Full Disclosure:
Sick of Blue Screens?
Get a Mac!
MICROSOFT WINDOWS IS A DANGEROUS OPERATING SYSTEM TO OWN USE AND OPERATE!!!!!!!!!
Intel CEO Paul Otellini has told consumers: "buy a Mac if you want to avoid security risks".
The Wall Street Journal claims that the statement was made by Otellini at the Wall Street Journal technology conference May 2005. He revealed that he spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer and suggested that the mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes should buy a Mac instead of a Wintel PC.
"If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else," he said.The Register.com suggests that the comment is "really a public flirtation for Apple CEO Steve Jobs".The title also suggests that the comments could also be seen to recommend: "The PCs you have really must be replaced if you want to operate a secure business."
Don't fret: Fantasies about ditching Windows are perfectly normal--maybe even healthy. Even VERY wise!
Mac users are dissing Windows machines again! Nothing new about that--except that now they're doing it on television in commercials paid for by Apple. They're calling Windows machines "horrid" and "clunky" and "unwieldy." They're even saying that they're "disgusted!"
If you're a Windows user you're probably thinking, "So what? They're like a religious cult. Apple's last big campaign featured famous dead people who'd never touched a computer, let alone a Mac."
But now they're bringing up the Blue Screen of Death! In public! And worse yet the BIG LIE about plug n play on our Windows platform!!
If you're a Windows user you're probably thinking, "Hey, those are our dirty little secrets OUR skeletons in the closet! These Apple guys must be stopped!" Or maybe you're thinking something else--the Apple-seed that real people who need real things to work in their lives want to plant in your brain: "Is the Mac really easier and more reliable? And should I consider it for my next computer?"
After all, you're already using lots of Apple's pioneering concepts: Microsoft acknowledged in a written agreement with Apple back in 1985 that Windows was "derivative...of the visual displays generated by Apple's Lisa and Macintosh." And from Windows 1.0 to XP, the operating system has grown more Mac-like, not less.
Then there's innovation. The 3.5-inch floppy disk drive? First seen on the original Mac. SCSI Hard drives? Mac first in 1984! Color Monitors?....Apple did it first and does it BEST! CD Rom Drives? Apple technology strikes again! Wireless networking via 802.11b (Wi-Fi)? As AirPort, it rolled out first in Macs. And Macs had built-in ethernet when it was a mere add-on for PCs. Apple committed to these and other technologies long before they trickled down to Windows.Now Apple has a totally killer OS based on the same derivitive of the kernel used by NASA on the Space Shuttle, ALL their satellites. AND the International Space Station!
Some things were invented at Apple, including one advance
now in every Mac: FireWire. Too bad the high-speed port (aka IEEE 1394)
has been slow to catch on in PCs, in part because of the even slower-to-arrive
copycat USB 2.0 standard. And now Firewire 2 is TWICE as fast as usb 2.0. And the Mac is often far more elegant: Thanks
to Apple software, editing digital video or burning a DVD on a Mac is
almost a pleasure. On PCs, it's almost always a pain.
Windows users just get used to annoyances that Mac users don't have
to put up with. Exhibit A for the prosecution against the murder of
freedom to experience pleasure from your computer: the Registry.....That
nightmarish Microsoft innovation means it's far easier to move applications
between Macintoshes than it is to go through the grueling reinstallation
process that keeps PC users clutching their current machines rather
than upgrading.
Every day that brings a Blue Screen of Death, a networking disaster, or a collection of security warnings from Microsoft is a day that more Windows users like you will consider making the Big Switch. And while there's new dual and multicore machines by Apple on Intel cpus!!!!, consider this: If OS X were available for the Windows machine you have now, wouldn't you be frustrated enough with Windows to give it a try? Well...do the better thing...make your next PC a Mac! After all it's using NOW the LATEST BEST in Intel multi-core cpus!
More bad news about Windows adware-and a true story!
The funny thing about using Windows is that you find out pretty quickly that certain websites you visit every day are guilty of throwing pop-up ads at visitors, except you never knew about it, because Safari's pop-up blocking actually works. For instance, I never knew that MacCentral threw a pop-up ad at you about subscribing to MacWorld Magazine until I happened to visit that site on a PC one day. So it didn't surprise me that pop-up ads began surfacing almost as soon as I began surfing the web. But at some point something goes off in your head, a little voice that kind of tells you, "Hey, you know what? This just doesn't seem right."
I'm pretty sure MacMinute.com isn't set up to throw a pornographic pop-up ad at its visitors, and I'm quite certain that visiting the mac.com webmail login in page isn't supposed to trigger a pop-up ad for viagra. In fact, at one point so many pop-up ads were appearing on the screen, one after another, that I had trouble locating the actual browser window. And the kicker was that even after I got them all closed, the taskbar was still showing that there was one pop-up ad still open...and sure enough, one of them was designed to pop open completely off-screen so that you couldn't see it or close it (other than by right-clicking on its tab in the taskbar).
Stuff like this just downright scares me, because the first thing I figure is that Windows is simply getting its revenge on me by choosing to go ape-crap precisely at the time I'm using it, so that the owner of the computer will end up blaming me. But it turns out that my friend was well aware of the out-of-control pop-up situation. And he wasn't just aware of it, he was furious about it. He'd just run Ad-Aware earlier that day, and stripped all kinds of infected crap out of his computer in the process, and yet here was Internet Explorer going crazy again already. So we ran Ad-Aware again, which stripped away 34 new infected items. We then immediately ran it once more, and one new infected file had already found its way into his system, which is remarkable considering that the computer wasn't even connected to the internet at this time.
We checked to make sure that pop-up blocking was enabled in Internet Explorer. We checked to make sure that Service Pack 2 really was installed, and that all of the latest so-called "security" updates were installed as well. And sure enough, this computer was every bit as "secure" as Microsoft deemed that it needed to be. Except whoops, yeah, the usability of the computer was disintegrating in front of our eyes as we sat there watching.
You know, I've heard one too many horror stories of people's Windows PCs falling into what they would describe as a nearly unusable state due to the ad-ware, spy-ware, and mal-ware that had built up in their computer...but I never could have imagined that it was this bad. Of all the dozens of major reasons for Switching to the Mac, I'd really never quite understood why so many potential switchers ranked the security thing so far above seemingly more compelling reasons such as the interface, the consistency, iLife, Safari, all the innovation, and so on. But sitting there Saturday night in front of a one-year-old Windows PC that had been absolutely brought to its knees by security-related issues, I finally "got" it. This really is a huge thing. The Windows platform really is literally being shredded as we speak.
My friend and I both concluded that some kind of deeply buried crap-ware was replicating the infected stuff just as fast as Ad-aware could get rid of it. He asked me what the solution was, and I told him that I honestly wasn't sure whether he would need to upgrade to the paid version of Ad-aware, or purchase some other, more powerful tool. So naturally, he asked me what I use on my computer to fight off this kind of nonsense. And before I could even manage to figure out how to answer that question, he answered it for me. It was time for him to finally "get" something that I'd been trying to get him to understand for years.
"This doesn't happen to Apples does it?" he asked out loud, not so much in the form of a question, but more along the lines of a lightbulb going off in his head. "No, never," I told him, explaining this that kind of crap just doesn't happen to well-built, well-designed operating systems. And at that point, I pretty much knew what was coming next:
"That's it, I'm never buying another PC again."
And there it was..........So..............
What’s so great about Macs anyway???????
1. "Windows crashes all the time" has been bandied about. As viruses and adware are gathered the performance of the operating system degrades to the point that the OS has to be reinstalled. If you even go out on the web you will get attacked. no real defence against it (even protection programs are not 100% effective) except that a Mac has NO viruses and NO adware. It’s just secure. Oh and have you ever heard of anyone upgrading their operating system from windows 98 to windows xp? Now that WOULD be hell. I have machines beyond 5 years old that are very useful even by todays standards.
2. "Windows is ugly." Well in truth you can skin Windows to look like anything you want--even OS X. OS X is prettier, sure, but that doesn't make Windows outright ugly.,......just homely. Actually Mac OS X uses Display Postscript the same aliasing technology used in fonts to make them attractive at any point size makes OS X beautiful and free of jaggies....Nothing like this available on Windows.
3. Viruses. Spyware. Ugh this one is a killer. In fact MS software is downright DANGEROUS to use. Lets face it folks MS makes garbage for operating system software........ and their office software is prone to macro viruses which Microsoft has never done anything about.
4. Hardware plug-and-play. There is a margin of favor to the Mac here; it does work out-of-the-box with many devices. If you haven’t had this problem trying to install an accessory device internally such as video card, hard drive, memory or usb card you are one of the fortunate. Look at any peripheral device included with a manual. The windows side always has a cd, the drivers are usually obsolete meaning you have to go to the manufacturers site and download new drivers. Windows is always a convoluted install-if it works at all.
5. Performance. OS X is leaner and faster than Windows. ... This at a lower clock rate because cpus used in Macs aren’t clocked up to seem faster. Some things happen faster on the Mac due to better architecture.
6. OS X is simpler to use. But here's where the user's expectations and abilities change the rules. OS X makes all of the basic and intermediate stuff very easy to do. The high end configurations are just as much a challenge on Windows as they are on a Mac. However.........
The bottom line is that OS X has one distinct advantage.......
Out of the box, it provides a more complete, rich, and attractive user experience. More apps and utilities are built in. Most things you would want to do are already there. A thousand little tiny detail things are just done better on the Mac, and put together, they add up to a big advantage. Sometimes Windows forces you to get an add-on or to take steps to accomplish something which is just *done* on the Mac. If your program is installed in some location you would prefer to move just move it. Want to uninstall it? Drag it to the trash and delete it. No more errors. Oh and to REALLY completely delete something search out in find and delete preference files too, but they are tiny and won’t stop your Mac from working.
This provides balance against the Mac's percieved greater cost. Actually you get a more complete machine at a slightly higher price point, except for memory in a Mac. It just has all the necessary things built in. Spend a little more and get it fitted out for any contingency.
Usually the most technically competent and stridently anti-Mac switchers are the strongest and most vocal Mac proponents several months down the line. Is there NO level MS will not degrade itself to when it comes to hatred and self-loathing because microsoft's products are inferior to the point of being dangerous to use? Apple is just great product!!!!!!
It usually goes; "Several months ago I was the loudest critic of Mac users and Apple products. Since switching I have come to LOVE the Mac and am no longer swallowing the common wisdom about it and I NOW know it's always been bull crap. Since the switch I've been far more productive and the continuous lurking fear I didn't realize I had has disappeared. I feel like life is better and I certainly have a lot more time that's my own. Instead of spending twenty weekends a year fixing my PC again, I am doing things with the people I love and broadening my interests.
Life has never been better and I would NEVER go back to Windows."
There are reasons that people are fervent Apple supporters since 1984, myself since 1986. If windows was truly great I’d use it and advocate it. Macs are terrific windows has had the chance to be great and it is NOT.
Microsoft...... a company that has somehow managed to fool the world into using that crap they're so proud of, finds itself waking up to a whole different world today. The people at this behemoth are under tremendous pressure lately thanks to the brilliant minds of people at Apple computer, and to the continuous efforts of the open source community that continues to put to shame each and every bit of technology Microsoft has sold the world at enormous premiums.
Why is this happening all of a sudden?
It's not happening all of a sudden; Microsoft has always been releasing what is called in the tech world as 'crapware', it's just that the world is finally waking up to it now. Not wanting to come to any immediate conclusions about what 'crapware' really meant, I asked around in forums, and basically it means the blunt and shameless copying of somebody else's brilliant work, by 2-bit idiots that couldn't come up with one line of innovative code if you slapped them in face with it. That's Microsoft people, and guess what, they're doing it again. How come? Simple. They don't know any other way. Hence if you want CHEAP IMITATIONS, then choose Microsoft, but its gonna cost ya...BIG TIME.
Windows is the worst, and by worst, I mean the epitomy of shit when it comes to code. It has ZERO security features, even less innovative ones, but comes with 10,000 broken doors allowing any 10 year kid to wreck havoc and cost enterprises hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. And what's worse, Bill Gates so proudly calls that 'Microsoft Innovation'. Not ONE company running Microsoft applications has an IT overhead 10X (and Im being nice here) bigger than those who don't and run more effciently. And for all those that wonder why so many people like Windows...I seriously doubt it. People have motives; windows gives people jobs. Since it NEVER works properly, they're always employed and since their employers are often advised by the same people, what do you expect? The big bosses are too pre-occupied with regular business, that these things get little or no attention. I think it's time for these people to snap out of it. Jim Allchin, the MS operating system boss is reduced to calling Tiger an "iPod peripheral" just because that idiotic moron is a total failure and time will prove this to be the truth.
In my opinion, Microsoft got really lucky with Windows 10 years ago, when no one knew about the internet, and Apple (and other great minds) were no where to be heard. Microsoft was the only player, and hence everybody flocked and as a result, today, people were lied to, sold junk at premium prices, and today are rightfully pissed. 10 years ago was so different than today, that all illegal activities performed at Microsoft went unnoticed.
Time has changed. If you want the best of the best, then you go to the people who's DNA is comprised of it. You go to Apple or you go open source. Mac OS X while be no means perfect and flawless (there is no such thing as that ever!), is 100 years ahead of anything out today. And with Tiger, you can include another 100. Apple revolutionized the world with the iPod, and instead of trying to come with something better, the markets have been flooded with trash imitations. YAY! And now Microsoft is scurrying to release that so called 'innovative' OS called Longhorn. Well guess what people; longhorn demos have been seen, and the vote is unanimous...its SHIT. It's the same crap Windoze has always been, with the desperate attempt to mimic Apple's Mac OS X special effects. Miserably made of course, because that's what Microsoft does best. Oh and to run it reasonably well, you need 4Gb of ram and a 10ghz Pentium 4. That's how efficient Longhorn is. Even PAUL THUROTT criticizes it.
Data loss due to crashes-inefficient browser technology viruses malware adware spyware all infect and destroy the Windows OS. It isn't worth the problems that accompany it.
Somewhere along the line, windows PC vendors and their partners decided, “To hell with the customer, let’s look at his wintel PC as a piece of real estate on which we can erect billboards and ads and whatever else we want. We’ll be, um, providing value!”
From that moment on, your new windows PC was a medium worth proliferating with ad impressions and trialware to get you to experiment with, and presumably buy, third-party services along with your new PC.
The problem is a lack of respect for the consumer. The manufacturers don’t act as if the windows computer belongs to you. They act as if it is a billboard for restricted trial versions of software and ads for Web sites and services that they can sell to third-party companies who want you to buy these products.
Amen. And what these vendors ignore is the fact that makes for a pretty shitty out-of-box experience, even with a brand new high-zoot Windows Vista machine.
I have set up many computers over the years, so I wasn’t shocked that the out-of-box experience was less than ideal. Still, I was struck by just how irritating it was to get going. I was amazed that the initial experience is still a big hassle […] I’m talking about two main problems. One is the plethora of teaser software and advertisements for products that must be cleared and uninstalled to make way for your own stuff. The second is the confusing welter of security programs you have to master and update, even on a virgin windows machine.
Bottom line, if you TRULY want to enjoy a computer, and actually have fun creating and doing stuff with it, while enjoying piece of mind, then head on over to www.apple.com. They've got a machine for everyone; at $499, you'd have to be crazy not to go for one.
BUT WAIT!!! STOP THE PRESS!!!!
You say you just HAVE to use Windows because of x y and z reasons no matter what but you want a Mac? Well......step right up and go to BOOT CAMP!!! Yes thats right trooper you can NOW RUN Mac OS X AND Windows XP on an Intel Mac using Boot Camp at native superfast speeds!!! Here is the information if you HAVE to use Windows and you no longer have any excuses NOT to buy a Mac.