5 Responses to “The non-hostile Apple OSX vs. Windows Vista OS debate, Part II”

1. Basement Tapes » The non-hostile Apple OSX vs. Windows Vista OS debate, Part II:
   January 31st, 2007 at 4:08 pm

   […] The non-hostile Apple OSX vs. Windows Vista OS debate, Part II | PodTech.net: Technology, Business, Media, and News Podcasts […]

2. Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
   February 5th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

   Scobleized whilst en Vacaciones…

   In a post just before my vacation, I mentioned a video Robert Scoble shot of a few of us chatting about the age-old Mac vs PC debate.  Well, it’s online in its entirety (hour 1 and hour 2) and I think the part I’ve enjoyed the most is read…

3. The non-hostile Apple OSX vs. Windows Vista OS debate, Part I | PodTech.net: Technology, Business, Media, and News Podcasts:
   March 29th, 2007 at 10:28 am

   […] Maryam (my wife) and I fed the group burritos and then kicked off the debate. We recorded two hours of this (this segment is the first hour — second installment here), no demos, so you can run it in the background and listen to it. Special prize (our undying respect) goes to anyone who watches all two hours of this. […]

4. MicroappleMAC:
   April 15th, 2007 at 8:37 am

   I loved the video I watched both parts, the whole 2 hours. I feel it get off subject a bit, but it was very informative.
   My 2 cents:
   I’m an 80’s child, and I have been using PC’s all my life. Built them, bought them, troubleshoot them, have MS certs the whole 9 yards. Like most kids in the 80’s the first computer I used was a Mac, which was in grade school. I remember some with black and white screens, some color, and if you did all your work and you were good you got to play Oregon trail. The first time I used a PC was in 90, 91 MS Dos Laptop gold and black screen my mom brought home from the company she worked for. I remembered it had prodigy running on it, we could connect to the service using a modem. Later she got a new 386 machine running Windows 3.0, maybe 3.1 with a color screen, a guy from our local church gave me a copy of Wolfenstine 3D (I don’t think I’m spelling it right). I loved it, I loved all the different things you could run on a PC back then. The main thing I could remember was wishing I had a sound card. I started using the Internet in 94, 95, I thought it was amazing. I had a strong hate for apple computers back in the 90’s until Steve came back to apple, and made it cool to have an MAC. I got my first Ipod in 05, and I wanted a MAC since Leo from the screensavers (old Techtv show) said back in 03 that a PC was like owning a Ford, and MAC was like owning a Jag, or some nice Japanese luxury car, as you know along with owning a luxury car comes the high notes. MAC’s just cost to much, they may have been cool, but you couldn’t really run Windows on the machine if you need to access to stuff you couldn’t do on the MAC. I could build a PC out of spare parts in under and hours, and be browsing the web in under 3 hours. 2006 comes, apples now have Intel chip’s inside, wow now I can dual boot with Windows, amazing. Ok now my thinking is if I get an extra 3 grand, my next machine will be a MAC, but for most Americans 3 grand is a lot of money to spend on a computer, and I didn’t want no cheap run of the mill apple, I wanted a PowerBook G4, and now the MacBook Pro.
   Enter 2007, about two weeks ago, the company I work for gives me a MAC to use along side the Toshiba Tablet machine they gave me about a year back. It not a MacBook Pro, it an older PowerBook G4 very nice looks like no one has ever used it. The machine is running OS 10.4.9. After using it for 2 weeks I thought it was the best thing since the first Intel Pentium. I have to say watching your video on Vista vs. OS X kept me from becoming all religious about apples…
   To get on Topic, as far as the OS is concerned I feel OS X, is far ahead of XP, and still a bit ahead of Vista. I do agree when it comes to choices of hardware, Windows is still the only choice. Also if you buy some strange cap that goes on your head, and plugs into the USB port of your computer, it’s going to work with your PC, but not MAC. But with the present state with apple having Intel chips inside their MAC’s. I now think that there is no reason for anybody not to buy a MAC if all they want is a normal machine.

5. RWB:
   August 14th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

   Get a real mac guy who is not a complete idiot, that has a clue so that this is an actual conversation about OS X and Vista.

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