Comments on: Microsoft Laptop Hunter Ads Stirring the Pot

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:58:29 +0000

The new MacBooks DO NOT have FireWire – which makes them USELESS for work with a movie camera – full stop. If I want to do amateur video editing and want a Mac laptop I have to fork out $3000 plus. There you have the facts!

By: tahiri

tahiri — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:23:30 +0000

Agreed. I hate those lying mac ads. And its not as if ms is even lying, macs do cost more than a similarly powered pc. Theirs complaint against ms would only be valid if sony was the company making pcs, which obviously is not the case, unlike the situation with macs

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:14:58 +0000

What exactly does the ability to dual boot actually give you? Assuming that Joe doesn’t need OS X, why would he want to pay for two operating systems when one does everything and more than the other one. You also ignore the fact that the Macbook costs almost as much as the Vaio once you add the cost of the Windows license.

By: tino

tino — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:23:44 +0000

I do the other way around, I dual-boot on a netbook. So I get the benefit of dual booting as well as the lower price of the netbook.

I had used a Mac for 5+ years but I find is very hard to support Apple lately when its trying so hard to decide for us what’s the “right” hardware.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:29:36 +0000

Yeah, I understand that the “And he only paid $300 for that feature.” is supposed to be a clever attempt at proving a point. But the point is invalid for anyone who clicks through and sees the Sony also was a better spec’ed machine. I guess you were just counting on no one reading the article and the conclusion stating “The $1,899 Z590 changed everything. Within my criteria: Display resolution, system memory and hard drive size—all better than the MacBook.”

And this was because he had his heart set on a Sony. Without a doubt the most marked up brand running Windows on the market.

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:02:45 +0000

Two things:

1) The Sony he picked doesn’t have the same configuration as the Mac. It has more ram, and a higher resolution screen, which he pointed out was what dominated his thinking.

2) IE used to be the underdog, and it rose up and killed the competition. Microsoft without competition is an embarrassingly bad company. With it, its history has been a lot better.

By: AndyT

AndyT — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:14:53 +0000

Windows 7 will probably be the best version MS has ever released but it may be too late. The real battle is in the browser space and MS is losing big time. IE8 is just too slow. Once IE drops below 60 percent share (could be this year) they will be in trouble. Most browsers are readily adopting HTML 5 features that make them even more relevant compared to the OS.

By: Gavin Miller

Gavin Miller — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:56:11 +0000

Not false messages, perhaps just optimised, enhanced messages.

;-)

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:55:22 +0000

I find them all funny. :)

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:54:44 +0000

I use OneNote quite a bit, mainly to access years of old notes. I sometimes have to refer to them and it’s the best way. I run Google Chrome and lots of programs while I’m in Win7, OneNote is one I can’t live without though.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:51:10 +0000

Nope. We’ve had trouble with Live Writer screwing up the blog. I used to use it though.

By: gmazin

gmazin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:50:45 +0000

Bah, what I hate more is not the actual ads, but all the people getting riled up about them. They’re ads! Of course they’re gonna send false messages to consumers (the “Mac and PC” series by Apple does the same exact thing).

By: GadgetMerc

GadgetMerc — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:38:00 +0000

James,

What software do you use in windows?

By: LJ

LJ — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:35:54 +0000

I agree 100 %. When Apple misleads people Mac uses are just fine with it. When MSFT creats an ad which is 99% truth they get all defencive

By: John Gibson

John Gibson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:26:51 +0000

I don’t get why Mac users are so hot and bothered by the ads when considered in the context of the Apple advertising. The Microsoft ads may be exaggerating the benefits of the PCs relative to the Mac but it doesn’t even come close to the level of misinformation present in the Apple advertising. It would be fun to see the reaction of the Apple fans if Microsoft ever did come at Apple at anywhere near the same level Apple has come at Microsoft.

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:16:38 +0000

I think HP kind of got shafted in the new ad. The HDX16 is not a bad platform at all, but grabbing the low-ball “canned” model at Fry’s doesn’t show its real potential. The thrust of my article revolved around that premise (and that if the shopper had been tech savvy he’d have realized this).

“I am writing this on Windows 7 running on my MacBook under Parallels”

I run Win 7 (and XP) on my MacBook in Fusion. Do you use Windows Live Writer? That may be the only Microsoft software I wish was ported to the Mac.