I've got no agenda of my own, I'm only here to do the best job I can possibly do in the best interest of the readers. That being said, I'm wondering if a good way of tackling the price issue is to do a month with an iMac G5?
That could provide an interesting way to incorporate many of the things I didn't talk about in the first Mac article that I would have liked to have touched on. Just a thought.
That could provide an interesting way to incorporate many of the things I didn't talk about in the first Mac article that I would have liked to have touched on. Just a thought.
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Sid - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - link
Dear Anand,so what is the final word on imac/ibook/owerbook review. is anything happening or you are turned off from the flame war that erupted on this comments section?
Anonymous - Sunday, November 7, 2004 - link
could we have some real benchmarks next time? gaming, scientific, graphics etc.Lord Haw Haw - Sunday, November 7, 2004 - link
Enter the Microsoft Office for Mac Sweepstakes & win a Voodoo doll !!!http://sweepstakesonline.com/macoffice/
The prize is a "Professional" doll that's made to look like you... whoopee! What planet do these geeks live on! You can bet these guys are going to make the MSN online music store really cool. I can just imagine it:
"Get a free My Little Pony with just 50 U2 song downloads. Take photos of it in different poses & the chip we've installed will upload them straight into your 'My Pictures' folder."
My advice is set up XP next to the lavatory in case this kitsch causes you to feel the need to use the "My Little Barf Receptacle".
Coombs - Thursday, November 4, 2004 - link
Anand,How come this Comments section degenerated into Mac vs PC vs Linux etc debate? I thought there was a separate forum for that at AnandTech.
Anyho, what's your next move Anand? iMac G5, Powerbook G4 17" or the lowly iBookG4?
Morten - Wednesday, November 3, 2004 - link
This has nothing to with macs and apples, but I'd like to see more of those inside the biz articles. Like the one you just posted about what's going on with Intel, AMD, ATi and nVidia. You know, info you got from visiting the motherboard manufacturers. It was most excellent :)Anonymous - Tuesday, November 2, 2004 - link
The Mac IS the safest computing environment.http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2...
Long Live the MAC!
GhandiInstinct - Tuesday, November 2, 2004 - link
ANAND, who you're voting for blog entry? Kinda important...?Doc - Friday, October 29, 2004 - link
#89 "Yes but the author of the vulnerability did not target all 10,000,000. The author wrote malicious code for an exploit that they knew very well.""The author of the vulnerablility" did not target anything - the author of the VIRUS did.
#89 "This once again proves that a small user base was effected by a program exploit. This doesn't prove the Mac's superior security by resisting this so called 'threat'. "
Correct. A small user base is no guarantee of security. Thus, the reason why the Mac remains virus free must be reconsidered - as it does NOT appear to be NECESSARILY due to small user base. One can still argue that it does not appear to appeal as a target - but not that simple small numbers make it invulnerable.
For whatever reason the platform has had 10 years of virtually virus free computing.
A simple analogy is Monaco - small, affluent & terrorist free.
Oh, but it could be invaded easily so it isn't safe - they should move to Iran which managed to defeat Iraq despite repeated attacks by Sadam, part funded by rich USA.
Try selling that idea to the residents of Monaco.
It'd be like trying to sell a PC to a Mac user.
MCSE - Friday, October 29, 2004 - link
#91 "I would love to have clients with a Macintosh Only system/network...my life would be easy..."Sure, listening to the crickets sing while waiting for the phone to ring to say they've had a problem... but you're bank manager won't be happy. Keep telling them they need Windows - there's always plenty of paid work to do.
I read a month ago that Bern University in Switzerland has just two techs to manage 2300 Mac computers! (in German: http://www.apple.com/chde/education/articles/unibe... That's not not locked down Corporate clones netbooting to a limited set of trusted apps with NO INTERNET! That is 2300 Macs being mucked about by endless students running endless combinations of software. If that spread it would decimate the tech support industry.
Compare that to the French survey Microsoft did of it's own OSes - one million locked down corporate computers:
"Acadys and Microsoft, have installed in more than 1 million corporate PCs a software analyzing the way the computer is used. Some results are really interesting...and might change some legends...
...The average crash frequency requiring the system to reboot is around 8% ...per session!! This results varies a lot with Windows version. Indeed, with Windows 2000, it is around 4%, 3% with NT4 and...close to 12% with XP."
(in French: http://solutions.journaldunet.com/0409/040915_etud...
So lets face the ugly truth - that's locked down XP, running a limited set of trusted apps, net booting from a reliable image, in a Corporate work environment (no resetting the screen res to play Doom here), crashing in over 10% of sessions!! Microsoft's OWN figures!!! Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seems like Microsoft are building up our reasons for wanting to switch the next latest & greatest "reliable Windows OS". Looks like they haven't actually lost their minds yet & decided to put out an OS that actually works & doesn't make you want to upgrade ASAP. Nope, they haven't put themselves out of business just yet; they're still in the good old business of hyping up patched & over patched buggy bloatware, like so much ropey old second-hand clothing. And that's GOOD news for all us MSCE Techs just leaving college. God bless Microsoft for thinking of us.
John Q Public - Friday, October 29, 2004 - link
#89...I fully understand the argument of TCO...and the TCO of a Mac or Linux based comapny would be smaller...BUT...also to be considered...that's if you're buying all new toys...or just getting things started...
...90% of the corps I've worked/consulted for in the past several years have had one thing in common...how can we best improve things without burning the budget...or how can we stretch our current machines a little further...and not how do we make things better in five years...
Management in most companies are very tight with the purse strings these days...and even though TCO on an all Macintosh system is significantly less than that of all Windows...the big hurdle is putting out the rather large amount of capital associated with a completely different platform...retraining employees to use different software (not just the OS...but applications)...buying new apps (productivity/support/etc)...
bottom line...unless you're willing to put forth MAJOR GREEN in moving to a different platform and the possible downtime associated with it...you live with what you've got...fix what you can...patch what you cannot...I would love to have clients with a Macintosh Only system/network...my life would be easy...