F. J. Taylor

Three Reasons I Chose Microsoft over Apple for Home Media

I imagine Mr. Hawk is not aware that any Intel MacBook runs Windows - and it loads faster, runs smoother, and with less crashes than Windows-specific machines. We run XP on my wife's MacBook for a Windows-specific program she needs, and it runs rings around the same program on Dell or any other PC box I have seen it on.

(I have not tried Vista, as I have used it on Windows machines and it is even more horrible than most Windows products - to the extent that my local PC shop owner, along with many others, is abandoning Windows for his own use, and adopting Mac. The consensus seems to be; "I waited 6 years for THIS???)

As to XBox, I cannot speak to them, since I have no interest in or use for them in their main role as game boxes, but I have my home wired via Airport, and it all works seamlessly through my MacBook Pro.

I am unsure why Mr. Hawk is having trouble with iTunes, unless he is perhaps using the Windows version (which although on an inferior OS, has still converted many Windows users to Apple). I have had minus zero problems with iTunes even though I have over 3000 (legal!) songs.

However, that said, there is no excuse for calling Mr. Hawks or anyone else an "idiot" for exercising his choice of hardware and software. After all, it is his money and his decision. I myself would rather suffer a slow and horrible death by any means rather than use Windows voluntarily again, but "de gustabus non disputandum est."