Archive - October, 2009

The Thing About Broken Promises

October 28, 2009 in Rantology with 6 Comments

Let me start out by saying I have a Mac running Snow Leopard and a PC running Windows 7.  I like both of them (it’s true).

Mac has been able to push forward pretty well with Windows Vista sucking so much.  The problem is… that Windows 7 is actually a good operating system, and maybe their scared, but this ad makes me mad.

Haha, very funny.

But… I have two major issues with this ad.

  1. Snow Leopard has issues.  I know they don’t want to admit that, but since I’ve been on a Mac for a little while now, I’ve been on forums and such looking up information about what I can and can’t do.  It turns out that Snow Leopard is actually pissing quite a number of people off.  I even found a forum link that said that even if your precious Macbook can support up to 8GB of memory, Snow Leopard doesn’t run stably with anything over 4GB.  WHAT?  This is the first time I’ve ever hear of an operating system capping the amount of memory it can use, and that is ridiculous.
  2. Until the iPod, Microsoft didn’t have to talk to Mac about anything. Yeah, this is a clever idea.  Going back in time to show how much of a screw up Microsoft has been.  The problem?  Macintosh sucked until they came out with the iPod.  That is the main reason that Mac even made it back out into the open, surfacing from 20 years worth of getting sat on by PC’s customizibility (which Mac still doesn’t have, and is why there’s not as many problems).  These conversations wouldn’t even be happening because Mac, for a long time, wasn’t offering anything for the consumer level, or even a professional level until video editing came into the film industry and allowed Final Cut to make it’s mark.  But, the only memory that I have about Mac until college was shooting green and black, 4-bit buffalo in Oregon Trail in elementary school.

I’ve never been a big fan of commercials or whatever that show me a lot of the downsides of the opposing side without actually mentioning the benefits of their product.  Don’t get me wrong.  I love my Macbook.  It’s great.  But I also love Windows 7 on my PC.  They both have their ups and downs.

What do you think?

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