Mac beat PC!
Posted by Michael.
I would assume to no great surprise of most of the blog’s readership, the recent AAPL vs MSFT showdown (conducted by Popular Mechanics) had a decisive winner (hint: not the blue screen of death). Several interesting details of the contest caught my eye, however.
The ease-of-use and subjective ratings for OSX and Vista were surprisingly similar; it was in the hardware performance categories that OSX destroyed Vista. The Mac benchmarks for Vista (while running bootcamp) were slightly but consistently better than those of the PC-Vista benchmarks, but even if you subtract the Mac-PC hardware difference, Vista is, as we all know by now, and ugly beast.
Another funny thing - check out the reader comments at the bottom of the article. The Coke vs Pepsi analogy was made, and it’s an accurate one: the stereotypes still persist and Mac people make fun of PC people, and PC people make fun of Mac people. I choose to use Mac products because they don’t suck, but that doesn’t mean I blindly follow whatever line Steve Jobs tries to sell me. anyway, good times.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:37 pm Using
I realized the other day that I pretty much will buy anything that Apple tries to sell me.
I was watching TV when there were two iPhone ads one was “if you’re the kind of person who checks facebook every time you’re at a computer, now you can check it when you’re not at a computer” and the other was looking up the price of an Audi while you’re car shopping.
I think they have me pretty much pegged in the target demographic.