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[Mini News] Just as WWDC is about to start......Microsoft compares the Surface Pro 4 against the macbookair 13" and tears apple a new one???!!!!

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  1. 1. Who would you go see in California?

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Just as WWDC is about to start, Microsoft has really started to hate on Apple for their 13"  MacBook Air.......

 

 

Not even joking, they literally added this just before WWDC.

 

Good to see the marketing department has grown balls. Cos it takes balls to do this and yet still host an after party for WWDC...........

 

Take directly from their website.....

 

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Source - Microsoft.com

 

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Ahaha vote..? ;): Would you attend the Microsoft Apps party or attend Apple's WWDC?

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1 minute ago, VAkena said:

Ahaha vote..? ;): Would you attend the Microsoft Apps party or attend Apple's WWDC?

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This is not the 1st time Microsoft has compare the surface to a MBA, honistly people are either going to get a 2-in-one or an ultrabook, so I don't see how comparing them really matters, I doubt that it would effect sales of either devices much.

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Your move, Apple :P

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5 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Just as WWDC is about to start, Microsoft has really started to hate on Apple for their 13"  MacBook Air.......

Just waiting for apple to announce their new macbooks that blow everything else away :P

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against the Air? 

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9 hours ago, ShadowCaptain said:

Just waiting for apple to announce their new macbooks that blow everything else away :P

IT would be hilarious IF, the second Apple finishes .... they update their website for the new MacBooks,........ :D

 

9 hours ago, LukeTim said:

It's just a shame it runs Windows.

You can put Linux on it............But I don't advise it. And why is Windows bad?

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1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

IT would be hilarious IF, the second Apple finishes .... they update their website for the new MacBooks,........ :D

haha seems like weird timing 

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inb4 Apple adds something like "100% less blue screens!!!" on their Macbook page.

 

Would be a funny touch.

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5 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

You can put Linux on it............But I don't advise it. And why is Windows bad?

It's a really unpleasant operating system to use. The feeling is sort of hollow. There's no soul to it... It's the same with all of their products really. Its command line interface is weak. They're trying with Powershell but the whole COM object thing is just fucking confusing and doesn't help at all.

Its only saving grace is videogame support and the fact that MS put tons of money into DirectX back in the 90s-00s so GPU companies would focus more on D3D support and less on OpenGL.

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9 hours ago, Minibois said:

inb4 Apple adds something like "100% less blue screens!!!" on their Macbook page.

 

Would be a funny touch.

No because half their audience isn't technically literate enough to know what that means.

 

Remember, apple treats it's customers like they don't know anything.

 and MS could just counter that saying "100% less Kernel Panics!!!"

 

9 hours ago, VAkena said:

The Macbook has had its time... Surface devices for the win. Much more versatile (IMO)

I think Apple has had it's time. All their products recently have seemed Lame and seemed too Safe.

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17 minutes ago, LukeTim said:

It's a really unpleasant operating system to use. The feeling is sort of hollow. There's no soul to it... It's the same with all of their products really. Its command line interface is weak. They're trying with Powershell but the whole COM object thing is just fucking confusing and doesn't help at all.

Its only saving grace is videogame support and the fact that MS put tons of money into DirectX back in the 90s-00s so GPU companies would focus more on D3D support and less on OpenGL.

It's an operating system. It doesn't have a soul.

 

I've tried all the major operating systems and they all have their pros and cons. 

 

I don't know what you consider pleasant to use but I find Linux to be the least pleasant although coincidentally also the operating system I have the least experience with. 

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2 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

It's an operating system. It doesn't have a soul.

 

I've tried all the major operating systems and they all have their pros and cons. 

 

I don't know what you consider pleasant to use but I find Linux to be the least pleasant although coincidentally also the operating system I have the least experience with. 

I can completely relate. I've tried all three (Windows, Mac and Ubuntu Linux) and I liked Windows the most.

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5 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

It's an operating system. It doesn't have a soul.

 

I've tried all the major operating systems and they all have their pros and cons. 

 

I don't know what you consider pleasant to use but I find Linux to be the least pleasant although coincidentally also the operating system I have the least experience with. 

You know what a metaphor is, right?

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3 minutes ago, LukeTim said:

You know what a metaphor is, right?

Because you're assuming everybody here speaks and understands fluent English?

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5 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

I can completely relate. I've tried all three (Windows, Mac and Ubuntu Linux) and I liked Windows the most.

My current daily driver is a MacBook, so MacOS is my current but I do run Windows 10 Insider Preview (Fast Ring) in a VM. Definitely caveats to both. I probably lean towards Windows because MacOS is sometimes annoying to use because of how "user-friendly" it is. 

 

Oh and the term metaphor is probably the same in all Germanic and Latin languages (slightly different spelling in each language of course), so there shouldn't be an issue of language barrier within the Americas and Europe.

3 minutes ago, LukeTim said:

You know what a metaphor is, right?

Your metaphor was stupid. That's all. I merely acknowledged it as such.

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Apple have pretty much given up on their Mac community. It's been ages since they updated anything, and if they do it's another silly product that caters to no one. Q4 2016 is too late, we need something new in WWDC. It's been ages already since the MacBook Pros have been upgraded, does apple really expect people to buy the MacBook?

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PLOT TWIST!!!!

 

They're also discounting it!
 

 

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35 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

No because half their audience isn't technically literate enough to know what that means.

 

Remember, apple treats it's customers like they don't know anything.

 and MS could just counter that saying "100% less Kernel Panics!!!"

Well Microsoft's message is implying people know the MacBook Air 13's performance, which not everyone knows too.

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1 minute ago, Minibois said:

Well Microsoft's message is implying people know the MacBook Air 13's performance, which not everyone knows too.

Which means they might believe it! So win win.....

 

 

Oh I realized how awkward that was......

 

get it? win win? Cos windows is a win win for everybody :D!

 

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