If you are like me, you love these commercials the Apple marketing department came up with however many years ago. They’ve been funny and usually right on the money.
Here is the latest addition to the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials…a rip on Microsoft Vista, which I’ve heard nothing good about. I found the video posted by Ed on The Edition. Even my own company which stays somewhat at the cutting edge of things, will not even think about Vista for a good long time.
On a side note…there is more in the world than a Mac or PC. You can also try out Linux, and it’s easier than going out and buying a new Mac computer. You can wipe that old PC and put Ubuntu on it like I did and never look back.
Here’s the video!
Vista actually hasn’t been that bad for me. A few older or quirky games have had a little trouble or wouldn’t run but that’s it. All in all, not as bad as going from Win98 to XP. I think some people get thrown by the extra security, after all, Windows users don’t like some security monitor cramping their spyware downloading style.
A Mac or Linux desktop simply isn’t an option for me since about 98% of my work is Windows based development in C# or VB.NET. I do plan to get a home Linux webserver setup sometime soon though.
Well, I can’t live totally without Windows either, so I use a virtual machine on Ubuntu to run XP on in order to use Photoshop and that kind of thing.
I still haven’t installed Office on it yet as I’m growing pretty comfortable with OpenOffice.
I’m only in week 2 with Vista on my new laptop, but so far so good. I think the key is to turn off a lot of the extra stuff that Vista has pre-loaded.
I’d like to try Linux, but it’s not an option in my Windows world….sadly. I also would have bought a Mac if they weren’t almost twice as much and ran Windows based software better.
I just went back to a Mac after using XP for several years. I’m not anti-Windows at all, I just love my Mac.