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disolitude on 02 October 2008
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jman8 said:
disolitude said:
err...just cause you have a mac you don't need to run Mac os. I'm willing to bet that over 50% of those macs have windows installed on them as well.

So selling a mac is jsut like selling a pc laptop...a potential windows customer.

 

There's no where near that many Mac users running Windows. Try 1-10% at most. The standard Macbooks, which make up the bulk of Apple laptop sales, don't even run Windows all that well (at least not Vista). 

And I think a lot of people in this thread are trying to pit OS against OS when Apple doesn't really give a shit at this point. They have little desire to dethrone Windows. They have even been advertising that their Macbook Pros run Vista exceptionally well. Apple's more concerned with selling as much hardware as possible at a premium price. That's where the money's at. They've very astutely decided to align themselves with MS rather than outright compete with them. That's why you have stuff like Vista and MS Office support. 

I ran Windows XP on a non pro macbook and it was terrible...but it worked. Not sure about vista...considering that microsoft doesn't sell hardware, I don't see why they wouldn't push the fact Windows can run on both MAC and PC platforms.

In any case, mac laptops are pretty...but they have some serious issues considering the price. The one I had was really hot and things kept crashing a lot...and i spent almost 1000 dollars on it. Specs weren't that great either...for 1000 bucks you could get an aweosme PC laptop.