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How Apple+Mac is better than Windows+Intel
cocoamix:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
also, i just had to comment: no, it was 'start me up' by the stones. The rolling stones had NEVER in 30 years sold the rights to use one of their songs in any advertising campaign. they said they never would. All of a sudden Bill Gates offers them $100,000 (or maybe 1,000,000 i forget what the stupidly large sum actually was) and hey presto 'start me up' is windows theme music on televisions across the whole world.[/QB]
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They should have used the line "You make a grown man cry" for promote Win95.
xyle_one:
i love how heated these mac vs windows debates get. But it looks like it switched again to a hardware faceoff. again. i honeslty could care less about the hardware. i just want computer that works. i dont want to get inside of it and toy around. it is fun, but i havent the time to get that into it.
when i get a x86 system, the whole time i own it, im worryng about the hardware, trying to get everything to work together, and then just dealing with that one piece that refuses to cooperate. on my mac, i take it out of the box, plug it in, and im done. not once have i needed to open the case (except of course to show off how goddamn clean it is inside). out of everyone i know who owns a windows pc, all of them bitch and complain about how this doesnt work, that used to work, why is it crashing... and on and on. I have one freind who also owns a mac, and he has never bitched about it being buggy or crashing, or wanting to throw it out of a window. I have never had a complaint about my g4 either. given that, i would never go back to a windows pc. mac owners are "fanatics" for a reason, and i completely understand why.
ecsyle_one
Zombie9920:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
who cares about windows? i've got gimp. (it's free, and if you're a REAL mor00n, you can run it in windows so you can bitch about how it's not the same as photoshop if you like).
also, i just had to comment: no, it was 'start me up' by the stones. The rolling stones had NEVER in 30 years sold the rights to use one of their songs in any advertising campaign. they said they never would. All of a sudden Bill Gates offers them $100,000 (or maybe 1,000,000 i forget what the stupidly large sum actually was) and hey presto 'start me up' is windows theme music on televisions across the whole world.
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I tried gimp with Mandrake 9. Personally I think it sucks, I'll stick with Photoshop and Paintshop Pro. BTW, a name like GIMP is enough to make a person want to laugh at it.
Refalm:
quote:Calum: no, it was 'start me up' by the stones. The rolling stones had NEVER in 30 years sold the rights to use one of their songs in any advertising campaign. they said they never would. All of a sudden Bill Gates offers them $100,000 (or maybe 1,000,000 i forget what the stupidly large sum actually was) and hey presto 'start me up' is windows theme music on televisions across the whole world.
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I like the parody by Bob Rivers "Hook me up" (also know as "Windows 95 sucks").
Download the song here.
Zombie9920:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
And I suppose you don't remember the *huge* marketing campain they had for the launch of Win95? They even bought popular songs (wasn't it Beetles songs?) to promote the release. Mass marketing. How many OS/2 Warp ads did you see? How many desktop ads have you ever seen for Linux? Not one, as in *no* marketing. The only marketing I have seen for Linux is from IBM for mainframe systems.
The point is, it would be easier for Dell, in addition to selling PCs with Windows, to also sell naked PCs. Microsoft won't let them. Or do you not believe me when I make the statement that Microsoft won't let them?
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True, MS uses thier Monopoly to force OEM's not to sell computers without Windows. OEM's don't want to fuck up thier contract with MS because they would lose alot of business if they could no longer pre-install Windows on thier machines(cause most of the world wants a PC with Windows).
At least you can get a Name Brand(name brand doesn't make shit to me cause I can build a better PC with a better looking case for cheaper than an OEM ;P) PC without an OS. Have you ever seen the Microtel line of computers without an OS pre-installed? They may not be Dells, but they are still name brand.
[ October 17, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]
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