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Originally Posted by djbeta I think the WinBook analogy is spot on !! however, we should remember that it's not really the name that makes PCs suck.. it's that they do.
I mean.. if I could pick between a WinBook and a MacBook , I'd take the MacBook. :-) |
Thanks. I got the analogy from someone in an aftermath discussion. Can't link to it though because I'm the web surfer equival of an ADD kid
and tend to visit too many places in too short a time.
Of course it's not the name that makes PCs suck. But I look at Apple products as a whole, including the actual product, features, enclosure, branding, marketing etc. The whole shebang. That is what also sets the Mac experience apart from the rest of the pack.
On a sideline: Has anyone noticed yet that we've definitely run into a naming problem if we want to set us apart from Windows users using hardware other that Apple's? The whole "PC" and "Mac" destinction was flawed from the beginning because the Mac is also a
Personal
Computer. OK, then we got Wintel. But now we got Intel Macs, so, bang, that's gone since not few of us will have to run Windows along with the Mac OS on our shiny new Intel Macs. So I guess we now have to destinguish between primary OS use preferences. Now there's the
* Win-only
* Win-primarily
* Mac-only
* Mac-primarily
folks. And I haven't even started to get Linux and others into the picture yet.
Sorry, for having to continue nitpicking today. It's one of these days. I promise I'll eventually chill