Seth Goldstein | Philadelphia Web Designer and Social Media Marketer

The battle for the hearts and minds of computer users: Microsoft and Apple shouldn’t be duking it out… AT ALL

December 5, 2009 By Seth 1 Comment

Okay, this has finally hit a nerve. Apple and Microsoft have been at each others necks for some time now. And to be honest that’s their own prerogative, but this battle of which is better PC or Mac is just plain annoying and ridiculous.

Now I’m not being a traitor to my Windows roots when I say that I love the Mac hardware, I think it’s far superior to anything that anything any PC maker can come up with. Apple’s computers are sleek and sexy and amazing pieces of industrial design. To be frank, I want one. Sadly the price for one of these gems is a bit steep for most of us.

The one thing I don’t like about Apple’s Macs is the operating system. It’s just not for me. I love Windows and always will. But here’s where this whole post comes together. YOU CAN RUN WINDOWS ON A MAC. Duh, you’re probably saying. To that I say: Then why is there this whole debate going on?

Why can’t you have both. If you run a Mac you can still have Windows and have superior hardware. It’s that simple. There shouldn’t be this dumb battle between Windows and Macs because you can have both!

Hear that Hodgeman! Windows can run on a Mac!

What are you thoughts? Post them below in the comments.

Leo Laporte says Net-books are saving the Windows OS – Not true

I still stand by my statement that I’m a huge fan of Leo Laporte of TWiT.tv fame. I think his shows are great and in general Leo’s absolutely amazing. But in my recent blog post on my corporate blog, I needed to give a retort to Leo’s anti-SEO comments he made on his This Week in Google Show. I have gotten good feedback on the post and I hope Leo knows that there is nothing hostile about my posts, I just want to set the record straight.

Now, I hate to be a knit-picker, but on MacBreak Weekly this week Leo made a quick statement stating that net-books are the only reason Windows is still around. That is just not true. Microsoft Windows is still a dominant player in the operating system market and still has the majority stake in the cross section of operating systems. I was shocked when Leo, who is known to be a Mac and Windows user, said such a thing. The business almost exclusively runs on Windows (well not so much the design world) and many PC users are on Windows.

I’m really just perplexed by these statements Leo’s been making on his shows and needed to vent. With Windows 7 coming out, the operating system is far from gone.