You MUST watch this video!!!!

[Sanosuke Sagara]

I've owned windows, well, forever, and this video (along with dual-boot) might just convert me to apple when I buy my next computer. Oh and you'll be on the floor when it'd finished. Read the google vid description for the whole story; then you'll know what I'm talking about.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4134446112378047444

[zionoverfire]

And yet almost no one buys Macs.....

[Oktoberfest]

hehe the 1:45 mark

[2poor]

It's a shame games don't get released on macs or else I'd buy one.

[Grave_Addiction]

Hah hahahahhahahaha

[Quackzilla]

Until that super futuristic Sony computer with all the panels and future shit is released I am sticking to Windows.

[vietgurl]

"If I seem to be laying on the 'stolen from Apple' la...
thick, you're damn right. Ordinarily, I'm careful abo...
accusations like this, because I know I'll get hamm...
bashers. But in this case, there's not a shred of do...
features Microsoft demonstrated last night were pu...
unadulterated ripoffs from Mac OS X. I could hear...
of recognition from the audience around me.

Does it matter? Not really. The courts have estat...
can't copyright a software idea (only its code), bes...."

Yes, I am so bored that I paused a frame in the video and started typing.

L1NUX4VR

[slimpip]

I am seriously considering converting by purchasing a new Mac this summer. The thing that has always daunted me has beeen switching to a new OS and finding out its little tricks and quirks. Also the lack of gaming on Macs also kept me at bay. But with the dual boot, intel agreement, incredible benchmarks (even for laptops), and Windows just getting more frustrating... it may be time for a change.

[Ikohn4ever]

amusing

[gamefan1686]

Thats good stuff

[jaykrue]

It really doesn't matter at this point. With that new Mac app (Boot Camp), you can put pretty much any WinOS on it (Vista notwithstanding). And even then it doesn't matter either if Apple got that stuff out first. It's whoever makes those appz better. Hell, if anyone is here who is old enough to remember, Apple came out w/ a graphical user interface first back in 1981 and Bill Gates (along with a burgeoning company called Microsoft) was shown what it looked like by Steve Jobs. The earliest version of Windows came out around 84-85. So what was Apple doing in those 3-4 years supposedly ahead of Microsoft? They had more than enough ample time to improve & streamline their OS. But Windows was more user friendly and that's what killed Apple at the time. Seriously, everyone should realize that Windows is never innovative but they're quite good at copying/taking things and making them more appealing to a wider audience. So, big. fcuking. deal. :roll:

[Soodmeg]

Anyone else think the that guys voice was annoying as hell?

I only watched half because i couldnt stand his lisp.

[SteveMcQ]

Haha...nice.

[Graystone]

Anyone else think the that guys voice was annoying as hell?

I only watched half because i couldnt stand his lisp.

"digital pistures are easy to find"

Yes it was but the video was deserves a :lol: as I type this out on an ibook G4

[Jek Porkins]

Took me a second to figure out what was so funny.

Then I couldn't stop laughing.

This reply posted from my Mac Powerbook.

Go Apple.

[freakyzeeky1986]

anyone notice Bill Gate's mugshot in the presentation? That's some funny shit.

[vietgurl]

only reason why I use windows is because I play a lot of games and I like to build my own PC's. people who buy prebuilt computers are being ripped off.

[ZeroSupporT]

I am a windows user, but I love these mac movies

[foltzie]

Ha

[Sanosuke Sagara]

"If I seem to be laying on the 'stolen from Apple' la...
thick, you're damn right. Ordinarily, I'm careful abo...
accusations like this, because I know I'll get hamm...
bashers. But in this case, there's not a shred of do...
features Microsoft demonstrated last night were pu...
unadulterated ripoffs from Mac OS X. I could hear...
of recognition from the audience around me.

Does it matter? Not really. The courts have estat...
can't copyright a software idea (only its code), bes...."

Yes, I am so bored that I paused a frame in the video and started typing.

L1NUX4VR

wow...

[Mookyjooky]

It really doesn't matter at this point. With that new Mac app (Boot Camp), you can put pretty much any WinOS on it (Vista notwithstanding). And even then it doesn't matter either if Apple got that stuff out first. It's whoever makes those appz better. Hell, if anyone is here who is old enough to remember, Apple came out w/ a graphical user interface first back in 1981 and Bill Gates (along with a burgeoning company called Microsoft) was shown what it looked like by Steve Jobs. The earliest version of Windows came out around 84-85. So what was Apple doing in those 3-4 years supposedly ahead of Microsoft? They had more than enough ample time to improve & streamline their OS. But Windows was more user friendly and that's what killed Apple at the time. Seriously, everyone should realize that Windows is never innovative but they're quite good at copying/taking things and making them more appealing to a wider audience. So, big. fcuking. deal. :roll:

Spoken like a true user thats ignorant of what really happened.

Apple wanted their product on only their PCs. Windows signed a contract with IBM that was cheaper and could be built to custom specs. Businesses went for that. Nothing more than that. Apples was expensive, and the american public puts price before value.

To say that Windows was EVER easier to use is retarded. All Bill ever did was take everything and make it backwards.

Also, for everyone saying Macs dont have any games, look on apples website... they get all the hits (For the most part) but just lag 3 months behind. When you're a Mac user, it really doesnt affect you as its new to you. But why play games on your mac when you have a couple game consoles? How many games do you play a day?

[willardhaven]

I only use PCs because you can't get a Mac for less than 500 dollars.

[Mookyjooky]

I only use PCs because you can't get a Mac for less than 500 dollars.

Before going dual processor, you could buy a mac mini for less than $500 all last year pretty much. I bought one for $470.

[Deadpool]

mah.

[wubb]

Pretty clever :lol:

[Kayden]

:lol: OSX is a very sexy OS. However, the world is designed around Windows for the most part. You can do a lot on OSX and Linux, but some things are very hard to find. Drivers for Linux are especially tricky.

But yea, OSX is heads above XP if only for the simple fact that they don't use a god forsaken registry like Windows. I only have the money and time to buy and use one PC.

However, the reason OSX is so stable is because they only have to code it for Apple hardware. You don't have to worry about stuff not working on a mac because the userbase is so small and equpment doesn't vary anything like the PC market.

[jaykrue]

Spoken like a true user thats ignorant of what really happened.

Apple wanted their product on only their PCs. Windows signed a contract with IBM that was cheaper and could be built to custom specs. Businesses went for that. Nothing more than that. Apples was expensive, and the american public puts price before value.

To say that Windows was EVER easier to use is retarded. All Bill ever did was take everything and make it backwards.

Also, for everyone saying Macs dont have any games, look on apples website... they get all the hits (For the most part) but just lag 3 months behind. When you're a Mac user, it really doesnt affect you as its new to you. But why play games on your mac when you have a couple game consoles? How many games do you play a day?

Obviously you skimmed my post like an ignorant flamer or you would've comprehended my meaning. If you'd read what I said, it doesn't matter either way if Apple OR Microsoft comes out w/ an app first. It's whoever makes those appz better. I reiterate - it's who makes them better. Regardless of whether Apple wanted to keep its OS proprietary - useful for only their in-company built hardware, that's not what the point of the OP is and thus you missed the whole point of this thread. Let me clarify it for you. In the OP, it was a Windows Vista demostration audio with a OSX visual. It mocks the options of the Vista by demonstrating that OSX had them first. When the Mac OS came out, it itself was influenced (if not based directly) on work by Xerox's own attempt at gui design called PARC. So Apple can't even be the first (though they are the first commercially). Apple took much of PARC's design & improved it (especially considering many Apple employees were PARC defectors). So Microsoft comes along (and they weren't the only ones involved in gui design at the time either - DESQView, GEM, Amiga, etc.) and, based on Apple's design made their own gui (which Apple subsequently sued them for and eventually settled out of court). Windows 1.0 was a piece of shit. Apple was definitely better at the time. Even so, Windows was the OS of choice for businesses. That I won't refute was Apple's mistake. However, that wasn't the point of my post anyway. Apple had a 3-4 year lead time on innovative gui design. 3-4 years to innovate/streamline their product. By the 1990s Windows dominated the landscape, yes, partly to Apple decision to stay in their own machines, but also because Apple decided to sit on their innovative laurels and sue everyone w/ a gui (including Microsoft) instead of streamlining their OS. They just updated with incremental releases until System 7. But by then it was too late. System 7 came out in the early 90s (92 I think) but Windows had pretty much dominated the market by this time. Apple's gui was looking dated and old as well as relying on cooperative multitasking, a slow & dying methodology of parsing processes sharing CPU time. Windows 95 was also using this but was already moving towards the more useful multithreading method (in yet another example of Apple sitting on its butt). Anyway, the crux of the matter is that Apple had, by all rights, the lead on innovation & design. By sitting on their collective butts, the company lost its technological edge. They had many opportunities to recover yet decided that political/legal battles took precedence over what mattered - the purpose of their business - making the best computer hardware/software possible. Hell, I didn't even mention the political fighting happening within Apple and that's a whole other can of worms. Fact of the matter is, Apple made it easy for a novice user to use a computer. Windows just made it better and that's all that matters -who is better. Soon, it'll be some unknown 3rd party who'll do it to Microsoft (probably Google). It's inevitable.

Apples was expensive, and the american public puts price before value.

If that was a truism before, the ubiquitous nature of the Ipod & Itunes certainly changed that around.