Friday, March 27, 2009

Too Cool For A Mac?

This is just a funny little barage in the Microsoft marketing campaign . . . where's Seinfield and Bill again? LOL

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-10205757-82.html

I really enjoyed this commercial . . . she's too cool for a Mac . . .driving her little VW around . . . oof. I know every time I show someone how the Mac works and they know the pain/agony they've experienced on the Windows side of things . . . there's a new convert. I was a died in the wool Microsoft fantatic . . . I can remember going to the IE 4.0 launch parties . . . all the "wow" stuff . . . and the endless promises. I bought my first Mac in December 2007 (an iMac/Intel) and despite the price, the OS/system/features/etc... all pointed to a much better value over any Windows based system I had ever owned. I've done it all, from white boxes (generic) to big brand ones (Gateway/Dell/HP/Sony) and I'm still blown away by Mac's usefulness. I have a very old G3 Mac at work that I still use on a daily basis. My Sony Vaio laptop choked under just the restore disks for Windows and updates . . . . writing off perfectly good hardware.

Someday I'm going to swap to a Mac based laptop -- but for now my Dell Inspiron 1100 will trundle along nicely using Fedora Core 9 (Linux). I don't consider myself cool or anything for using the best technology, and in the court of frugality, I realized that my time is money. I've spent $THOUSANDS$ dealing with Windows issues. Go get yourself that $699 HP there Punky . . . and I'm sure it'll be at the GeekSquad counter getting virus protection updates and malware fixes soon. *Sigh*

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