"Apple has shiny new x86 based iMacs and the eloquently named MacBooks (yech) out on the market, and reviews, barring a few fawning toadies in the print media, are exceptionally rare. The usual Apple cooked benchmarks abound, but there is no real third party analysis, I think mainly because it is afraid of what will be found. The biggest bloomer is its tacit non-denials of the fact that the current x86 macs will never run XP in an approved or corporately acceptable fashion, and Vista is a long long long shot. Apple knows, is doing nothing to quell the rumours and speculation, and I think that's irresponsible."
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Member since:2005-11-13
Member since:2005-11-13
Plus as a home user you have not lived until you have used and understand iLife. That $80 application alone is where I spend most of my time. I am a hobby photographer and I have afamily I shoot movies of. I also like music....plus I have a web site...all those things work together and know and help each other work. You don't have anything on Windows that can do that....so if you want to know who is short in the pants on Software then you need to start looking at Windows...it has a bunch of headless non-functaional applications that don't knwo what the meaning of work together is?
Just because a group of apps work together doesn't mean they do a better job than apps that do these individual task seperate. In fact, they usually *don't* do it better.
The integration is nice for Joe Sixpack, but most power users aren't willing trade that over functionality. For example - iTunes. Nice app for my parents, but I personally would never use it. My setup is quite a bit more sophisticated .. and powerful 
Edited 2006-02-15 20:23
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2005-10-06
Or they could create a situation where developers don't make software for Macs anymore. Instead they'd make everything for windows only and tell people "it'll run XP, put that on it and buy the regular version".