Hi, I'm a Mac

[Jibrille]

Anyone see the new PC ads? They canned the Seinfeld/Gates one pretty fast to proceed with Phase 2. Rumor is that they planned more with Seinfeld (they did pay him $10 mil after all) but they didn't test well so Phase 2 came out faster than originally planned.
You can watch the new ads here but you need silverlight installed.
http://gizmodo.com/5052051/microsofts-im-a-pc-ad-beats-seinfeld-but-not-hodgman

I think they're a better direction than the Seinfeld ones but I never thought he was that funny (especially without Larry David to carry him). I felt the first two ads were far too condescending with the whole "getting in touch with common people again" idea. However, it's been said well that Microsoft is a company that can't play the victim in all this. They're a huge market leader attacking back at a company with a very small (though growing) market share. While their image could use a revitalization, their biggest problem right now is companies that are not adopting Vista and waiting for the next OS. They need to convince these people there's actually a reason to upgrade now.

And yes, I think the Mac ads are just as bad but they are at the very least effective. I'll give them some slack for the awesomeness of the early iPod ads.

 

[J-Man]

We are in the process of replacing our PC at home with a Mac, and also our Laptops(one Tosihiba and one Alienware).

 

[Bryan316]

I can't stand the idea of a mouse with only one button. As a designer, I MUST have three buttons and a wheel to interface with CAD.

Mac just ain't an industrial machine. I know no engineers who use them, for a good reason.

 

[Jibrille]

I can't stand the idea of a mouse with only one button. As a designer, I MUST have three buttons and a wheel to interface with CAD.

Mac just ain't an industrial machine. I know no engineers who use them, for a good reason.

Any USB mouse will work with a Mac. I used a Logitech mouse for my old iBook because laptop touchpads are horrible for precision design work. Two button + wheel and it was fully functional.

 

[Diamond45]

Macs have their purpose, but a PC can be modded in a number of ways, and there is a ton of software out there to do what I want to do. Sure, I can probably find a Mac equivalent, but I don't feel like doing all that research.

The only reason I'd run a Mac is that OS X is Unix based. But if I want to run Unix, I'd install Ubuntu Linux on my PC (which I will probably do one of these days).

 

[nailz]

Hi, I'm Nailz, and I'm a PC. In fact, I made my boss buy me a macbook pro just so I could install vista on it. Take THAT, Apple.

 

[rockyracoon]

But if I want to run Unix, I'd install Ubuntu Linux on my PC (which I will probably do one of these days).

Been meaning to do this to my secondary machine as well.


As far as Mac's go, no thanks. With the constantly decreasing prices for computer hardware, I could build 2 computers for the price of a Mac and they'll most likely work better for my needs.

 

[Diamond45]

Been meaning to do this to my secondary machine as well.

I was going to go the VMWare route so I wouldn't have to take up a second machine.

 

[rockyracoon]

I was going to go the VMWare route so I wouldn't have to take up a second machine.

Will you still have to reboot every time you want to run Linux? Currently, my other machine isn't getting much use so I'll probably still go that route.

 

[nailz]

Using VMWare allows you to run a virtual session in the same machine, so no reboots required.

 

[Yippee38]

I'm a gamer, so I'll never switch to a Mac.

 

[Diamond45]

Will you still have to reboot every time you want to run Linux? Currently, my other machine isn't getting much use so I'll probably still go that route.

As someone else said - you run it inside a host operating system. So I'll be running Ubuntu within Windows XP (yes, both at the same time). So no reboots required. That's the beauty of VMWare.

At work, I regularly ran Win XP within a Win Server 2003 installation. With the full screen enabled, you couldn't tell the the difference between a regular XP installation and the virtual one.

I just wish you could run Mac OS X within Windows XP. But you can run Win XP on a Mac with VMWare. Best of both worlds.

 

[nailz]

Doesn't VMware use resourse sharing? Win XP runs like shit when using Paralells.

 

[SharkBlack]

I can't stand the idea of a mouse with only one button. As a designer, I MUST have three buttons and a wheel to interface with CAD.

Mac just ain't an industrial machine. I know no engineers who use them, for a good reason.

They are configurable to a multi-button mouse... Just plug it in.

 

[SharkBlack]

I'm a gamer, so I'll never switch to a Mac.

I have both... For Games you have to have a PC

 

[DAVETHEMETALGUY]

for people that actually want to do something other than games....macs are great

 

[Diamond45]

Doesn't VMware use resourse sharing? Win XP runs like shit when using Paralells.

I have VMWare dedicated to one of the two cores that's on the machine where it's installed. So there is very little slowdown. It also has quite a bit of RAM so even if the VMWare sucks some of it up for Ubuntu, it doesn't slow down the XP side all that much.

But when I run Ubuntu through VMWare, I'm not concerned about XP at that moment anyhow. I just didn't want to dedicate a hard drive partition and worry about a boot manager and rebooting between the two OSes. Just start VMWare and Ubuntu doesn't know or care it is running as a virtual machine. It has its own 8 GB virtual "hard drive".

I'd like to try Mac OS, but Steve Jobs probably would frown on something like that.

 

[booB]

Am I the only one who thinks it's cool that Charisma Carpenter was in the new "I'm a PC" commercial?