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New poll posted on Intel Macs and Windows XP
Authored by: rayharder on May 01, '06 10:45:48PM

I bought a Mac in 1984 and a Windows machine in late 85 and have bought new high end Macs and WinTel machines about every other year since. I have used and purchased almost every kind of software imaginable for an unbelievable range of tasks over the years, but when all is said and done, I hate Windows and love Macs. I have used them head to head for years and sometimes Windows is absolutely necessary and sometime even better/easier/more productive, but I can accomplish more with a Mac. I have used Virtual PC extensively when I was carrying only one machine and needed Windows occasionally, but it was always so slow for anything major that it was fairly useless. I just got a MacBook Pro and loaded BootCamp and XP on it and....

WOW!

I spent the last 48 hours trying to break it (through normal use) and nothing failed. The Windows is fast and pure (I agree with the comment that it is nice to have a pure Windows environment without a bunch of vendor added drivers for crap I don't need!).

I see this as very useful in training facilities and education sites (Kindergarten to University). That together with getting gamers on board will lead to more serious and hardcore computer users running Macs. It is hard to say if more people will use Macs when they see them head to head. Usually, they will use one for certain tasks and the other for others according to their experience, needs, and comfort level. I don't see that changing with a dual OS system. They will word process on whichever one they learned and will stick to it as long as it meets their needs. This is true of all software. I don't see busy people just trying out stuff. I also don't see gamers and such buying a whole new set of software and moving from their comfortable haunts....

I think new and home users will be strongly persuaded to use the new Macs. People who are Mac addicts at heart and forced to use a Mac at work or school will jump all over this. I predict big profits for Apple for about a year. After that, who knows....? It's up to Apple if they can keep pulling off miracles. OS X, XP, Unix, and Intel. Defintely a miracle! Repeatable? Hard to say....

They did it with the first Macs, PageMaker, HyperCard, Photoshop, OS 7, built-in scripting, Remote events, early TCP/IP stacks, OS X, and Intel, why not continue the tradition....? (I know Apple was saved by others with several of those products, but you get my point...)

Ray




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