{"id":8893,"date":"2006-04-24T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T14:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8893"},"modified":"2006-04-24T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T14:17:30","slug":"be-careful-what-you-diss-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8893","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful What You Diss For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/article.aspx?newsid=1936\" target=\"new\">piece<\/a> on DailyTech, MacMall has begun shipping MacIntel boxes with Windows XP pre-installed as an option. &#8220;According to both MacMall&#8217;s website and Apple&#8217;s online store, a identically configured 1.83GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro can be pre-installed with Windows XP Professional for $100 &#8212; which is actually a discount.&#8221; While this is obviously a smart business move on Apple&#8217;s part, it does make me chuckle and feel shameless manipulated as a consumer, given Apple&#8217;s history of dissing Windows and crowing about their own superior tech. I mean, even the most recent Mac ad campaign (making fun of Intel&#8217;s previous customers, i.e. Windows PCs ), talked of drab gray boxes and their drab little tasks. So now they&#8217;re selling us the drab little operating system for our Macs? On the chips they used to so vigorously argue where inferior to their own processors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a piece on DailyTech, MacMall has begun shipping MacIntel boxes with Windows XP pre-installed as an option. &#8220;According to both MacMall&#8217;s website and Apple&#8217;s online store, a identically configured 1.83GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro can be pre-installed with Windows XP Professional for $100 &#8212; which is actually a discount.&#8221; While this is obviously &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be Careful What You Diss For&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}