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Macs are great. Stylish equipment, rock solid operating system, intuitive interface. BUT, they are expensive, they don't use standard PC components so they are hard to upgrade, and you pretty much have to stick to the standard office and multimedia software. As a tinkerer and amateur radio operator, I use a lot of specialized software for programming microcontrollers, radio control, contact logging, etc. There's a ton of stuff written for Windows, but it's slim pickings for the Mac. I've heard their OS emulation software has come a long way, but haven't tried it. Anybody out there running Windows emulation on a Mac? How well does it work with USB and serial devices?
yeah you can emulate windows on macs now (becuase of their linux OS). Or you can buy a Mac and load windows on it since they're running Intel architechture now. You can emulate windows on linux. And you can emulate windows on windows, linux on windows etc etc etc.
But it's a giant pain in the butt. So, as you said, buy a mac and look cool. But who wants a cool looking paperweight.
Is windows the greatest thing since sliced bread? Heck no, but you can run dang near anything on it, find that dang near anything everywhere and get parts upgrades all over the planet with no trouble at all. And all this at half the price of a mac.
Apples greatest move was the Mac SE.
Since then they've been searching for the holy grail of gaining ground on M$/PC's and it just hasn't happened. They're still trying and trying by pumping the schools full of macs for our kids to learn on then.... when they get in the real world... not too many macs out there in the business world. There's a few, but not much. Perhaps the move to the linux OS will be their holy grail, but considering linux has been around for a long time and really hasn't gained much ground (at least in the US) since it became dummed down, I don't expect much to change for a long time. For mac to gain anymore ground than it has, M$ has to make a collosal screw up, and some are calling it Vista. But they said the same thing about Windows 2000 and XP.
Time will tell.
Macs are great. Stylish equipment, rock solid operating system, intuitive interface. BUT, they are expensive, they don't use standard PC components so they are hard to upgrade, and you pretty much have to stick to the standard office and multimedia software. As a tinkerer and amateur radio operator, I use a lot of specialized software for programming microcontrollers, radio control, contact logging, etc. There's a ton of stuff written for Windows, but it's slim pickings for the Mac. I've heard their OS emulation software has come a long way, but haven't tried it. Anybody out there running Windows emulation on a Mac? How well does it work with USB and serial devices?
yeah you can emulate windows on macs now (becuase of their linux OS). Or you can buy a Mac and load windows on it since they're running Intel architechture now. You can emulate windows on linux. And you can emulate windows on windows, linux on windows etc etc etc.
But it's a giant pain in the butt. So, as you said, buy a mac and look cool. But who wants a cool looking paperweight.
Is windows the greatest thing since sliced bread? Heck no, but you can run dang near anything on it, find that dang near anything everywhere and get parts upgrades all over the planet with no trouble at all. And all this at half the price of a mac.
Apples greatest move was the Mac SE.
Since then they've been searching for the holy grail of gaining ground on M$/PC's and it just hasn't happened. They're still trying and trying by pumping the schools full of macs for our kids to learn on then.... when they get in the real world... not too many macs out there in the business world. There's a few, but not much. Perhaps the move to the linux OS will be their holy grail, but considering linux has been around for a long time and really hasn't gained much ground (at least in the US) since it became dummed down, I don't expect much to change for a long time. For mac to gain anymore ground than it has, M$ has to make a collosal screw up, and some are calling it Vista. But they said the same thing about Windows 2000 and XP.
Time will tell.