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-or- the suit vs. the slacker
Published on May 23, 2006 By BlueDev In OS Wars
By now, I am sure most of us have seen the new round of Mac vs. PC commercials. You know, the one with the middle age, sort of uptight looking, fuddy-duddy dude in a suit representing a PC, and the young, hip, cool, laid-back dude in old jeans and a T-shirt representing a Mac.

I have seen a couple of variations, but they all focus on the same thing. They all are trying to convey the same message: Macs are just cool and "work", whereas PCs are out of touch, laborious and problematic. Of course, I find it odd that so much of the advertising lately is on the hardware (considering I am typing this entry on my Windows laptop with Intel Core Duo processors, an pretty nice ATI graphics card, more RAM than a Mac Book and a larger HD than a Mac Book, at easily a few hundred dollars lower cost).

Nevertheless, I am not a Mac hater. In fact, I fully anticipate owning a Mac someday, when I can afford to have one IN ADDITION to my Windows computers. But I have to admit, I really don't care for these new ads. They just seem like such a faulty use of details, that honestly, I think they are embarrassing. In that spirit I share the following (sorry, can't paste the image myself as it is not mine and I don't have permission to be pasting it):

An alternative comparison between PC dude and Mac dude.

I found this quite entertaining.
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on Jun 05, 2006
Is the Mac OSX platform more secure, yes for now. If the Mac market share continues to grow or they continue to tout that they are inpervious to viruses and the such, those who write viruses will start to concentrate on the Mac platform to prove them wrong. Thus making Windows safer...

There's more to it than that, but it gets deep...
on Jun 05, 2006
oh i get it - it's kind-of like going after the majority... why would a hacker waste hours on in impling a virus into your computer if the majority of the people use windows. I figured it wasnt secured like they commericalise it as. But like anything in the world, nothing is safe - but i think my next PC will be a Mac, jsut to see how it is.
on Jun 05, 2006
I'm a cheap bastard, so i build my own computers instead of buying them, so therefore i use PC. XP annoys the hell out of me sometimes, but besides that it can be pretty stable. So are macs... my opinion didnt change after reading this so i guess i wasted 10 minutes of my life.
on Jun 05, 2006
Love ya windows zealots, find on the youtube site the neXT 3.0 system and get amazed, oh, btw, log in to www.macosx.com , i bet u'll have the same opinions in a mac only forum, as this, wincustomize is mostly pc cuz of what u come here for (customize ur ugly OS), i hope seeing u there admin jafo

btw, that article on vista its quite true, now it is stupidly secure, asks u 10 times to empty ur bin, i know its a beta, but i bet the to come mac os 10.5 is far more advance in those stages, take bootcamp as beta part of the new version runs smooth as can be, even if there are some drivers missing (the isight mostly). oh, congrats for vista finally beign fully 3D, hope integrated 64 mb (shared) intel video cards, that come with almost every pc handle it, or the 128mb ones.LOL
on Jun 05, 2006
my opinion didnt change after reading this so i guess i wasted 10 minutes of my life.


Whew. Good thing I wasn't trying to change anyone's mind then, eh? Just entertain.

lolapoa: It is really sad that you are such a zealot that you can't have a little fun at the expense of something as silly as an OS. Both are great, both have their problems, let's all enjoy them.
on Jun 05, 2006
Macs are beautiful, they work well and they are eaasy to use. Then again, almost all the softare have to be bought. There is very little free programs. iTunes is easily the most overly simplistic and system killing media player i have used. Winamp and WMP 10 an 11 are easily the best medial players i have used in terms of visual style and ease of use. As 'stable' as macs are, i have had very few probs with winxp and that advertisment with the pc always crashing is so stupid. I go weeeks without restarting my windows machine with no problems. Vista, as system consuming as it is and as much of a 'mac ripoff' as it is will still do great becoz its takin the best of windows and mac and merging it.
on Jun 05, 2006

that advertisment with the pc always crashing is so stupid. I go weeeks without restarting my windows machine with no problems.

That actually is a hold over from Win9x and Nt4 (before SP4).  Those version were flaky, but you are right.  XP is much improved (and 2k as well) and as stable as the Mac OS now.  It all comes down to Chocolate and Vanilla.  What ever your taste buds prefer.

on Jun 05, 2006

hope integrated 64 mb (shared) intel video cards, that come with almost every pc

Huh?

on Jun 05, 2006
hope integrated 64 mb (shared) intel video cards, that come with almost every pc

Huh?


Ignorance.
on Jun 05, 2006
One thing I have noticed from this thread is Macs' keyboards tend to be missing a caps lock and several vital letter keys, and the O/S itself desperately needs a spellchecker...
on Jun 05, 2006
#115 by Fuzzy Logic
Mon, June 05, 2006 6:31 PM


Just noticed your avatar! Evil Spock! I am jealous!
on Jun 05, 2006
Im a bit behind, but..

Apparently Reformatting is not an option to Tominated. It makes me sad thinking of all the people wasting money buying new pcs when all they have to do is reformat.

Also, I just cleanly uninstalled TinkerTool. On my PC. I am running OS X, but it is still a PC..
on Jun 05, 2006
Also, I just cleanly uninstalled TinkerTool. On my PC. I am running OS X, but it is still a PC..


That's very interesting, Meowy....is there a link with more information that you could post...please.
on Jun 05, 2006

Then again, almost all the softare have to be bought. There is very little free programs.

You obviously don't have a Mac.

on Jun 05, 2006


How can your new MacBookPro give better performance on photoshop etc when adobe have yet to change to universal binaries ? I like MACs but all the arguments i hear for them and against PC's are usually from uninformed non-technical people so why would i listen ! LOL ! I run an Athlon64 3000+ on NForce3 with 1GB of ram and after setting up an new intel iMac to dual boot with windows for a customer I have to say i was impressed with the quality of the screen and the iMac itself. But i was interested to see this super-windows experience and was very disappointed ,my Athlon still boots faster and the disk performance was alot faster, and this was a 2 year old machine.Bear in mind the super fast windows experience on your MAC cost alot more, buy a PC at the same price and you'll get a much better hardware spec and therefore better performance.
I am going to buy a mac mini , just to stay up to date on OSX for customers but you pay a premium.
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