"Leading PC manufacturer Acer has accused Microsoft of ratcheting up the cost of Windows by effectively forcing consumers to opt for the Premium version of Vista. Acer claims that the Vista Home Basic - the new entry-level Windows - is so poorly featured that consumers will simply reject it. "The new [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel it at all," said Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president at Acer. "There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no remote control."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Let me see if I can figure out the logic you are posting on here. The story is about Windows being over priced. Then you turn around and say buy a Mac with OS X which costs a lot more than any Acer + Windows ever could. Please tell me where I'm going wrong here because I can't figure out what you are suggesting.
Member since:2006-07-25
He's suggesting that instead of paying whatever amount for an acer pc with a crippled copy of windows vista, purchase a Mac OS X which has had all of the features of vista since last year and is in no way crippled.
As for the price, sometimes you pay peanuts you get monkeys.
Member since:2006-06-03
Member since:2006-09-16
The real hardware requirements for all Windows versions have always been a lot higher than the official ones (from Windows 95 to XP). If Microsoft is going to sell heavily downgraded versions of Vista as an entry-level product, then a usable, responsive and full featured Vista version plus the hardware on which to run it will cost more than a Mac. And I'm one of those people who have always complained about Apple selling overpriced stuff.
If Unixes and clones do not represent a solution because they are thought to be more difficult to use than windowish OS's (which is getting largely false as Windows is getting bulky), the fact remains the vast majority of home users aren't going to be needing Vista anyway. They might as well as stick to their older hardware and the older 16/32 bit Windows versions that require fewer hardware resources.
Acer and others might start selling Windows compatible hardware without shipping Windows with it. That would help us and them to save a few bucks.
Member since:2005-07-28
I was a McSoft systems administrator at a college in New Mexico for six years. Servers and workstations out the ....
The only McSoft products that were not bulky were DOS, Win 3.1(1) and maybe NT4 depending on how you view it.
In an attempt to be the all-in-all they became a monstrosity operating platform. I'm sure that upsets the McSoft fan boys but who cares. The future is based on *nix-styled operating systems.
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2005-07-28
Aside from this not actually being news it is actually just the Redmond marketing giant making you pay.
If Acer wants a real OS it should turn to a BSD or Linux.
Buy a Mac along with OS X. Let Acer go if it wants to suckle at Redmond's tit.
OS X, BSD or Linux are excellent alternatives to the Redmond garbage.