I was at the King of Prussia Apple store today returning my first ever Apple purchase, the iPhone. I will write a little review about using a iPhone as a tablet, in the upcoming days.
Anyway, while at the Apple Store, while waiting to get my refund, I notice some Apple techs using a HP Windows XP tower to help with troubleshooting a broken Apple machine.
It was a really weird scene to see Windows XP in a Apple store. I know you can use XP on Apple machines, but to see a HP branded desktop, was weird. Almost as weird as me being in the Apple store.
I’m a strong Windows guy.
How else could you trouble shoot a networking with windows issue?
How exactly can anyone be a “strong windows” guy? How sad that a person would associate themselves as a strong OS user. You need more hobbies.
Pete
“……Apple techs using a HP Windows XP tower to help with troubleshooting a broken Apple machine.”
LOL, nice try young man. You don’t think anyone is going to believe this do you?
BTW, you are now banned from all Apple Stores. Please send me your photo so I can have it posted.
cheers,
Steve
It’s true. I had no idea what they were doing for troubleshooting, but they were using a HP machine with XP in a Apple store. I wish I had my camera. Oh, I did have it, I was returning the iPhone.
There was one Apple employee, and a bunch of non-apple guys standing around using the XP box.
hmm… maybe it was a n00b trying to have the apple guys fix his PC cause it was crashing more then lately… dang… if only there were computers out there that worked that he could buy… oh wait he’s in a store where all the computers work flawlessly (except his, OBVIOUSLY) ha ha
stratfender89
It’s ok if PC users can’t figure out why apple computers are better, it makes sense for them to go to a store that uses completly different OSes
Perhaps as Brad already suggested the problem with the Apple machine was with its Windows networking. What are they supposed to do if a customer brings a machine in and says it’ll no longer network with their Windows PC?
I too wish you hadn’t said “strong Windows guy”. To be sure, someone can be a very experienced Windows user, know the software, and like it. There’s nothing wrong with that and it is in itself is a good motive not to look at anything else. But any note of loyalty to Microsoft as a company from its users seems misplaced, since (a) it may reasonably doubted whether Microsoft have any particular regard for their users* and (b) they’ve trampled over so many other companies at different times and seem to care little for ethics or law.
A lot of Windows users seem quite defensive about Apple these days. (I don’t mean you, but the sort of people who make much more of it than you did, and who want to say Apple is a “cult” and all that nonsense.) I suspect it’s because they suspect OS X really is very much better in at least some ways than what they’ve got. I’d say if that’s what they secretly think, they’re right. I’ve got a Mac mini (PPC) and a Windows laptop, but it’s the former I find myself using more even if the form factor of the latter would theoretically make it more more convenient and even though it’s far newer. OS X is not the answer to every desktop computing question, and it has it’s own problems and annoyances, but it really is nice to use.
*consider this as an example:
“Vista doesn’t provide any other pagefile encryption, and will quite happily page banking PINs, credit card details, private, personal data, and other sensitive information, in plaintext. The content-protection requirements make it fairly clear that in Microsoft’s eyes a frame of premium content is worth more than (say) a user’s medical records or their banking PIN”
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
It may of been a networking error like suggested. The only thing I notice is the Apple computer kept rebooting itself. To me it was just funny, how I was in the middle of a Apple store, watching a Apple tech use a HP machine with Windows XP. But like you said it may of been them trying to set up networking between the two.
As for the strong Windows guy comment. It was more a joke, geez. I been with Windows, since 1992. I’ve really never used an Apple’s OS. It looks nice, but I have way too many programs tied with Windows. I do love the design in Apple’s products. I wished some of the Window’s makers would design their pcs like Apple.
I have never owned a Apple product(Other then the iPhone), and I was never in a Apple store. It was an experience that, although cool, almost felt weird, since I had such a Windows influence in my life, to be in an Apple store.
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