Apple Gives it to Microsoft

I love the new Apple ads which criticize Microsoft Vista. You know, the ones with the Microsoft man with a security guard (aka secret service man) standing behind him. The security guard asks permission of the Microsoft man for every thing they discuss.

Apple is of course played by an actor who is meant to be the young and hip person (even though in movies he plays an awkward geeky person in Galaxy Quest and the old Television series Ed). And Apple is meant to be the perfect alternative operating system, however, Apple is hardly a gaming alternative. While a lot more games are being developed for the Apple platform and they have changed over their primary CPU provider to Intel (making it possible to run XP on the hardware) it is still a crappy gaming platform.

Besides the fact that Apple have been known to slow down the GPUs in their notebooks (so they produce less heat and conserve battery life) why would you go with an Apple computer to play games? While I love the Apple ads their hardware is notorious for being expensive (not as expensive as Alienware). Unfortunately, they are not a viable alternative to Windows for gaming. The same goes with Linux. I challenge any Linux user to get a person with absolutely no Linux experience (and someone who isn't a programmer) to get commercial games up and running on Linux within four hours. I don't think it is possible.

So, while the Apple ads may be amusing the reality is that there is no real alternative to Windows for gamers. It is the preferred platform (and probably will be for a very long time). Considering the growth of gaming around the world wouldn't that make Windows the hip platform to have and not the Mac?