Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Mar 2009 19:59 UTC, submitted by shaneco
In a move that shouldn't surprise anyone, Microsoft has finally started to run an ad that's a direct attack against Apple. Previous marketing campaigns by Microsoft have always more or less ignored Apple, but the company's latest commercial is a direct attack on Apple in a place where it should hurt Apple the most: price.
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Sort of. It's really the firmware and chipset that make the machine though. Apple does use pretty standard PC chipsets but the firmware has yet to be adopted by too many others.
EFI is NOT the same as the PC BIOS. Apple's bootcamp is basically a BIOS emulation module for EFI that allows it to run older operating systems.
The thrased corpse that is the BIOS and the crappy old IA32 instruction set is the only thing that keeps a modern PC "still a PC".
Some Cisco routers use x86 Intel CPU's. Doesn't make them IBM Compatible PC's by any means.
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2006-05-11
I agree. I have 2 GHz Core Duo MacBook I bought in 2007, and it does whatever I want. Yes, the graphics could be better, but besides that I have no complaints.
If I HAD to buy a PC, I'd install Linux, which I can use but don't enjoy as much as OS X. To me there is no reason to buy anything but a Mac, I have thoroughly enjoyed every one I've owned (I'm on my fourth).