“For a long time, David Alison was a Mac hater,” Beth Snyder Bulik reports for Advertising Age. “In fact, one of the avatars he used was the face of actor John Hodgman, the PC guy in Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ ads. As a software developer, he was heavily invested in and committed to Windows. While he had been a longtime iPod fan, it hadn’t been enough to get him to switch.”
Snyder Bulik reports, “But then last year his friends started buying iPhones and making the switch — ‘guys like me, who didn’t really care for Macs.’ And when the latest Windows operating system, Vista, came out, ‘It didn’t do anything for me,’ Mr. Alison said. ‘The very initial version was really a mess.'”
“So he went to an Apple store,” Snyder Bulik reports. “The clean, simple and friendly experience convinced him it was time to consider a Mac, and now, six months after his first MacBook purchase, he has added a desktop Mac Pro and another MacBook Pro.”
“Mr. Alison’s experience is not unusual. Blog after blog chronicles the move from Windows to Mac operating systems,” Snyder Bulik reports.
Full article here.
@Dennis O’Connor: Well, thats what makes me sad that I hated a platform I’ve never used. I think its just that I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to use it, or I wouldn’t be able to figure stuff out. Or it would explode and give me error messages. I also thought that Mac OS was very unstable (oh, how untrue…). Of course all that has been proven wrong since I switched. And I think that the other people who use windows and “hate” the Mac OS think the same as I did, that since they were so used to windows (believe me, I could change my wallaper in 12 clicks with my microsoft mouse…) that they wouldn’t be able to figure out a new OS. People just don’t like change. And when I was bashing the mac, my computer teacher used a word no one had ever called me before; “Ignorant”. I think that most Windows users are ignorant (sorry for such a harsh word… lol) that they already have prejudices against something they know nothing about.
Hope that helps!
Hahaha, man. You fanboys are priceless. I’ve never seen so much irrational anger over a computer before. Face it, there’s nothing special about macs. There’s certainly nothing wrong with them, they’re outstanding machines and are good at what they do. But really, I just don’t see why I should pay twice as much for the exact same thing. I’ve used both operating systems. I have macs where I work and use a PC at home. Like I said, neither one particularly wows me or ticks me off. But the PC is far easier to customize and is much less expensive. For example, my friend just bought a nice new mac and bought a 2GB memory upgrade for $400. When he told me that I assured him he was mistaken because nobody would ever charge anything near that much for memory. Then he showed me his receipt, and sure enough he had bought memory at $200 a gig. Price gouging anybody? Of course if you want a mac you really don’t have a choice other than to get robbed like that. No thank you.
actually, ignorant describes most computer users.
i have used windows 2.0 to XP, 2 BSD flavors and several linux distros including one i rolled myself. and though linux has many good things going for it (my preferred server OS in fact) i won’t willing change my desktop OS again until either Apple falls apart or everyone else catches up about 7 levels….
remember, to a lot of people a computer is new a new idea, they remember a world before the internet. now kids, well, they have a very different idea of what a computer is and should do. and all of the kids i talk to *hate* windows. the only ones under 14 that use it at all use it *only* to game.
i just hope Apple is ready for the influx of new users.
“XP cannot boot from an external hard drive and it can only address 4GB of RAM, a third of which is sucked up by XP.
Vista quickly compromises weenie PCs and forget about ANY pleasure from 64-bit computing.”
Que? Any OS can be booted from an external hard drive if you know what you’re doing. You’re right XP is memory capped but when it was written 4GB was plenty of room and vista doesn’t have that problem. I’m not sure where you’re getting that stuff about 64 bit computing. Sure Vista gets along better with 32 bit chipsets, but that’s to be understood. The 64 bit problems have largely been addressed. Like I said, I really don’t have any big problems with macs in and of themselves- I just don’t see why people are so emotionally invested in a machine. Well actually I do know why, but it has nothing to do with practical matters of computer use.
“But really, I just don’t see why I should pay twice as much for the exact same thing. ”
go price me a machine as fast as my mini (the easy one to match performance wise) when it runs vista and has firewire and then add the cost of the apps OS X has and vista doesn’t, show me twice as much. please.
better yet, price me something that compares to the MBA. or the top line pro.
oh wait, you can’t even buy comparables. they aren’t options.
and then add the hours of tech support you need to keep it running and the AV software and the poor vista performance and get back to me. we aren’t stupid. many of have owned, or still do own windows machines. we know better. your BS is of no use to you here…..
also, if you can’t install your own RAM, and buy it from any dealer at any price, you aren’t smart enough to “customize” anything on a PC.
now go away or we shall taunt you again a second time.
Comment from: Toljaso
Once you’ve tried MAC, you won’t go back…
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Along those lines, I’ve also heard, “the Mac-er the berry, the sweeter the juice.”
@Lol_Wut
So who is the fanboy here? So you are happy with Windows? Good for you. If there is no real difference other than a higher price for the Mac, why are so many windows users making the switch? I hear of very few Mac users switching to Windows because they want to. Sorry, but I use XP at work. No thanks, they can keep it.
“So who is the fanboy here? So you are happy with Windows? Good for you”
the real question is, “so why are you here then???”
“the real question is, “so why are you here then???””
Fanboy rage is humorous. I’ve got no problem with macs really. But the mac faithful are a different story. But you’re always good for few cheap laughs.
Fanboy rage is humorous. I’ve got no problem with macs really. But the mac faithful are a different story. But you’re always good for few cheap laughs.
Well, there’s the difference between us.
Most of us have several problems with Windows: like the way it looks and the way it works.
We also have a problem with WinDroid cult members: it’s not that you’re a cheap laugh, more like just cheap.
@Lol_Wut
“I have macs where I work and use a PC at home”
This is supposed to show that you know how to use a Mac?
Judging by your comments, you don’t know the first thing about using a Mac.
Stop trying to judge the Mac experience – it’s obvious that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
I love it when m$ fanboys try & talk about Macs – saying all of the same stupid cr@p they claim that Mac fans do.
“”the real question is, “so why are you here then???””
Fanboy rage is humorous”
you know, i know that it is hard to guess emotions over a text, but what have read that sounds like rage?
aka: project much?
do i need to put
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seriously, the question is, if your windows experience is so great, why do feel you have to go astroturf on a mac site?
in other words, we aren’t mad, emotionally invested, etc. etc. or at least i know i am not. guess i can’t speak for the others here, but since it doesn’t read like they are, you seem to be failing comprehension. what i am is amazed that you are so ill-informed, and that you project so much, and that you would even bother to come here if weren’t trying to prove something.
it isn’t for a discussion, otherwise you would actually answer things like the price issue. but you don’t. you read like the definition of a troll.
i know, cheap laughs.
when you post under a “lol cat” style name and show nothing but ignorance about the topic at hand, the good news is that we are both getting a laugh out of it…
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“I love it when m$ fanboys try & talk about Macs – saying all of the same stupid cr@p they claim that Mac fans do.”
at least he didn’t say “MAC”. *snort* i love that……
“Stop trying to judge the Mac experience – it’s obvious that you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Now there’s some fanboy rage. It’s not the Mac experience it’s just a stupid computer! Stop being such a bunch of ultra nerds.
@Lol_Wut
Thanks for playing!
An Optimist,
I just had the same thing happen to me. I closed the page and a box popped up saying my computer was running slow because I was infected. When I closed the box a new window popped up for Vista Anti-Virus 2008 and started scanning my iBook. I had to close Safari to stop it.
Well, I guess we had better get used to this kind of thing. Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows.
@ Sir Gill Bates
Same thing happened to me! It’s tied in with this site.
MDN – check it out
Denny,
I notified MDN about the problem and the Webmaster emailed me that pop-unders have been suspended. Good show.
@me,
“Now there’s some fanboy rage. It’s not the Mac experience it’s just a stupid computer! Stop being such a bunch of ultra nerds.”
It’s not fanboy rage – I just can’t stand ignorant people commenting on things with which they obviously have no experience.
Especially when their complaints take the exact same form that they ignorantly like to jibe…
“It’s not fanboy rage – I just can’t stand ignorant people commenting on things with which they obviously have no experience. “
This entire forum is made up of ignorant people. Do you think anybody here knows anything about OS design or how to use APIs? It doesn’t stop us bashing anybody that says anything that’s positive about a non Apple branded product.
“Ignorant”
What the heck does that mean?
@Shen: We want a shrubbery.
@lol wut
HAHAHAH keep it coming dude. You really are providing me with cheap laughs.
Also I want to thank you for the reminder just what dorks Vista loving trolls can be….you must be a hoot at parties except when you puke in other people’s bathrooms and miss. And I am sorry about your acne problem…I know the girls just don’t dig it but hey, what can you do….well other than playing with malfunctioning Vista drivers on you half-price wintel machine.
@Buster
Who besides pimpley teenages argues all day about which is the best OS? I assumed everybody here lives in their mothers basement, I know I do
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I do wish they would make an OS version that runs on non apple hardware. I would pay a premium for it