A blogger posted a big thank you to
Apple for making him switc
h from
Vista to
Mac, then back to Vista. Whil
e on the surface this sounds like a back-handed compliment, it actually makes s
ense - I think.
Aviv Eyal, co-founder and VP of
Grouper Networks (which was eventually acquired by Sony), and co-founder o
f Friskit, wrote in his blog that Macs made him appreciate Win
dows Vista, which had previously confounded him no end:
I was getting very frustrated with Vista on several of my PCs and l
aptops on a daily basis to a point that I stopped enjoying working on computers
. On a clean Vista Pro install with just IE, Outlook and Office on strong Dell
workstations and on a Vaio laptop, I kept getting hangs and crashes left and ri
ght. I now run Vista using the excellent Parallels Desktop for Mac software. It
is worth every penny.
Eyal calls Windows the "light" side of the force, and Macs and OS X the "dark"
side. He expounds further on this odd compliment:
With 4GB of RAM on a 2.4ghz Intel core 2 duo MacBook Pro laptop, I
get very decent performance from Vista running virtually in Parallels, in full-
screen mode it is easy to forget that you are not running Vista natively, so if
I need to use word or powerpoint I just switch back to the dark side virtually
on Parallels and if Vista hangs crashes I just quickly restore the virtual mac
hine to a previous state while I keep working on my Mac apps.
Uh ...ok. I think. At least this underscores that fact that there is no reason
not to buy a Mac these days. Even if it's for the wrong reasons.
Check out Eyal's post on his blog here.
haha it's true. I also think that windows runs better on a mac than on a pc.
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