Seems to make vastly more sense to use a Mac at work and a PC at home. Mac software is geared almost entirely toward productivity, Windows software has far more in the realm of entertainment.
]]>2. No need to deal with Micro$oft/your OEM Customer "Service". With a Mac, you bring it in to the Apple Store, go online or call. YMMV, but I've always had Apple Customer Service calls in America, too.
]]>I think I know the commercials you're talking about. If you watch it, she says "I didn't go to medical school for nothing."
]]>@Con Seannery's G1: What, that warm fuzzy feeling? I don't know, as I've never been a hipster. But I definitely appreciate the difference between tolerating the computing experience, and enjoying it. I work with Windows all day at work. I am our small office's version of tech support. I am by no means a Windows or Microsoft guru but I sure as hell know more than the average (non-geek) user, and when I come home, I want to use a Mac.
]]>I'm fortunate enough to work in an office where anything goes IT-wise. BSD, Linux, Mac OS, and Windows all spoken for. Currently we've been issuing either MBP 15" or Lenovo T400/T500 laptops, user-preference. If you put the $1999 MBP 15" against the closest T500, you're looking at $1880. The T500 is slower (2.66 GHz vs. 2.53GHz), doesn't come with iLife ($100), and the Lenovo won't come with Windows 7, whereas Apple will give you a copy of OS X Snow Leopard when it comes out in September. Also missing is the backlit keyboard from the Lenovo. So it's basically a draw.
I'm sure if I were to play with the configurations I could easily get either one to be less expensive than the other. I do know that back around December, the Macbooks (Aluminum) and Macbook Pros were running about $300 LESS than the equiv. Lenovo Thinkpad/Dell Latitude.
The other HUGE benefit: Macbook Pros are readily available. I had a friend @ another company wait 8 weeks for Dell to ship him two Latitudes.
In the old days, Macs were more expensive than the equivalent PC. There's still plenty of systems they make which are. Keep quality in mind. Anyone who has been in this business long enough knows the difference between a $10 power supply and a $100 power supply. Yes, there is one, and no, you're not going to find quality parts used in the PC systems most commonly sold at retail stores, which is where most consumers end up buying their computers from.
]]>I think Apple fanbois are funny. Some of them actually think they make sense when they say "Apple's are just better". I've used both, the Apple OS is ok, nothing worth writing home about and certainly not worth an extra "Apple tax".
]]>I've tired of the following ad campaigns to the point of changing the chanel/change the station/curl up into a ball and scream in impotent rage if they come on:
1)Geico Caveman commercials
2)Geico Gecko commercials
3)Apple vs PC commercials
4)Accenture radio commercials
5)Loanmax car title loan commercials
6)the Toyota Saved by that which shall not be named.
7)Any drug commercial
8)He went to jared!
9)Progressive Flo
10)Fios vs Cable
11)Comcast vs Fios
12)Yaz correction...and the commercials before that where the girl seemed to know way too much about everything.
13)Texaco commercial with the guy that spent too much money "tricking out" his car and he somehow thinks that putting different gas in it will protect his hood and low profile wheels.
...
The list goes on and on. None of these commercials are entirely "accurate" in that they tell the whole story with disclaimers. Most of them were pretty good commercial campaigns too, catchy, funny, but after a little while, I went from tired of them to absolutely hating them and the company that produced them and all the actors involved in the commercials
can you balance fraternal twins while wearing six-inch heels?
]]>I solved my problem with corpratism! I bought a generic netbook loaded with linux.
]]>@Parapraxis: I wish to apply for the "DD-bra size" nursing roll at your exotic neonatal intensive care unit.
]]>DOWn, baby, DOWn!
]]>Here at Children's Hospital of the San Fernando Valley, we make sure every one of our surgeons is relaxed and ready for action with our volunteer staff of college-coed fluffers.
Our neonatal unit is the first in the country to certify every nurse is at least a DD-bra size. No worries about your newborn infant starving to death here!
]]>@Ayarkay: What I got from those ads is that they tell you like "Okay, you've got a $1000 budget. Now go buy a laptop." Then they pay you the difference between $1000 and whatever the laptop cost.
The original Lauren was pretty cute, but the new Lauren is smoking hot! Hey Microsoft! New idea for an ad. You give me $1000 and then I go and fuck Lauren. Screw buying a laptop. Or maybe screw WHILE buying a laptop? I think I'm onto something here guys!
]]>At the apple store, she found one laptop for under $1000 but with a 13" screen. She then goes to what appears to be a Best Buy and buys a non-apple laptop for ~699 that has all the features she was looking for.
The message is that apple computers are more expensive... most people already know about the "apple tax", but this commercial seems over-elaborate to me.
]]>@ludwigk: commercials for child cancer centers?
]]>Meh.
]]>As some feline friends of mine would say...
"UR DOIN IT RONG".
]]>ROFL!
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