Mac OS-X / Vista Gain Share

[rfruth]

in order of bang-for-the-buck

1. gnu / Linux
2. Leopard / Tiger
3. XP / Vista


Can you guess what my daily driver is ? (Ubuntu)

[john1701a]

Originally Posted by tleonhar

For my $.02 worth, (in the PC world) I think it's a combination of new machines coming with Vista and people are starting to find out that it (Vista) is not the big evil monster that many have portrayed. I have been running it for about four months now and am quite pleased with it.

I've been using Vista since beta, over 2 years ago. If you upgrade, you're selling yourself short. You simply won't get the same experience as what the latest & greatest hardware can take advantage of.

Having to use XP at work, I can tell you there's a night & day difference with Vista at home. Once you grow familar with Vista, you'll be frustrated having to still deal with XP. The improvements definitely prove their worth over time.

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[hyo silver]

Originally Posted by TimBikes

...Regardless, a simple math error hardly disqualifies my position on climate change. If it did, the AGW cheerleaders...

And people say I have a one track mind. Haven't we got enough climate change threads already?

[TimBikes]

Originally Posted by hyo silver

And people say I have a one track mind. Haven't we got enough climate change threads already?

If you re-read the comment from Fibb222, you will see it read "As with climate change, your interpretation seems a little odd, no offence." So I was simply replying to that off-thread comment. It was never my intent to start a thread on climate change here.

Just trying to start a discussion on Mac and Windows.

[hyo silver]

Originally Posted by TimBikes

...Just trying to start a discussion on Mac and Windows.

Yeah, that's likely to be acrimonious enough by itself.

[Sheepdog]

Ok you closet dwellers. I will say it!

Mac Leopard rules! iMac rules! MicroSoft sux!!!

" GOT BlueScreen?"

[rfruth]

hey dog you must know Vista no longer has the BSOD 'feature' now Leopard does ?

Mac OS X 10.5: "Blue screen" appears after installing Leopard and restarting

[tleonhar]

Originally Posted by Sheepdog

Ok you closet dwellers. I will say it!

Mac Leopard rules! iMac rules! MicroSoft sux!!!

" GOT BlueScreen?"

Nope, no bluescreen, I use Vista And I can upgrade any of my hardware whenever I want, do it myself, no need to take to a shop.

I've been using Vista since beta, over 2 years ago. If you upgrade, you're selling yourself short. You simply won't get the same experience as what the latest & greatest hardware can take advantage of.

Having to use XP at work, I can tell you there's a night & day difference with Vista at home. Once you grow familar with Vista, you'll be frustrated having to still deal with XP. The improvements definitely prove their worth over time.

Agree with you there, when I went to Vista, I upgraded my hardware as well, I had an old P4 based machine. So I opted for a
quad core pentium on a new Gigabyte motherboard, kept my same case & optical drives, plan to slap in a blue-ray drive as soon as the price comes down a little

[TimBikes]

Originally Posted by hyo silver

Yeah, that's likely to be acrimonious enough by itself.

I know...I figured the most interesting threads are those that are acrimonious!

[Fibb222]

Originally Posted by TimBikes

Regardless, a simple math error hardly disqualifies my position on climate change.

I didn't say that your math error disqualified your position on climate change. I was saying that your logic/interpretation (again) doesn't seem sound. Your comparison of the Vista and Mac market share increases, and conclusion that the "marketplace" has spoken i.e. that Vista is trumping Mac, doesn't make sense to me.

Vista has a huge advantage in that it's predecessor, XP, is almost ubiquitous and therefore it's market share gain is of course going to be much larger than leopard's. If both OSs had no predecessors, ran on the exact same equipment, and started off with zero market share then the comparison would be valid. Would Vista win? Maybe not, not at home anyway. Although I use it and like it fine.