What do you classify as real work? I can't think of anything I could do better or faster if I had a Mac rather than a Dell with windows.
I'm not going to spend 2k for the same hardware, by the same hardware I mean a board and proc made by Intel, a video card made by ATI, and a hard drive made by WD or whomever is the cheapest that week. Your analogy sums it up pretty well, in a luxury sports sedan comparison that I'm not even going to care about as I don't want a luxury sports sedan, I don't like how they look, and I would never consider paying extra for something I couldn't get any additional use out of, and in the end would actually make my normal day-to-day tasks more difficult. I had OSX installed in VMWare on my desktop for a while, couldn't really do anything with it but test a few things. Couldn't check my email, couldn't compile and test my applications, it just sat there and took up disk space. Apple doesn't target the enterprise customer, They don't have any way to do that, just look at their new phone, it's a smart phone with no third party app support, no enterprise email support and it doesn't support UMTS, but it is $600, and some people will buy it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:48 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: PC World has weighed in on Vista and it does not look > pretty > > > Nick wrote: > > 2k? Damn, that is nearly 1k more than it should cost. > > > > You can look at all the numbers and make a decision, but that's like > buying a car by looking at the horsepower and never driving it: > > 1.) It's the torque, > 2.) It's how the engine is designed to create the torque and when, and > 3.) It's how the car is designed manage the torque when it does occur. > > For an example of this see this animation: > http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/virtual/112_0702_luxury_sports_seda > n_comparison_vrt > > You can see how the *horsepower* of the M5 pulls it ahead in the > straightaways, but the suspension and all wheel drive of the S6 keep > it ahead in the twisties; and ahead for most of the race. > > If you look purely at the numbers including weight, the M5 or the E63 > should easily win but it doesn't. Why? Because while the Audi S6 has > lower numbers it uses what it has MUCH better and is, therefore, the > superior car in the twisties. For me, that makes it more fun to > drive. > > Macs and PCs are the same: if you want to do real work - twisties - > the Mac FAR outshines any PC simply because, from a user perspective, > it's so much more efficient and to use. > > To discover this, however, you actually have to use one as this PC > zealot did and discovered what he'd been missing: > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic > &articleId=9010759 > > And he won't go back. And he'll pay the 2k. Why? Because, overall, > it's just a better *machine* and when you use a machine to do work, if > you're smart, you pick the most efficient one you can. > > The Mac is that machine. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228501 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
