Mac Laptops Earn 20% of US Market, 35% of revenue.

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Impulsivity said:

disolitude said:
@Plaupius

A specific example of me missing drivers on a mac was when I was going to europe with it on a plane and my windows crashed (it was already wonky before I went on the trip) and I tried watching the movies I brought with me to entertain me during the 8 hour flight.

None of them would play on a mac OSX... I had VLC and Divx installed on the windows xp partition...but since I rarely used mac OSX, all I had was quicktime.

Stories like this happen to windows users all the time...but for some reason people think that macs are immune to this problem.

 

   You go to a Divx site, you download a codec for quick time that is free (it takes about 30 seconds) and quicktime forever more is able to use Divx files perfectly.  There are also a dozen Divx programs that are available outside quicktime for OSX most of them free.

 

   So your example is that you downloaded a program for XP and didn't download one for OSX and then were annoyed that your mac didn't magicly have the ability to watch illegal copies of movies out of the box? 

 

Though really I'd suggest just getting VLC for Mac instead. It's a great program on all platforms.