“Macs and PCs have similar capabilities, but asking a Mac user to switch to a PC or asking a PC user to switch to a Mac is almost like asking someone to move to another country,” Senitra Horbrook blogs for South Jersey News Online.
“‘You have two different camps. You have a lot of people who are PC folks that do a lot of programming and would like to have more control over the operating system, be able to tweak it more,’ said Neil Toporski, director of instructional technology at Rowan University,” Horbrook reports. “‘With a Mac, it just works. You don’t have to worry about reconfiguring operations inside a Mac. A PC person would find a Macintosh frustrating. It’s not that customizable.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s Mac OS X is certified UNIX. It is MORE customizable than Windows. Changing cursor shapes and colors and similar garbage is what Windows sufferers do to distract themselves from the dreck to which they’ve subjected themselves and/or to kill time while waiting for their AV software to waste some more of their processor cycles. Second-rate reporters working for third-rate media properties should stop quoting fourth-rate IT people if they want to move up in the world. Frustrated Windows sufferers who’ve switched to Apple Macintosh find it to be extremely liberating; the only thing they’re frustrated with is the realization of all the time and money they’ve wasted with Windows.
Horbrook continues, “The most noticeable difference between a Mac and a PC is the operating systems, which are different in the look and feel, in the interface themselves, how you operate the computer and how you access software and different files. ‘Mac uses OS X. The newest version is Leopard, which sells for $129 if upgrading,’ Toporski said. ‘The PC comes with Vista that comes in several flavors — ultimate, premium, business, basic.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Mac OS X Leopard sells for $129 even if you’re not upgrading. Miss Ignorance Peddler could’ve gotten better information by just making it up. And PCs don’t all come with Vista. Because it sucks. In fact, Vista is so bad, some Windows sufferers and many of the PC box assemblers long ago demanded that the ancient XP be installed instead.
The full amateurish, ignorant article – which, if you extrapolate, goes a long way towards explaining why Apple has historically had such a difficult time selling a vastly superior product to the masses – Think Before You Click™ – is here. (South Jersey News Online requires registration in order to comment on article.)
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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“Mac OS X sells for $129 even if you’re not upgrading.”? What the heck does that even mean? You can’t buy any version of OSX licensed for any machine that doesn’t already have it.
“is almost like asking someone to move to another country,” Senitra Horbrook writes for South Jersey News Online.”
Sorry, but New Jersey IS another country – one filled with slutty bleached blondes, clueless drivers, and people who are physically and mentally incapable of making left-hand turns.
Ultimately, as much as anything else it’s the fact that by and large people are idiots.
It’s not just in respect of computers, we’re all guilty of it to some degree. We all buy crap we don’t need, eat food we shouldn’t, drink too much, etc.
More people have Windows PCs owing to Apple immense failure with Lisa. This single event launched the Windows-based PC as the computer of choice as Apple struggled to regain lost ground. It has been the same story ever since.
MDN. Please fix the link to the article. It only points to MDN.
ALSO, Please consider noting if the site that an article resides at will allow comment. If I cannot comment, I usually do not want to go there. Why bother? But if I can comment, I may want to comment to the author vs their article.
Thanks.
Happy Friday.
EN
@wannabe,
What are you talking about??? You can buy Leopard and install it on machines that didn’t come with it originally. The price is $129 whether you are upgrading from another version of OS X or even OS 9 or earlier.
Her statement in the article is just pure sloppy journalism.
I believe it is the price of Macs compared to PCs. Some folks are not wanting to spend a $1000 when they can get a PC for much less. Added to all the compatibility and no software lies it makes folks scared to spend so much on a Mac.
@en,
I just hate when you have to register with a site just to read the article.
The failure of the Lisa had nothing to do with masses of ignorant consumers buying PCs. The Lisa was marketed toward business market.
@ M.X.N.T.4.1
“Ultimately, as much as anything else it’s the fact that by and large people are idiots”
ROFL, I couldn’t agree more.
Why has Apple historically had such a difficult time selling the superior Mac to the masses?
The MAC doesn’t support the Zune. These days that’s the main reason people don’t buy MACs. Microsoft’s ubiquitous music player combined with Zune Marketplace gives users a hassle-free experience syncing the world’s number one music player with their beloved WMA content. Apple, take notes. And Vista is just like a MAC.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Too expensive!!!!!!!!!!
Windows users want to be able to tinker around with how their interface looks because they want to make it look more like a Mac. Go figure.
And … YES … even on the Mac there are hacks that allow people to adjust how their interface looks. More Dinosaur and Saber Tooth Tiger arguments! UGH!
MDN Magic Word: clearly … as in “Clearly this boob didn’t do any real research before sitting down to write.”
Why don’t these articles ever quote the retail price of Windows? $399 for Vista Ultimate. $129 for Leopard. Simple.
@Cubert,
I think you are describing southern New Jersey, pretty much everywhere from Newark, south. Bergen County and north are mostly ok except for a town here and there. I say this as someone who grew up there and turned out just fine thanks very much. Also, drivers in MA where I live now are far, far worse for the most part.
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“The MAC doesn’t support the Zune. These days that’s the main reason people don’t buy MACs.”
Hilarious, thanks!
The MAC doesn’t support the Zune. These days that’s the main reason people don’t buy MACs. Microsoft’s ubiquitous music player combined with Zune Marketplace gives users a hassle-free experience syncing the world’s number one music player with their beloved WMA content. Apple, take notes. And Vista is just like a MAC.
LOL … Zune Tang … you’re always good for a laugh! Thanks for the consistent satire!
Answer: Price.
it’s not so much her that’s ridiculous, it’s that tool she’s quoting. her entire article is basically his quotes strung together.
Computer, display, OS X, keyboard, mouse, iLife, iSight, (Apple remote, built-in microphone, built-in speakers) = iMac = $ 1199
Very reasonable
flavors…..ha are you kidding me!
They’re not flavors, with the different versions of vista…. thats bullocks.
If i went to an icecream shop, the flavors i get are, banana, strawberry, chocolate …etc
Windows vista is like;
imitation chocolate icecream, imitation chocolate with 5% real chocolate icecream, icecream with chocolate frecks in them and up to the double choc icecream(the ultimate version).
Vista versions are not unique to each other, the lower versions are blander and more limited than the upper versions. How can a baboon call this flavors?
Cubert, buying Leopard and “installing it on a machine that didn’t have it originally” is called an UPGRADE if any previous version of MacOS came with the machine.
“Upgrade” isn’t a function of the software on the disk; it’s a function of the license that comes with it. When you buy a non-upgrade version of Windows you have the license to install that software on any computer, whether it was originally sold with Windows or not. Apple retail OS licenses are exclusively upgrades.
It never ceases to amaze me, the crap people are willing to put up with from their computer. I always give them the car analogy: “If your car gave you as much trouble as your pc, would you keep it or find a better a car?”
People are lazy and cheap. They don’t want to have to deal with a learning curve on a new OS and they actually believe that a $400 computer is just as good as a $1000 computer. I trouble shoot a lot of people, professionals mostly, and those two reasons are the most common given for not switching to a Mac.
Well it’s like I have said before: People are hooked on cheap, low quality boxes pre-loaded with Windows that they can buy at Wal-Mart and other big box stores.
When the thing breaks they just junk it and buy another just about like it and start the cycle again.
My first cousin was hooked in that cycle and grew tired of that buy and junk and took my advice and bought an iMac.
He’s very happy now doing all kinds of things that he could do with his old PC.
What’s strange too is that I noticed is many people will pay for an expensive, high performance PC, pay for a lot of ad ons (anti virus, ect.) when they could get a Mac for cheaper and get more for their money.
Same thing for businesses and institutions.
And what’s up with the f-ing stock price?