Vista is just as buggy as all the rest and move to the proven, safe & reliable operating system that is Mac OSX?
It’s now dead easy for them to do so (if they bought an Intel Mac just ran Vista on it), because they can now install Mac OSX for free, no need to buy new hardware.
With Apple sales to switchers, this scenario has a far better chance of actually happening than you Windowsfanboidream.
All your friends are slowly realising this and slowly moving to the Mac platform – scary huh?
And Windows users accuse us of having fanboy dreams – get a grip & get a Mac.
Oh yeah, and to answer the question posed by this topic, “Does Microsoft put drugs in the water supply?”, the answer is no, they don’t, they simply have a wordlwide army of IT people whose whole careers, lives & personalities are totally dependent on the Windows monopoly.
When i see any remote control and look at my iPod, Apple produces function in stead of glitter.
gagravaar,
Well I was going to make some quip along the lines of, yes, MS does put drugs in the water because that’s the only viable explanation for the state of the pc computing arts and sciences – but… I think you summed it all up with, hitting-the-nail-on-the-head accuracy.
And for those posters who have once again implied that anyone who doesn’t use and promote Windows is some kind of commi-pinko, fanatical weirdo – well, f@#k you. (Apologies to my mother, wife, and children.)
Sooner, or later, there’s coming a day when the world will be released from the BS that we call MS Windows, and when that happens, not only Apple, but everyone with an above average idea and the proper skills will have a fair shot moving personal computing technology on into the future. MS has single handedly choked the life out of any real inovation in the pc world, almost to the point of no return. Thank the Lord at least one “competitor” has hung on to ensure that we, at least, have a token freedom to choose.
people, I have said it before and I will say it again, windows will always have a market on PeeCees because the PC can be incredibly cheap. I know a LOT of people who own a dime store, slapped together, Mom and Pop PC-in-a-kit, no-name brand PC. They paid a couple of dollars fro it and got back change. Furthermore, they have not paid for any software that is found on it because they got it from friends or from the office.
This market will always exist. Therefore unless Apple attacks this market (and I do noth think they should), there are limits to how much they can grow and regain market share. What is a good figure to reach, 20%, 40% of the market? The majority of computer users possess cheap crap. Let Apple reach and stay at ~ 20%. Any more then I worry they will have to drop quality to the point where…..
Just my humble (but probably correct) opinion
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Buster,
All good points. The only reason I give market share any attention at all is because of the aboslute crap I and many others have to go through in order to use other than Windows in the workplace. If I could simply request a machine that can and will get the job done in a manner that is cost effective from a productivity stand point, and from a longevity standpoint, (in other words a Mac), and not have to waste my time and company time over-rationalizing the many why’s and wherefore’s, I think market share would become a little less of an issue for many Mac users, perhaps.
Regular ole computer users who don’t want to use Windows are stuck with having to work their way around IT Windows brats, that’s just a sad fact. And that, in part, requires being able to show that the Mac is not a toy, or a fad, or anything other than a viable and very cost effective tool, well worth the company’s time and money. This whoop jumping for Windows is essentially not required – period.
So yeah, its all about perception, and the real effect those perceptions have in the real world. It is about cost, but not only about cost, not by a long shot. That’s become a mantra for those not willing to do what’s objectively right – for themselves, or the company’s they work for or own/operate. Saving $500 dollars today will often cost you double that over five years, in the world of pc purchasing and implementation. This has been shown time and again.
Using cost as a bottom line kind of reasoning on whether to implement the Macintosh or not is simply irrelevent – in the work place at least.
Mr. Peabody,
We are in perfect agreement with respect to the workplace. However, all your arguments about productivity, cost projections etc are, as you say, irrelevant, in the home environment where cost is the number one factor. Cheap crap reigns supreme…why do you think Wal Mart is so successful.,,,because it is affordable. I am also not talking about a PC comparable to an entry level Mac. I am talking cheap PC crap.
I wish it weren’t so because of all the help PC users ask of me. Its frustrating and I even get labeled a snob sometimes when I tell them that their machines cannot match what I do on the Mac unless they upgrade their machine or better yet, switch. But they can’t. This is what they can afford and, as I said, none of the software has been purchased.
Some time ago, I really needed to buy a good car for my organization but I didn’t earn enough money and could not purchase something. Thank God my friend suggested to try to take the loans from banks. Thence, I did so and used to be happy with my collateral loan.
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