Originally posted by: PowerMacG5
Originally posted by: spikespiegal
i think you're jealous cause all your pc does is spreadsheets
I think
you're jealous because the company you bought your computer from makes 70% of it's profit selling i-Pods to teenagers rather than professional software. BTW, as for doing "just spreadsheets," I've been doing the corporate IT thing for 15 years and have never seen an Apple product inside a server farm. Seems if Macs were actually superior to Windows based PC's you'd actually see them entrusted trusted to corporate tasks other than editing the stretch marks off of models.
Well, let's see about all this. While most of it's hardware profits do come from iPods (not per device, as a whole. Per device, the profit/cost ratio on a G5 is much higher than an iPod), Apple makes significant profit off of it's professional software.
Final Cut Pro is used in a good amount of major TV outlets for on the fly editing, as well as for making movies. Shake is probably the best product at what it does, and made The Lord of the Rings movies what they were.
To your server farm comment, Virginia Tech's Supercomputer FTW.
Note that my Windows servers also run off a mix of Intel and AMD. Apple's will run of the hardware (legally) Steve Jobe's tells you to use. That's enough for me to give a big middle finger to that platform and deal with Windows because at least I have some choices.
The reason Apple wants to lock it's hardware and software together is so it can guarantee a level of stability that Windows cannot. Because Windows must support thousands of devices, Microsoft cannot guarantee that their entire system won't be brough down by a bad motherboard driver.
What I don't get is why Mac hypocrites have been bad mouthing Intel as bad as Windows for the past decade, then run by the hordes to buy dual core centrino based laptops because your own G4s suck. This being the same G4 Steve Jobes claimed was superior to anything Intel makes, so someobdy needs some ritalin here.
If you knew anything about the history their, you would bite your tongue. When the G4 first came out, it was superior to the current line of Intel/AMD. The problem arose when they started using G5, and .
IBM could not deliver a mobile version, which forced Apple to stick with the Moto/Freescale G4's since they had no alternative. Their was no way IBM could deliver a mobile G5 without some serious R&D, which they did not seem to be willing to do. IBM caused it's own downfall in that respect. If they had made a mobile G5, I can almost guarantee the Intel build would still be a secret.
In conclusion, note that Microsoft is limited legally from including their own i-Ware alternatives while Apple can load up their OS with anything they want because their market share is about the same as Sega and Atari combined. That's a load of crap if you ask me, and another reason Apple is the most irrelevant product in the history of computing.
In regards to that, the difference is, Apple's software isn't intertwined with the OS. I can delete Safari, and it's actually gone. When you "uninstall" IE it's not gone, since Windows Explorer and IE are using the same engine.
