The Contrarian argument for MAC Owners

[Rubber Duck]

Whether he is right or not, this guy certainly made me feel better!


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...006031,00.html

[GS]

Hehe, I hate those ads too.

I used to also have the impression that Macs weren't 'serious' computers, but I've found it's the exact opposite. It's a Unix machine with an incredibly easy-to-use user interface.

Cool things about Macs for what it's worth:

- start up in 10 seconds from shutdown
- perform superfast whois lookups on local machine
- almost NEVER crash
- most languages built-in
- No Add/Remove programs hell!

[boca]

Originally Posted by GS

I used to also have the impression that Macs weren't 'serious' computers, but I've found it's the exact opposite. It's a Unix machine with an incredibly easy-to-use user interface.

You were right too. They used to be toy computers, with a monolithic, single-user operating system (like Win95/9 before the switch to BSD, er, I mean OSX. Now they run circles around Windows, and like all things Apple, they're just pretty and nice to use.

[GS]

Originally Posted by boca

You were right too. They used to be toy computers, with a monolithic, single-user operating system (like Win95/9 before the switch to BSD, er, I mean OSX. Now they run circles around Windows, and like all things Apple, they're just pretty and nice to use.

Word.

I rewrote my computer history as

Apple //e DOS ... the lost years ... OS X

[boca]

LOL but nevertheless - GO VISTA

[Rubber Duck]

From an IDNers point of view none of this is meaningful.

Those with systems that won't support IE7 are just about obscelete and will be replaced with a system that has built in support for IDN, whatever your buying decisions. The only browser that gives us a problem is IE6. You will have to be a die hard Window 98 fan to stay the course with IE6, and even if you are does anyone really need your business. If you are one of those who is too tight to buy a machine that is less than 5 years out of date the value of your online business is likely to be negligible. Even if you are clicking Adsense without buying you will just drag down the value of a click. No, the people the Advertising Industry are interested in most are Main Stream and particularly Early Adopters. The ever diminshing trail of slim after the snail has passed is of no interest to anyone.

[boca]

A lot of people have old systems at home, but have access to better resources in their work environments, particularly in developing economies. But in the enterprise environments it may take a while to roll out IE7. I have access to 2 fortune 500 companies on a regular basis and neither one has announced plans to roll out IE7 yet.

What will really help is when large Japanese corporations, for example, adopt it. Just as Mac users always complained that usage statistics are always skewed by large corporate purchases of Windows, IE7 usage will jump sighnificantly when hundreds of thousands of daily Internet users are suddenly exposed to IE7 because some few giant corps have deployed it.