Look at This!
<a href="http://www.bcentral.com/articles/komando/104.asp?cobrand=msn&LID=3800"; target="_blank">http://www.bcentral.com/articles/komando/104.asp?cobrand=msn&LID=3800</a>;
It's a "un switch" add on msn's front page. But the review of the iMac is outdated (a 15")
hmmmm.
It's a "un switch" add on msn's front page. But the review of the iMac is outdated (a 15")
hmmmm.
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Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
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Downplaying the differences between the two operating systems reduces the need to switch. That's a very intelligent argument to make, and it conspicuously contrasts to her otherwise unknowledgeable comments about her experience. This has MS propaganda written all over it.
I just sent her an email
<a href="http://www.komando.com/emailkim.asp"; target="_blank">http://www.komando.com/emailkim.asp</a>;
"Geez ! She's looking nice. I want to f*** this gal"
Guess what was my reaction.
The Mac equivalent to Win explorer is 'Macintosh HD'? <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> That shows some deep understanding of the finder and windows explorer right there.
The kicker: the iMac had clarisworks installed! <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" /> Wow, that's interesting. Did she even USE the computer? Why no comment on how easy it was to install office, versus the 2 restarts that windows requires? Or no comment on any of the digital hub apps that are so much better than most, if not all, on the windows side?
That wasn't a review. That was a grasp for hits. 50,000 call attempts per hour, yeah right.
<strong>Hahaha! My boyfriend watched over my shoulders while I was reading her post, and after seeing her face on the picture, he told me :
"Geez ! She's looking nice. I want to f*** this gal"
Guess what was my reaction.
Well you better keep him away from <a href="http://www.komando.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.komando.com/</a>; or you'll be sleeping alone at night
I thought her article was easy reading. Nothing is intuitive when you first start out. Was it easy to walk for you were young. Was it easy to read? Everything takes work.
Apple's true intuitiveness comes when the proverbial shiza hits the fan. That's when Mac user rejoice that they can rectify the issue without resorting to calling some Radio show for help or posting on help boards.
She's very into office apps. Have her contrast recording and editing video compared to Microsoft. How about using WiMP versus iTunes and you'll see that Apple pulls ahead. It just works.
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I did like the part about how she was sad to pack her iMac away. Macs just grow on you.
she's an idiot.
Everything that was previously mentioned by my AI collegues stands true and is only scratching the surface of her idiocy, so I shall not repeat. What makes her a REAL idiot, however, is that she has a forum in which to speak her idiot thoughts and other people read her idiot ramblings and spread her idiot Microsoft-paid-for propaganda (for it HAS to be paid because NO ONE who has used MacOS X for a significant period of time, never mind three months! has EVER said Windows was better and easier). Truly, I think that's the most disturbing part of all this: that people walk away from this article believing that there is no safe haven from computers, that ALL computers should be a hinderance instead of a helping hand. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Oh, one more: further proof of her idiocy, though it's been mentioned before: she couldn't figure out Mail. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
(Sorry, I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.)
IDIOT.
She did comment on that:
The iMac comes with some highly touted multimedia software. That wasn't important to me ? I used the iMac as a business computer. There is a great deal of multimedia software available for Windows, too. I doubt that the iMac software is a great advantage.
Great work, Kim. That's like saying "The iMac comes with some highly touted multimedia software. I didn't bother checking it out at all, but it's probably the same as Windows stuff. So it's no big deal."
Sure, take one of the iMac's biggest benefits, and dismiss it because you couldn't be bothered to check it out. If you're going to comment on something, you could try USING it first.
Loser.
<strong>Hey guys, If you think that's crap, what do you think of the switch campaign? She is no more lying about her experiences than those appearing in the switch ads. She is not the most technically savvy person in the world, but look at who Apple is using. She actually used the latest hardware and OS available at the time from Apple. If you have this type of reaction to an honest opinion piece like this one, how on earth do think knowledgeable PC users feel about the switch ads? Welcome to the other side.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not lies. Apple's switchers are not coming from XP.
"...Apple has a native e-mail application, but I couldn't get it to work. That was no big deal, really..."
-This is just sad <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
"...The Help system was somewhat sketchy, similar to Windows.
..."
-Although not amazing, its yrs ahead
"...The filing systems are alike, to a great degree. Windows Explorer's counterpart is Macintosh HD...."
-Mac HD?...i guess she meant the finder, which is better looking, more intuitive, and more cutomizable <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
"...My Windows machine is not the latest and greatest. This particular machine has a 1.533-gigahertz chip from Advanced Micro Devices. With Intel chips approaching 3 gigahertz, my AMD machine is at the bottom of the Windows heap. Nonetheless, it is nearly twice as fast as the iMac's 800-megahertz Motorola chip.
Apple buffs argue that chip speed is a misleading measure. AMD, which trails Intel in chip speed, makes the same argument. I agree, up to a point.
The quality of the hard drive, memory, bus, video card, etc., also affects a computer's speed. But, golly, 800 MHz just isn't very fast today...."
-First off, isn't 1.5Ghz for AMD good...and the good golly, if 800MHz isn't fast enough for you get a PowerMac (business machine, not consumer machine iMac)
"...The iMac comes with some highly touted multimedia software. That wasn't important to me ? I used the iMac as a business computer. There is a great deal of multimedia software available for Windows, too. I doubt that the iMac software is a great advantage.
..."
-Unless you've used the apple software, you dont know how much better it is...how come PC people can't make this high grade of software...i mean PC industry cant even copy things right
People like this make me sad...not only is she stupid, she infected other people, and mad me furious, I just want to have a debate with the PC world about these types of topics!
Yuh, er, isn't the iMac intended as a home computer? Isn't that why Apple make Power Macs? <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
Dumb, dumb, dumb...
she did raise a few valid points.
btw dont assume that non mac users are stupid..
i wouldnt touch a 15" ibook or imac...it really
is slow.
heres my perception as a brand new user (i use
win2k & openbsd evry heavily)
os'x base is very well done. but the dock & the finder are horribly implemented & remind me of win3.0 (also startup/shutdown could be faster)
the speed & the mouse issues are dead on.
dont understand the floppy issue but people
still use them but it would redundant in an imac
we are behind in some aspects (as above) & ahead in others (new hardware features, solid kernel etc)
grin~!~ look at it this way....we can only go up
(mkt share) & m$ cant go beyond 100%
(btw im happy with both os's so its a win-win
dont start me on xp....its a piece of !#$~)
She obviously is ignorant and a PC bigot. Don't let this get to you. Her ideas aren't just crazy, they are outright wrong.
While she may not be the technically savviest person in the world, she is advertising herself as such. She has nationally syndicated talk shows and columns dealing with computing and the internet. She is a de facto "expert" or she wouldn't have talk shows and columns.
Apple uses "everyday" people that don't have nationally syndicated talk shows on computers and the internet. Most of them purchased Windows machines, unlike reviewers like Komando which are furnished equipment for reviewing, and chose to spend their own money on a Mac.
Her review was not one; it was propoganda. It would be similar to Roger Ebert writing or speaking on his review show, "Then there was this love scene in the film. Now, I don't go to the movies for love scenes, I go for action and car chases, so I left for some more jujubees. I can't believe that love scene would be any better than any love scene in any other movie."
I have no problem in Komando being a spokesperson for Windows XP, Dell, whatever, just don't call it journalism.
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