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From: John Higdon on 8 Mar 2010 18:22 In article <hn3uq8$lc7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, John Slade <hhitman86(a)pacbell.net> wrote: > Now it seems > Apple's OS X is becoming stagnant and Microsoft is far ahead > with Windows 7. Could you elaborate on that a bit? In what ways, exactly, is OSX becoming "stagnant" compared to Windows 7? -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last
From: John Higdon on 9 Mar 2010 23:18 In article <hn4lsf$lcg$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, John Slade <hhitman86(a)pacbell.net> wrote: > Actually I think Apple's portable devices and music sales > are overshadowing their computers. They needed to go to Intel > architecture to keep their computers from becoming obsolete. How would a computer become "obsolete" if it used a CPU other than Intel? -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last
From: John Higdon on 10 Mar 2010 14:30
In article <hn8ok6$too$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, John Slade <hhitman86(a)pacbell.net> wrote: > Well some of those "fanbois" didn't like it too much. I > was telling some of them that Apple would dump the PowerPC and I > was told by many Apple folk that this would never happen. They > told me that Apple would never put an Intel CPU inside a Mac. To > them it was like a sacrilege to some of them. When Apple > announced the switch it was funny to see them eat crow. Who ARE these people you mention? I know dozens of Mac users (all quite computer literate, thank you), who all seem to have a pretty level attitude about computing in general (many are Unix geeks). I never hear any of that sort of stuff from them. On the contrary, we knew about the upcoming Intel shift over a year before it was announced. It was common knowledge that Apple was maintaining an x86 build of all versions of OSX since the beginning. You hang out in some weird circles, since all the Mac users I know of (including myself) routinely operate with multiple platforms and have a pretty good handle on what's going on in the industry. Hell, I'm in the process of shutting down my last Mac server (and moving its services to a Ubuntu server). We use Macs because we like them for use to which they are put. I wonder if all this rabid "Steve Jobs worship" doesn't spring from your imagination. -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last |