Ti vs other laptops

[Massimo Marino]

This charts compare Apple portables with WIntel machines at same 
prices. SO much so for Apple being more expensive!

http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/11/14.10.shtml

In addition to that: if any colleague (and this is my selling point 
here at the lab: *sold* 8 TiBooks so far) of you ever consider using 
the laptop not only to run office production tools but to work on the 
Unix side then there is NO computer in the world allowing what OS X 
allows to do.

Any PC will have to double-boot (into Linux most of the times) and 
hassle through file conversions and shared /synchronized folders to 
have Windows applications make use of Unix files and viceversa. And 
that does not always work either.
Last two colleagues of mine which were doing exactly *that* switched to 
OS X after comparing what little I had to do (and local: ie *one* file 
system at all times) in order to reproduce the vast amount of 
struggling between Windows and Linux OSes they went through regularly 
for even the simplest things.

They were not PC weenies so that helps in the conversion process: they 
were just people wishing to find a better way of working and discovered 
that a better way indeed do exist.

Massimo

On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 02:33 PM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List 
wrote:

> Message-Id: <a05200f09ba0b9cde48de@[10.0.0.3]>
> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:24:14 +0100
> From: "Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch>
> Subject: [Ti] Ti competing with other non-mac laptops
>
>
> At 04:16 -0500 28-11-2002, Henry Kalir wrote:
>> If they want to sell ....
>> they also have to compete with other non-mac laptops.
>
> I have two colleagues here in our small firm who are about to get a 
> new lapt=
> op.
> Surprisingly, for PC users, they are slightly considering a Mac
> (TiBook) as an option.
>
> The managing principal saw a BBC program the other night which
> somewhat reservedly indicated
> (to a PC user having crash issues with Windows) that a Mac might be
> slightly better.
>
> Has anyone got any recent more factual or rigorous comparison of OS X
> with Windows XP?
> One colleague has just bought a Sony Vaio with XP.   About =A43000
> (almost $3000).
> It may be stable (compared to Windows 95), but nothing I saw showed
> me that it was easy to use.
> And absolutely no class !
>
> If my colleagues insist on the PC route, what is the
> closest/comparable laptop to a Ti-book?
> It is the price (I can get a PC laptop for $1100!) that draws them to
> the OC route, although I suspect that they are comparing Oranges with
> Apples.
>
> Any comments, URL or input would be welcome.
> I am a lone Mac 'evangelist', so any support is appreciated!
>
> regards,  Trevor
>
>
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Massimo Marino
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