[Foo Fighter]

For the record, I hate the "Switch" ad campaign. It falsely portrays Mac users as clueless plods that go through life confused and terrified by Windows machines.

Instead of painting the Mac "switcher" as a bitter, dissenting, victim, why not showcase celebrities and notable professionals that use Macs in their daily work lives?

Scientists from Genentec where Macs are used in labs for complex computational models...or Musicians and bands like Moby, Madonna, Bare Naked Ladies, Dave Mathews band, Smashmouth that use Macs in recording studios, showing PC users why Macs are the platform of choice for the music industry and that the CD albums they buy in record stores were made on Macs running Pro Tools (something many people do not realize)....or Publishers and Pre-Press pros showing how Macs are used in the design, layout, and publishing of most major magazines (did you know that PC World and PC Magazine are done on Macs?)...or professional photographers illustrating why Macs are the dominant platform for digital image editing....or Graphics pros giving testimonials why Macs are the tool of choice in that field.....or video professionals singing the virtues of Final Cut Pro on PowerMacs...or notable actors and actresses that use Macs in their daily lives (Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Ben Aflack, Mike Meyers).

By the way, did anyone see the Will Farrell ad shown during Jobs keynote at MacWorld? "My name is Will Farrell....and I'm a porn actor." :lol:

[Foo Fighter]

For the record, I hate the "Switch" ad campaign. It falsely portrays Mac users as clueless plods that go through life confused and terrified by Windows machines.

Instead of painting the Mac "switcher" as a bitter, dissenting, victim, why not showcase celebrities and notable professionals that use Macs in their daily work lives?

Scientists from Genentec where Macs are used in labs for complex computational models...or Musicians and bands like Moby, Madonna, Bare Naked Ladies, Dave Mathews band, Smashmouth that use Macs in recording studios, showing PC users why Macs are the platform of choice for the music industry and that the CD albums they buy in record stores were made on Macs running Pro Tools (something many people do not realize)....or Publishers and Pre-Press pros showing how Macs are used in the design, layout, and publishing of most major magazines (did you know that PC World and PC Magazine are done on Macs?)...or professional photographers illustrating why Macs are the dominant platform for digital image editing....or Graphics pros giving testimonials why Macs are the tool of choice in that field.....or video professionals singing the virtues of Final Cut Pro on PowerMacs...or notable actors and actresses that use Macs in their daily lives (Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Ben Aflack, Mike Meyers).

By the way, did anyone see the Will Farrell ad shown during Jobs keynote at MacWorld? "My name is Will Farrell....and I'm a porn actor." :lol:

[IpaqMan2]

I do admire Apple. They have always had computers that caught my interests. And as much as I have complained to others, that designs and colors are no reasons to ever buy a computer, they have grown on me and really are the only company that presents "wow" factor in their design of computers. How hard could it be for Dell to design something that is different and new? And when you think about it, Apple is the only company that is bold enough to add new technology and make them standards long before most PC users catch on to them. But than again, I believe Apple could release a translucent glowing Cow Pie and just because they are Apple and people expect Apple to be so different than PCs, it too would be a success.

But.... The one thing I don't like about Apple, are their prices. There are no competitors and thus everything comes at a premium price which my common sence will never justify for something that is just basically art, and lacks in large amounts of software when compareds to PCs.

[wiredguy]

Originally Posted by Foo Fighter

For the record, I hate the "Switch" ad campaign. It falsely portrays Mac users as clueless plods that go through life confused and terrified by Windows machines.

Instead of painting the Mac "switcher" as a bitter, dissenting, victim, why not showcase celebrities and notable professionals that use Macs in their daily work lives?

Only one reason I can thing of... cause they'd have to pay the actors more money to show up .

I kinda like the ads. Sure, they don't represent the technology guys like us... but that's not the target audience of the ads. Right?

[sweetpete]

Originally Posted by Foo Fighter

Want to make a photo book on your PC? You can't! No one makes software that integrates this feature or service. All those Gigahertz and I still can't make a photo book? :roll:

Not sure if you've checked this out on your PC box, but I've done this with WinXP since it was released and I can "print" directly to my photolab and have them ready for pickup in 1 hour. I can also upload them directly to my MSN community (as you can to iPhoto, though I still have free space :wink: ... for now), and run it through a wizard and make a nice online photo album.

[ricktakagi]

I'm curious to know if anyone has not bought a mac due to the lack of a conduit for their PocketPC. Is anyone using PocketMac (only conduit for syncing a mac)? I'm really hoping that a version of activesync will eventually be available. I think it could only benefit the PocketPC platform and microsoft...anyone else think so?

Rick T.

[klinux]

But your photo lab don't make it all pretty like Apple. 8)

[XmanHP548]

I was trying to hook up my old Jornada 548 to the Mac through PocketMac Pro and was not having any luck (reference some of my old posts warning about my frustrations).
Now, though, I have a brand new Maestro and it synchs up with PocketMac Pro and Entourage X after a couple of tries (no worse than when I try to synch it up with my work PeeCee with ActiveSync heh heh heh), so I am not as pissy as I once was.
You really have to have a newer PocketPC running the 2002 OS to make real use of PocketMac Pro though.

For the record, I will state that the PocketMac team has been pretty helpful about responding to my emails and questions. They have also refunded the $$$ to several people who could not get it to work, so my hat is off to them!

It is a challenge being a PocketPC user and a Mac devotee, but I like to use the best of what's around. In my mind, in the computing market Mac wins hands down every time. In the PDA departmet, PocketPC wins everytime as well. Even if the costs of the Mac or the PocketPC is more, I think in the long run it is worth it!

Now, if Mac ever comes out with a new PDA then I might dump the Maestro, but that's another story

[ricktakagi]

I haven't tried out Pocketmac yet but I understand that it won't sync email from entourage yet...is that right?

I am glad to hear that it's working out though. I'm going to try it out sometime soon.


Rick T.

[XmanHP548]

You are correct that the current PocketMac Pro will not synch email with Entourage. Hopefully, they will address this in future releases?
Right now it just connects with the Entourage calendar, tasks, and address book. Also, you can browse your PocketPC's files with it as well.

[snappy2515]

The thing I like most about Apple :roll: is the design of thier products.......but its like the saying "don't judge a book by its cover" I've never owned an Apple but from what i hear they aren't what they are made out to be.....I dont know that myself though....I'll just hafta go out and buy one of those nifty ibooks with the wide screen 8O.....those things look so cool!