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Originally Posted by fryke  Generally, BootCamp does not much than enable you to install Windows XP "on that PC" you've got there. Hardware-wise, there's not much different in a Mac than in a PC nowadays. BootCamp also gives you a CD with drivers for the hardware XP doesn't know about out of the box. So... You generally get a great running Windows XP. I haven't run into problems, myself. (Then again I don't use that Live chat thingie on XP.)
But on topic of the original post: You're mixing things. Sales reps are not "Microsoft". So it's not really about Microsoft's best interests when a sales rep is taught not to push Macs. Also, he might simply not know the first thing about Macs, and then it wouldn't make much sense for him to show you a Mac, because all that would show was that he doesn't know anything...
That's where we come in. Are you in a store that sells Macs? Does a sales rep push a person towards a PC? Step in, start asking questions about the Macs on the floor, correct the sales rep when he talks stupid, push the person towards the Mac. If there _is_ an interest in the Mac at first, then that person will happily follow you to the light.  |
I totally agree with you. I know that one of my friends who has been an Apple fan for years got me into the Mac. For me it was a big change... I am A+ Certified in the Computer industry... All that means is if a Computer is broken on the PC end, I can fix it or build a new one. Mac is different.
See I was lucky Fryke... My friend Tim took me to CompUSA, in his first effort to get me to see the LIGHT.. lol.. Unfortunately... There was no Apple rep there... and the Salesman in red... shrugged their shoulders saying... "Sorry, We can't help you the Apple rep, is not here and I don't know much about Apple..." My friend Tim, went over to the Tower... (G4 it was.. This was in 2000... right before OS-X came out and was being offered as a Beta...) and tried to show me a few things... I was not impressed because of OS-9...
Than he had an Idea... He said lets go to the MacCenter... So I drove there... (The MacCenter was bascially an Apple Store that had the focus on all Apple Products at the time.) This Store had everything... even the Beta OS-X on its line of Macs.
It was there that one of the Managers took me to his office and explained all the differences of Mac's vs PC... and I was amazed.
A year later I brought a G4... Tower... Than 3 years later an Ibook and now I got the Intel-IMac... I am glad I got the best of both worlds.