What is Digg?Sponsored by Travelzoo
All-time Low Fares for Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year view!
travelzoo.com - Flights $52 and up. Nifty all-airline calendar identifies absolute cheapest dates to fly.
32 Comments
- miniboss, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Vista reality poll shows 95% of market staying with Windows.
C'mon, polls are no guage for anything because it only attracts people who want to waste time on polls. - SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Well, online polls predicted the outcome for the first round of the PS3 vs. Wii battle much more accurately than the "experts" and "analysts" did.
- Mudcrutch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I went Mac in December... and I won't ever be going back.
I am just tired of everything Windows. - jonbeckett73, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I've switched. I have spent my entire career working with various versions of Windows and Linux - right back to the days of DOS and Windows 3.
Through my job (I'm a software developer) I had the opportunity to start playing with Vista quite some time ago, and made the decision about a month ago to switch to OSX at home.
At work I will be working with Vista, MOSS, and Office 2007 still. Interestingly, several of my colleagues are talking about buying Macs for use outside of work too. - Esso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm going to switch.. when I get my next computer, it'll be a Mac. I'm done with Windoze. After fighting with it's bugs and general goofiness since the 3.0 days, Vista has done me a favor by pushing me out of the dark evil empire of Windoze. Vista seems to have the attitude that the I'm just renting my OS and MicroShaft & Hollyweird gets the final say on what I do with my computer.
Not anymore. I'm not gonna take it, no way Jose.
Last December I got my first taste of Macs when my daughter had to replace her stolen Toshiba laptop. I marched her into the neighborhood Apple store and bought her a MacBook. Normally when she gets a new computer I have to spend days cleaning out the promo ***** and loading the necessary programs to get anything done. Not with the MacBook. The only thing she needed to add was NeoOffice to replace MS Office. She loves her Mac, and now that she's back off to her College dorm, I don't get constant calls to fix Windoze problems.
Vista is a bloated mess and I can't wait to get my new iMac. I'd get it now, but the tuition checks don't leave me much left. The Old 2001 Dell will do for now.... oh god I want my Mac. maybe when my daughter gets home for summer she'll let me play with it.... - Esso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Maybe the fact that Vista is a bloated scary mess will push people out from the Dark side and into the light.
- sparkrainfir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8that's because you Linux fan boys don't really exist to the real world.
- miniboss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@skelatal.lama
"So how is that biased in favor of Mac users? What are you implying?."
It's no secret that Apple has the most die-hard and loyal fans out there. And these fans are their best marketing tool because they're incessant in evangelizing their system of choice and they're free. If you would look at the stories/comments on Digg with no knowledge of "Mac or PC" then you'd think Apple ruled the universe because their minions are all over the place promoting Macs, bashing Windows, voting on polls and digging anything with the word "Apple" in it. But is that really a reflection of the market?
This isn't a slam against Apple. This is just reality. While MS has to pay people to promote their products, Apple can put out a silly commercial that advertises nothing and people will praise it as genius. Considering the positive media and public attention Apple gets then it seems rosy for us Mac users but when it comes down to numbers then MS still has over 90% and no poll, youtube video or anti-windows horror story will change that because those users will most likely buy a Vista PC. - Kakcoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Poll results: http://polls.cnet.com/polls/show_results.php?action=results&poll_ident=2014&template_set=news_fd
- lengau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What the [insert swear word of your choice here]? No option for "I'm happily using Linux, have tried Vista, and am going to stay with Linux"? Or ANYTHING to do with Linux/BSD/Other OS's?
I thought the guys at CNet were supposed to have technical knowledge. - apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2WTF?! Ubuntu has fantastic driver support. You are f-ing liar Mac fanboy! And there is nothing different about mac and linux terminal 'friendliness'. Get back to Jobs' ass, you missed a spot!
- BTrey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Not to mention that there's no option for people who use neither Windows nor Mac.
- apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes... Apple is about to take over 50% of the computer market share... go buy their stock! LOL! What a bunch of suckers!
- Esso, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I've heard the saying: "Corporations buy Windows, People buy Macs".
- mzwaterski, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6On a note that is just as interesting. I purchased a Macbook and, while there are definitely some cool features of OSX, I have continued to prefer Windows XP over OSX. It always seems to take extra work to do things in OSX that I do on a daily basis. (One anecdote to another...)
- Artifakt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Am I the only one that initially read it as "Steve Ballmer wants to upgrade his wife"?
- RedLion, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Some other CNet stories with the same poll on their pages have been submitted to digg (for example http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Bill_Gates_To_Do_List ) and probably those stories redirected an huge amount of mac users (digg has a very high number of mac users compared to other websites) on these pages, causing an anomaly in the poll. Case closed?
- alansky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1People who suddenly realize that their choices make them look like morons have to defend their choices, right? So lets forgive all these Microsoft defenders in advance for making themselves look even dumber than they really are.
Whoever buys a PC gets what he or she deserves, so there's really no problem. Mac users rejoice! That poor slob on the fourth floor who's trying to decide whether to throw himself or his PC out the window could have been you! - MikeCerm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This just in: Apparently, Apple users are 20 times more likely to respond to online polls than Windows users!
In Other News: Evidently, CNET's readership has nothing in common with the public at large. - danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The driver support exists in Ubuntu I use a Mac, Ubuntu and XP. The difference is that the drivers in Ubuntu support a much larger set of computers then on a mac so everyonce in while Ubuntu uses the wrong driver. For example I installed it on my older laptop. Drivers worked for everything great except the wireless for some reason it loaded the kernel module for a different wireless card then the one I actaully had. It was very easy to fix because the right driver did exist, I just had to use the terminal to fix it. Who knows it may have been possible to fix it through one of the many nice GUIs provided in Ubuntu but most of the web support mentions using the terminal.
Which as a side note the wireless was much easier to get working in Ubuntu then in XP with the same card. - Esso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They also say: "Once you go Mac, you never go back
- danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah installing on a Mac is much simpler then windows but only after you know what you need to do. The .dmg file is a disk image, you can kind of think of it like a zip file. After it opens and mounts the disk image just move the firefox applicaiton to Appllications folder and you are done.
Most progams have a nice .dmg that provides an alias to the applications folder inside the .dmg with a little drawing or arrow showing you to drag the application to application folder.
There are common mistakes like that, that people make all the time when they first start using a Mac. When I switched I think it was a year before I figured out what that little green button actually does. There are differences that you need to get used to either way. - adc86, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@mzwaterski
Could I ask specifically what takes more work? Many of my friends and colleagues have recently switched to OS X, and it has been my experience that people expect the complexity of Windows in everything they do- A few examples that come to mind being "installing" software, and more specifically, downloading AIM for use online simply because they don't know that iChat exists... etc.
Just curious. - bitterg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2No, we've never seen a stuffed ballot box when it comes to Windows vs. Mac polls online. This is entirely new (not).
- danielwsmithee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I think you are right though. I work as a SW Engineer at a company where the standard OS is XP soon to move the Vista. About 50% of the SW engineers have switched or are planning on using a Mac at home. Apple has made huge in roads among consumers and SW developers. It will take time to seep into the corporate world but it will happen.
- apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well I for one was able to figure out that by pressing the next button a few times got me Firefox installed on widows... however on my mac, I couldn't figure out why it kept going away every time I rebooted and constantly need to extract itself?! I downloaded it and opened it and it ran... am I really supposed to know that its not installed? I still have no clue how to get firefox installed on my mac, I have to open up the file (.dmg I think) and it takes a couple mins to load every time. Been using computer for over 12 years and felt like atleast windows assisted in installing it.
windows comes with messenger just like macs come with ichat. Not a fan of either. - strupatn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I've been hearing that everyone in the world is about to switch to Mac since I can remember. They've always been about to take over the market, but nothing has changed.
- adc86, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I think they're talking about Consumer desktops. A good friend of mine went XP--> Ubuntu---> OS X. Ubuntu is good- real good, but until the driver support is there and the terminal becomes a welcome feature (as it is in OS X, and slightly less so in XP) rather than a necessity, Linux is not the platform "for the masses."
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2@mini-bs:
"Vista reality poll shows 95% of market staying with Windows.
C'mon, polls are no guage for anything because it only attracts people who want to waste time on polls."
And digg comments are no gage of anything because they only attract people who comment on diggs?
Your logic is consistently flawed. - SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4So how is that biased in favor of Mac users? What are you implying?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+9Yeah, as web pools are accurate statistical tools... :-P
And you are right. Digg is crowded with brainless Kevin Rose worshipers (i.e. Apple fanboys).
Buried as inaccurate. - Shirk, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Ummm... that's a great title, except that only 11,000 people have taken the poll so that's only +5000 people.
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is