Not surprising, Microsoft tries to force out competition

[emh]

http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes_archives.php?id=66

[CaptainCool]

Sure does seem like M$ is getting desperate. I also took that survey and filled in the email address with my fuckmicrosoft email heh.  :cool:

[SAJChurchey]

quote:Originally posted by CaptainCool:
I also took that survey and filled in the email address with my fuckmicrosoft email heh.   :cool:  

Ahh....I remember the days when I applied to beta test Windows Server 2003...my e-mail addy was [email protected].  It feels so good to have my old e-mail address back.

[mushrooomprince]

There isn't enough competition in the computer world right now.


AMD or Intel

ATI or nVidia

Microsoft  or  Apple


Oh yea thats right.  Any new PC you buy from a major company is going to be a windows machine.  Not to mention nobody knows about Apple.  And even if they did you would need a PhD in computer science to understand that a 700 mhz G4 is way different than a 700 mhz P3.

*sigh* Well i need to go back to work on compiling os ten for PC's so that when apple goe's out of business i still have a good os.

[Fett101]

quote:Originally posted by mushrooomprince:
Oh yea thats right.  Any new PC you buy from a major company is going to be a windows machine.

Yeah. THen maybe you could get an affordable machine to run OSX.

 

quote:
Not to mention nobody knows about Apple.  And even if they did you would need a PhD in computer science to understand that a 700 mhz G4 is way different than a 700 mhz P3.

Anyone who buys a Athlon XP is esentially giving a nod to the mhz myth.

[Laukev7]

Why doesn't Apple give equivalences, like AMD does? They don't have to use Intel as the sole standard. They could build some sort of table, and give approximate conversions between PIV/Celeron/Athlon/G3/G4 for different tasks. For example, a 1.25 GHz G4 is equivalent to a 2.2 GHz Athlon or to a 2.5 GHz P4 for overall performance, or a 1.42 G4 is a bit faster than a 3 GHz P4 for graphics, etc. (I made those figures up).

It doesn't have to be accurate; just give the the average consumer an idea of the relative performance of the G4.