Walt Mossberg’s Annual Shopping Guide: Keep Buying Macs Kids
10:07 pm, October 28th, 2009, Leander Kahney
The world’s most influential computer expert is once again recommending consumers buy Macs over Windows PCs.
Mossberg has just published his annual fall computer buying guide, and says that while Windows 7 is almost as good as Snow Leopard, and PCs can be “priced hundreds of dollars lower than Macs,” Apple wins because of the built-in iLife software:
“The arrival of Windows 7 makes PCs from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and others much better choices than their Vista-equipped predecessors were. Microsoft has closed most of the gap with Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. Also, Windows PCs are often priced hundreds of dollars lower than Macs, and offer many more choices.
But in my view, Apple’s built-in software still has the edge. Snow Leopard is fast and reliable. And it comes with a full suite of excellent built-in programs, including email, photo and video software. Microsoft has stripped Windows 7 of such programs.”
Here’s Mossberg on video discussing some of the options.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, Macintosh, News | Comment on this article
agreed and with the new 27″ imacs apple computers are now cheaper in some areas than their windows competitors
saman Jebeli-Javan, on October 29th, 2009 at 4:39 am
“The world’s most influential computer expert ….”?!?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!
Oh Leander, you kidder, you.
CaryMG, on October 29th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
This misses the point completely.
Yes, there are more features on a mac, but they are still expensive.
It doesn’t matter how good iLife is it doesn’t hand out money to people to pay off actually buying the mac.
George, on October 30th, 2009 at 9:19 am