Comments on: Microsoft demos Vista on a MacBook Pro

By: blinkdt

blinkdt — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:06:51 +0000

So the new Macs are out? I see the MacBook Air is sporting “a speedy 4200RPM hard drive” and other nicities for a mere $1,800. Such a deal.

My 2.5GHz T9300 w/ 4GB 667 /9-cell battery (six hours) w/17″ screen w/more sleek ports than you can shake a stick at (yes, HDMI as well) was delivered to my door with Belkin bag and Logitech mouse (a REAL mouse, thank you) for about $900. ‘Course I removed the 320GB HDD and replaced it with two (2) 7200RPM drives, a 200GB Seagate Momentus for the OS and Apps and the same model in a 320GB form to store data, the stuff I create. Add $200. And I popped in a Turbo chip and bluetooth 2.1 just for sport. Add $50.

The machine? Yeah, it’s a Dell. Studio 1735, a pretty sleek piece of hardware thank you very much. Yeah, backlit keyboard and stuff like that, it’s all here. And I could buy all this and fly to London for the weekend to watch some shows and return to an evening on the town and have a chunk of change left in my pocket, merely by NOT buying a Mac.

Next question? I mean, this is a no brainer. FYI, the days of ANYTHING running faster on a Mac are over. It’s official.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:26:23 +0000

Just got a new Gateway laptop, wt about same hardware specs of a MacBook Pro late 2007 model ( core2 duo T7500). After all rebates , about $480+tax. Some guys installed OS X leo(patced) on the same model and it all works fine, just like a Mac Pro except for sound card, web cam, and WIFI (drivers not found yet). So the OSX & logo real cost is $1000-1500 and the hardware $500-700 just like a laptop PC.
IS IT WORTH???.
If gateway or other would use just the same devices- chips- on mobo as MacBook
that cold be a huge HackIntush pain for Apple.

By: hey hey

hey hey — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:23:01 +0000

BTW Sony Vaios, the most beautiful, well designed, visually stunning machines ever made, will always blow macs out of the water. THis message coming to you from the guy on a lovely vaio running vista, and no, it doesnt always crash it looks absolutely wonderful on my stunning sony screen. So, you can kiss my big, fat, windows running, sony loving @$$. Have a nice day, and thank you for your time.

By: hey hey

hey hey — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:18:09 +0000

Yes well, until I can use all my beautiful windows programs without trying to figure out a new OS (we all dont spend hours on the computer) then i might, on a bad day, consider a mac. The fact that mac has been around longer then windows and windows has kicked its ass says something. Plus the only good thing from apple is the ipod series. All u nee dis itunes, whihc of course, runs on windows. Why bother mac, youll never win.

By: Dr. Pepper

Dr. Pepper — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:14:39 +0000

(1) MS is a SOFTWARE company. Not a HARDWARE company. The more hardware they can run their SOFTWARE on the bigger market share they can capture.

(2) Apple has been known for high quality and well designed HARDWARE and SOFTWARE for many years. Bill Gates himself has said that in his opinion APPLE makes the BEST hardware.

(3) It is not a MAC vs PC argument anymore. A MAC is a QUALITY PC. The difference is in a few things. Customer Support. Software. Hardware Design. Usability, and style. The only thing really that MAC and MS compete on is the OS. Since MAC does NOT license OSX to other hardware manufacturers then MS has no worries. Apple keeps MS from being split for a monoply. MS helps Apple sell more HARDWARE. Jobs and Gates are not arch enemies. They are smart businessmen that actually are working together more so than most believe.

(4) Mac hardware is the only hardware available that has the most OPTIONS on what OS and software you want to run.

(5) For the person who touted the benchmarks for a MS product running programs such as Indesign, Photoshop etc and claims that PC is faster I beg to differ. Compare against a Mac Pro Dual Quad with 8g of Ram ripping a postscript file and you will find a PC is much slower. PDF, Postscript, and Color Management are built into OSX. Photoshop has ALWAYS run faster on a Mac because “ding ding” Adobe was founded by Old Apple employees. Apple has specific code, especially in Photoshop that enable a Mac to utilize the OS, the software, and the hardware better. That is why any real Photoshop power user will only run it on a Mac. The longest wait was for CS3 and the universal binaries to come out so Adobe Products didn;t have to run under Rosetta when Apple made the switch to Intel.

In the end it comes down to the consumer wants and needs. Now if you look at the stock market and at sales reports for the past year you might find that a surprising amount of people are switching to Mac.

Go Figure. :-)

BTW My MBP runs XP and Vista just Fine. But it also runs OSX which is really the big treat.

By: Anker

Anker — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:12:46 +0000

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By: Emrld

Emrld — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:23:04 +0000

Wow, you guys are all friggin’ insane. I came on here to learn more about Boot Camp and I find people mocking others for the type of OS they choose to use. Fine, your OS is better than his. Hardly a reason for such arrogance.

By: simon

simon — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:12:10 +0000

I have a macbook pro, and yeah u can run windows on it, question is..why?
point is windows vista is a poor imitation of osx (tiger). I havent used windows since
W/98, and the things i remember are….viruses, spyware, and of course the blue wall of death. Do i want to go back to that again?

By: Ricardo Salas

Ricardo Salas — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:31:15 +0000

I installed vista business on a macbook pro.
I teach and I need to connect a projector, but it doen’t seem to work (except for when it’s booting)
Any ideas?

By: AndrewB

AndrewB — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:58:16 +0000

I’m pretty reassured by the fact that an MS employee not only chose to, but was allowed to demo Vista on a MBP. I work for a development firm that only uses PC’s and our software only works on Windows; so I’m stuck with need to have a Windows supporting laptop. I recently bought my wife a white macbook, partly due to the ‘femenine friendly’ asthetics and due to the fact that she’s not a expert and just wants to be able to create documents and access the internet. I’m no dummy and know that OSX will do this perfectly and won’t ask a bunch of dumb questions everytime the OS boots (do you want to update? do you want to hide desktop icons? …); this sort of think freaks out novice users. Since buying the macbook I’ve had a play and love some of the purely design features of the hardware; great power management, beautiful and functional housing and small and smart power adapter (much smaller than any I’ve seen on a PC). I set out looking for a new laptop for myself, one with similar ‘good design’ and figured – hey, may as well get one that can run Vista. The only equally well designed PC’s I could find were Sony Vaios, which are nice (though I’ve never been 100% fond of that ‘Clie’ handheld’ styling) – all those cylindrical forms with square-plastic-aluminium buttons inset in them.. But, they are still what I’d class as the ‘best-of-breed’ design for PC’s. So, I specked up the VAIO I’d need to run VISTA properly, only problem is I can’t afford it; when I found out that I could not only run ViSTA on the arguably better designed MacBook Pro, but that it is several hundred pounds cheaper, with the added incentive of all those great OSX apps like Omni-outliner (of which there is no decent Windows equivalent) – I’ve now made my choice! Another die hard PC user making switch to apple; thanks Microsoft for the final reassurance I needed.