Oh, dear. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was on The Today Show (international viewers: The Today Show is a morning news and entertainment program that airs on NBC, a big TV network here) to unveil Windows 7. Call me crazy, but isn’t that a first-gen MacBook Pro in the background? Good job, NBC!
I’ve embedded the video from Hulu for our U.S. readers, and for international readers here’s a few screencaps:
Once again, bravo, NBC, for a job well done! (And people call us sloppy, with a budget one-zillionth that of The Today Show!)
Actually that could be any of a dozen laptops. How about a close up screenshot of that unit.
Until you can prove it is a Mac, not running windows 7, your post will continue to read as fanboism.
There are three pictures that clearly show it’s a MacBook Pro.
http://www.macworld.com/article/137329/2008/12/macbookproreview.html
There are dozen laptops which have a similar look… for example dell adamo… look at these pictures…
http://www.pmptoday.com/2009/01/22/dell-adamo-photos/
There are many more silver colored laptops which some non-PC users would not have seen… and might assume to be Mac…
Hey–take a look at the pic you posted and then look at the pic in the video. Like posted below, clearly mesh speakers and power button exactly like a MacBook Pro. Also note the frame of the computer in question. Its nothing like the one you say it is.
Who cares? Seriously? It’s a graphic, nothing more. Had he actually “launched” it, that’s worth writing about.
Sheesh. You people need to focus on things that are relevant.
@BB “Who cares?” Steve Ballmer certainly does.
Who is to say that some Mac fanboy in the background on the Today show didn’t do this? Who says that is a stock photo from Microsoft? Does TechCrunch not really even think things through before posting articles like this, or is it really just about getting the most readers out of sensational titles?
It’s possible that a Today Show worker did that. But if that CEO or Microsoft’s marketing dept. were worth their weight in salt, they would have supplied a stock photo on something that isn’t undeniably a Mac. But then again who am I to talk–I mean according to the last ad campaign for Windows 7, you made it right? What a joke.
Wow. Now that I’ve seen the Windows 7 logo, on a Mac… I really wanna buy it.
Of course it’s a Mac but since most of them will be running Windows anyway it’s not an issue.
Mark, your rebuttal serves your lack of knowledge on the topic very well.
It’s clearly a Macbook Pro – the mesh for speakers, power button, keyboard, IR port in proper spot…
Yeah… power button completely gives it away… but at the end of the day who gives a shit.
“When people think of the company Apple… they think “that’s cool”… Stevo looked like he wanted to Punch Matt Lauer in the face. Brutal.
Well, Macs can run Windows, so what?
that was my line of thinking.
Mac’s technically can’t run Windows 7 without some tricks. Boot camp support for Windows 7 is coming later this year (and Apple won’t even allow earlier versions of Macbook Pros/iMacs to run it)
Erm,
I a writing this response on a MacBox Pro, with Windows 7 on, and have been doing so for some time. And boot camp works great.
although shock horror, I never boot into the Max Os
I did not need any tricks, either.
There are some hiccups with the bootcamp drivers in Windows 7 still, I have found. Particularly the sound drivers don’t seem to agree with some Windows programs. Example: Steam won’t use my MBP’s integrated microphone for voice chat, because of some weird hardware configuration. Hopefully when they release official Windows 7 drivers this problem will go away.
Please, don’t ever use the internal mic on a MBP for voice chat. Especially when playing games. The fans are so loud you’ll blow up other peoples ear drums.
Be kind, always use an external mic with a MBP.
@Will Eddins: the problem is the EFI, is too modern for windows apparently. Windows doesn’t recognize it so Bootcamp has to fake a BIOS so you can boot windows, that’s all
@Francisco Actually it’s the opposite; Windows supports only UEFI 2.0 and Apple has only shipped UEFI 1.1. At least if this blog post is to be believed.
“Until Apple upgrades its UEFI firmware to version 2.0 or higher, Windows 7 will not natively boot on a Macintosh. Bootcamp is the only solution and Apple has little motivation to upgrade their firmware.”
http://darobins.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C188BEF79F825945!529.entry?wa=wsignin1.0&sa=914397999
Ugh, URL parse fail…
http://tinyurl.com/yl66ego
What makes it funny is Ballmer’s vocal dislike for all things Apple. e.g. http://tinyurl.com/BallmerHasACow
While bootcamp runs Windows superbly, it requires extra money and install effort.
Boot Camp is free on Snow Leopard, I believe. Included app.
Yeah, but if this was a first-gen MBP, it can run Win7 while it can NOT run Snow Leopard!
DOH!!!
And why is that? Snow Leopard requires an Intel processor, the Macbook Pros have had Intel processors (original Core Duos, but still) from the start.
You might be confusing a Macbook Pro with a Powerbook.
are you serious? i’m on a first gen macbook pro RIGHT NOW, typing this to you, and running snow leopard! LOL
Whats the big deal? some dude in graphics went to stockphoto and typed in “laptop”
your mom
rotfl
Poor boy is so far into denial it hurts. Windows 7 even runs better on Macs. It doesn’t really matter since nearly everyone is soon going to be dumping Windows PCs and using iPhones and Apple tablets for access to the internet.
Ballmer’s face was starting to turn red from rage every time Apple was mentioned. He probably ran off stage and sobbed. That video was so funny, it hurt my sides. The iPhone killing Windows, holy sh!t. On MSNBC, no less.
Fortunately your wrong. People such as MAC users who start to believe in their own hype will soon come crashing down around themselves. I see Apples style as peaking and soon will be on the decline. You can only offer so many minimalist “silver” looking kitsch toys that is becomes mundane.
While you associate that MAC or Apple is the top of the heap. Your association of and with other MAC or Apple users give you a false sense that people are switching to Apple or MACs.
The reality is that Apple is a style and design company outsourcing its manufacturing of IPHONES and APPLE products to PC manufactures to turn out your precious little devices.
So you theory of the end of Microsoft or PC is coming. Apple and MAC Users have been saying that for years and where has it gotten them…. No where fast…
Windows 7 is a wake up call that needed to be dialed. Windows 7 is what Vista could have been but was built with out the cooperation and collaboration of its industry partners.
You will see a much more leaner meaner and sexier PC industry to start to give Apple a run for its money.
And its always interesting to note. Those who scream the loudest about things like this are the ones who have something to fear. i.e. Apple.
this was written on MAC intel quad core 2.8GHZ with 4 Gigs of RAM
Apple users beware….. :)
Peaking? Are you high?
I remember when people said that the iPod was going to fail. That would be the original iPod.
And it’s Mac. Good day.
Score: 5, Funny
Yeah… gotta call bullshit on the “MAC” you wrote that on. Pictures or it never happened.
Written on a Macbook Pro 2.6Ghz Duo
“It doesn’t really matter since nearly everyone is soon going to be dumping Windows PCs and using iPhones and Apple tablets for access to the internet.”
Look: I’m a self-confessed Windows enthusiast, I’m not a big fan of how either company markets itself to consumers…but to suggest that “everyone” is going to be dumping Windows PCs is just crazy. Crazy. It shows a complete lack of perspective, not to mention ignorance of the fact that Microsoft still enjoys a greater-than-85% market share. Obviously a substantial portion of that number is in enterprise environments, where Macs have had a hard time catching on, but still: everyone dumping Windows PCs? Crazy. Think for just one moment about what you said.
Hahaha, so it was like Microsoft fired a zinger at Apple after that wacky ad Apple made to slap Microsoft with their windows 7.
This was the source I saw:
http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/windows-7-official-suite-why-should-you-get-it/
It looks like a legit mac book to me also… but you know what.. all these baloney I think were part of an ad campaign where in the end, these guys will be the winner.
I agree that isn’t the most crystal clear footage but if you will look at the link at the bottom you can see that the screen has a resemblance.
way to Microsoft — I guess this time you are replying to the sarcastic video of Apple throwing to your backyard. LOL
Windows 7 Broken Promises: http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/windows-7-official-suite-why-should-you-get-it/
Guys, we made a followup review base on the comments crunchgear has been receiving.
You can see there that the Macbook on the background -at the back of Mr. Ballmer, strikes a resemblance on macbook world.
Now, we aren’t saying its genuine. but we lead an article for you to decide which is which.
our sources: http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/nbcs-today-show-windows-7-featured-on-a-macbook-pro/
Kudus to Mister Deleon or crunchgear, for this “howdy-fast”
Latest update (october 23, 2009 – Dinner Time) The whole video (5:23) of the said interview of Mr. Ballmer on Today Show.
http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/nbcs-today-show-windows-7-featured-on-a-macbook-pro/
Time to open your eyes now guys!
Jesus Christ, will you stop spamming?
Nobody cares about your stupid fucking site.
MSFT photoshop intern FTW!
Actually, it could be any number of laptops. But it happens to be a MacBook Pro. Until you just realize that it is, and that its no big deal, your comments will continue to come across as those of just another anti-Apple whiner.
That, my unpleasantly cynical friend, is a MacBook Pro. ;)
Haxcid,
You’re joking, right? Maybe you just aren’t up to date with tech and the times? A child could easily distinguish that image as a Macbook Pro. A child.
It’s so obviously a macbook pro…. are you blind or something?
LOL, Hopefully its an HP Envy, which looks Exactly like a mac book pro =P
Except, of course, that the HP envy lacks all of the identifying features I mentioned [in another post].
Sh*t i just realized that hulu doesn’t work outside of the US :( can’t wait till i get back
Isn’t that the glory of Windows? That it runs on anybody’s hardware?
Backwards.
That’s the glory of Mac hardware… Runs any OS.
+2
They didn’t used to… but now they’re expensive PCs in a shiny coat they can…
Last I checked, they were Intel processors.
No, that’s backwards. Apple is the one who restricts their OS to not work on other hardware. Microsoft neither restricts nor cares to restrict their OS to only PCs. There’s nothing particularly special about Mac hardware that prevents Apple from producing an OSX that works on PCs. In fact, for many who try hard enough, PCs work on OSX just fine…
Microsoft is the one that copy restricts its OS.
Actually, if Apple produced a version of OSX for all PCs, it wouldn’t be as stable as it is now. The reason OSX works so well is because Apple is able to write it directly for the hardware it will be running on. I love not having to look for drivers for my Apple hardware.
Actually apple only wants OSX on it’s hardware because it can control the issues that come up with the unlimited combinations of hardware PC’s have to deal with. How many times have you bought a piece of software for your PC only to take it home and spend hours trying to get it to work. Also Microsoft does restrict use. Remember how they strip windows 7 down to bare bones for netbooks because their crappy hardware can’t handle it. Apple considers usability and the user experience because of this quality control we don’t have a shitty apple tablet yet. They will wait until the hardware is right.
Agree. Apple restricts the OS so they don’t have to validate every possible configuration. That is one reason they don’t want claim support for Windows 7 on Boot Camp. We all know it works but if there are any issues they don’t need to support them. Once they have time to do some validation (I think they want to let the users do the testing) they will make the official support available. BTW, I believe Apple like that people install OSX on PCs. However, in addition to what I have already stated, I think they also need to show some effort to protecting their IP.
Apple will never supplant Windows until they open their OS up to installation on Non-Apple hardware. Linux has a better chance of doing it.
Oh, and in regard to the post, I believe it is a MacBook Pro and see not issue with it. If anything MS should be happy that Apple jumped on the Windows bandwagon. (i.e. Even Apple like Windows…) I think MS should do some commercials around this.
+1 v6sonoma
WHL drivers. Ha!
Actually, Win7 Ultimate works fine on a netbook. The reason for the stripped down version is that a netbook costs about the same amount as Windows 7 Ultimate. The cut-back version has less features so it can be sold for less, so that people would actually buy a Win7 netbook.
+1
You mean intel hardware?
Apple is close minded its all about me.
PC is about everyone
the backwards is Apples line of thinking
@chitown
Yes, awfully narrow-minded of Apple. With such backwards thinking they should be going broke anytime now.
crickets… crickets…
I like pc because I can find any app for free on torrent. Most commercial software is pc. So in terms of getting work done and playing games a pc is better. If some other os had zillions of cool software available I would use it. As a web developer my mac customers seem to have more problems than my pc customers. So really it’s more about which tool seems to work better.
Except it’s own ones if the Mac hardware is more than 3 and a bit years old.
Ha. Nice!
Thanks for remembering us foreigners with your context setting – hope to see that trend continue on TC!
I love it, just plain love it (I mean the Mac)
I’m surprised Ballmer didn’t notice to be honest
Searching for and gloating on Windows 7 fail is about as annoying as the women in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TB0seJULcM
Seriously – it is an OS not a way of life.
Actually, Windows 7 marketing is about as annoying as this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Hk0ZCqRxg
Ballmer is an epic failure.
Given that Microsoft is a SOFTWARE company I don’t see how this matters even if it is a Mac. You can run Windows on a Mac.
I don’t get the significance either. It’s not a slam on Microsoft at all. If anything it shows a strength of the OS.
I don’t believe the author said it was a slam on M$. He thought it was funny, in an ironic way. Which I agree with. He said that the Today Show was sloppy, which I agree with.
PC folks need to lighten up. No one called your mom a name. TC just pointed out something they thought oddly humorous.
Wow.
> Given that Microsoft is a SOFTWARE company
http://www.microsoft.com/HARDWARE/
Try it :-)
I agree, it’s non issue. Slow news day for techcrunch I guess. I use mac exclusively and would be called an apple fan boy. But I think it speaks to the power of the Microsoft OS that it runs on almost any computer. The one gripe I have with Apple is that they don’t allow their OS to run on any other hardware. I can already anticipate the responses to this commnet, so save your hardware software coupling arguments for another thread cause they are BS in my opinion.
Let me help you out:
Apple hardware competes against Windows hardware (yes, even though MSFT doesn’t build the hardware), and since Macs ship with OSX, as Apple gains market share, MSFT loses it, and sells fewer copies of Windows to hardware companies.
Therefore, MSFT should try to avoid reminding consumers of Apple’s pretty hardware when they are trying to promote Windows.
Or, people buy a Mac, and buy a copy of Windows 7 to put on it. Why would they care what machine it’s running on?
They have a MacTard that called Jim Goldman, you should watch his videos. So bias, so disgusting.
And that is not the Windows 7 Logo.
Here’s a photo of a first gen Macbook for the doubters: http://www.computerworld.com/common/images/article/hirez_macbook_review/sidebyside_lg.jpg
Seems like some people here are missing the point…
Apple bashes MS and windows whenever it can in it’s “Get a Mac” ads. Heck, only yesterday they posted three new videos to directly ridicule the launch of Win7
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
So balmer raving about Win7 with a mac in the background is kind of VERY lame…
I bet that MS did it specifically to knock Apple. They don’t care if Apple hardware sales are strong, in fact they WANT it to be strong. Just about every Mac user I know ends up buying a copy of Windows sooner or later.
I know at least 10 friends who own Macs, and not one of them has Windows installed on their Mac. I own six Macs myself, and none of those have Windows installed. I think your off base on that claim that most Mac owners have Windows on their machines.
I’d think this was a much more amazing story, except for the fact that I’m reading it on a Macbook Pro running Windows 7.
Big deal…this isn’t news worthy.
Funny thing is apple isn’t supporting first gen macbook pros with windows 7 (i think just the core duo ones, not the core 2 duo ones that came out later). Not making the drivers for them… So youll probably be able to install, but you will be without some functionality…
Hilarity? I didn’t laugh…
No one cares.
since you’re allowed to install your copy of Windows on anything you want, what’s the big deal?
I’m reading this post via a browser on Windows 7 on a Macbook Pro. Is that hilarious?
That is very funny.
Most likely, this is a simple case of the graphics department of the Today Show using a stock photo of a laptop and photoshopping the Windows 7 screen onto it. They probably went to iStock photo and picked the MacBook Pro photo, either not realizing or not caring that it was an Apple laptop.
They also used the wrong logo for Windows 7. Again, my guess is they either didn’t know any better or didn’t care. Microsoft certainly didn’t provide that graphic to NBC.
MacBook Pros end up in all sorts of ads. Even ads for Microsoft products. It’s not surprising; they happen to look better than anyone else’s laptops, and stock photo libraries tend to have more images of Macs than PCs. So why not use them? The average person doesn’t notice.
I am sure this was done on purpose. A lot of fanboys in media here in the USA. They love doing stuff like this to F*** with Microsoft.
What a pointless post.
What a pointless comment? :D
+1
What’s wrong with the picture? I don’t see anything wrong. Windows 7 can run on a Macbook pro. All the people who thinks this is funny is either ignorant or just plain dumb.
I thought it was done on purpose. Great to know Windows 7 works with Bootcamp.
funny that solitaire is running on their state of the art os. but, like it or not, that’s probably a pretty common use of the consumer pc. which maybe trivializes some of the advances being made here :(
Well putting Windows 7 on a Mac is a huge upgrade for it so I can see why they used it.
You, sir, are a joke.
No doubt intentionally placed by some NBC douche Apple Fanboi – probably the same one who told you about it.
I am a PC girl for sure. I don’t know much about computers, and I don’t care to know much about computers. My PC does what I need it to do; that is, it stores my Microsoft word docs for my classes, it runs i-tunes for my music, it has enough room for all my pictures. Macs are just too complicated for me. I’ve personally spent a lot of time using a mac and it just didn’t do anything for me. My life wasn’t changed. Fireworks didn’t explode. PCs just make more sense to me. But I know people who will say the same of Macs for themselves, so it’s really just a matter of preference and what your computer needs are more so than which is actually a better hardware or OS. And being able to run Microsoft 7 on Macbook, to me, is genius. I hate it when companies force you to choose their products by only making their products compatible with each other. Some, such as my bf, would argue that this makes a better quality company. To me, that takes the free choice out of it.
I guess Microsoft has already started to show that they can make any hardware work without any fuss, unless Apple can show its pro-ness being a match. Guys I guess if you are technically sound to write a blog against any company its only then you should do it. I can just write zillions of pages about any company if I don’t like it, but the matter of the fact is you should lean to take the whipping sometime too :). Let me give you one eg. Mac has always been designed for a purpose (graphical handling) with very few apps made to work for and with it and yet couldn’t fix and have a bug-less OS. Look at Microsoft it even worked on a poor mans PC doesn’t that sound more than enough to be No. 1 at any given point in time.
Posting pictures for international readers is actually stupid! I’ve seen hundreds of ballmer pictures. What i need is the video, why can’t you just upload the part where ballmer comes on YouTube ?
It amazes me how Ballmer talks about the hardware products even though Microsoft doesn’t even make the hardware!! “…put one in the kitchen, WE got that for you…” and “…our family of Windows partners”??? Hahaha
The Today Show’s designers simply superimposed that Windows 7 “screen” onto a photo of a Mac–funny how this “trick” still dupes so many people. That was probably the best photo of a notebook available, considering how clunky most notebooks look. Few manufacturers have can advertise their wares with such huge high-res photos and still sell the products–don’t blame Apple that nobody wants to look at a glamor shot of an Inspiron.
And Windows 7 runs perfectly well on a Mac in Bootcamp or VMware. Those who prefer Windows over OS X should seriously consider the lifetime total cost of running their OS on a great rig like a MacBook Pro versus the often laughable bloated setups you get on most plasticy, flimsy consumer notebooks. Looks aside, you still have to pay for quality.
I run both OSes in various configurations, so you guys grinding your teeth, please stifle the hater comments. Just because Ballmer foams at the mouth when he speaks of Apple doesn’t mean you should too.
all i know is that people are buying Apples, then buying microsoft products to put on it. Which is still making microsoft more money. And is making apple users spend even more money.
Every part of an apple is the same except the chipset/bios, So to think your hard drive/memory/dvd/cpu is better then a pc your wrong and you need help. Its the same thing. (Though there chasis’s are pretty bad ass)
How come microsoft doesnt care if we install it on an apple, but if you install OSX on a pc Jobs is gunna sue somebody. Wheres the monopoly police when you need them.
I personally think pc hardware should be sold separate from OS’s, and let the community decide what they want, make it simplar to install (cough drivers) but that will never happen.
To friends that buy an apple, then brag to me about it, then ask me 6 months later whats wrong with it. Nothing is wrong with it its perfect remember you told me so 6 months ago.
This may be the lamest post TechCrunch has ever done. It reminds me of the “hard hitting” piece that idiot did that talked about how Sarah Lacy and TechCrunch writers were paid to “promote” the cleanse diet. Way to go Nicholas and thanks for wasting my time.
Whats the big deal???
Windows 7 runs on any piece of shit
I assume you have a lot of International readers (I’m one of them). People living outsides the US are not able to watch any video content from Hulu (including the embedded video above). Going forward – would you mind linking/incorporating content that can be accessed from a proxy outside the US?
Or it could just be that it’s a powerpoint slides of the windows logo … running on a mac (as opposed to windows 7 running on a mac).
either way, what does it matter?
I’m sure there’s a dude packed away in the graphics closet at NBC (undoubtedly hovering over a Mac) who will one day be telling his geeky grandkids about the day he made Ballmer debut Windows 7 with an Apple behind him.
Comparing Windows Desktop with Apple is like comparing sea with a drop. Nobody else in the world use Apple designer then in the US. Been using Windows 7 for last 6 months and it’s a big improvement and experience. Love it.
What makes this interesting is that Ballmer is ignorant to the fact that much of their Windows print and video advertising is shown on a Mac laptop. This has gone on for years because nearly every add agency uses Macs and they use what they have in their producing of these adds for the morons at Microsoft.
The Apple products arm of Microsoft love it but Ballmer is too stupid to get it.
all you people are hilarious with your bickering over microsoft & apple. You’re all morons. Linux is the way to go.
*Running Xubuntu on a broken, partially disassembled, 9 year old hp laptop. BEAT THAT!
I can beat it easily. I’m running Windows Vista on a completely assembled, four month old Toshiba laptop. I’m pretty sure this thing runs circles around Xubuntu. Actually, I’m completely sure this thing runs circles around Xubuntu. I’ve seen Linux. I’ve used Linux. Linux = fail. Sorry.
And as for the Macs, they’re a fad. Any time there’s a dip in the economy, Mac sales go down. This is because people can no longer afford the luxury of “looking cool” and decide that they want to go to a more affordable computer. And you can’t talk to me about Macs looking cooler anyway:
http://www.netbookin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/toshiba-satellite-a505-s6960.jpg
There is my laptop. It is possibly the most beautiful laptop I have ever seen and it definitely blows the bland, boring look of a Mac straight out of the water.
Here’s the thing about Microsoft, anyway. It works. If you don’t do anything stupid, it will never give you one single problem. You go screwing around with questionable websites, downloading questionable things, of course you’re gonna get a virus. I, however, take very good care of my laptop and it has never messed up once. Microsoft works, people. It’s the honest truth.
“..as for the Macs, they’re a fad. Any time there’s a dip in the economy, Mac sales go down.”
LOL. What planet have you been living on in the past 10 years. During those ten years, Dell’s market value has gone up 24%, and Apple’s has gone up 6000%.
Check out the top ten companies:
http://tinyurl.com/ygjegou
Exxon Mobile #1
Microsoft is #2 – WHY? They own 90% of the worlds desktop market!
WalMart #3
Apple is #4 – WHY? They only own 3% !!!
Why is simple: Apple is clearly better at winning the game, with LESS, because they make better stuff.
so Apple own 3%, versus Microsoft own 90% of the worlds desktop market- Apple is clearly better at winning the game? That’s like saying that Microsoft is losing because Microsoft way ahead in the race in the desktop market, and Apple is winning because Apple is way in back. So, Microsoft is losing because it’s in front, and Apple is winning because it’s in the back. Black is white, hot is cold- veggiedude, you better lay off whatever you’re munching on, better still, quit drinking the Apple kool-aid.
Oh My God – a Mac! who cares?
And can someone tell the Hulu guys to enable their system for international viewers; or please use youtube instead.
thanks
Sigh, Microsoft fails yet AGAIN. When will this relic of a company die off already?
dude your comment is so fail. you think he didn’t/doesn’t notice that windows can now run on mac’s? it’s funny how you can’t legally install osx on a pc. if windows runs on mac’s then it’s a great thing for ms. they’re still making money.
Wow..they had a picture of an old Macbook Pro in the background and Ballmer didn’t notice.
How dare he, only Tech crunch would think this was news worthy.
Gosh you’d think that Dell,hp,Acer and the rest would be put off by the fact that that a major
network would do something so amateurish.
Or..it could be a subliminal message to all those disappointed Snow Leopard users out there that
feel let down by Apples latest OS release.
Nothing to see here…move along.
Touchscreen. Want. Now.
Touchscreen on a desktop pc is worthless – you won’t ever use it. Reason is, you hand can’t be higher than your heart. So the ergonomics has to be a flat panel lying flat down on your desk to make proper use of this technology.
yeah. saw the hp one at bestbuy over a year ago and wanted it but it was like $5000. no way am i buying an hp touchescreen desktop. i would rather have the new ms notebook with the stylus/touchscreen interface or a mini ipod blackberry mix with office pack.
What is it with Mac Fantards who are desperate to steal the spotlight from Windows 7. Can Microsoft have at least a few days to bask in the glow of releasing a decent operating system with Mac people trying to piss all over the parade? This is a dumb, flame bait post. So what if there’s a Macbook up there. Macs can run Windows, BFD. And not run Windows well since they cripple it by limiting the HD space to 32 Gig Fat Partitions, if you Partition as NTFS you can’t drag and drop files.
But again I think the photo shows the power of Windows. The fact that it runs on ANYTHING!!
Mac fans are “fantards” but you only have a passing appreciation for MS? Right. Your love letter of a post tells me otherwise.
Kettle… this is pot. Pot… kettle.
And Macolytes are the weird ones?
‘drag and drop’ – an Apple innovation, and one most pc people take for granted (Just as they do with ‘plug and play’).
LOL
Drag and drop is not a Mac innovation. It’s also not a Windows innovation. Drag and drop has been around for a very long time.
This is like Apple announcing now that the iPod is going to have AM/FM radio. Oh my God, is there anything an iPod can’t do?! The problem there is that my four-year-old off-brand MP3 player can let me listen to the radio.
Drag and drop preceded Windows by 5 years, and support for dual monitors by 10. And PC’s did not have sound cards installed as defacto, until 11 years after Mac, which was born to be a multimedia machine, long before pc users knew the meaning of ‘multimedia’ or ‘desktop publishing’. Windows owes so much to Mac OS.
Duh, this is kinda the point of Win7… it runs on anything, including Macbooks. It’s versatile. Get over your ideologue selves.
Not the first time an apple product was used for microsoft’s purpose.
I bet you steve blamer never noticed it was a first gen mac
maybe its the opposite effect maybe their mentality is hey even the mac users want this program. Why would Microsoft care who’s buying there product as long as it sells. They are not in the market to sell pc’s. Its to sell software, and yes buy it put it on your mac i don’t care i’m still making $100 bucks
@Michelle: “Can Microsoft have at least a few days to bask in the glow of releasing a decent operating system with Mac people trying to piss all over the parade?”
Sure they can. When they DO release a decent operating system. As that has not happened yet, that bask time is still held in reserve.
You probably haven’t even looked at the contrast between Snow Leopard and Windows 7. The difference is staggering. Windows 7 looks much smoother and runs much smoother. Windows 7 works. Snow Leopard does not.
See, with Windows, if anything goes wrong, you can be sure it wasn’t Microsoft’ fault. There are just so many third-party programs being made for PCs that some of it is bound to not work correctly. However, that means that your grief is with another company, not Microsoft. With a Mac, everything is made by Apple. If something goes wrong, and it always does, you can be sure that you know exactly whose fault it was.