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<p>How do you prove that? My PC takes ~20 seconds to start and become functional. Turn off the user screen and don’t bother with autostart bs. Seconds to shutdown? Who cares… Windows doesn’t slow down after a while as long as you know how to close a program. Your defrag is built in, ours isn’t, but it’s not like it doesn’t exist. Properly configured UltimateDefrag is damn hard to beat and I’ll bet anything OSX’s defrag isn’t as flexible or nearly as efficient. Seeing as how a PC at the same price as a Mac would have much better hardware, I hardly doubt it’s going to run faster through bootcamp. </p>
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[<em>]Spotlight is called search in Windows. XP’s, Vista’s, and 7’s is comparable. Any third-party (google desktop etc.) is also comparable.
[</em>]Time machine is also known as backing up. Automatic backup is nothing new on Windows.
[<em>]Spaces is virtual desks. Copy pasta from linux and Windows has had that kind of software a lot longer than osx.
[</em>]Expose. See above.
[<em>]“Mac OS X has so many features that Windows doesn’t have.” - haha.
[</em>]And I guess Windows 7 is unknown to you. Build 7000 is all over the internet.
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<p>Oh, and uh, have fun paying for your new service pack ( SNOW LEPEORD>?!). Windows doesn’t charge for that.</p>
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<p>Windows doesn’t come with crapware/bloatware if you buy a direct copy. If you buy some premade laptop/computer that includes Windows then yes they include random things. But, that’s not how Windows actually comes if you buy it standalone. But, why would you even buy it x.x</p>
<p>Oooo look at all the pretty software! Oh! Instant video chat! mm sorry but us PC users have been doing this long time now on things like, gasp, yahoo and msn. iPhoto? seriously? Maybe Mac users are new to digital photos on computers but Windows reached that stage of evolution ages ago. It seems you think Apple has revolutionized digital media, when in fact, you’re boasting about things that are all old news. </p>
<p>By the way, when it comes to performance for each application. Freeware for Windows is vastly superior to anything on OSX. Don’t believe me? Compare iTunes to anything else. I dare you.</p>
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<p>So, you’re trying to convince people to use Macs instead of Windows yet use Windows as one of your points. How classic. Most software is actually not available cross platform i.e. the reason you even have Bootcamp is to run Windows and run software you can’t find for OSX. Yeah, so when you’re at college and have downtime you can’t play any good games :D. Your buddies across the hall want to play something on LAN? Sorry, you have a mac. </p>
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<p>Apple doesn’t need drivers for USB devices? XP had that five years ago. Macs run Microsoft Office. Macs run Microsoft Office. Windows runs Microsoft Office. Why would that be a selling point for a Mac? It’s exactly the same…</p>
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<p>The reason there aren’t any viruses is because Mac dug into the Unix family and built up from their code. Also the same reason any other unix based OS has no viruses: The population is too small for it to be of any use. There are plenty of Antiviruses that will keep you safe for Windows and even if you didn’t run one, half a brain will keep you clean. </p>
<p>OSX isn’t any more stable than Windows is. Macs do crash. Most Windows crashes result from third-party software, not from the OS. By the way, Apple.com doesn’t even run their servers on Mac servers, they run it on Solaris because Macs crashe so much. </p>
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<p>Sure, but design hinders practicality and performance. </p>
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<p>God ####, this doesn’t stop does it? Webcams and photo editing is new all of a sudden? Way too old.</p>
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<p>It seems that Apple fans are finally starting to realize that Apple, and in particular, Steve Jobs, doesn’t give a **** about them. This should have been obvious for a long time, but I guess it takes snubbing off Macworld for them to finally start to process such a reality. Now they’re talking about boycotting and other crazy stuff.</p>
<p>I mean seriously, how can you buy products from a man like Steve Jobs? This is the guy who convinced the true genius, Steve Wozniak, to sell his computers with him and cut him in bigtime, even though Wozniak did all the work. This is the same man who sold Wozniak’s Breakout to Atari for thousands of dollars, yet lied about how much they offered and only gave him a couple hundred or so of it. This is a man who berates his employees to the point that he was fired from his own company. So come on, if he would do stuff like this to his own “best friend” and his employees, do you think he honestly gives two ****s about you?</p>
<p>Worst yet, people credit Jobs as being brilliant and the man behind all of Apple’s success, comparing him to great people like Dean Kamen. In reality, he’s a con man. The Apple/Apple II, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone… none of these things were his inventions. But he uses them to take further advantage of you all my mesmorizing you with more shiny plastics, remaking the same products over and over, until you buy every version. If you want to give him credit for something he actually made, how about for the Apple Lisa?</p>
<p>It’s a sad world when people idolize crooks like Jobs instead of geniuses like Wozniak. Even Bill Gates is a vastly better man, due to the massive amounts of charity work he does for the world. Buying Apple products is like buying from the guy who sells necklaces on the street. Stolen goods, or fakes, you don’t know, but you don’t care, cause you’re easily swayed by his convincing that it’s a good product for a good deal.</p>
<p>fanboys will never realize how little Apple cares.</p>
<p>If Apple cared, they wouldn’t boast their hardware as being superior in every way, and then suddenly change CPUs to the other side, despite the complications to the consumer. This is especially true in the case of the PPC/Intel change, which all boiled down to another case of Steve Jobs having a temper tantrum when IBM was making him look like a ******bag for promising things he couldn’t deliver. The users didn’t matter to him as long as he could burn IBM. They just switched it all around, and expected everyone to buy a new machine or get left behind eventually. If you’ve got money, you can be an Apple fan.</p>
<p>I can’t wait until they drop this s*<em>**ty BSD core they’re using and switch to a Vista kernel for OSX. The fanboys will s</em>*t themselves at first, just like they have at every other major change to the platform, but then Jobs will tell them that everything’s okay and that it will be awesome, and they’ll all fall in line.</p>
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<p>Bottom line. Windows is cheaper, it’s faster even when cheaper, there’s more software available, there’s much better tech support (broken apple anything? Send it all in to Apple and get charged a f###ton!), you can build your own PC, updates are actually free, there’s thousands of games, there’s two button mouses, broadband is not a problem (as lauke said with Mac’s problems with Penn wireless), Windows (but probably Linux more) is ahead of OS X in any of its software, Microsoft actually cares for its customers and doesn’t leave them behind when they make changes, there’s far better media capability (cccp is god among codecs or media center for actual cross-anything entertainment, whatever), freeware freeware freeware, more peripherals, we have tablets and touchscreens (apple sweared 7 years ago they would never make anything touch -> lol Jobs), Windows manages memory a lot better than OSX, and PCs can be tweaked to your hearts content.</p>