[BNM] New Apple vs. PC ads

[Antony Jones]

You know, it's not just windows that has this functionality:

On my ubuntu linux system;

* When I plug my usb camera in, it asks me if I want to import my photos from it. No drivers were ever installed.
* When I plugged my Philips webcam in it installed, mounted, and set it up for me with camview (or something). No drivers installed.
* When I put a cd or dvd in, it checks the content and asks me what I want to use to browse it (photo viewer, video player, nautilus etc)
* When I plug new hardware in, before I can even think about downloading some sort of driver for it, it's already mounted under /dev/ and ready to use. No drivers.

Don't get me wrong, I love macs, they're rock solid, OSX is one of the best operating systems I've ever seen, and I used to own a powerbook, but there is very little they can do which is 'special' anymore.

100% hardware compatibility is great, but comes at a price, and that price is too high for me to ditch my pc for. Linux works with... actually, all my hardware. I don't have anything which isn't compatible with it (except an old ATi card which I binned, but that is ATi's fault - another story).

In addition to that, I've never installed a driver on my desktop machine (6 months+ old now), and the only configuration file I've had to touch is /etc/samba/smb.conf to make it join my workgroup. That is almost mac-esque ease of use.

For me, I'd rather have my pc, linux, and and endless array of cheap hardware = an endless array of choice.

Oh and screw windows (which is what apple usually compare their OS to when they say 'PC') - What a mess!

Antony Jones
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe aliferis [mailto:joe at newforms.co.uk]
> Sent: 02 May 2006 19:21
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] New Apple vs. PC ads
> 
> i beg to differ
> 
> winXP does pretty much the same thing as MacOSX
> 
> camera and scanner wizard recognises human interface devices with a
> certain profile and kicks in
> 
> The Mac may be slightly better at this but its a negligable difference
> and  the advert suggests the PC is dumber than it really is
> 
> Why am I defending Windows ? I love Macs and Mac OS's (most of the time)
> 
> Its just that the add is guilty of the same kind of misleading half
> truths that Microsoft try to peddle
> 
> joe
> 
> 
> Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> 
> >joe aliferis wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I am a mac user (predominantly) but that ad was not great...
> >>
> >>1. Apple want to dispel the myth that Macs cannot be used in conjunction
> >>with PC's (i hear this krap all the time from PC users)
> >>
> >>Good idea - nicely done
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I agree
> >
> >
> >>2. Apple want to suggest that they have better driver support for third
> >>party devices (like digi cameras)
> >>
> >>this is not really true, although i hate to admit it, WinXP has about
> >>the same level of plug n' playability as MacosX
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You've kinda got the wrong end of the stick there, there is no doubt the
> >Windows HCL is much longer, the difference is, you can take a digital
> >camera or DV cam & plug it in on a mac & the relevant iLife app will pop
> >up & let you start messing with your content, now, with windows there
> >aren't that many brand new devices that work straight out of the box.
> >
> >Sevan
> >
> >
> >
> 
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