New recession-friendly "I'm a PC" ad delivers uppercut to Apple

[samoth]

....ok, let me further clarify my point:

You originally referred to the PS3 as a "game", yet Stanford U. for example is still using many of them in their labs. Install Yellow Dog along with a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse and you essentially have a Linux-based "PC" that was comparable in both features and performance to many desktops and laptops (minus portability) at the time of its release.

Hence, my reference to it in a price comparison, which was meant more as sarcasm than anything in the first place.

The sarcasm wasn't very obvious, lol.

What happens in kid's bedrooms, much like what happens in Stanford's laboratories, isn't a good analogy when trying to debate brand costs of modern life necessities. Video games have come a long way, but it remains, at this time, that video game consoles are bought, sold, and used primarily for entertainment.

However, it does bring up the point of what the future holds: Between personal computers, laptops, powerful video game consoles, and cellphones -- will they all merge? What about size problems involving keyboards?

I loved playing Nintendo when I was a kid. It's amazing how far we've come in such a short period of time.

 

[EnderJE]

90% of the world uses Windows PC's for work. What were you doing to keep getting viruses? I've looked up porn for hours at a time and came away with nothing more than a half dozen ad-ware cookies that showed up in an anti-spyware scan. AVG 8.0 free version paired with a free anti-spyware program works quite well.
Bloatware can be taken care of by uninstalling all the extra crap that comes with buying a vendor rig. All those software companies will go for the largest install base (PC). Can't blame them I suppose.
Apple will have the same problems if they ever get as big as PC's.

My work is mainly project management (Office, Visio, Project, etc). I could use any OS to do that work.

The problem that I used to have is that I'd get so much bloatware each year that I'd have to re-install everything from scratch (via ISO to make it simpler for me). The bloatware came from either small programs that I wanted to try or small additions to my worksuite (ie a WBS formatter for project). I tried the uninstallers, I tried the anti-spy ware. It kept coming. Hence, I decided to switch.

I don't have that problem anymore with my Mac. It's as speedy as when I first got it.

Note, please note that this is what's best for me (for now). I'm not saying that it's the best for everyone. It's like universal healthcare. It works in some cultures. It doesn't work in others.