arstechnica.com — Three new "Get A Mac" ads have been posted to Apple's website within the last week--one of which was the Surgery ad that debuted during Steve Jobs' keynote at Macworld wherein the PC is getting surgery in order to receive all sorts of upgrades to run Windows Vista.
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justnickJan 17, 2007
Majin -- Don't be so anal. That's worse than the grammar Nazis. Everyone knows that he meant the computer and not the network address.
shrimpcrackersJan 17, 2007
If Apple maintains it current increase of selling computer, it will overtake the rest of the PC industry in about 80 years! Thats right, many of you won't even live to see it.Despite how many more Apple computers are being sold, lets keep in mind that it is all less than 2.5 million laptops, and less than 3% of the world market.No matter what, over a almost a hundred million more "PC's" are being sold over Macs every year.
d3c0yn4m3l355Jan 17, 2007
The OS isn't whats in serious need of heavy hardware, heck I run a PII 300 Mhz box with 256mb ram with XP on it without problems with just normal usage. The programs I require to work in, those are the pain in the ass and make me upgrade once in a while. Even better I don't upgrade because the programs won't function, I upgrade because I can cut time with faster hardware. Now suppose all these high-end software bundles would work properly on a Mac, Mac would probably bear the same issues. But then Mac's won't support proper cad-programs, proper calculation programs now they look cool, but so far besides some picture editing and letter writing they simply can't do what a pc does.I hope one day there is proper support though for Macs software wise, I'm dying to upgrade to something that actually has been thought over design-wise. If the software would run on it, and Macs would be released with top-notch hardware (not as they do now which is always almost top-notch but not the best around) I and many others could consider upgrading.
rderveloyJan 17, 2007
"Only if you have a lot of time on your hands and you enjoy that sort of thing."I don't know about you, but it usually takes me only 5 to 10 minutes to install/replace/upgrade a piece of hardware on my PC and that usually depends on how fast my internet downloads the latest drivers for the hardware.5-10 minutes is definately worth saving a few hundred bucks when it comes to the overall cost of my system.
jvq1958Jan 17, 2007
rderveloy"you never mentioned simply buying a new PC from a manufacturer rather than manually upgrading the old system you had. It seems that the experience you had is not really a MAC vs PC problem, but more of an OEM vs DIY problem."Fair point. Most of my PC acquisitions are from Brand Name manufacturers. I use a DELL X300 notebook myself myself and I support about 20 people with IBM, HP and others.My home systems are mostly DIY. The experience with the brand name supplier is definitely much better than the DIY experience. I would argue however that my point still stands - at least for me. It does seem to take a lot longer to get all of the bits and pieces configured - networks, printers, etc. on XP. The integration and simplicity of operation on OS X was very impressive to me. I think most of my users could manage and OS X with little to no assistance from me. Experience tells me that with XP that simply hasn't been the case.
potentpoetbJan 18, 2007
200mhz 64mb 3 gb hard drivelovely xp machineno special tweaks, just wanted to see if itd run the os
betterthJan 18, 2007
@QuixThan buy a new motherboard for what, 70$? Oh noes! Build your own computer in general...so much cheaper =)