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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Microsoft Windows’ innate charm – October 25, 2006
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
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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