Re: The Mac vs. Windows War is Over. And the Winner is...

George wrote:

"Phil Wheeler" <w6tuh-ng7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gvaZf.42357$%d.36836@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
George wrote:

The point was why buy an expensive Mac to run Windows
when you can buy (or build) a much less expensive computer to do the same
job? Running Windows on a Mac, IMHO, defeats the purpose of having the Mac
in the first place."

George:

A Mac is hardware, which can run whatever compatible operating system is available for it. Macs are pretty, no doubt about it. So are a lot of other laptops. Maybe someone just wants a pretty box that can run his Windows apps.

Understand something: I own an iPod, which I use for listening to music and sometimes for transferring files. It's very utilitarian--good interface. The flashy prettiness of the case isn't why I bought it. I keep iTunes on my WinXP laptop. I use many other programs on my laptop that don't run on Macs. I have no good reason to buy a Mac.

I buy a Mac to run OS X, because I prefer its stability, user interface and the way apps like Office run on it .. to WinXP.

Very few apps out there run only on Macintoshes. The few Mac-only apps have Windows (or Unix/Linux) equivalents. Note that Office runs just fine on Windows, because it's designed for that OS.

On stability: the only time I've had a blue screen on my XP laptop is when there was a hardware conflict on the system, which was fixed by removing a PC Card and rebooting. I never had my Windows 2000 PC at work crash (blue screen) or freeze, in 3 years of use.

I also have a PC laptop for those apps that need WinXP (and I have quite a few).

So, in the future, I can buy a single laptop which will do both.

Sounds good to me: One expensive Mac vs. One expensive Mac and one PC laptop ($1000 or more) to run the apps I need to use with WinXP.

Phil

Point taken. It's s specialty area, not something most people would find useful. Question. What can applications run on a Mac OS X do that applications run on a Windows XP PC can't do?

About all I can think of is the various public domain XWindows applications, which are supposed to run on OS/X after a compile. XWindows apps will also compile and run on PCs that run Linux, of course.

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