In the Middle Ages, most of the people (ignorant and uneducated) also believed that the Earth was flat. Only a few, a small minority of intellectuals (e.g. Copernicus), knew otherwise.

There is nothing good about PC users bragging that they are in the “majority”. Every time they belittle Apple by saying that Mac users are a small insignificant minority, this logic is already flawed…

Sad, isn’t it.

I’ve been using a Macs for 20 years. I still have an 8500AV and a 9500 that I use to store temp files.

Wondering what all this fanboy and propaganda rant is about…reminds me of the healthcare zanies who think the government is going to steal their grandma…my Macs are the center of my business, and are by FAR the best tools in the world for what I do. I certainly don’t use them because of some marketing scam. Can’t say enough about how great this company has treated me over the last 25 years, and how much MONEY I’ve made with their great tools.

I guess if all I did was play Doom all day I could live with a PC….

Looking forward to Snow Leopard! Read David Pogue today in the NY Times…

I’m buying a mac mini as soon as snow leopard is released, having apple transfer all files, and get a switch to share the keyboard mouse and monitor with the ol windtunnel.

Total cost: Under $900.

Increased satisfaction from antivirus-free apple experience: Priceless.

imho

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“My PC hardware (and software btw) has been flawless so far…”

Gimme a break, what – does this guy play Solitaire all day and nothing else?

If you use Windows and enjoy it you deserve everything you get!

I think the chart is made to look a little more confusing than it actually is. I hear the same complaints about the Adobe Creative Suite options – I’m not sure what the confusion is about them either.

What I DO find confusing is just what the heck is the difference between the three? They list about 3 features on the site that are different, 2 of which I have no idea what they even are. What is the “ability to join a domain?” How would the average user know what that is? And why does it warrant such a big jump in price? What does Ultimate give you that Business doesn’t?

Why does MS make it so hard for anyone but an uber-geek IT worker? It’s a money-grab, that’s why!

Actually trolls are really rather pathetic.

LOL. Actually, the specs are copy & paste straight from my invoice. As to cheap vs expensive systems, I can tell you that I’ve had more problems with my Mac hardware than with my PC hardware. My PC hardware (and software btw) has been flawless so far. It is Apple’s hardware that is the cheap of the cheap. The quality of Apple’s hardware innards is way sub par. Just because they slap their 100% to 400% Apple Tax, doesn’t mean that you’re getting quality hardware. All it means is that Apple’s marketing managed to bamboozle you so they can steal more money from you. What’s sad is that Apple’s programming is so successful, that you’ve become a sad parody of their 1984 commercial.

http://tumbl.strelau.net/post/156605288/upgrading-to-os-x-snow-leopard

LOL!

Ignore it.

That’s your regular programing, folks, and I’m here to tell you it is pure propaganda. Anyway, you are paying thru the nose to get some “peace of mind” because Apple’s marketing scum have scared you to death. Not that M$’s marketing scum are any better. Marketing scum they are all. But Apple’s marketing scum are particularly talented at their propaganda, and therefore they are particularly loathsome and deserving of scorn.

You are disturbed. You should be celebrating and back slapping on a win/ box site. But you are here. There is no one here who believes your tale or trusts your judgement. Go where you will be appreciated and leave the contented here a few moments peace. If I haven’t been clear … well you will respond anyway.

How long have you been a shill? How’s the pay? Did they tell you to use the registered trademark symbol after the words Intel and Vista?

So when I get Snow Leopard I’m going to do a full snapshot of my 9 month old MacBooks, (always a good idea) but then just update. I’ve had good luck with that.

PCs have cost me more over the years & I hardly ever kept anything for new version yet only have a Mac 8mths and have important data I would hate to loose. I would not go back to PC days

It is way easier on the mac still since everything I want is in the home folder. I complicate for myself by bringing back as few of the prefs in the Library folder as possible.

I’ve been bitten by too many in-place upgrades of Mac OS X.

I thought that had gone well on the laptop where I did it (it had an almost fresh install of Tiger after a drive failure, so I went ahead). All seemed well for a month or so.

Then, I was discussing one of the BSD programs with my boss, who had a new machine which had come with Leopard. The couldn’t agree on the command-line options based on each reading the man page for the program.

It turned out that the in-place upgrade I did had indeed replaced the old comand line programs (all of them). But it had left the man page collection from Tiger on the system. (I did a full reinstall can copy back using Migration Assistant, which solved the problem.)

That was in contrast to to Panther, which had left intact the old command line programs. I should have learned from that (and I did check the programs right away after the attempted upgrade install to Leopard.

The clean install upgrade is easier on Mac than on Windows, but not by as wide a margin as is being suggested.