“UK computer superstore chain PC World clearly thinks its customers are suffering on the sly from Mac envy,” Tony Smith reports for The Register. “How else can we explain how the pictures of PCs on its online store and in its catalogues all show Mac OS X screenshots?”
“Register Hardware reader Matt Kyte sent us a pic he took of a PC World catalogue page. On offer, a Packard Bell desktop and a Toshiba notebook. Both machines’ screens clearly shown with Mac OS X browser Safari – ironically being used to display Microsoft’s Windows Vista website,” Smith reports.
Smith reports, “But that’s not all. PC World’s website is replete with hundreds of desktop and notebook PCs all with Mac OS X’s Jaguar Aqua Blue desktop wallpaper on display.”
“None of the Macs the retailer offers sport Windows Vista on their screens, so PC World hasn’t got itself completely in a twist,” Smith reports.
See the images here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
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Just yesterday on my daily commute there were two people handing out a flyer that was offering a competition to win a Vista computer.
I told them I won’t even enter as Vista is a POS as I have used it and hated it. Although I am a Mac user, I looked at Vista in order to be more informed.
The guy smiled and said, dude you’ve made my day and thanked me for airing my views. The girl with a Windows Vista baseball cap just smiled, like the idiots all Windows users are. Then with one more thanks I left.
During a break recently when I was having trouble connecting to a previously working wi-fi spot, there was another laptop user with Vista Home installed on a Toshiba, having a similar problem.
To my surprise he asked me about my now elderly PowerBook G4 and after a few questions and answers he said he’s going to try and trade in his brand new Vista lappie for a MacBook or Macbook Pro. As it happened there was another Mac on a table nearby, a MacBook that was connected as I pointed that out.
I think it might have been the 0% of viruses on the Mac and that he’d not have to pay for anti-virus product by going Mac. The huge cost saving by being on a Mac far outweighs the seemingly higher price tag for a Mac.
Or perhaps on comparison the guy with the Vista Home felt inadequate and said he’ll try and trade in his Toshiba? He did agree that Vista just looked good and that’s all and spoke about problems getting a printer to work as well as his digital camera, which both worked fine under XP. Plus the growing sense that Windows now looks so much like a Mac, can’t operate as well as a Mac, so might as well go Mac!
Sorry to say, but Microsoft are going to die out and may just survive as a much smaller company making/selling keyboards and mice. The Mac Business Unit gets bought by Apple, Inc & Google in a joint venture and floated as its own business developing Office for both companies to sell to the public. The desktop app for business the online app for everyone else.
“These graphics were probably produced in an advertising department, where Macs are used.
The designer just took a snapshot of his screen (mac) and pasted into the graphic.”
Yuppers, looks like the MUAD conspiracy has struck again at the heart of the PC.
MUAD = Mac Using Ad Departments
Whether it was deliberate or in error, irony is irony, and satire is funny…
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