iMacs suck

Here's the homepage of the "Switch" campagne...

http://www.apple.com/switch/

Some of the ads are funny, the best one being Ellen Feiss. Now that's a keeper :grinthumb

I think there's a fine line between "real life stories" and the rubbish Apple is posting over there.

I don't even think I have to say I think it's exaggerated :haha:

Those "real life stories" must be what they base their new TV ads on. Those people in those commercials are just stupid. Like the guy who couldn't get his printer to work so he started changing cards out and finally bought a Mac and now he can print.

They would pick a Mac cause it "looks cooler" than a beige rectangle.

The idea of "MACs being easier" then PC's is almost all but waned. XP is essentially a babies OS with its default setup - The "help" and "wizards" will popup galore if you so much as move the mouse outside the incorrect window, if you so allow. Whatever the next big thing from microsoft is, assuming they are still around, I'm pretty sure it will be more bloated, more resource hogging, and more pricey then ever, but will also be extremely easy to use.

Congrats Poertner :grinthumb

I'm not complaining about resource hogging, I'm stating as a matter of what I call, "perceptive fact."



Today I worked around with XP trying to trim down the install size.

After about an hour of determining what I did and did not need (I'm still not finished yet) I came all the way down to this (And this include all user profiles, their emails/email attachments, their desktops, etc on my system.. around 80mb of that is email and another 70mb is stuff from office XP)

Remember, on a default install of XP, not including pagefile and hibernation, it approaches 1.3-1.5gigs of space used



This same setup, on a fresh boot, uses around 74mb RAM. This to me is amazing considering it is nigh impossible with a default install to get it to boot under 100mb. Clearly there is MUCH room for tweaking and trimming, but the point is that even after expending obscene amounts of effort I'm still left withn a Windows directory size of 644mb, (796mb entire partition) while just five short years ago, Windows 95 took only 50 some odd MB. and would boot with 8mb RAM. Windows98, 250mb and 16mb RAM. And, a few years before that, DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11 combined was 15mb.

Yes, operating systems are much more complex and robust, but in most modern day operating systems we are easily wasting 60%+ of the resources available to us.

I am not the "have to upgrade every day" type of person - I hate having to upgrade, it's such a pain in the pocketbook. If microsoft developers spent a 10th of the time they use to add new features to optimize their code, we would see a much more efficient OS, at least that is the way I perceive things.

Linux is no better. Unless you are a pro and know exactly what you are doing, the dependancies in many large distros such as Mandrake, Redhat, Suse, etc, will easily consume several gigs. Of course you could go the zipslack route, but the point remains.

There's too much fluff.

Today's programmers just don't remember how it used to be. Ten years ago a floppy disk was cutting edge ...



Now it's DVD writers with gigabytes of storage!



In a few years new OS's will probably hog 512mb of ram!:dead:

Saying Windows is bloatware is like saying an elephant is pretty big.

Ask Mic about BeOS, I think him or MYOB told me it took up 160MB.

But anyway, not to detract from the subject, how much HD space does a minimum install of OS X Jaguar take?

ok, i agree with you that advertisements are pretty disgusting when they start splashing mud at each other. but saying all advertisement is crap is perfectly not true.

if there were no advertisement, at all, how in the world would you be informed of newer products? do you not realize that when manufacturers send their new gadgets to magazines/websites to review, is one way of advertising?

and what is it with these "dumb users" talk again? c'mon. we were once all dumb and stupid. no one's equipped with the ability to even turn on a pc from birth. how in the world would an adult who has never used these high-tech toys know how to use them, not mentioning to use them wisely.

must a programmer understand nuclear physics?

and what if a noble prized scientist don't know how to cook?

i think we've all been through these "don't bash other ppl" talk quite a few times already (at least 2 or 3 when i was still very active).

ps. yeah, i know this has nothing to do with macs :blackeye:

Heh, I've pushed it even further.

Without office XP installed I've pushed it below 700mb (that's the entire size of C: )