Windows or Macbook - what do you use and why?

Sput2001

We mac users don't really need to blow the Apple Trumpet

errr......

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BillScarab wrote: »

Im sure the people who work at the Genius Bar are great at what they do but who on earth came up with that name? Somehow it just re-inforces all of the negative stereotypes about Apple and Apple users. The words smug and arrogant just leap to mind.

I suppose Joy Division could be a lot worse..

BillScarab

lee634 wrote: »

don't you just love these debates,
can we do it again next month

We mac users don't really need to blow the Apple Trumpet, We have them,

The more explicit the are the better they stay.

let these windoze users believe they have all they need, and i'll keep using my machine for years to come

I didn't know Apple made musical instruments or that their computers were pornographic.

Its not a matter of believing my Wndows machine has all I need, I know it has. Regardless of whether a Mac can do somethings better the machine I have now can do everything I want of a computer and I don't have any difficulty using it. At the end of the day that's all that matters.

Marty_J

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I thought Apple made most of their money with iPods, not Macs

Not even close.

Apple made $1.678 billion in revenue selling iPods worldwide (11,011,000 of them) in the third quarter of 2008, but made $3.435 billion in revenue selling Macs (1,134,000 of them) in the US alone during the same time period.

[Deleted User]

It's still 34% of their revenue.. that's quite a chunk

Marty_J

ringo_24601 wrote: »

It's still 34% of their revenue.. that's quite a chunk

I believe it's around the same percentage as Microsoft make selling Office.

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Marty_J wrote: »

I believe it's around the same percentage as Microsoft make selling Office.

With the difference being that M$ earns around 60 billion a year, over 10x Apple...

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^ and that's with the rampant piracy of microsoft software, if every copy of office or windows was legally bought, then I'm sure microsoft could buy the world (maybe not literally)

helping_hubby

I'm a relatively newly converted Macbook user. Got my macbook in March 2008 and won't ever look back Had a windows PC since Windows 3.1. Use Ubuntu at work instead of windows and now will never use windows again.

Marty_J

ringo_24601 wrote: »

With the difference being that M$ earns around 60 billion a year, over 10x Apple...

Microsoft's revenue was $60 billion for 2008, and Apple's was $32.48 billion.