To me, this means it will perfectly screw up 3 times a week, show a blue screen of death, and fill up my hard drive with viruses, trojans, and registry hacks within no time.

Just perfect.

He compared his brandnew intel imac performance with his older PC.
That's a bit unfair and will draw a lot of comment going from clueless "see, the mac is faster" to trollish "stupid macheads comparing apples with oranges again".

Given that right now all intel macs have very good performance compared to equally equipped new PC's, I can't think why he felt the need to do that comparison.

Of course his new intel mac was faster than a previous generation PC. His new mac IS a new PC.

Hardware wise it's broadly speaking equal to a similarly equipped X86 PC.

It may benefit from better integration and have loads more style. Which is no contest really, but for the first time it is possible to compare apples with dells without having to resort to esotheric mumbo jumbo. Just pick a computer with the same feature set and compare.

You can now REALLY build an off the shelve PC with broadly the same specs and see if it's more or less expensive that way. And I bet that right now, Apple's hardware is not overly expensive.

Nevertheless, a hardware loving Windows/Linux user will most likely continue to build his/her own, but for different reasons now. Originality/individuality, wanting his own set of features, loads of free slots and disk space, start small add later etc. Which if you ask me are good reasons (for a Windows/Linux user, that is)

Too much blah over such a small thing? You know, you're probably right

… then you just restart in OSX. WHo would want to stay in WIndows for log periods of time anyways?

Why use windows for your email? I only use my windows box just to play games, never for email or extended web surfing. I'll have either a MacBookPro or iMac DC by summer

You can also simply not be Internet-connected when running Windows. Being able to choose from a large number of (single-player) games, as well as specialized apps like Windows versions of AutoCAD and Framemaker, are among the benefits of being able to occasionally run Windows.

As an aside, Boot Camp is not the only way to do this on an Intel-based Mac, as virtualization and emulation tools are also emerging.

Now Apple can not only show that Mac OS X is better than Windows (XP, Vista etc.), but can also show that Mac Hardware is better than Dell's Hardware.

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To me, this means it will perfectly screw up 3 times a week, show a blue screen of death, and fill up my hard drive with viruses, trojans, and registry hacks within no time.

Just perfect.

Hahaha! Burn! Wow! That's so insightful! ROTFL!

First Look: PC World Installs Windows XP on a 20-Inch iMac With Boot Camp

It works. Impressively well. With games, even. That's our first impression of Windows XP running under Apple's Boot Camp on our 20-inch iMac.

Welcome to the world of Apple products. It's been this way for a long time, fellas.

Can I sell you a bridge?

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Guest wrote:
Can I sell you a bridge?

No wonder "Guest" doesn't sign in, with inanity like that. No one in his/her right mind would buy a Mac (no $$, BTW--go price a COMPARABLE Dell with Duo Core processor, etc.) just to run XP. That isn't the point, at all. You buy the Mac to run OS X (Tiger or Leopard) and, as an added bonus, you can run XP, too.

http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html

windows is good for games.mac's arnt.thats why you would want boot camp.os x for its simplicity and windows for the stuff you calnt do on a mac