I'm a PC, Made on a Mac

• Report this Comment On September 22, 2008, at 2:34 PM, oddvan wrote:

  Media people having been using Mac since the beginning of time.

  So this is not somthing in anyway new. In fact I would be more suprised to find that MSFT would be so shallow as to try and tell an ad company what hardware to use. That would have been a real story.

  Apple is doing fine, but has little chance of gaing ground in the world market. Sure it doing fine with wealthy people in wealthy countries , but I really think people forget that the number of PCs is set to more than double over the next 5-10 years. And most of that will be first time owners in the less developed world. Do you really think they will be buying a billion Apple machines, Or will they be buying about billion PCs running Windows OS flavors designed for and perhaps even by the local market.

  This is what the fanboys miss, they forget the world does not really spin directly around an ipod. iT

  (long Goog Msft and a host of others)

• Report this Comment On September 22, 2008, at 4:44 PM, larryhl wrote:

  I think that the writer's last sentence speaks for itself. PC users are willing to use everything available to them. I have no trouble finding myself around the Mac OS. However I still prefer to use my Windows XP-based desktop (that also boots into Ubuntu Linux for those times I need it) and my Windows Vista (yes, THAT Vista) laptops. I find that Apple fanboys are just that: fanboys, with all the immaturity that the word suggests. Plus the fact that Macs are now PCs with nice white cases (I love Apple's packaging, though not really much of anything else of theirs. And my brother runs Windows Vista on his Macbook Pro, again, yes, THAT Vista) due to the switch to Intel processors, and I really don't see why people are still trying to make such a big deal out of the Apple/Windows thing.

• Report this Comment On September 30, 2008, at 9:26 PM, TheSavageNation wrote:

  As a long time Apple user, I no longer feel bad when people bash Macs. Think of the hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of tech support jobs that wouldn't exist, and millions, maybe billions of dollars that wouldn't be spent around the world if Apple was the only OS in use.

  Also think of all the zillions of often faddy, useless, software titles, peripherals and upgrades that have become a whole industry to themselves!

  There are a LOT of people that drive plain cars and spend lots of money embellishing them with junk.

  The automotive accessory, and performance aftermarket is enormous.

  Not everyone can be expected to drive a Ferrari, or can afford to.

  Macs are the Ferrari's of Computers.

  Apple boasts the fastest machines with the cleanest lines and designs on the planet.

  There is of course the occasional exception of sleek, but more often overly adorned & gawdy one-off PCs. Like 'Bradley GTs' or 'Deloreans' were to real supercars, these PCs are often feeble attempts to beat Apple at the game it owns: High End Consumer Computing Platforms.

  We "Macs" don't mind, we know that

  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

• Report this Comment On July 01, 2009, at 1:06 PM, none0such wrote:

  "Macs are the Ferrari's of Computers."

  ... but apparently not the Lamborghini of computers which runs Vista.

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