“Here’s my annual spring buyer’s guide to desktop PCs. Most of what I say below also applies to laptops, although with laptops there are additional factors, such as size, weight, screen size and battery life. As always, these tips apply to mainstream users doing typical tasks, not hard-core gamers or techies,” Walter S. Mossberg writes for The Wall Street Journal.
“If you desperately need a new Windows PC, be prepared to be underwhelmed and to be frustrated by incompatible software and hardware. And if you’re not desperate, you might wait another six months or so for the software and hardware to catch up — and for Microsoft to issue some bug fixes,” Mossberg writes.
“Or you could buy a Mac instead. I still believe the best desktop computer on the market for mainstream, nontechnical consumers is the Apple iMac. It has gorgeous hardware and superior built-in software. Its operating system, Mac OS X, includes most of the key new features of Vista. And the iMac can even run Vista, along with its own operating system, if you need the occasional Windows program,” Mossberg writes.
Mossberg writes, “Apple has delayed until October the release of its new operating-system version, Leopard. But it’s almost certain that any Mac you buy now will upgrade to it smoothly. And the Mac is still largely free of the security problems that add such hassles to using a Windows PC.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Island Girl” for the heads up.]
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Smart business owners migrate to Apple’s OS-unlimited Macs – April 09, 2007
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Apple Macs for enterprise: yes, change does happen – March 23, 2007
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Analyst: Microsoft’s Windows Vista is very good for Apple Mac – March 13, 2007
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Windows Vista woes push BBC News editor to regret never having ‘defected’ to Apple Mac – February 06, 2007
Bill Gates unhinged with Apple envy; Microsoft on path to become high profile casualty – February 06, 2007
Apple takes dead aim at Microsoft’s Windows Vista in latest ‘Get a Mac’ ad (with video) – February 06, 2007
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Bill Gates has lost his mind: calls Apple liars, copiers; slams Mac OS X security vs. Windows – February 02, 2007
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Microsoft’s Windows Vista: Five years for a chrome-plated turd – January 30, 2007
Those unfamiliar with Apple’s Mac OS X may be impressed with Windows Vista – January 29, 2007
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Windows Vista disappoints, so get a Mac – January 29, 2007
Microsoft emails reveal serious Mac OS X Tiger envy – January 26, 2007
Analyst: Microsoft’s Windows Vista could be an opportunity for Apple – January 26, 2007
CNET Reviews Windows Vista: Is that all? Clunky and not very intuitive vs. Mac OS X; warmed-over XP – January 24, 2007
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You just can’t fault Walt.
And Island Girl-
Whatchu wantin’ widis white man’s wurl?
I an’ I been usin’ weendowz in babylon too lon’, mon.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Girls just wanna have fun.”
-Cindy Lauper
“I’m hungry”
Hannibal Lector
“You don’t know what pain is”
-Jamie Gumm
“Zune is doing very well”.
Steve Ballmer
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
Arthur Carlson
“And the Mac is still largely free of the security problems that add such hassles to using a Windows PC.”
“Still”?
“LARGELY free”?
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck
@ His Shadow
LOL. Thanks for bringing back a classic WKRP moment. ^_^
Damn auto fill, slower than my girly fingers…
‘@ His Shadow
LOL. Thanks for bringing back a classic WKRP moment. ^_^’
yes, from here, too.
I’m laughing so hard I can’t feel my feet….
“You can’t handle the truth.”
Jack Nicholson
“I love you Walter”
Shelley Long, The Money Pit
Hey, does any of this commentary go to print or is it just blatherings stored in an archive somewhere?
“I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
So I said, ‘Got any shoes you’re not using?'”
-Steven Wright
‘You wanna fight? Why don’t you stick your head up my butt and fight for air. ‘
-Joe Dirt
“Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.”
– Emo Philips
“I came home one night to find that my apartment was infested with koalas. It was the cutest infestation ever.”
-Mitch Hedberg
“You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.”
John Goodman
“When it comes to big openings, a lot of people think of me.”
-Hedwig Schmidt.
I miss Mitch Hedberg. What a shame.
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” — George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
“Why does ChrissyOne wear hoop earrings?
So she has a place to rest her ankles.”
– Anonymous
I saw lights, followed by the sound of car horns.
Mitch
“I said no to drugs, but they just wouldn’t listen.”
– TowerTone
“You’d know that I’m not allowed to wear hoop earrings, right? Yeah! Two years ago she told me hoops earrings were *her* thing and I wasn’t allowed to wear them anymore. And then for Hannakuh my parents got this pair of really expensive white gold hoops and I had to pretend like I didn’t even like them and… it was so sad.”
-Gretchen Wieners
‘”I said no to drugs, but they just wouldn’t listen.”
– TowerTone’
I don’t recall saying that.
I must’ve been high…
Looks like someone is having a Chrissy fit. Again.
“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”
– John Cleese
“The past’s tense”.
–MAXdBass
“If you take sexual advantage of her, you’re going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters . . . and people who talk at the theater.”
– Shepherd Book
“You can’t really dust for vomit. “
-Nigel Tufnel
“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”
– Inigo Montoya
“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die.”
– Westley
“So when you’re on stage, you feel like a preserved moose?”
-Marti Debergi
MW: ‘same’
“I’m not a complete idiot, some parts are missing”
– No Squirt
“Manuel will show you to your rooms – if you’re lucky. “
-Basil Fawlty
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep — not screaming, like the passengers in his car.”
– Jack Handey
“So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” – Douglas Adams.
“I gotta have more cowbell!” – Legendary Music Producer Bruce Dickenson
“How is ChrissyOne like a doorknob?
Everyone gets a turn.”
– HuggyBear
“I’m not 0 in love with your tone right now”
-Geico caveman
This is possibly one of the funniest MDN threads ever.
“If I were the last man on earth, you wouldn’t even be allowed in line.”
-Emo Phillips
“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness?
It means you’re in the wrong house.”
– George Burns
“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.”
George Carlin
“Sex at my age is like shooting pool with a rope”
-George Burns
“Hey, neighbor”
-Jeffrey Dahmer
“Hey, where the white women at? “
-Clevon Little
“Sex on television can’t hurt you unless you fall off.”
– ChrissyOne
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.”
– Steve Martin
“Well, my days of taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”
– Malcolm Reynolds
I LOVE that one. =)
Actually, I think it was ‘my days of mis-underestimating you…”
“I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous.”
-David Bradley, inventor of Ctrl-alt-del.
@ChrissyOne – The Angry Inch ref made my day.
^ Nope, it’s definitely as written.
“When I think of all the people I have come upon in my travels, I have to think off the people who have come upon me. YA HEAR THAT, TOMMY?!”
-Hedwig Schmidt
I was a clean woman once.
Once.
^^ Hey, babe — anytime you wanna get together and put on a show for these guys, you just let me know.
@ Caledonia
“Woke up this morning… one sock too many!”
– Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
“There are two kinds of people in this world, my friend, those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig”
-Clint Eastwood
“When you can’t run, you crawl . . . and when you can’t crawl, well . . . you know the rest.”
– Tracey
“My girlfriend always laughs during sex – no matter what she’s reading.”
-Steve Jobs
“You do that, you’d best make peace with your dear and fluffy Lord.”
– Malcolm Reynolds
Records Nurse: “Can I get you something?”
Fletch: “Yeah, do you have the Beatles’ White Album? Never mind, just get me a glass of hot fat. And bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia while you’re out there.”
“Doctor, I’m taking your sister under my protection here. If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly. There could be tears.”
-Malcolm Reynolds
“I always practice safe sex-I wash my hands first.”
-ME
“The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier”
– Bill Gates
Firefly quotes. Awesome. 😀
Man, Malcolm Reynolds kicks Holy Ass. So sad that all that “reality” TV bvllshit overshadowed the debut of an incredible show.
“I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.”
Tom Waits
“Anybody who sees and paints a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized.”
Adolf Hitler
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
– Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25th, 1998
“Having a smoking section in a resturant is like have a peeing section in a swimmng pool”
George Carlin (i think)
“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
– Robin Williams
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
Yogi Berra
No Squirt
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
– Steve Jobs, BusinessWeek, May 25th, 1998
Truer words were never spoken with respect to focus groups.
The BlackFriars article “The Tyranny of Too Much” is a nice complimentary article to Job’s position.
http://blackfriarsinc.com/totm.html
“Do you come here often?”
“Why? Is there a puddle?”
– TMF, July, 1978
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste — they have absolutely no taste… and what that means is, I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way”
– Steve jobs, 1996
“I remember the first snowfall of the year I would get up early, run to the front door, and yell to my parents ‘Let me in'”
-Emo Williams
“I woke up feeling a little stiff this morning, but then the kids walked in, so I had to stop.”
-TWT, April, 1994
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”
– Dan Quayle
“Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.”
– Steve Ballmer
“You know, there’s like a butt-load of gangs at this school. This one gang kept wanting me to join because I’m pretty good with a bo staff. “
-Napolean Dynamite
“Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.”
– Richard Nixon
“Screw you guys, I’m going home.”
-Cartman
Actually, I have to go out in the field(to work, not to relieve myself)
Enjoyed it, y’all have a great day.
“And if you can’t be good, be good at it”
my ex mother-in-law
“(to work, not to relieve myself)”
Have it both ways! I heard you were out standing in your field.
“I’m not as young as I used to be, but then I never was.”
– my grandmother (and that should explain a lot)
“If you can’t do something smart, do something right.”
Shepherd Book
“”I saw this sign posted once, it said, ‘blasting zone ahead’. Wow… shouldn’t that read: Road Closed? What do you mean there’s a blasting zone, what am I supposed to do? ‘Hey– ah, you might wanna buckle up, blasting zone coming up. Yeah. Just saw the sign. Put the helmets on back there! Yeah I think we’re– (Pow!)– Oh! We’re getting close! (Pow!)– Oh! This is gonna be a bad blasting zone! Remember that last one–we lost Billy?””
– Brian Regan
Do Be Do Be Wah!
F. Sinatra
We’re gonna explode?! I don’t wanna explode.
Jane
“Badges? We don’t need no steenking badges!”
Blazing Saddles
“Why is the sky blue? So we know where to stop mowing.”
Judge Harry Stone – Night Court
“OK, we’ll take the chinks and the n*****s, but we won’t take the Irish.”
Blazing Saddles
“A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I’d mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn.”
Blackadder
Dubya was with Queen Elizabeth in an open carriage, headed for a service at Westminster Cathedral, when one of the wheel horses pulling the carriage passed gas, filling the air in and around the carriage with a terrible stench. The Queen was mortified but faced the embarrassment head-on.
“I apologize, Mr. President!” she said.
“Oh, that’s all right, Ma’am,” Bush said. “I thought it was the horse.”
“Excuse me while I whip this out”
-Clevon Little
“Well, raise my rent”
-Clevon Little
“What can I do with a woman that I can’t do with you, Blackadder?”
“I cannot conceive.”
-eb
A female contestant on radio’s You Bet Your Life says she has 19 offspring.
“Why so many children?” Groucho Marx asks.
“Well, I just love my husband!” the woman replies.
“Well, I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!” Groucho replies.
@His Shadow
Great WKRP moment!
OK, I’ll join in –
” In a way, each of us has an El Guapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous man who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be *the actual* El Guapo! “
Whatsa matter, Colonel Sanders? CHICKEN???
– Dark Helmet