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- DaviDaviDaviD, on 03/23/2008, -17/+360Like my friend was saying the other day, I really think Apple needs to focus on what makes OS X great rather than what makes Vista bad.
- ziptnf, on 03/23/2008, -80/+372Who takes anything that Apple Ads say seriously anymore?
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -109/+304So, they're not reviews, they're just... opinions on a product, which is.. a review, basically.
- slinky317, on 03/23/2008, -34/+196Apple fanboys.
- shadcrkd, on 03/23/2008, -24/+164I'm all for OS X, but the fact that Apple is only talking about "HEY VISTA IS SLOW LOLOL" is annoying.
- meridian300, on 03/23/2008, -21/+138Am I the only one who hasn't had an issue with Vista yet???
- l0k0, on 03/23/2008, -23/+123Wow, Apple is still bashing Vista more than a year after its release. When the hell are they going to actually promote Macs in a postivie manner rather than just smearing the competition?
- Ganja420, on 03/23/2008, -25/+124Vista's so horrible that we let you install it on our macs now if you choose
- whiskeymb, on 03/23/2008, -38/+126Reviews typically have structure, tests preformed and some sort of critical analysis. So no, they aren't reviews.
- dansy, on 03/23/2008, -29/+96that is a little like saying Hillary needs to focus on what she does better than Obama ... unfortunately that is quite limited so it's either attack ads or admitting defeat ...
- HappyScrappy, on 03/23/2008, -41/+99Someone is splitting hairs here.
Something isn't a review, but instead is an opinion piece? What is a review other than an opinion piece? And an article suggesting how MS could start over? If Vista were well received, would people be talking about how to start over?
Vista isn't well regarded. Yes, the fact that one of them is an op-ed piece does mean that it isn't the "official opinion of CNet" that Vista is the biggest mistake in tech history, merely one writer. But CNet's name isn't so strong that this is a huge difference anyway. - Septimus, on 03/23/2008, -15/+72The Apple ads have always sucked. Instead of basing themselves on the virtues of OSX, they just make the company look whiney while they bash a company who they are deeply envious.
/Apple user - IphtashuFitz, on 03/23/2008, -26/+73I think Apple has a real potential of turning off a lot of potential customers with all these ads. At first they were cute, but now they're getting tired and just reek of smugness. They need to come up with a completely new advertising campaign and not just push this one until everybody but Steve Jobs is sick to death of those two...
- CPOliver, on 03/23/2008, -6/+51I love my MacBook as a recent switcher, but I agree with the consensus that Apple are basically making themselves look elitist and smug. This is the image that the well-known Mac zealots are recognised and loathed for. I recommend OS X and Apple hardware quite frequently, but doing so in a demeaning and argumentative fashion is no way to win over customers in my opinion.
I don't know if anyone remembered the Sandisk Sansa ads that were belittling to both the iPod and iPod owners alike, but they made me think of Sandisk in a different way. These ads were (to me at least) negative and gave me the impression that the company were douches. However, when it's Apple with such an attitude there seems to be much less controversy, whether it's because of Apple fanboys or just that people think of them as a a smug company, I'm not sure.
Apple should definitely be focusing on their products advantages rather than the competitions flaws. - MioTheGreat, on 03/23/2008, -15/+51Completely untrue. It'll be a cold day in hell before you ever get me to willingly use an OSX machine again.
- Ninjao, on 03/23/2008, -8/+42Have you seen my stapler?
- slinky317, on 03/23/2008, -11/+43Or "Shoulda stuck with XP."
- themoose, on 03/23/2008, -23/+54I wonder what all these mac fanbois ^ would be saying if it was Microsoft who were doing this.
- slinky317, on 03/23/2008, -10/+41Probably never, because then people would realize that a lot of the stuff that made Macs great have been incorporated into Windows over the years, and it's hard to justify paying hundreds of dollars more on a product when you can get something equivalent for much cheaper.
- MusicalGenius, on 03/23/2008, -6/+35I was going to say the "Cult of Apple fanboys".
I looked up the exact definition of "cult" and took out the religious parts and it ended up being very amusing. - DigiRaven, on 03/23/2008, -6/+35No. I'm not sure where these people are coming from. I've installed vista on think-pads, Compaq evos, custom machines, gateways, dells, and shuttles with no problems. To me I think it runs a lot better than XP. It manages the memory a hell of a lot smoother than XP. Either these people are Linux and mac lovers or they are just complete idiots. Ive just built a new computer for myself running a 64bit vista. I'm running everything that I am used to from games to video editing. Damn its fast.
- bjornski, on 03/23/2008, -3/+32Microsoft has a history of letting you put their OS on damn near any machine you can put together.
Apple tried it once, and got slaughtered in the marketplace. - highwebl, on 03/23/2008, -8/+36So, advertising isn't 100% factual?
You learn something everyday. - BLACKEAGLE, on 03/23/2008, -7/+32i love vista so there!
- bjornski, on 03/23/2008, -5/+29Yeah, because all the offices I go into are running Macs.
/s - inactive, on 03/23/2008, -0/+23I use and enjoy Microsoft products, but I'm not a fanboy. If they ***** up and I know it, I'm going to bitch along with everyone else. No company is infallible, and that's something I think Apple fanboys don't acknowledge.
- MioTheGreat, on 03/23/2008, -1/+24Whoosh.
- Urkel, on 03/23/2008, -3/+25Apple ads hurt themselves more than they hurt MS. Microsoft has always had a reputation that tainted their products regardless of whether they are good or bad. But Apple's reputation was always perceived as a luxury vehicle dealer rather than a used car salesman. These ads expose the side of Apple that the general public never knew existed. So while it makes Mac fans grin, most everyone else see them as petty whining.
In the end then many people who were neutral towards Apple now distrust them for focusing so much on slamming the competition instead of their own product. - pvcrisp, on 03/23/2008, -3/+25I guess that means were going to go with Vista
- unknownsoldierX, on 03/23/2008, -2/+24Except, Microsoft doesn't have ads that bash Apple products with outright lies. You could say they put positive spin on their products (or even lie) but they don't do that AND completely make ***** up about OSX.
- scrumdiddly, on 03/23/2008, -6/+28I'm honestly not sure there *are* any Microsoft fanboys. Just people who knows that Apple is full of crap.
- slinky317, on 03/23/2008, -6/+27Microsoft makes machines now?
Are you referring to the X-Box? - jdaniel284, on 03/23/2008, -4/+25I seriously doubt you bought a Mac because of Vista.
- BlackCow, on 03/23/2008, -2/+22Vista is NOT insecure, is NOT filled with viruses, and hasn't been rebooted in months for me. You apple fan boys can't accept for one second that maybe Vista is a good OS can you? Maybe people actually like Vista, and not because its the market share. Maybe people actually like building their computers instead of being forced to whatever crap apple decides you should have.
/rant - Gillagad, on 03/23/2008, -1/+21No, I've been running Vista from launch with no problems at all (Same goes for my friends with Vista). And no I did not have to spend hours tweaking it to make it usable unless you call installing the OS 'hours tweaking'.
- igob8a, on 03/23/2008, -1/+21Nope, I've used it as my main OS since beta 2 and I have yet to have a single problem.
Well my graphing calculator drivers wouldn't install saying that the driver wasn't compatible with Vista, but a couple days after I reported the error to Microsoft, I got a nice popup saying that the problem had been resolved. So I plugged the calculator in and BAM it worked.
Nice work Microsoft. - Urkel, on 03/23/2008, -0/+20If you saw a car commercial based on the premise "Your car sucks. Go buy our brand instead, knucklehead" with no visuals of the product you're supposed to be buying then you'd think they're morons. Yet that's exactly what Apple has been doing. 2 guys talking about why your OS sucks and zero visuals on what makes their product so much better.
I've never understood why a company with such beautiful and elegant products would try so hard to hide them. There's a reason why luxury car commercials spend so much time doing closeups of the elegant lines and curves of their product, so since Apple perceives itself a notch above the rest then why doesn't Apple do the same thing? - aargh01, on 03/23/2008, -1/+20I have a friend who recently installed Leapord on his MacBook, and it was so glitchy that it messed everything up, he ended up losing a lot of his important data, and finally he gave up, cleared the whole thing and reinstalled an older version. Every OS that comes out has problems right off the bat, not just Windows. And over the years, I've had a lot more problems with Apple's proprietary software (like iTunes, Quicktime, goddawful Safari) than I have with Microsoft's proprietary software (like Windows Media Player, MS Works, almost as goddawful Internet Explorer).
- ExRe, on 03/23/2008, -9/+28Especially since Vista actually runs smoother and loads apps faster than XP once you have a decent computer.
- dallashigh, on 03/23/2008, -4/+22Microsoft makes computers now?
- alex7575, on 03/23/2008, -3/+21a review needs to be unbiased, an opinion is usually biased
- badqat, on 03/23/2008, -3/+19Which is obvious, since Microsoft doesn't produce hardware...
- darkecho, on 03/23/2008, -17/+33Most of the time when buying new computer components I read the reviews on Newegg. A lot of them say "awesome!!!!! great price" or "dont buy.. it sucks!!!!" and those are reviews. So even though Newegg, Amazaon, etc.. calls them reviews, you are saying they are not. I have to agree with everyone else on this one.
- tcpip4lyfe, on 03/23/2008, -5/+20You don't have to.
- UnWeave, on 03/23/2008, -1/+16A review would be more, um, a REVIEW of a product. So no a one-line blanket statement but something rather longer, considering more point of views and actually having some examples to back up statements. These one-liners are not reviews.
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -1/+16Sorry, but any office doing anything scientific will be running Windows most likely. That's the platform all statistical and computational analysis software is written for. Mac may have the upper hand in digital media, but that's literally it.
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -5/+19What he said. Vista is hundreds of times better, and it still falls behind Ubuntu and Fedora in some aspects.
- gazzaDJ, on 03/23/2008, -2/+16Its not Vista's fault you fail at computing.
- JamesMorris, on 03/23/2008, -4/+17All hail the leader of the cool brigade!
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