John Hodgeman = traitor to the PC cause

[Sandman]

Remember this commercial?

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Yeah....it didn't take him long to crawl back to Apple.

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We all thought he joined the Windows darkside but in reality he was probably just a spy.

[Spectre-7]

Errrr... The guy in the Windows commercial is look-alike. :(

[Rogue_hunter]

You do know that the guy in the Windows commercial is not John Hodgeman, right? The email says "sean@windows.com" They got a lookalike.

Fail thread FAILS!

EDIT: curse you Spectre! beaten by seconds

[Psykoboy2]

I can't tell if you are kidding or not.

[Sandman]

You do know that the guy in the Windows commercial is not John Hodgeman, right? The email says "sean@windows.com" They got a lookalike.

Fail thread FAILS!

Tricky bastards.....light gray text on white background.

[Sandman]

I can't tell if you are kidding or not.

You need to send your sarcasm detector to the testing facility.

[Xerxes]

What's wrong with Vista again? I mean I have Vista Ultimate on my Vostro laptop and it does everything I need it do.

[Spectre-7]

What's wrong with Vista again? I mean I have Vista Ultimate on my Vostro laptop and it does everything I need it do.

Didn't you hear? Vista eats babies. Sweet, delicious babies.

[Scaryfaced]

I had to go through 4 steps in Word to get a document to print on a Vista computer today. What happened to the print button?
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[Spectre-7]

I had to go through 4 steps in Word to get a document to print on a Vista computer today. What happened to the print button?

The babies were guarding it.

[Xerxes]

I had to go through 4 steps in Word to get a document to print on a Vista computer today. What happened to the print button?

What version of Word?

Maybe you're doing it wrong. :confused:

[Atepsflame]

Vista sucks... if you don't have the hardware to adequately support it. Like my little brother. He bought a dell just after vista got released, and couldn't get XP. The computer isn't any great shakes and vista ran like crap on it. Conversely, one of my friends just blew several grand on a godlike gaming rig that runs 64 bit Vista without any hitches what so ever. So, from what I can tell, most of the problems with vista come from people who got stuck with Vista running on computers that aren't really up to the challenge.

I for one am sticking with XP until I'm presented with a good reason to upgrade to Vista.

[digitalErich]

The lookalike they got is actually a real MS engineer, not some actor.

[Sazime]

Running Vista for 1.5 years now. Love it. Self built machine.

So there.

[Xerxes]

Running Vista for 1.5 years now. Love it. Self built machine.

So there.
I know. Where are all these problem these apple ads are talking about?

[Sazime]

I know. Where are all these problem these apple ads are talking about?
With the same people who don't know how to work XP.

Trust me, I talk to them all day. "I don't know anything about computers." "Well, what do you do with it?" "I don't know!"

[KingGorilla]

What's wrong with Vista again? I mean I have Vista Ultimate on my Vostro laptop and it does everything I need it do.

According to apple, it is made by Microsoft. Me, they still did not finish patching XP yet they want a few hundred bucks more from me. Leopard and Vista just reek of stealing from things Linux has touted for years as well.

[DeathtollWRX]

I work for a huge Medical IP here in Southern California and Vista will not just work with our systems. 1. The system requirements are much too steep. 2. It has proven unreliable and memory intensive even on high powered machines, Do you realize how much ram you need in order to get Dragon Naturally Speaking to run with Vista?

We are sticking with XP.. We have already tested Vista with all of our software and it just isn't polished enough yet..

I still run XP on my gaming rig at home and OSX for my websurfing..

[Schnoogs]

Epic fail!!!! ;)

[TheFlyingOrc]

You need to send your sarcasm detector to the testing facility.

I've seen you equally confused about simpler things, plus there is not a single indicator that what you posted was sarcastic, plus I can't think of why you would post it except that you believed it.

[itchyeyes]

I work for a huge Medical IP here in Southern California and Vista will not just work with our systems. 1. The system requirements are much too steep. 2. It has proven unreliable and memory intensive even on high powered machines, Do you realize how much ram you need in order to get Dragon Naturally Speaking to run with Vista?

We are sticking with XP.. We have already tested Vista with all of our software and it just isn't polished enough yet..

I still run XP on my gaming rig at home and OSX for my websurfing..
Vista is a bit of a resource hog, and I would never recommend that anyone already running a stable version of XP upgrade to it. However, it's fine for just about any new machine on the market today with the exception of netbooks. It's certainly not worth paying a PC manufacturer to downgrade you to XP as many people do. And for those in the market for a new computer, Vista shouldn't serve as an incentive to switch to Mac anymore than XP did.

I like OSX and Vista and XP. Each of them has their uses, and I use all 3 on a nearly daily basis. But the Apple ads piling on Vista are really starting to get under my skin. The new one criticizing Microsoft's advertising budget is easily the worst of the bunch. I wonder how many people at Apple are aware of the sheer hypocrisy of that ad.

[Mike Kelehan]

It's certainly not worth paying a PC manufacturer to downgrade you to XP as many people do.

I wish I could not pay a PC manufacturer for an OS at all. Any way to get a notebook without the Microsoft tax?

[Psykoboy2]

I've seen you equally confused about simpler things, plus there is not a single indicator that what you posted was sarcastic, plus I can't think of why you would post it except that you believed it.

Bingo. What he said. I was trying to verbalize it myself, but I couldn't.

Now, if your sarcasm comment was you being sarcastic...well, then my head will melt.

[Smoof]

I wish I could not pay a PC manufacturer for an OS at all. Any way to get a notebook without the Microsoft tax?

Buy from Cyberpowerpc.com and you can order a PC without an OS. That's what I did with my laptop, it cost me $80 less and then I just installed XP on it when I got it, which took all of an hour, because they sent me a driver disk.

Vista is a fine operating system. I've been using it for about a year and a half now on my HTPC without a hitch. I was using it on my gaming machine for a while, but Mass Effect kept BSODing and I didn't really see any reason to use it since most DX10 effects aren't terribly fantastic.

[Schnoogs]

I wish I could not pay a PC manufacturer for an OS at all. Any way to get a notebook without the Microsoft tax?

You mean the extra $10?

Quite the tax.

[rifter]

Vista is a fine operating system. I've been using it for about a year and a half now on my HTPC without a hitch. I was using it on my gaming machine for a while, but Mass Effect kept BSODing and I didn't really see any reason to use it since most DX10 effects aren't terribly fantastic.

Hmmm.. Mass Effect is doing that to me, too. Honestly, it is the only game I ahve played that didn't like Vista. I put Vista 64 on my girlfriend's box. She LOVES it. She now uses it, more than her Mac. :-) It was so funny, she made a big deal about her Mac coming into my house... and now it is relegated to a little stand, and has become a glorfied media PC. She watches videos on it, when she plays games on the PC. (or uses it for music).

Vista is a heavy duty OS, with lots of bells and whistles. When you turn them all on, the OS chugs, without a decent machine... kind of like you know, EVERY FRIGGING VERSION OF WINDOWS BEFOER IT. I really don't get people that buy a shitty computer, and blame Vista for sucking, when it is their hardware that sucks.

[Inspector Fowler]

I WISH Apple would sell me their OS. It would run just fine on my computer. But they won't.

In the end, that's okay, because my biggest problem with the Apple OS has been how frequently they've made new releases and how much they charge for each one. I have a buddy who's a pro photographer. He feels compelled to keep up with Apple OS updates. He shells out shitloads of cash for a new version of the Apple OS every year or two.

When the last one was released, I added up how much you would have spent (retail) if you'd bought every "version" of the Apple OS since XP launched, compared to how much you'd pay if you had bought XP followed by Vista. It wasn't a pretty comparison.

Still....I wish Apple would sell me their damned OS.

[Schnoogs]

Still....I wish Apple would sell me their damned OS.

They do sell their OS...it's just against the license to install it on non apple hardware.:confused:

[KingGorilla]

They do sell their OS...it's just against the license to install it on non apple hardware.:confused:

They also have a kill-switch.

[Johan]

Why bother with Vista when their next OS is coming in under two years? I'm skipping Vista entirely.

[ShivaX]

Why bother with Vista when their next OS is coming in under two years? I'm skipping Vista entirely.

Mostly cause I want to use all my RAM.

[Hotcod]

I WISH Apple would sell me their OS. It would run just fine on my computer. But they won't.

There's a mac thread in the PC game forum that got a bit heated heh i hate blind mac fanboys (i have to deal with them far to much since it's become so coupled with design that 90% of the people don't even question it and a good chunck use it like a designer label simply beacuse they are "designers" but bah) and one of the point i was making was that i would love for apple to sell there OS for non apple stuff.

Not only would it help temper the annoying mac boys but the duel booting would be useful for me given how much the OS is used and for the few times it is a bit more useful... but while apple would gain OS market share there sales would likely drop. When you buy a mac beacuse you like the OS you are often paying a good chuck of money for it, a very large chunk of money... and it's the only way apple have gotten away with it all these years. Given that they have a 13% market share and yet something like 1 in 3 dollors on computers in the US goes to them you get a good idea of just how pricey they really are.

While there making the right moves with the new macbook it's still not enough. I see lots of students trying to do work on macs that are simply under powered for what they are trying to do and yet they could have spent the same cash of a say a dell and got something far more powerful... the equivalent mac to my laptop cost £1000 more... It's honestly kind of annoying given lots of them only do it beacuse they are told that they should be the tutors not beacuse they are really 'better' physical but beacuse the of the OS... not that most of the tutors really know the reasons why the OS became standard and 99% of the time windows is just as good... but if the OS was cut away from the hardware i feel a lot more students would stick to PCs running OS X and be a lot better off for it

anyway i'm rambling again... i did talk about those ads in that thread as well... there incipient fuelling of the blind mac fanboyisum and as such make me really rather hate apple since they have with this ad made my life a little worse as some dumb ass will see it and make a joke about it while i'm trying to get work done on this thing... turning around and saying "and yet for less money than you spent i can use thing like after effects effectively and you can't" just doesn't work since it's based on logic and not love of a label... *sigh*

[Inspector Fowler]

I will never buy a Mac desktop. Not ever. I enjoy building my own computer, and I enjoy gaming.

For a laptop, I'd consider it. During my vacation up to watch some rally racing this year, I had quite a bit of time on my buddy's Macbook. I really enjoy the OS. There is some goofy stuff to get used to. I was a little frustrated at first. But I soon realized that for basic tasks like surfing, watching videos, word processing, etc, the Mac was kicking ass, and it was pretty fun to use. And if it can play videos, I really don't need any more power in a laptop - that's what my desktop is for.

But I'd be happy to dual boot my desktop, if only Apple would sell me a version of their OS that was compatible with my computer. I understand it's not part of their business model, and it won't ever happen. Doesn't make me too happy, though.

[Schnoogs]

Mostly cause I want to use all my RAM.

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