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Answer» [size=14]"What drives the purchase of an Apple machine isn't the OS itself -- it's the packaging, the cabinet design, the quality of the graphics. I don't question that Mac OS is an easier operating system, but I don't think that alone drives Apple's sales anymore. A Mac is almost an appliance like a home entertainment center or a big-screen TV," said Charles Tatum II.[/size] [highlight]In a recent COLUMN, I asked users of Windows-based PCs if they were tempted at all to switch to a Macintosh , as I am considering doing for my next home computer. As is often the case when the subject is Mac versus PC, I got a big response -- both from Windows and Mac users. I heard from Windows users who were intrigued by the power of the new Mac Pros, those who were adamant about staying with Windows and those who had made the switch already. I heard from Mac users who encouraged me to make the leap and others who suggested I do everyone a favor and stick to Windows. (After my column was posted on a Mac devotees' Web site, it drew commentary deriding me as clueless).[/highlight] [size=14]It's All About the Benjamins [/size] [highlight]The vast majority of Windows users who responded, however, weren't interested in making the switch. The reason most often cited: the lower cost of Windows PCs. From Steve Fong: "I, too, like your daughter, am in the design field where Macs are the norm. In fact, when I pull out my HP laptop, I can feel the derisive looks and snickers from around the conference table. However, being a freelance designer, I use a PC because I can get more power and storage without spending $$$$. It just makes sense for me. The new INTEL (Nasdaq: INTC) Macs are tempting, but I won't switch just to get a cool, shiny silver case. But they are purty!" Several readers mentioned that Macs are attractive to some Windows users because, well, they're attractive. From Charles Tatum II: " ... What drives the purchase of an Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) machine isn't the OS itself -- it's the packaging, the cabinet design, the quality of the graphics. I don't question that Mac OS is an easier operating system , but I don't think that alone drives Apple's sales anymore. A Mac is almost an appliance like a home entertainment center or a big-screen TV; it's something that adorns a den or living room. While PCs have improved somewhat in that respect, Macs -- and the new Mac Pro -- capitalize on the coolness factor, hands down." [/highlight] http://www.technewsworld.com/story/SlgFH3SU42zpNJ/The-Mac-Versus-PC-Debate-Rages-On.xhtml Code: [Select]>>infoseeker / jhempelayo<<Mac Pro << "the Ultimate in desktop computing" related article CONCERNING MAC vs PC debate above, MAC << more like a status symbol ? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14553650/Why would you want to get a powerful Mac if most games can't run on it? I saw some guy using a Mac on TV and I thought, wow like a PC can't do that too.Mac guy: Name one thing your PC can do that my Macintosh can't! Just one! Me: Right-Click. Quote Mac guy: Name one thing your PC can do that my Macintosh can't! Just one! Me: Right-Click. ROFLMAO! YES, i know the feeling. i have to use macs in my computer graphics class i am in, they are powerfull (even for 700mhz with 512 ram, it IS very powerfull). but power is ALL they have. they have few programs to utilize it... although, i would buy an old mac just to have the audio editing program Garageband, and for photoediting, basic crap that i can free my windows PC of. but, there is NO WAYi would switch entirely from windows to mac. Right. Just like the fact that I like what I have seen of Linux so far, but I'm unwilling to sacrafice my games to remove WinXP. My Macintosh fails to open music, open photos in a good photo-viewer, run my games, run any good Mac type games, did I say OPEN MUSIC?!?!!? I had to download Microsoft's Windows Media Player and even when I did that, my Mac would not associate .mp3 with it. Its just like "I don't understand this file " They do right click, but you have to press CTRL+TheOneMouseButton to do it. Its useless. And all the stupid commands. You kno... I'm disturbing the animals.... They removed the right click because they thought it was too complicated for the average Joe... and of course CRTL + left click is less complicated! PC guy: Name one thing an Acorn can do that a PC can't. Just one. Acorn guy: Middle click!btw the "ctrl click" contextual menus were introduced with Mac OS 8.0 Quote btw the "ctrl click" contextual menus were introduced with Mac OS 8.0 My first Mac from my Bro had OS 8.1... so how would older macs right click? TIM! (Not you Dilbert. I am just thinking of people that JKPJ13's avatar looks like) SEAN! His Brother!dude looks like he could be related to harry potter... EDIT: i know somthing a mac cannot currently do, read or write blu-ray discs, owned. Quote They removed the right click because they thought it was too complicated for the average Joe... and of course CRTL + left click is less complicated! PC guy: Name one thing an Acorn can do that a PC can't. Just one. Acorn guy: Middle click! Um... Neil? I can middle-click. Maybe it has limited functionality, but I can, as well as anyone with a wheel on their mouse. Quote Quote They removed the right click because they thought it was too complicated for the average Joe... and of course CRTL + left click is less complicated! PC guy: Name one thing an Acorn can do that a PC can't. Just one. Acorn guy: Middle click! Um... Neil? I can middle-click. Maybe it has limited functionality, but I can, as well as anyone with a wheel on their mouse. Thats called the "Scroll Wheel"... older mouses did actually have three buttons, but the middle button was not a scroll wheel. The middle button was for other tasks, and it was compatible with Windows PC's. BTW: Anyone seen Apples new lieing commercial? http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ A magnetic power cord is only going to cause problems, and possible damage to the user and their computer! MICROSOFT: BUY THE APPLE COMPANY WITH YOUR SOME-ODD 80 BILLION DOLLARS AND BURN IT TO THE GROUND!!! Quote Quote They removed the right click because they thought it was too complicated for the average Joe... and of course CRTL + left click is less complicated! PC guy: Name one thing an Acorn can do that a PC can't. Just one. Acorn guy: Middle click! Um... Neil? I can middle-click. Maybe it has limited functionality, but I can, as well as anyone with a wheel on their mouse. Yeah, so can I.

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[size=14]"What drives the purchase of an Apple machine isn't the OS itself -- it's the packaging, the cabinet design, the quality of the graphics. I don't question that Mac OS is an easier operating system, but I don't think that alone drives Apple's sales anymore. A Mac is almost an appliance like a home entertainment center or a big-screen TV," said Charles Tatum II.[/size]

[highlight]In a recent COLUMN, I asked users of Windows-based PCs if they were tempted at all to switch to a Macintosh , as I am considering doing for my next home computer.

As is often the case when the subject is Mac versus PC, I got a big response -- both from Windows and Mac users.

I heard from Windows users who were intrigued by the power of the new Mac Pros, those who were adamant about staying with Windows and those who had made the switch already. I heard from Mac users who encouraged me to make the leap and others who suggested I do everyone a favor and stick to Windows. (After my column was posted on a Mac devotees' Web site, it drew commentary deriding me as clueless).[/highlight]

[size=14]It's All About the Benjamins
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[highlight]The vast majority of Windows users who responded, however, weren't interested in making the switch. The reason most often cited: the lower cost of Windows PCs.

From Steve Fong: "I, too, like your daughter, am in the design field where Macs are the norm. In fact, when I pull out my HP laptop, I can feel the derisive looks and snickers from around the conference table. However, being a freelance designer, I use a PC because I can get more power and storage without spending $$$$. It just makes sense for me. The new INTEL (Nasdaq: INTC) Macs are tempting, but I won't switch just to get a cool, shiny silver case. But they are purty!"

Several readers mentioned that Macs are attractive to some Windows users because, well, they're attractive.

From Charles Tatum II: " ... What drives the purchase of an Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) machine isn't the OS itself -- it's the packaging, the cabinet design, the quality of the graphics. I don't question that Mac OS is an easier operating system , but I don't think that alone drives Apple's sales anymore. A Mac is almost an appliance like a home entertainment center or a big-screen TV; it's something that adorns a den or living room. While PCs have improved somewhat in that respect, Macs -- and the new Mac Pro -- capitalize on the coolness factor, hands down."
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/SlgFH3SU42zpNJ/The-Mac-Versus-PC-Debate-Rages-On.xhtml

Code: [Select]>>infoseeker / jhempelayo<<Mac Pro << "the Ultimate in desktop computing" related article CONCERNING MAC vs PC debate above, MAC << more like a status symbol ?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14553650/Why would you want to get a powerful Mac if most games can't run on it? I saw some guy using a Mac on TV and I thought, wow like a PC can't do that too.Mac guy: Name one thing your PC can do that my Macintosh can't! Just one!

Me: Right-Click. Quote

Mac guy: Name one thing your PC can do that my Macintosh can't! Just one!

Me: Right-Click.

ROFLMAO! YES, i know the feeling. i have to use macs in my computer graphics class i am in, they are powerfull (even for 700mhz with 512 ram, it IS very powerfull). but power is ALL they have. they have few programs to utilize it... although, i would buy an old mac just to have the audio editing program Garageband, and for photoediting, basic crap that i can free my windows PC of. but, there is NO WAYi would switch entirely from windows to mac.
Right. Just like the fact that I like what I have seen of Linux so far, but I'm unwilling to sacrafice my games to remove WinXP. My Macintosh fails to open music, open photos in a good photo-viewer, run my games, run any good Mac type games, did I say OPEN MUSIC?!?!!?
I had to download Microsoft's Windows Media Player and even when I did that, my Mac would not associate .mp3 with it. Its just like "I don't understand this file "

They do right click, but you have to press CTRL+TheOneMouseButton to do it. Its useless. And all the stupid commands. You kno... I'm disturbing the animals....

They removed the right click because they thought it was too complicated for the average Joe... and of course CRTL + left click is less complicated!

PC guy: Name one thing an Acorn can do that a PC can't. Just one.

Acorn guy: Middle click!btw the "ctrl click" contextual menus were introduced with Mac OS 8.0 Quote

btw the "ctrl click" contextual menus were introduced with Mac OS 8.0

My first Mac from my Bro had OS 8.1... so how would older macs right click?

TIM! (Not you Dilbert. I am just thinking of people that JKPJ13's avatar looks like)
SEAN!
His Brother!dude looks like he could be related to harry potter...

EDIT: i know somthing a mac cannot currently do, read or write blu-ray discs, owned. Quote

They removed the right click because they thought it was too complicated for the average Joe... and of course CRTL + left click is less complicated!

PC guy: Name one thing an Acorn can do that a PC can't. Just one.

Acorn guy: Middle click!

Um... Neil? I can middle-click. Maybe it has limited functionality, but I can, as well as anyone with a wheel on their mouse. Quote

Quote
They removed the right click because they thought it was too complicated for the average Joe... and of course CRTL + left click is less complicated!

PC guy: Name one thing an Acorn can do that a PC can't. Just one.

Acorn guy: Middle click!

Um... Neil? I can middle-click. Maybe it has limited functionality, but I can, as well as anyone with a wheel on their mouse.

Thats called the "Scroll Wheel"... older mouses did actually have three buttons, but the middle button was not a scroll wheel. The middle button was for other tasks, and it was compatible with Windows PC's.

BTW: Anyone seen Apples new lieing commercial?
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
A magnetic power cord is only going to cause problems, and possible damage to the user and their computer!
MICROSOFT:
BUY THE APPLE COMPANY WITH YOUR SOME-ODD 80 BILLION DOLLARS AND BURN IT TO THE GROUND!!! Quote

Quote
They removed the right click because they thought it was too complicated for the average Joe... and of course CRTL + left click is less complicated!

PC guy: Name one thing an Acorn can do that a PC can't. Just one.

Acorn guy: Middle click!

Um... Neil? I can middle-click. Maybe it has limited functionality, but I can, as well as anyone with a wheel on their mouse.

Yeah, so can I.

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