Yes, I know that. So what! It is good, right? And that is all that matters
If that is what matters, then stop arguing in these posts, u cannot justify Windows being bad, cos it runs on various hardware config & it's not tied to any of them
There are more than three million possible configurations for the Mac Pro. You want more?
Yeah, what about Geforce 7600GT, Radeon X1650XT, X-Fi (if u want to use Windows on it). I m sure a user will void his warranty if he adds his own sound card to the Mac Pro, like I said already many time, & I m again repeating, where is the option to customize it as I want? Good that even u understood the novelty we PC users enjoy with PCs, our own custom hardware config.
Yeah, I know that. I never said that Macs were perfect. They are leaps and bounds ahead of Windows, yes but they are not perfect (and can never be).
Woha....then what were u saying in all these pages
Why aren't they there by default? They should be there
U already know the reason, due to their big market share, even a small new feature is treated as Anti-Competitive. Don't u know what happened with kernel patch guard & WMP for Europe? MS can't give features, not cos they can't but cos they are not allowed to. U think MS will not be sued again, if they bundle Word 2007 Lite edition in Windows.
They are doing it this time in case of Vista, bundling many application in it, such as a calendar app, Windows Mail, (already there from long time as Outlook), Windows defender, & now I just hope they don't get sued for giving features in Vista, their own OS
iWork (Keynote and Pages), Final Cut Studio (Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, DVD Studio Pro and Compressor), Aperture, Logic Pro and Shake. And the thousands of other applications are all made by third-party developers, and there are many of them.
WTF......better go read again the WebPages of these apps. Final cut studio, logic, motion, shake, iwork is made by Apple as far as I know, u said it so many times yourself already that these are Apple's own application
LOL! Have you seen Yahoo! Messenger for Mac?
Nope, just a few screenshots, hey, when was Yahoo messenger 3 beta released for Mac? 2006, when was the last version released (2.5), in 2002...wow, quite a long development time. Although yahoo is to blame here. We windows users are already enjoying webcam, audio, file transfer from 2004
If I have made one right decision in my life
Use whatever u like, just don't rant about your product being the best, & make other buy it, they have their own choices too, even your product has flaws, but stop portraying it as a flawless product
there is this upcoming technology called 'Cider' that promises to enable Windows' games to run natively on Mac OS X
Only on X86 Mac, which is a PC inside, using PC components just like dell, HP, alienware etc. They will work cos there is no re-compilation required as the CPU is same as X86 PC CPU
And apart from TiVo, the other hardware you mentioned can be connected to a Mac too
This is just a small list man. I laughed at the first page of this thread, where u added an iSight camera to a PC config & the said PC is costly
I have several ways to use it. What will you do if you want to use GarageBand?
I would say, this is something wrong from Apple side, that they release their apps which are not modular, they are not able to run on Windows/Linux running on PC at all, Linux & Windows are so much modular, that they were capable of running on X86 Mac, even before bootcamp. Apple was just being cocky when they released that "Run Windows XP on Mac" challenge. All hail the PC enthusiast community, which can do any wonder with our hardware
And you cannot run Mac OS X on it
Yeah, we can't but whose fault is that? Linux & Windows run on any PC, not just a few particular hardware, so it obviously is Apple's fault that they are not releasing it for the mass market, but then again apple is a hardware company, they can't do it, there Mac sales because of MacOS X. But U have no reason to call Windows & PCs bad cos they run on so many hardware configs, & get problems due to either bad drivers or user stupidness
And I challenge you to find me a computer that has the same (or better) configuration as any Macintosh and costs 25 percent less than it. It must have a legal copy of Windows XP Professional installed on It.
Lolz....ask anyone here, Tarey, mehul, meditator, anyone here, & then go to your local computer market to find the prices yourself
Both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice are available for the Macintosh too (in addition to iWork).
For which u need at least a Rs. 25k Mac mini, isn't it. The last time I checked, I configured an office PC for running Office 2003/2007 for just Rs 18k here. Although Windows was free on it (u know how), but even with legal Linux & open office the cost was same.
Admit it arya, Apple & Mac are severally limiting the hardware & software choices, the only thing i hate about them. U think i won't like to use an OS without the worry of virus or anything like that, i sure will, but i want to run it on my own PC, whose components i can chose myself
They won't release iwork or ilife for other platform, cos then this will hamper their hardware sales, well, this is justified fact, but Mac fan boys saying that Windows or PCs sux cos they do not run these apps is literally absurd
First of all, it is neither mine nor Apple's fault that Microsoft takes five years to upgrade their operating system
In which time, Apple released 5 Operating system each requiring $130 to upgrade, which totals to $650, when the new features given were justified only service packs, which we windows/Linux users get for free.
Now don't reply by saying that, each new gadget in dashboard is a feature
..Lolz, I still remember the apple page stating each gadget as a new feature.
there is no point arguing anymore, u better read all the posts written on the previous pages, & u will understand, why PC is still a better choice then a Mac, & why there are reasons to get a PC insted of Mac. Mac is good, but if it is so good then I ask u MacBoys 2 things
1) Why isn't Apple relesing it for General PCs too, it's also X86 now
2) Why is apple giving the option to run Windows XP on Mac hardware at all, isn't their own OS supirior, or is it just a way to attract Windows users to their hardware to increse sales