pisces7378
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This may be showing my naivity, but I don't understand why there has to be this huge issue with Mac vs. PC. In the beginning it was kind of fun to sit around and spit back and forth with each other about this that and the other about Mac vs. PC but it has grown old and dumb.
Why doesn't Mac just start supporting Windows OS? I think that it would be a BRILLIANT move. Apple hardware is so obviously superior to PC builds on average. Of course, some guy in his home workshop can assemble a rock solid machine that can make NASA's computers pale in fear (or whatever). So I am not getting into a Mac vs. PC hardware debate. The new Mac G5 is by ANYONE's standards unequaled by ANYONE. IBM chips with Apple slickness and marketing. I mean come on!
BUT... Windows is the house hold name that everyone from house-wives, to grandmas know. People buy what they know. So why doesn't Mac just make a PC ready version of their hardware?
I know, I know... What about OS X and all the lovely Apple propriatary software???
Well it can stick around and prosper. Hell let's face it.... people who buy Macs are people that want them for a special reason. Graphics, music, art, editing, digital-video, or just beause they saw one of those carefully marketd product placement bits in a Hollywood film where everyone is using a Mac. Joe Schmo and technical computer professionals (programmers) buy Windows. Now DO NOT get me wrong. I know that there are a lot of professionals in artistic and musical circles that use Windows as well. I am one of them. I don't have a Mac. But it is true that, while not everyone that does art/music does so on a Mac... almost everyone that owns a Mac bought it to do Music/Art.
So why not make the hardware OS free? That way people would buy the hardware and then they could choose OS X or Windows X. Those that make music (especially with eMagic) and other art things, would probably still chose OS X from Apple... but they would sell a hell of a lot more machines to Grandma and House-wives. And then after you have them with an Apple machine, they would work on converting them to a Mac OS.
What do you guys think?
P.S. PLEASE do not turn this into some Mac vs. PC and who is better debate. Just stick with what I am talking about here.
Why doesn't Mac just start supporting Windows OS? I think that it would be a BRILLIANT move. Apple hardware is so obviously superior to PC builds on average. Of course, some guy in his home workshop can assemble a rock solid machine that can make NASA's computers pale in fear (or whatever). So I am not getting into a Mac vs. PC hardware debate. The new Mac G5 is by ANYONE's standards unequaled by ANYONE. IBM chips with Apple slickness and marketing. I mean come on!
BUT... Windows is the house hold name that everyone from house-wives, to grandmas know. People buy what they know. So why doesn't Mac just make a PC ready version of their hardware?
I know, I know... What about OS X and all the lovely Apple propriatary software???
Well it can stick around and prosper. Hell let's face it.... people who buy Macs are people that want them for a special reason. Graphics, music, art, editing, digital-video, or just beause they saw one of those carefully marketd product placement bits in a Hollywood film where everyone is using a Mac. Joe Schmo and technical computer professionals (programmers) buy Windows. Now DO NOT get me wrong. I know that there are a lot of professionals in artistic and musical circles that use Windows as well. I am one of them. I don't have a Mac. But it is true that, while not everyone that does art/music does so on a Mac... almost everyone that owns a Mac bought it to do Music/Art.
So why not make the hardware OS free? That way people would buy the hardware and then they could choose OS X or Windows X. Those that make music (especially with eMagic) and other art things, would probably still chose OS X from Apple... but they would sell a hell of a lot more machines to Grandma and House-wives. And then after you have them with an Apple machine, they would work on converting them to a Mac OS.
What do you guys think?
P.S. PLEASE do not turn this into some Mac vs. PC and who is better debate. Just stick with what I am talking about here.