New Windows ad takes jab at Macs

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StarrGazer said:

Spoon! said:
@stargazer

They are not PCs evolved, they do not offer anything that you can't build yourself. And yes I am familiar with the Hackintosh, and I did in fact own Macs in the past, but stopped buying them when Jobs outlawed the clones. The Mac is nothing but an OS on a closed platform that limits your choice of hardware.

Incidentally, does anyone remember when they used to run on PowerPC chips and Apple claimed they were twice as fast as PCs, but then they switched to Intel and started saying the new Macs were twice as fast as the old PowerPC ones?

@Spoon

I disagree.  Show me a purchased or build yourself PC that can perform the function of "Target Disk Mode"?  This is a feature that no PC other then Apple built ones contain because it is unique to their design and firmware.   Hence this function.....which is extremely useful by the way,  is one of the things you pay for and get benefit of when you purchase an Apple designed PC.

 

 

Target disk mode isn't exactly necessary.  It is only made necessary by Apple's proprietary techniques when it comes to hardware/software troubleshooting.  If they would just let you have more options in the actual OS or be able to do more tinkering with the hardware, you wouldn't need target disk mode at all.  Remote desktop is plenty for doing stuff on a different PC from your PC.  And there are plenty of progarms that do very similar things on PC as target disk mode.