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- ejstacey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah.. just like the last 5 years have been "Year of Linux" or "Year of Desktop Linux".
- mattv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nope. It's the year of the dog. I googled it.
- fanboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Every year is the year of the Mac for me :)
- jicon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24% market share.
Tell me in five years when we hit double digits to start considering whether the Mac has made huge gains.
I use a Mac mini at home, and I generally only use it for email, web browsing, iTunes, and using a few 3rd party apps like ComicLife and MacGourmet.
I'm impressed with some multi-tasking abilities, but the OS and Apple software really needs a lot of work to improve performance compared to their Windows counterparts.
The finder is rediculously awkward, The mouse pointer is BLACK... making it difficult to track at times, Enabling file sharing to Windows networks is incredibly lacklustre. I want to allow certain users access to some folders on my Mac. Why does the default sharing share EVERYTHING in one personal folder share? VNC-Apple Remote Desktop is rather fickle on the machine, prone to lock-ups on slow WAN links. Editing an email in Apple Mail is awkward when doing a simple task like changing fonts. Why can't they implement Outlook style editing, placing font commands on a toolbar, instead of the awkward little font floating window? Photoshop, iMovie, iPhoto (Why on earth can't someone place their Photos in a common folder to share among computer users for family members to share, akin to iTunes?), even Word and Quicken seem slower than my three year old Windows machine alternative. Not to mention, Oracle, SQL Server, Exchange, LDAP and video driver performance is either MIA or again, subpar in comparison.
This new switch to Intel isn't anything to get excited about today. Alitvec emulation is slow. Most applications run at about half of their original speeds if they are emulated thru Rosetta.
The OS has 64-bit addressing, but again is restricted to 32-bit performance, due to the UI.
I remember the switch from 16-bit windows to 32-bit windows caused most applications to almost double in size. We are seeing the same affect when moving to Universal Binaries on the Mac.
iTunes.app 6.02 is a whopping 60MB in size!!! Why are Mac applications so large? Why do they need to consume so much memory?
Until the applications are native Intel only, I'm expecting quite a few needing to purchase an extra HDD or two and another stick of RAM (Tip: Avoid the Apple mark-up at their store) - ramsinks.com, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Totally.
I bought my first Mac. Of course.. I have a few XP and *Nix machines as well.. but.
tru dat.
Peeps are starting to wize up. We still need windows for gaming and coprt use generally.. but for home use - yes. - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Somebody at Macworld thinks that 2006 might be the Year of the Mac? Really? He must have thought long and hard about that.
- Hieros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, probably not.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just think its funny that out of the goddamn blue microsoft has been running TV commercials about how great windows is and the things you can "do with applications that run on windows"... I see now why they are doing that--paranoid ***** ;p can't blame them either. Their bloated, buggy, unstable empire is a house of cards and apple, google, and others have positioned themselves to take a healthy slice of MS's market. Competition like this bad for the monopoly, but good for us.
Why else would a MONOPOLY company feel the need to run ads about it's MONOPOLY flagship product when there are pretty much no other alternatives (yet) for the average consumer? Never thought I'd see the day; This is a breath of fresh air in this industry when you consider Adobe bought Macromedia and Alias bought Mechanical Desktop or whoever makes 3dsmax. - neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1don't say anything unless you've tried a macintosh other than the one at a school.... then give your opinion....
- vinny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Mac should just go into the portable media business."
I'm always amazed when people have this attitude. Even if you don't like Apple products, you can't deny that Apple has a significant and positive influence on the computer market in general. Competition is good for everyone. I think a computer world without Apple would be pretty boring for all of us. - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Will 2006 be the 'Year of the Mac?' "
It certainly is the "Year of the Mac Stories on Digg" - kingamoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@bpd115: how much does the PowerMac Dual 2 cost? Now how much does the P4 3.0 Ghz cost? Do you see where I'm going with this?
- jicon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@bpd115:
That mini is pimped as far as it can... with a 7200RPM drive and a gig of RAM.
SQL Server doesn't run on a Mac at all... you misread my point. Connectivity to other DB servers are generally slow. MySQL performance is abismal on OSX compared to other NIX boxes... G5 or not.
The size of Universal binary files is my point. We know they are large, because they HAVE to be, in order to run on both platforms... But that means you and I better invest in some HDD and memory real estate in order to run. By the way, for years, Mac applications are generally memory hogs compared to their Linux/Windows counterparts. Shipping any Mac with an abismal 512MB RAM is just asking for trouble down the road. - Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Answer to title: Yes
- bpd115, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Never had an issue with a black mouse pointer. You're running things like SQL Sever on a Mac Mini with a 4200 RPM hard drive and complaining about performance?rnrnNot all Mac applications are large and the entire app is in one package. Universial Binary apps will be larger due to the fact they need to have code for both platforms. That's obvious. rnrnWord and Quicken are fine on my PowerMac Dual 2 vs. My P4 3.0 Ghz...rnrnDon't expect the Mac Mini to "Fly". It's a great computer for kids and people who simply need to surf, email, listen to some music and perhaps do some iLife stuff...It's not for the Uber Geek.
- ronaldpoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its just January and i already bought my first Mac... this year is going to be crazy
- veracon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Answer to title: I hope not that people will spend their money on computers that cost 3x 'regular' PCs.
- cusoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Return"? If you are a Digg reader, there's no "return" here, because we've been constantly innundated with Mac story after Mac story... like this one. Of course the editor of a Mac site is going to try and tout this idea, it's what his site covers. No Digg for biased story.
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes. Here is what's obvious for Apple in 2006.
1. Intel transition
2. More iTunes Music store content which means more purchases
3. More iPod sales
4. One More Thing(lol)... Mac OS X Leopard - happbando, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i hope it's the year of the cheaper ibook, or macbook, or whatever. my roommate's emac won't fit on his desk.
- MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it will be the year when there was a lot of hypre around apple products. thats it
- phugger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Take away the iPod and you are left with a platform struggling to reach 3% penetration and a cult of lemmings. I've been waiting for at least 10 years for the promised Mac 'take over'. Apple is becoming more evil than MS ever was. They want to control everything and be in charge of your total computing experience. They are close to succeeding. They just need to ditch Photoshop and Office. What a great day that will be, all the lemmings suckling exclusively at the teats of mother Apple....... (c8rnrnI could never switch back to a Mac, it's just too embarassing.
- KingMeatwad4th, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Def. can't wait to see more intel mac's.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ilyag:
"There ARE, in fact, alternatives. Unix-based systems are gaining a significantly larger marketshare among business users than ever before. Macs are slowly gaining on the consumer level with the recent success of numerous Apple products that create brand loyalty among the general population who wouldn't otherwise care about operating systems.
Those ads are not targetted at consumers, they are targetted at businesses, an area where Microsoft most CERTAINLY has no monopoly and has to compete tooth-and-nail against companies like Oracle, Sun, IBM, and open source software."
I was talking about the *average user*. btw, have you even SEEN the ads? they are most definitely targeted towards consumers and not businesses. maybe you're watching the wrong ads. the ones i'm talking about are set against a white background with pretty little animations coming out of a yellow window with a voice over and some random user saying how good windows is at task X.
i'm well aware of *NIX alternatives, but again, i'm talking about the average-*****-user. guess your analytical skills are the ones that are horrible ;p - hwood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not until they come out with an intel based ibook for a lot less than $1999.
- valis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have a Mac. Actually, two as of this weekend.
No. Not the year of the Mac. More likely the Year of the Impeachment of George W. Bush. Well, ok. The year of every cable internet service offering internet phones. - pyromithrandir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0s/2006/1984
Yes. :) - mrblogadise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not the year of the mac or the google pc, thank the gods
- eddieo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have always been a windows guy. I started searching ebay and craigslist for a mac to buy. I messed around with one at a local comp store and decided to buy one. I want to use one to get a true sense of why many people boast about it so much. I may switch entirely, I don't know. I may not like it. But I want to give it a few months to a year maybe to decide. I'm still looking for a good deal......
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"and Alias bought Mechanical Desktop or whoever makes 3dsmax"
Autodesk (Who make Mechanical Desktop, 3dsmax, AutoCAD, etc.) bought Alias. - ProAm500, on 10/12/2007, -1/+139 days and counting since I last dugg something....this "story" is probably why...
- kamizu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's interesting how every group comes up with a list of predictions and predict that a year will be "the year of the XX", and at the end of the year, we compile a list of the predictions that were actually true, a top 100 list of XX, and finally summarise a year as "the year of the XX". Basically we do this at the start and end of every year and everytime people get it wrong.
Is there a point in calling 2006 "the year of the Mac", other than keeping up with tradition? - cyberprashant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Answer: No. PC's are here to stay. Apple will never allow people to clone their hardware.
So it's either Windows or Linux. These two platforms are here to stay--there's just too large of a user base. Mac should just go into the portable media business. - skealoha86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mac tech is infinitely more interesting than any other tech. digg has become UI-centric, matching the UI-centric feel of apple products; it just makes sense that there would be so many mac stories on digg.
saying that, as a mac user, the intel macs suck. the two in production were rushed out to meet the demand of the hacking community who can't wait to run windows natively on the hardware... but the hardware itself isn't impressive so the whole thing flops.
once the marketing spin that apple has been placing on these macs go away, apple is going to fizzle out; the competition in the pc market is too great for apple to take any sort of control of it on hardware design alone. there are just too many indifferent users using windows boxes for apple to take over... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i wouldnt think so. I never cared much for pure speculation.
- xenon221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not if, but when Microsoft falls, it's going to be fast and hard. And it'll happen before anyone even realizes what is going on. Rough times which I'm not looking forward to.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Every year is the year of the Mac as far as I'm concerned.
- elroy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12006 will be the year of the mack, aka, ME. Hide your bitches!
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1bwaahhahahahaahahahahaaa
no - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0mrfreeze, your analytical skills are horrible.
There ARE, in fact, alternatives. Unix-based systems are gaining a significantly larger marketshare among business users than ever before. Macs are slowly gaining on the consumer level with the recent success of numerous Apple products that create brand loyalty among the general population who wouldn't otherwise care about operating systems.
Those ads are not targetted at consumers, they are targetted at businesses, an area where Microsoft most CERTAINLY has no monopoly and has to compete tooth-and-nail against companies like Oracle, Sun, IBM, and open source software. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Hmm, maybe but personally my experiences with Apple so far are not good. After reading so much good about OS X, I told my girlfriend to buy a Mac mini when she needed a new computer. Apple made her wait over 2 months before she finally got her system delivered, while constantly telling her "it should be here next week". Then the system she got didn't have Bluetooth like she had ordered. Also, using Itunes in Switzerland automatically sets it to use German with no way to change it. (Duh, Switzerland has 4 official languages, and is home to tons of expats).
Also, I personally simply could not use OS X. Nothing made sense to me and I never felt like I was in control. I felt like there was one way to do something, and only one way. But probably that is my fault, because I've gotten used to using Windows, and various unix gui's (KDE, CDE). - Chasin_Fat_Kids, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0if you have nothing better to comment than "Mac-sturbators".
please turn your light out and go to bed like your mom told you to at 9 o'clock - valis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0*Why else would a MONOPOLY company feel the need to run ads about it's MONOPOLY flagship product when there are pretty much no other alternatives (yet) for the average consumer?*
Why did you capitalize monopoly? Did you think we couldn't read or are you just being a jerk. - diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I'd say this will be Apple's best year in company history. Once they roll out all their Intel-Macs and the new iPod, they're good to go.
- harisund, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This whole routine of "Year of this" and "Year of that" is getting kind of lame now. There is no point really in trying to predict what the year is going to be of. Why not wait and watch? I have heard "Year of the desktop Linux," "year of Windows Vista", " year of Windows XP service pack 3" perhaps and many more. I guess I should agree with the guy who said year of the dog. Even in China, it is indeed the year of the dog.
- corkster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Oh god I hope not. The last thing the world needs is more pretentious mac users.
- einsteindesign, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nope, 2007 is the year. Until the power apps from Adobe and Apple are 100% native, the power (desktop) users will simply not bother to switch to the intel gear
Software will come mid-year or even Q4. Macworld will come Q1 2007 with (probably) a slew of hardware like they always do. Q1/Q2 of 2007 will be massive for Mac users. Clear off the credit cards now, you're gonna need 'em.
2007 will have Vista and OS X 10.5 running head-to-head on very similar hardware. We'll see exactly how they stack up. - AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2We've seen this every year and the answer is always no. The year the iPod fad goes away and Apple is back peddling laptops to junior college dropouts? Maybe.
- Abx0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1No. No year will be the year of the Mac, ever. EVER. Microsoft has it's hands too far in the cookie jar for that to ever happen.
- Peptis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Macworld is hardly going to give an unbiased view.
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