I have useed a Mac and instantly fell in love with it. The OS is greatly compiled whereas Windows is sloppily compiled and can't even compare with Mac anymore. I think macs will dominate windows in the future! What do u think???

HexStar

[websurfer]

Long live Windows!!! Although Mac has a great OS, Windows will continue to have control over the market. Why? Because Apple isn't compatible with anything off the shelf, and Apple can do anything they want to with the price. Another thing the computers are $2400, compared to a build your own pc which is about $500.

[NiteHawk]

Originally posted by HexStar:
I have useed a Mac and instantly fell in love with it. The OS is greatly compiled whereas Windows is sloppily compiled and can't even compare with Mac anymore. I think macs will dominate windows in the future! What do u think???

HexStar

Hmmm, let's see, macs have actually been around longer than windows. Macs currently have a 3-6% market share. What do you think?

Well, anything is possible right?

HexStar

[NiteHawk]

Perhaps. but possible and probable are two different things.
Yugo "might have" dominated General Motors and Ford......but they didn't.

[gws226]

Once again Apple is bad shape...
The 3.06s smoked the dual 1.4 macs in almost ever test that was MACs claim to fame.... graphics and video rendering at a 1/3 of the price.

Am I mac fan? No
Am I a windows fan? No
Am I a linux fan? No

I'm just like most every consumer out there, I want what is best... but my loyalities do not lie deep enough to keep me comming back to Windows if Windows was no longer the premier OS (god I can't I just said that...but I guess its true)

EDIT: With more thought... I would to say it isn't so much the fact that windows OS is better than MAC OS. Its the whole package that makes Windows (ie: PC based machines) more desirable over the MAC machines.

MACs have a very loyal fan base...but all the numbers are against. If they could develop something that wasn't only unique but could compete either pricewise, or speed wise (preferably both) you will probably see their market share begin to increase again. But common sense does not dictate purchasing a PC for twice the price of something else AND under perform against it.

I believe in healthly competition. I would love to see Linux, MAC, and Windows all having a 33% market share. With that level of competition the odds are best that the end consumer will get better prices and a better product. For now... we (PC users) can only really watch that same competitiveness exist in the Hardware markets...and find out whats comming next.

[CouchMaster]

"Pirates of Silicon Valley" - if I remember right Bill Gates stole Windows from Steve Jobs and got away with it in the court system. So Windows really is Apple! Therefore I am...

[NiteHawk]

Originally posted by CouchMaster:
"Pirates of Silicon Valley" - if I remember right Bill Gates stole Windows from Steve Jobs and got away with it in the court system. So Windows really is Apple! Therefore I am...

Well, yes and no. Bill Gates stole the GUI idea from Steve Jobs, yes. BUT, Steve Jobs did not "invent" the GUI.
A Xerox think tank based in Palo Alto, CA first came up with the GUI, had several work stations networked together and had a pointing divice (mouse). They took the whole package back east to demo it to the "suits" at Xerox who weren't impressed and said that "Xerox will never be associated with something called a mouse" and scraped the project. Many of the people on the project went on to distinguished careers, the person responsible for the networking went on to be the founder of 3Com, for one.

As the project was being dismantled, someone on the project knew Steve Jobs and showed it to him since Mother Xerox was no longer interested. Steve Jobs saw the potential in it and as they say, the rest is history.

This bad business decision ranks right up there with when Bill Gates presented IBM with DOS (which he actually bought from someone else and developed farther. It was called CDOS then (Cheap and Dirty Operating System)) and in the negations insisted on keeping the licensing rights to the software. IBM said, let him keep it, the money is in the hardware, not the software anyway.

Things have a way of changing over time.

[gws226]

Wow... that was a real interesting history lesson. Keep em comming!

Cool, I just think that if everyone realises the power of macs and how good they really are, how much power they have and how you can emulate a PC and run WindowsXP on them that'll beat every other system.

HexStar

[websurfer]

If mac every gets as much software as windows, or as much power as a pc, then it is worth it. The gui is much nicer in mac, and it is great for video editing. But mac just isn't good where the money is now, high quality games, such as UT2003. Most home users have strong computers just to run these games, apple doesn't come closse to the power of a pc. But I heard rumors that apple is secretly working on a windows version of mac, if that comes through, and apple lowers their prices, the market could turn even.

Yeah. I'd sure buy that PC compatible MacOS.

HexStar

[websurfer]

I would dual boot with XP faster than a cheetah runs a mile

[wedor]

I've worked on Macs and I hated them, you may think they are great but not everyone else does.

Yeah, I know.

HexStar