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the only windows runner is my umpc]]>Mar 20th 2008 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/I was wrong. ]]>Mar 20th 2008 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
It's too bad they haven't come out with a true mac version (get cracking Microsoft Mac BU!).

I've tried a few mac alternatives, but none have provided 100% interoperability with Visio that i need.

Solve my visio problem and i'd have no real need to windows xp apart from the occasional visit to some dinosaur of a web app/page that refuses to work in anything but IE. ]]>Mar 20th 2008 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
It would seem that we have a consensus of the engadget commenting system....that the people who support macs are rated low and the PC's are loved!

In every one of the comments I've read up until this point, it would seem that the PC users were being attacked by the mac "fanbois."

Interesting...]]>Mar 20th 2008 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
Or maybe cutting sandwiches in diagonal slices over long-ways!

Seriously, people! There is no reason for the hate!

Just chill. None of this is personal. Every time someone says "Hey, look at that operating system" or "That's a shiny computer," you don't need to always respond with "MY COMPUTER IS SHINIER, BACK OFF!"

This is why the world is in such a bad shape as it is. Talk out your differences. It's like the religious wars all over again. My God is better than yours! Replace God with OS, and this is pretty much the extent! Listen to yourselves!]]>Mar 21st 2008 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZr3JWYdy8

"don't breath this"]]>Mar 21st 2008 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
Tiny little Mac jokes are just small potatoes compared to insults and rants coming from Mac users.

Jealousy? Please. Pulling out the jealousy card is absolutely ridiculous. If I wanted to, I could just buy a Mac if I wanted to. Though I find it hard to justify because it's just so closed. OS X comes by default on all Macs, only Apple can make Macs, and all that. I also don't find a reason to use OS X, since you can practically do anything already on Windows. So OS X is more like an unneeded extra bundled to me.

And if you've looked at many posts and comments before, it's usually the Apple fanboy that's trying to be the antagonizer. People respond, people say nasty things, etc. Take for instance the beginning of this post : "I would never put Windows on my mac"

Was that absolutely necessary? Nope. Just a way to antagonize people for no reason. So stop with your ranting already. ]]>Mar 21st 2008 1:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 21st 2008 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/to those with OSX saying vista sucks batteries, well same goes to OSX in wintel laptops, it also sucks batteries.

just use the OS the hardware is designed for. vista/xp was never meant for mac systems. if it was, you wouldnt have ACPI problems, driver problems and a need for bootcamp.]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 21st 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
I am particularly astounded at how obsessed Windows people are about the MacBook Air. To me, a Mac user, it's just another MacBook. I don't have strong feelings about it one way or the other, but I like the fact that Mac users have an ultraportable alternative. It's not like the MBA is going to replace the MacBook or MacBook Pro.

I also think a lot of Windows fanboys think if they trash the MBA enough on forums, that somehow people won't buy it, but the sales data for this quarter doesn't bear that out. This illustrates the primary difference between what geeks like and what the public likes.

Non-geeks look at the MBA and say, cool, this thing won't kill my arm on the way to the subway. Geeks look at this thing and say, no user replaceable battery, no optical drive, no way!

But this is the number 1 reason why Geeks never predict products that will sell: Geeks want features, while regular people want it to work. When geek goes shopping, he will ask, "Does it have GPS, 3G, Divx support, Slingbox, Ratchet and Clank, 3 processors, toast?" A non-geek will ask, "Can I use this thing without wanting to kill myself?" A geek wants everything and two things more. Non-geeks want one thing, maybe two.

If a non-geek is shopping for a MP3 player, they will want it to play music. Crazy right? How could they be so stupid? A geek will want a radio, lyrics, Wifi, games, a calendar, a clock, and an interface with 18 sub menus. Geeks will insist on the 18 submenus! And you know why? They love a challenge. It actually makes them happy when they can actually get their gadget to work. It makes them better than those normal people who just want to "listen to music."

This is why Apple continues to win. They understand the psyche of ordinary people.]]>Mar 20th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
"clak
@ Mar 20th 2008 9:58PM
I enjoyed the let's-hate-on-the-MacBook-Air-circle-jerk earlier today. It illustrates how instantly drawn the Windows fanboys are to Apple topics, despite the fact that they constantly complain about Engadget covering Apple. I don't think half of them would even come to this site if Engadget didn't cover Apple so thoroughly. How else would they unload their unparalleled hatred for Apple?"

Fanboyism sucks, no matter what you're a fanboy for.]]>Mar 20th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
False. True Apple fanboys use OSX86 because they like the OS, but want it at a lower price. Only shallow, half-hearted fanboys suck. Those willing to go that extra mile, you have my utmost respect.]]>Mar 20th 2008 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
What you see from the Windows "fanboys" is similar to a spring that has been compressed to the point where it starts to spring outward.

People who use Windows never thought once about being a fanatic for Microsoft, at least not in the way Apple fans are for that company. But after the constant attacks, ridicule, mocking and more from Apple corporate down to the wingnut zealot, the Windows "fans" have started a push back effort of sorts, and have taken their understood rage wherever they have the chance to express it. Apple fans may be taken aback by it all, but you have only yourself to blame for it.

You have in part created this "pro-PC" movement. They dont hate Apple so much as they hate the sometimes repugnant culture that has developed from it.]]>Mar 20th 2008 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
Everything you just said is complete crap. Mac users have been universally ridiculed for AT LEAST fifteen years. I know because I used to be a Windows user. Now that Apple has become somewhat successful and Windows has become such an absolute joke, the Windows fanboys feel an extreme amount of jealousy and are desperate for Microsoft to get their act together and as a result, their ridicule has morphed into absolute hate. So please don't try to tell me that it's just a reaction to Apple users. That's absolutely absurd.

But more to the point, you're trying to paint Windows users as victims? What happened to "We have ninety percent of the market. Ha ha!" You mean to tell me that this small group of Apple users are picking on the big, bad, dominating Windows people? Yeah, right.]]>Mar 21st 2008 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
Now I wouldn't look back, having switched to them - the ones I use all work well and first time, every time.

I sympathize with those who still use Windows machines and who, like I once had , have an irrational hatred for Macs; it is entirely that and to that end reason will not fix it.]]>Mar 21st 2008 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
You hit the nail on the head there.

I am still currently a Windows user... but, to be honest, I'm bored. I've never really thought much into the faults of my OS (Vista), but after so many little niggles, I'm sort of attracted to Macs.

I've used them in the past, and it's been a really smooth experience... and as you said, Windows has slowly flaked away into visuals to keep up with the 'pretty' OS X (crippling what should be a speedy performance), and has lost it's integrity, amongst other problems.

I'm getting a MacBook Air for 6th form, nice and light, and the only ports and just the right performance I need, and I'm really looking forward to getting it!

Thing is... I WANT Windows to become more than it is now, I really do... but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Fingers crossed.]]>Mar 23rd 2008 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
Exactly, it's ignorant morons like yourself. I'm making assumptions here, but I bet they fit. You say that you used to think Macs were "cutsey fisher price" toys.. ? I can only assume that is because ultra geeks / engineer types like yourself have no appreciation for aesthetics or good design. Have you ever seen websites, software, and consumer electronics designed by nerdy engineers? They all look like total crap and are unbearably difficult to use. It's really a strange phenomenon.. It obviously doesn't apply to everyone, but as a stereotype, it definitely is true more than not. Just look at any computer nerd or anyone who likes amateur mathematics.. they literally have no sense of color balance, symmetry, etc. Just look how they dress. Go to best buy and talk to a sales person... and ask them for the "associate" that is most knowledgeable about computer hardware. Now look at that person... enough said.

The other part that I despise about MS fanboy idiots is how they attempt to cast Mac computers as somehow inferior "toys" that "just look pretty"... When in fact, models like the Macbook Pro, Xserve, and Mac Pro workstation are incredible machines that blow the doors off their PC counterparts. The Mac Pro, with a 4-year old case design, is still one of the most powerful, well spec'd, well designed, and well thought out mid-level workstations I have seen. Macbook Pro is a great machine as well. This is coming from someone who has had every version of Windows since 3.11 and have owned PC's for 15+ years.




]]>Mar 21st 2008 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/What? A cut against an Apple product? Here?]]>Mar 20th 2008 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/THIS IS SPARTA, i mean, engadget]]>Mar 20th 2008 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 21st 2008 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
Hardy is in beta now. I'm using it as I type this. Whatever OS I'll be using, it'll be on /this/ hardware. Ubuntu will either force apple to ease up on their control freak ways or it'll crush them.

I've got four converts from windows already this year. Clock's tickin' (and it's 2 degrees in Anchorage alaska right now, overcast, with calm winds. 10:39 PM here, 6:39 AM in london)]]>Mar 21st 2008 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
http://lifehacker.com/software/benchmarks/hackintosh-vs-mac-pro-vs-macbook-pro-benchmarks-322866.php

As you can tell, the price difference is substantial while the performance difference is almost nil(ay patel; get it!?! get it?!?!/1 har har)]]>Mar 20th 2008 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/
Core 2 Quad(OC to 3.4)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
ATI HD3870(Don't use a 3850)
SATA HDD and DVD Burner

That's basically all the parts that make a difference.]]>Mar 20th 2008 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/20/macbook-air-reviewed-as-a-windows-machine/Mar 20th 2008 10:01PM