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Originally Posted by Greg McCoy
think it's kind of funny that diehard Windows lovers like the hardware so much, like there's a secret to it. Their stuff is just plain simple, uncluttered. The difference is ultimately in the software.
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The hardware has
never been plain or simple. This is the first time that anything about an Apple computer is remotely like what the rest of the world is using. Using the x86 instruction set allows Apple hardware to run windows with out any emulation. Of course, there is all sorts of software trickery going on to make it work, but it is native.
So, in the eyes of a wintell user, Apple goes from an expensive closed off high end breed of computers that only make sense if you have to run photoshop or like to complain about Windows to being a high end boutique dealer ala Alienware. Now we can par that cool hardware with an operating system that makes it usable.
And when we get choice, everyone wins.
Also, I don't think I would go for a desktop Mac. The PC world still wins there in my mind due to the massive flexibility in hardware and desktop productivity software. When it comes to laptops though, I don't think anyone has the fantastic mix of speed, style and compactness that the Mac's do. Wintell laptops still seem like big clunky lap warmers. Instead of getting thin and sleek like the ibooks, they just got huge and became 'desktop replacements'. With the addition of Windows, that hardware could become very useful to me.
-Andy A.