Apple Store employees prepped for Vista

Yeah I know this is late to the game, but Mr. Jumbo Bob, you really seem to be talking out of your ass. Quantity of applications != quality. If iMovie doesn't cut it, go to Final Cut Express or Pro; if Garage Band sucks, then check out Logic Express or Pro. You'd be hard-pressed to find better software out there for their purposes on any platform. I don't care too much for iWeb for my purposes, so what do I use? DreamWeaver. Well actually I use BBEdit more than Dreamweaver, but that's beside the point. Where's your big beef coming from, anyway?

Why would anyone in the market for a new computer care about upgrading. Wouldn't their computer come with Vista on it? Now if Apple wants to talk about painful upgrades they should attack Ubuntu, 8 hours to upgrade to Edgy. Or they could just point out how shiny their computers are, after all people pay the Mac premium for shininess (and black).

I have to use a Mac 40 hours/week. I visit this blog to read about how to make my bad Apple experience better and have to deal with the "make fun of Microsoft" drivel. So, I add my two cents to keep your cult-like antiestablishmentarianism (this is a real word, you can look it up) to a minimum. There will always be people in the minority and you just happen to be them when it comes to OS. So... not to take your little "rage against the machine" attitude away, but OSX isn't that great. Once you get past the over emphasized selling points you see that there's not much there, then you're left looking for another program to do more.

And blackwing duck... it's ironic how you reply about people not having substance when your comments themselves contain no substance.

FACT: If I don't like a Mac App built into the OS (iWeb, iDVD, iMovie, Garage Band, etc...) my choices are SEVERELY limited because 90% of the world's programmers DO NOT program for Mac.

FACT: If I don't like a Windows App (or lack thereof) my choices are ABUNDANT (and often free) because 90% of the world's programmers DO program for Windows.

I agree with Quix, what is this sudden burst of wintrolls?

Hey dudes, It's an apple blog, we are all here because to varying degrees we like apple. If you don't then go to a different blog and hold your high school arguments there. I don't go around looking for blogs of things I don't like and then posting there. That is juvenile and nonsensical.

"Yeah! I nailed those apple lovers with that sweet longhorn zing! iCal sucks!! Booyah!!!"

Oh man, you guys got us, you are the best.

Wow, somebody must have linked to TUAW from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite since Ballmer's Kids are here in force in this thread.

As someone who uses Windows 40+ hours a week at work, I can tell you without hesitation which is the better OS, and it ain't Windows. Anyone who rants and raves to the contrary simply hasn't spent any real time in OS X. End of story.

Obviously the WinDrones are feeling some level of dissatisfaction in their lives to be trolling a Mac blog. You won't find me trolling SuperSite. Perhaps because I'm perfectly content with my OS of choice?

@Kevin K

You think OS X is basic? That's probably because you are used to with lots and lots of troubleshooting with windows to make it work/secure the way it should be (I was there, being windows user for more than 10 years).

OS X is basic (in your word) because it just works! I get better sleep every night since.

@Kevin K

"Hardware is all they've got gonig for them! OS X lacks a whole bunch of features STILL that XP has."

Anyone can say whatever they like, but can you prove it? List those features that XP has but not OS X. I hope you don't think one of them is Windows Registry rofl.

JumboBob is either Steve Balmer's kid or relative. No brainer comments without research are always given by these kind of people.

So, Apple is saying "Buy our hardware and run Vista, because our OS wont be around for much longer"?

Fine... I now have Vista installed on my iMac as the only OS.

oh please, OS X isn't all that...

Its basic, for basic people.

The unified contextual top menu does have something on windows, but take that and the dock away...

Whats left? A slighly crumbly os... I dunno some things just don't sit right on a mac.

Hardware is all they've got gonig for them! OS X lacks a whole bunch of features STILL that XP has.