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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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.