=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Macintosh: God's Gift to Microwaves ----------------------------------- I was watching T.V, trying to dodge all of the infomercials that they show at late hours of the night, when I saw the most ridiculous and misleading piece of advertising that anyone can be subjected to. The commercial was one half hour long, dedicated to Macintosh, a paid advertisement from Apple, Inc. Not only was the premise of the advertisement disgustingly sweet and family-oriented, it also happened to be a string of lies. The following is a compilation of just a few examples cited in the commercial: _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #1: You must know actual (GASP!) commands in order to operate an IBM-compatible PC. REALITY CHECK: Since most PC's now come loaded with Windows95 or WindowsNT, CLIs (Command Line Interfaces) have pretty much been reduced to mousing around. Die-hards use DOS, but it is no longer necessary, and can be completely avoided if that is the way the user wishes it to be. _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #2: In order to run a CD-ROM title on an IBM compatible, you must "configure dipswitches and jumper settings." REALITY CHECK: Running a CD-ROM title on a PC requires nothing more than putting it in and installing it in much the same way required by Macintosh computers. _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #3: IBM compatibles have no multinedia capability off the shelf. You need to purchase speakers, a sound card, and a CD-ROM drive in order to acquire this capability. REALITY CHECK: Every IBM compatible on the retail shelf comes with full multimedia capability. In fact, most come with better quality speakers than the Macintoshes do and have MPEG capability (Power Macs do not). _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #4: IBM compatibles have no video editing capability under any circumstances. REALITY CHECK: All of those people using Snappy! (hardware based video editor) with their IBM compatibles must be performing miracles. (NOTE: The commercial led the consumer to believe that all Macintoshes are video editing capable right off of the shelf. In fact, only one lower end model, the 6220 ($1999 before monitor), comes with this capabilty.) _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #5: IBM compatibles are not Plug n' Play. REALITY CHECK: Many IBM compatible peripherals, OSs, and other hardware are P n' P capable. This is slowly becoming an industry standard, especially now that Windows95 supports P n' P. _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #6: IBM compatibles come with little or no software. REALITY CHECK: Packard Bell, Acer, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, and IBM have between $1700 - $2500 worth of software pre-loaded. _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #7: IBM compatibles cannot be just "plugged in" and booted. REALITY CHECK: Most of the major manufacturer's of home PC's are color coding all of their cables and including posters illustrating set-up. On the Macs you must plug in the mouse, the keyboard, the monitor, and the printer, if you have one. On the IBM compatibles you must plug in the mouse, the keyboard, the monitor, and the printer, if you have one. I don't seem to be able to detect the difference. _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #8: The Internet is E-World and vice versa. IBM clones have more trouble on the Internet than Macintoshes do. REALITY CHECK: Let's see... There are 7 or more major GUI based Suites of Internet Software for IBM clones. There is one Suite of Internet applications for the Macintosh. E-World is *not* the Internet, despite what Apple tells its' customers. _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #9: There are thousands of CD titles available for the Apple platform, not to mention that Apple has the best games. REALITY CHECK: The only reliable place to find Mac software is in Mac catalogues. Many retail stores carry thousands of titles for the IBM platforms, and less than 100 for the Mac platform. _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #10: Macintoshes are better because schools use them. REALITY CHECK: IBM's are better because businesses use them. (The fact is that you cannot say that one platform is better than the other based on where/when you may use them. It is faulty logic.) _____________________________________________________________________________ APPLE MYTH #11: IBM clones are useless educationally speaking because they do not have the Mac based WORLD OF LEARNING SOFTWARE. REALITY CHECK: There are just as many (if not more) educational titles for the IBM clones as there are for the Macintoshes. _____________________________________________________________________________ Personally, I feel rather insulted that Apple would expect me, as a consumer, to believe all of these outright lies. In my eyes this is a clear example of false advertising, or at least misrepresentation of information. They used a 2-3 year old all-in-one Compaq unit as their example for the "IBM compatible of today". Anyone who knows anything about the PC industry knows that *anything* from that "long" ago is outdated by now. The bottom line is that they make false claims about their own products, insinuate several things that are simply untrue about other non-Apple products, and then ask you to spend money on their products as a result of these lies. No wonder they are laying people off. If this tye of treatment insults you (and it should), feel free to contact Apple themselves about their claims and ask them to prove that they are indeed true. You can SNAIL them at: Apple Computers, Inc. 900 East Hamilton Avenue M/S73-PC Dept. I Campbell, CA 95008 NOTE: Their claims that Windows95 is MacOS '84 is also untrue. 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