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Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated. One of them (Microsoft) is much, much bigger than the others. It started out years ago selling three-speed bicycles (MS-DOS); these were not perfect, but they worked, and when they broke you could easily fix them.

There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery.

The big dealership responded by rushing a moped upgrade kit (the original Windows) onto the market. This was a Rube Goldberg contraption that, when bolted onto a three-speed bicycle, enabled it to keep up, just barely, with Apple-cars. The users had to wear goggles and were always picking bugs out of their teeth while Apple owners sped along in hermetically sealed comfort, sneering out the windows. But the Micro-mopeds were cheap, and easy to fix compared with the Apple-cars, and their market share waxed.

Eventually the big dealership came out with a full-fledged car: a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it was an enormous success. A little later, they also came out with a hulking off-road vehicle intended for industrial users (Windows NT) which was no more beautiful than the station wagon, and only a little more reliable.

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one, macs are slow. did you read the articles i linked? obviously not. a 2.53 gigahertz P4 system was up to 40% faster than a dual gHz g4 system. the pentium4 was designed to clock high, that's why it has a long pipeline design. clockspeed is a totally accurate description of a processor if you are talking about the clockspeed of a processor. the g4 has a short pipeline, thus it performs more operations per clockcycle than a pentium4. obviously, this design hasn't worked out in the end, since a single top of the line p4 is up to 40% faster than a dual top of the line g4 system. the proper way to judge a cpu is total performance and then performance per dollar. the pentium4 obviously wins in both. it also happens to run at high clock speeds. i'm sorry you aren't knowledgable enough to see past that.

apples are certainly not the "mercedes" of computers. what are you paying for? you don't even get a 2 button mouse. nice features. out of date ram, expensive video cards, bad keyboards. you don't even get a decent speaker system. real fucking nice. go configure a pc at dell and a mac. look at the total prices and the features. you will see that the dell offers better stuff for less. keep in mind that in most applications, the dell system is going to be a lot faster. i'm running an advance copy of 10.2, and it has been pretty decent. 10.1 sucked, as did 10.0. it has taken apple a long time to bring out a halfway decent version of this operating system. it still doesn't run well on a top of the line apple system though, which speaks volumes about the apple platform. ms also took a long time for the 9x systems to become half way decnet (they never became decent), but the NT platform hasn't had anywhere near as many problems as os x has.

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I try to tell you of my experiences, and you retort with arguments that "Macs suck" and other crap.

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dos hasn't been the basis of anything since win2k. i don't even think my current system is dos compatible.

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you should say "fewer guns", not "less guns".

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Originally posted by Sol System:
There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery.

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• Mac OS X now is based on a UNIX core -- an open source system. Moreover, there are plenty of software developer kits (SDK) that allow all sorts of new programs to be created. Take a look at a site like VersionTracker which lists all sorts of applications and additions that are available for the system. And remember that this system is only about two years old. And yet there are all sorts of programs cropping up, even those that are programmed in the "Cocoa" environment, using the OS X language "Objective-C."
• Microsoft has tenaciously held on to all sorts of software code -- the *ahem* proprietary software. That's made it all the more difficult for developers to produce some kinds of programs that need to perform specialized functions... because Windows is ALSO "hermetically sealed" and frowns on access. Nobody has a clue how Internet Explorer works, or how Office works, or other programs. Nobody except hackers, that is. And so there are a lot more security problems.

I can't provide a link at the moment, but I read an article which stated that Windows machines account for something like 20% of the internet servers, but report 60% of the security breaches.
I'm not going to get into the open source argument here, though. That's a whole different animal.

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That's nothing but an old rumor at this point, Cartman. I've been hearing things like that for almost a year. It's certainly possible, and I wouldn't be that upset -- because the Apples certainly wouldn't be running on the piece-of- shit Pentiums.

And as for the "fact" that megahertz really does matter...

...Windows geeks, eat your hearts out! Your penises are not as big as you think. (I say this with the understanding that 95% of people don't care about getting the "most powerful" machine, of course... )

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you're an uninformed hypocrite. the fact that you don't even bother reading what other people write before you respond shows your true colors. i need no justification for my purchases, as i have that internalized. you simply need to grow a brain before you make stupid statements. the fact that you lash out at my character, as opposed to my words, probably shows that you are uncomfortable with your own lack of factual argument and that you are uncomfortable with your own choices. stick to facts, not your own manufactured bullshit.

PsyLiam, i already killed you, so you can't kill me. you just don't know it yet .

PsyLiam you say my argument isn't fair. well, you are full of shit. i don't care what joe fuckwit has in his basement. i compare the high end of both computing platforms. how is that not fair? apple is touting their machines as being superior, when they are not in the vase majority of cases. also, almost all new PC's are being bundled with winXp, and all macs are being bundled with OS X. i don't understand how you say this isn't a valid comparison when i am comparing the 2 most common operating systems among currently sold computers. when you compare car brands, you don't do it by comparing previous car models. why should i do that with computers?