You do realize that the OVERWHELMINGLY number of people interesting in a computer are intending to spend under $1000.

Your bias shows. Please use logic throw out emotion. I know you being in a cult it's hard to use logic.

If Jobs thinks Mac OSX is the best OS then he'd sell it to ALL computer owners like MS does with it's OS. Hell I might be interested in using it. I however am not buying a Mac to do it. Would Apple like SOME money from me or NONE? I do not like apple hardware. PC are more upgradable and are cheaper. After over 25 years Jobs still doesn't get it. Why should I buy products from a guy who has had his head in the sand for 25 years and refuses to see the light?

If you have Vista running on a machine you have to buy a new license everytime you upgrade your system. Yes, even new hard drives, mother boards, ram. You have to buy a new copy of Vista as your previous license expires on each modification of your set up. :winkwink:


Microsoft care about their users! :thumbsup



Big up to my bredrins from Redmond.

http://www.bisonium.com/blog/images/vista_goons.jpg

LIE.

Even if true $130 is cheaper than having to by a whole new mac for over $1000-$1500


http://www.bisonium.com/blog/images/vista_goons.jpg

WTF? :thumbsup:1orglaugh:error:helpme:Oh crap

Umm who is your fact checker? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Gee wonder if that is one of those campus's that they include a laptop with tuition? Hmm I wonder. Bet you that campus is in the upper north west. :winkwink:

FALSE!

Get your head out of your ass.
My one Vista box has had a major upgrade 3 times now. Started as an AMD 3200, went to an AM2 mobo and AMD X2 6400+ and now to an intel quad. Between those complete changes I have added hard drives to each one, which were recognized the instant I booted, I just put a new video card in it, again windows recognized it right away, and I went from 1 to 4gb ram on the X2 system with widows recognizing the change right away.
The major upgrades were fresh installs. and the minor additions did not require fiddling or driver hassle at all.

My other vista box, which I am on now is an AM2, started as an X2 3800, I put the 6400 from the other box into this one, again no fiddling to make it work, it just worked. Its been through 3 different video cards, and went from 2gb of slow cheap ass ram to 4gb of much faster ram.

Neither box has hung or crashed for me. Neither box has had any of these vista problems I hear people that have never run vista bitch about.
I have been a Mac user in the past, and I put some serious thought into buying a MBP instead of the XPS 1530 I ended up with, but I could get much more from the dell for damn near half the price of the MBP.

Is this true? If you mean by the license checker thing calling home, then you're not supposed to have licensed software on >1 puter if it's a single-user license. OK, OS X doesn't phone home (as such).

I've never used Vista, but I've run XP on OSX through VMWare Fusion and it isn't that bad, though it is annoying all the popups and shit it keeps throwing at me. OS X on new hardware is great, but (I guess like Vista, but maybe less so), it's a resource hog. I much preferred Classic (pre-OS X), but then that always crashed when 3rd party extensions conflicted with OS extensions.

Honestly, it's to each his own. I couldn't give a rats ass for fanboys or Windows whatsits. Use what you like and/or are productive in. If you can't afford a Mac (edit: but would like one, then too bad save up and), then buy a $500 Windows machine. If you like Windows, but can't stand Mac, why? If you tried it and hated it, then just go back to Windows. But stfu already, it really doesn't matter what you use :thumbsup.

Unless of course you're comparing penis sizes, in which case mine is the one drooped over my Macbook :Oh crap

Seems pretty unusual to me

osx pwns you all

Wow - why are all these PC guys so angry in this thread. Come on guys... lighten up. YOu do not need to feel so threatened.

Apple fanboys are almost as bad as Nintendo fanboys.