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What about Macs and Macbooks? they are making some serious progress over the last few years despite market domination by PCs for a long long time (almost everyb
by tyng 16y ago
What about Macs and Macbooks? they are making some serious progress over the last few years despite market domination by PCs for a long long time (almost everybody outside of design industry was using PCs). I think really great technology does eventually shine.
To be fair though, iPod and iPhone did play a big role to give Apple the "coolness" as a whole, perhaps that's the right strategy - attack from the sidelines.
- riffraff 16y agoI would say macbooks are a point in favour of the previous poster. They made some serious progress by becoming intel machines, i.e. PCs.
- tyng 16y agoPerhaps a mixture of both. To me I made the switch when I got both an iPod and an iPhone so getting a Macbook was somewhat a natural next step when I needed to get a new laptop. Didn't care too much about what's inside the machine, the different OS experience was a major concern at the time though.
- pyre 16y ago* An Intel chip means that it's faster to run Windows (without the need for x86-on-PowerPC emulation). * An Intel chip means that I can run Linux on it and still have access to closed-source programs (Flash, Matlab, etc). * An Intel chip makes it possible to boot Windows natively. * An Intel chip makes it easier for Apple to maintain forward momentum without needing to goad Motorola/IBM/etc to improve their PowerPC offerings to be competitive with Intel/AMD chips.
- gaius 16y agoIt's not as simple as that - they are a hybrid. An interface as easy to use as the previous Macs, hardware as cheap as a PC, an underlying OS as powerful as Unix.