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Maybe it's because I rely on my own product (Desktop Search) so much, and the version we have in Vista is still very much a work-in-progress.
Shortly speaking: I predict that soon he will start using Windows Mobile phones and saying that they are the "necessary evil" and other such lame excuses.
Scoble, maybe you should show him how cool Windows Mobile 5.0 is (= such "mini Windows Vista"), haha!
Good stuff. Hope he enjoys Vista!
There. I feel much better now.
But he's just a man, and therefore has limited capabilities. Tsk.
>> I’m running it on a Tablet PC and
>> it’s getting to be pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: "Oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die"?
But he’s just a man, and therefore has limited capabilities. Tsk."
If Shelly were a man she would have all three of those OS's running on a single laptop. Tsk. ;)
And for Beattie, there's a nice, fresh, zero-day exploit to remind him what he's been missing for the last year.
Robert, where are the links of him describing Microsoft as "evil incarnate"?
I'm appalled that Microsoft, a convicted monopolist felon, still stoops to painting itself as an alternate to "religious" third-party offerings instead of marketing its own products as useful tools. I laughed out loud at that part about him running the "unofficial" patch for the zero-day WMF exploit.
Fact is, all the cheap commercial junkets in the world wouldn't convince me to switch from a secure OS to an insecure platform like Windows.
I told it to behave, too. But it keeps wanting to play bad. Sigh.
But I bet Russell would love your help putting all three in one laptop. That way he doesn't have to go into work and demand a new machine ;-)
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1002409....
I have no problems admitting that I hate all things Microsoft. ... There is NOTHING to like about that company.
I'm hardly one to help. I've got 4 different machines running 4 separate OS's. hehe. When I run out of old computers lying around, I'll start dual-booting. :)
-kevin
for overpriced hardware.
And on the enterprise side, they don't have much to offer, I prefer windows for the enterprise and for my
home machine's as well.
Sorry Apple.
Windows is unusable in the enterprise (insecure and unsecurable), unless you consider your target market the cubicle dweller who only fetches email and writes one-page memos the "enterprise".
Microsoft is not a convicted monopolist felon. They lost a civil suit, and thus are not "convicted" of anything, and it certainly was not a felony, so they are not a "felon." I'm a Mac fan and generally think Windows is the lowest-common-denominator junk, but let's not fall prey to excessive hyperbole.
Regarding Beattie: he is using computer for writing emails and making PowerPoint slides - for this any computer would suffice, any. I think that Apple's Mac OS X is too complicated for him, so that's why he switched. And being simple is not a sin.
Wait... you mean comparing PCs (lower price, more performance) to Macs? It very clearly does fly. In the laptop market, it's flying like never before.
Of course, with Apple switching to Intel it's likely that will change. But for the moment, it's not even close.
I'm using a Dell laptop at work and my iBook at home. I notice a lot of performance differences between the iBook and the Dell in favor of the iBook. I've only got 512mb RAM on my iBook and 1GB of RAM on the Dell, but the dell (running Windows XP Pro SP2) takes a lot longer to start up programs. I don't have any benchmarks, it's all anecdotal. I'm looking at my dock on my iBook right now and almost every icon on it has a black arrow underneath it showing that it's running. I've got 4 desktops active. Including 12 tabs in Safari, 2 projects in Xcode, NetNewsWire, Mail, TextMate, 2 PDF's, and Locomotive. I find that if I have 2 or more solutions open in Visual Studio that my system bogs down.
For kicks and giggles I just decided to open up iTunes, iPhoto, and one of my old presentations in Keynote. I only have 755 photos in iPhoto right now, but when I use the app I only notice a tiny bit of slowdown when I zoom in on a picture.
Right now, the only arguments for Wintel (or should that be WAMD laptops?)laptops are "Apple hardware is expensive", "Everyone runs Windows", and "PPC isn't as fast as x86". Two out of three of those arguments are going to go away this year (I think). You'll start to see more Softies walking around campus carrying dual-boot Powerbooks to go with their iPods. ;)
As well as the dual-booting that will be possible on the x86 hardware, there's now talk of them running Windows .exes in the same window layer as regular OS X apps.
Just as the "blue box" allowed antique Mac System 7-9 programs to run by booting OS 9 as a separate process, and the techie's X11 (Unix is good for partitioning things off like that), Windows XP could be there ready to run an .exe.
Think Virtual PC without boundaries, and with no performance hit.
Microsoft would be pleased as users doing this would bring an extra Windows license, and perhaps even a Virtual PC one too.
As for the hardware, if the specs on the just announced Yonah-based Acer are anything to go by, and the package is as nice as say Apple's existing 12" aluminum PowerBook, these laptops should be sweet indeed.
"...but I just can’t deal with not being able to be on the bleeding edge anymore."
Oh, for crying out loud. I'm checking IMDB right now to make sure he wasn't a screenwriter for Hackers. The blog entry reads like
"Even just using Macs for the past year, I’ve found myself farther and farther away from the mainstream and that’s a very bad thing."
The mainstream? What does that even mean? Do we want the computing experience of a housewife in Pittsburgh?
You know, Switch stories are nothing more than testimonial ads for a product. And Ellen Feiss trounces this guy any day of the week! Hyuck.