a12331 on 01 October 2008
| Impulsivity said: I understand perfectly Dragonos, some people for whatever reason are more afraid of change then they are of continuing to use something that is second rate. It gets more and more common with age, which is why Macs sell far better to the young then the old. I assure you, having used both extensively, OSX is far far better then any flavor of windows in performance, reliability and price (OSX, which has MORE features then Vista Ultimate, costs 300 dollars less, a full set of Office software for mac costs 49 dollars instead of 500+ for Office for Windows). Some people don't care, they will just continue to use what they've always used even if something else is better and that's fine, but that doesn't mean they made the right choice in general even if it is right for them due to whatever hang ups they have. Some people will vote for John McCain simply because they are afraid of the prospect of a black president even though Obama will almost certainly be a vastly superior commander and chief. Fear of change often makes people make bad choices, luckily not THAT many people though, now in Enterprise, Microsoft's strongest market, Vista is barely past 8% penetration and OSX is up to about 5% in the September 08 numbers. Sometimes something is SO superior (like OSX to Vista) that it gets people to overcome their fear and make the switch. Incidentally if you want a used mac you can find one that is pretty cheap and runs OSX. You can easily get a 300 dollar clamshell ibook if you REALLY want to, and even if you get a new 1000 dollar macbook it will still be worth 700 dollars 2 years from now, so really you only paid 300 net cost to have a superior notebook for those 2 years. |
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