End of an era: "Get a Mac" ads rumored to be finished

LOL. So, you’re saying that ads on TV leads to dead kids in the school yard.

Wow…you must work for FOX News.

@ bizguy: I found your sense of humor. Can I email it back to you?

Windows 7 is great….I find it to be the best OS yet. But I did do a clean install so the fact that there is 0% bloatware on the computer could be making a huge difference.

Yeah… I was a Mac user for the past few years. 10.6 is Apple’s Vista. Seriously. It’s awful. Forced me to Windows 7, and I enjoy it.

Actually, System 7 was Apple’s Vista, or MS’s BOB, however you would like to phrase that.

Ok.. then Snow Leopard is equivalent to Windows ME. It doesn’t matter how you want to slice it. Snow Leopard is terrible. They’ve just got a full head of steam right now and will plow thru it. Hopefully 10.7, or whatever is next, works better. I’m sick of the spinning pinwheel/beachball or whatever you want to call that obnoxious thing that shows up even for the simplest of tasks, like hitting Cmd-Q.

“I just prefer the OS for school, its easier for me.”

Stupid is as stupid does.

Yeah, that guy is an idiot. I mean, getting an education and all. Stupid people.

No problem with him getting an education. From the looks of it…he needs it!

He was also in Accepted, He’s Just Not That Into You, and Live Free or Die Hard. If your not considered “cool” by being in an action movie with Bruce Willis… then I don’t know what cool is.

You can read that however you want, Jerrett. You could also argue, that maybe XP was good enough for those people, or that less savvy people are easily swayed by shiny advertising.
Both OS and Win are both robust, mature systems. I don’t understand these “huge differences” people are fabricating in their minds. Get a life and get some work done, already! they’ll both do the trick.

Most businesses are running XP still because businesses adopt new tech late. Buying the licenses and deploying them, as well as ensuring every system works on a new OS, is a mammoth undertaking. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a large number of NT computers still in use. Businesses will adopt W7, it’ll just be in a few years after the OS has proven itself stable and reliable, like XP.

That is very true,in the military we just got windows vista on government computers last year like 9 months before 7 came out. It’s just not really on big companies priorities to upgrade the os that they use

Jarrett – Windows 7, to date, is Microsoft’s fastest selling operating system of all time. It has double sales in the opening months compared to Vista.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/196316.asp#extended

Also, post your sources on OS marketshare – the latest numbers I’ve seen have Microsoft at 92% in March 2010.

And, every IT admin I’ve spoken to is eager to upgrade to Win7. As others have said, in the business world, the transition take time due to testing and budgeting in a recessionary period.

Let’s not cloud the issue with facts …

HAHA 87% market share for Windows, and you are cheering about all these people switching to Macs…. I believe the market has spoken on what OS is better. When Macs break into 51% Market share then you can cheer for the greatness of Macs

Until then you can have the ONLY thing Macs trump over Windows… the lack of Virus’.

I don’t have to cheer one way or the other. Microsoft isn’t going anywhere with their dominance on the desktop for a long time. People understand today that there really is a choice in the desktop space. Ten to fifteen years ago they didn’t really think there was a chance. You can not deny that Apple is growing faster than any other tech company and faster than the industry. It is fact. As Apple gains marketshare others lose marketshare.

I know for a fact that you are not a stupid person, I read your posts. How many people make PC’s running windows? Alot, and all those companies have to compete with each other on price. This brings the prices down and makes the consumer happy (until the have a slow buggy system from all the crapware to off set the losses for being competitive).

Now, how many people make PC’s running Mac OS X (legally running Mac OS X)? One, and they don’t have to compete with anyone but themselves. Apple isn’t in the market to get the most marketshare. Sure they gain a little each quarter and each year but that is only because they are a completely vertical company. They have no competition. This is why Apple’s profits for last quarter were 3x’s what Dell’s were for Dell’s whole year.

Apple keeps making money because they take care of their customers. Do we pay a premium for that? Absolutely we do, and gladly. Microsoft keeps making money because all their partners keep making computers with Microsoft’s OS’s and paying MS lincensing fees. Microsoft makes the same money, it’s parts fight for scraps.

Every PC manufacturer wishes they were Apple, in every regard.

You folks who say Macs are expensive are way out there. When was the last time you checked prices?

I agree Macs cost more than the cheapest PC you can find (and Dell and HP make many cheap low-end PCs too). But if you compare a high-end PC build with quality parts, latest features, etc. — compare that with a Mac. All macs have high-end quality, and even the cheapest mac has good performance.

Compare them based on technical specs (CPU, RAM, HD, video MPU/RAM, HD/DVD drive, video-out, built-in audio, display/monitor, etc).

If you do a real comparison — you will find macs are about the same (sometimes cheaper) than the EQUIVALENT PC.

Another way to compare them correctly is the OS. The Mac OS X is much more efficient too. It can do everything with less than 1GB of memory, while Win7 needs minimum 4GB to do the same stuff (e.g. load the OS, run a few apps).

And OS X was around in 2006 doing what Win7 does now (meaning MS copied most features from OS X, which had the same features years ago).

So if you did price a PC and Mac with equivalent hardware, then when you throw in the OS difference, the Mac would be smokin’ fast compared to the same Win7 PC.

I have an iMac from a few years ago – it had full HD video (1920×1080) video out which I plug into my large screen monitor – and with a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse I can sit in my living room and surf or do everything on a big widescreen FULL HD, from my couch! All for the price of a PC laptop.

And my Mac NEVER crashes!!!! I’ve left it on for months – we switch between different login accounts, do HiDef video editing (cool easy!), the kids play games, etc etc.

And if I ever need to (which is almost never), I can run PC apps natively on it using VMware. I have my mac networked with other Windoze PCs and everything works – it just works!!

So if you don’t OWN both systems and don’t know the guts of both technologies – DO NOT COMPARE UNINTELLIGENTLY OR SPOUT YOUR UNINFORMED BELIEFS.

Mac: Hi, I’m a Mac. With me, you dont have to worry about virues or anything!

OJ: Hi, I’m a PC. With my new Windows defener program you dont have to worry about viruses either. I’ll put on these Isotoner gloves and just slash, and slash, and SLASH so those no good, cheating whore viruses get what they deserve. And then when I am done, I will dispose of the evidence and claim that it was just a plot by the man to keep me down. Mac? Hey, Mac? You feel like driving around with me in the back of your Bronco?

They both are. Justin Long once told the stories of going into Apple stores to purchase items and getting 10% because they notice him. The problem was always the same though, under his contract he was granted 15% off. He can never get himself to say “hey, what about my other 5%”.

It was pretty funny stuff.

lol, apple couldn’t even hook their hipster doofus spokesman up. And why would anyone think he was cool in Live Free or Die Hard… he was a complete sack of ass in that movie. Really though I’m just feeding a troll here