P4MR: Stop the Windows-on-a-Mac sacrilege

Yes, Mac users may be a little bit crazy. And yes, I am one of them. I am crazy enough to know why I am a Mac user.
But it seems that I am not crazy enough to understand what some of my Mac-user buddies are doing these days.

I can understand Apple's switch to Intel processors. And I support it. But WHY do people now start to install Microsoft Windows on their Mac? Guys, I use a Mac with it's wonderful OS because with this I DON'T have to use this so-called operating system Windows that keeps away more from working than supporting me with this.

Do you really want to enter the world of blue screens on your wonderful Apple computer? I appreciate that I can afford to laugh every time I see a blue screen that does not come from the color of my background wallpaper.

What is it all for? There are very few applications that are not available for Mac OS. My wife for example needs a special application for visualising special statistical data. But she was as consequent to buy a Toshiba notebook computer for her work (and prefers to use my Mac whenever she doesn't have to do her work on her machine).
This software is also not working properly unter VirtualPC and I have to admit that it really does not make sense to emulate an Intel environment on a machine running on Intel processors. So for very special purposes of very few people it might make sense to install Windows on their Macs just for the use of special apllications. But is it worth that hype that is made for it?

Look at this: I love software company Blizzard. On the one hand because I love their products (the Warcraft series and all its predecessors and sibling games). On the other hand because they were one of the first companies to bring their computer games at the same time for Mac as for PC. For a Mac user - being used to waiting for good games at least half a year after PC release - this is a reason to say "Thank you, Blizzard!".
So what do some people do? Installing XP on their Intel-iMac, installing the Windows version of World of Warcraft and complaining that the games runs faster under Windows.
Hey, have you really been dissatisfied with the speed of the game under Mac OS BEFORE you compared?
Anyway, if you have your machine just for gaming, sell it, buy a Sony PSP and save a lot of money.

I know it is not the first time that the idea of Windows on a Macintosh appears, but times changed since 1995.

I am sorry to say this but to all of you who think that Windows on a Mac is a great idea: you did not get the point of Steve's great job for our work and world of computers.

Just come back home and Think different!

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Sources:
- The Unofficial Apple Weblog
- joyoftech.com