Michal Ždanský Today is a sad day for fans of VAIO notebooks, as Sony is getting rid of its PC division and leaving the PC market entirely. The Japanese company's notebooks have been among the top for a long time and in many ways equaled the MacBooks. It was the Vaio computers that brought the separate keys that we see on all Apple keyboards today. Even in the late 90s, however, little was enough, and Sony laptops could run OS X instead of Windows.
It all started before Steve Jobs returned to Apple, when the company decided to license its operating system to third parties, giving birth to Mac clones. However, the program did not last long, and Steve Jobs completely canceled it soon after his arrival at Apple. He believed that the company was destroying its ecosystem and reputation. However, he wanted to make an exception for Sony laptops in 2001.
The relationship between Apple and Sony has a fairly long history, beginning with the friendship and admiration between Apple co-founder and Sony co-founder Akie Morita. Steve Jobs regularly visited the headquarters of the Japanese company and allegedly greatly influenced some Sony products - by using GPS chips in cameras or canceling optical discs in the PSP console. Apple, in turn, was inspired by SonyStyle retail stores when creating Apple Stores.
Already in 2001, Apple was preparing its operating system for the Intel architecture, a full four years before the announcement of the transition from PowerPC. Steve Jobs appeared with another high-ranking Apple person during the winter holidays in the Hawaiian Islands, where Sony executives regularly played golf. Steve waited for them outside the golf course to show them one of the things Apple was working on - the OS X operating system running on the Sony Vaio.
However, the whole thing was badly timed. Sony was starting to do well in the PC market at the time and had just completed the optimization between hardware and Windows. Therefore, the representatives of the Japanese company were convinced that such cooperation would not be worth it, which was the end of Steve Jobs' entire effort to get OS X to third-party computers. It is interesting how the situation has changed in 13 years. While today Sony is completely exiting the market, Macs are the most profitable computers in the world.
I enjoy how he keeps talking about how profitable APPLE products are, etc. Regarding the topic of PC/MAC, it's nice to ask how the guys at the APPLE RESELLER stores print the invoice for your purchase.... Ask them what cash register/accounting system they have when you see them donating to Air...
No, the world is not so black and white. and Apple is by no means a tool for work…. Let APPLE say what they want in the media, but in the office, MS has been beating it and beating it and I really don't see a solution yet. Leave the crap about iWORKS and the like and try switching to it from the MS environment and then write. And that's just the text and the table...
I dare to object. Numbers alone are worth the h****. Pages and Keynote are amazing programs, working on them is absolutely amazing and incomparable to Office. Numbers is a different story, missing features and not as versatile as Excel. But Pages and Keynote are far better than Word or PP ;)
Definitely agree. Only numbers meridian.. Better in many ways, but of course on the basic functions. Above all, individual tables in one sheet separated by a space.. It's something between excel and pages. It doesn't have that advanced features, but the formatting options are great.
I must have missed it, but how does your comment relate to the topic of the article?
Yes, I know of at least one of the Prague APRs that use Windows at the cash registers. Since there are versatile accounting and cashier systems on the Mac such as FlexiBee, this fact speaks more to the ability of the owner than to the quality of the platform.
You mean systems like I print invoices in excel/numbers, then I throw the paper to the accountant and she will deal with it - or what did you mean??? Or does anyone have a major accounting system in the Czech Republic (but it is similar abroad) such as Helios, Pohoda, Money, or a corporate spell called SAP - a client for MAC? I'm afraid you can't answer anything but NO!
This is the reason why MAC is especially a nice "jewel" in the office. iSETOS travels across the Czech Republic from a MAC Os terminal to a remote server where the usual account runs on the MS platform... The nonsense in the discussions and the real working process are a huge difference...
Yes, the graves of accounting and some other business software in the form of thick clients for Mac do not exist. If I used them, I would be forced to do the graceful movement with three fingers on the mouse, which would instantly transport me to Parallel where Windows would be running with a thick accounting client. However, since I see the future of enterprise software in the form of a thin client, I run everything online as a thin client on a Mac. Company IT administrators installing classic in-house software upgrades on dozens of computers know their stuff. Yesterday, for example, I was looking over the shoulder of a lady in Raiffeisen bank, and their software definitely does not run like a fat client...
I work in a corporation where everything runs on Windows. Despite that, I bought an MB Air and am working on it. It is true that there are still several applications that I cannot run on OS X without Parallels (typically IE only). On the other hand, I don't have the slightest problem with the office suite. Reason? I use MS Office 2011 for Mac. It is true that some functions are missing here, on the other hand, they have some amazing functions in addition to the Win variant. So, for example, a Mac is not an obstacle for normal office work.
I'm not saying that everything is perfect, but it's not even in the Windows world. And I wouldn't change all the advantages and convenience that Mac brings me.
Guys, I don't talk much about this, yes, an Excel table was really enough for me (provided in neooffice :-)) but I will ask what I need UctoX accounting software from a Czech company. is he good or not? I think it could be enough for people?
https://itunes.apple.com/cz/app/uctox/id648019151?mt=12
Sorry - to date (I mean to fill in the sales receipt) to Air... (I'm writing to an IP - how typical)
well, the author of the article about the car and B.Skořep about the goat. The article says that Apple computers are the top grossing computer in the computer market today... and that is actually true by a huge margin. The fact that third-party products run on Apple, and therefore OSX, is clear, and no one disputes that Office is more successful in the field of office software than iWorks. And it's also nonsense to equate PC and MS...
so the whole reasoning is kind of weirdly lame. apple has the most profitable computer division there is, OSX goes hand in hand with it and that's all the article says.
Half a year ago, I would never have dreamed of working on anything other than Windows. I occasionally picked up a colleague's MacBook Air with disdain. In a few weeks, however, I bought an iMac and a MacBook Pro out of admiration for the hardware, with the clear intention of dual booting both Windows and OSX, and having Parallels Windows in OSX. Result? Dualboot is canceled I use Windows only for Excel spreadsheets that are shared with Windows users but otherwise everything is in OSX. Anyone who writes that OSX is not up to the job doesn't know what they're talking about. Besides, do you know of any important software that isn't on the Mac?
Rhinoceros, Vray for Rhino, 3Dmax…
Comparison of 3D modeling software for OSX and Windows: (42 programs, of which 30 run on OSX) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_3D_computer_graphics_software
For example, this one only OSX. http://www.cheetah3d.com
Comparison of 3D modeling software for OSX and Windows: (42 programs, of which 30 run on OSX) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_3D_computer_graphics_software
For example, this one only OSX. http://www.cheetah3d.com
Rhinoceros is already in beta for OSX.
Numbers are not important. I have been using a Mac for 7 years. Fortunately, Autodesk managed to break up Autocad a year ago. McNeel has had the Rhino beta for a few years now, but it's not finished yet, so there's zero third-party support. This means that if I want to do my job well, I can't avoid restarting the bootcamp from time to time. Architecture visualizations are not a computer game. Unfortunately.
The important thing is that even for Rhino3D there are alternatives and it would be enough just to learn another program that does the same thing.
who?
I wouldn't say that it was possible to use autocad on a mac. Working with external references is a pain and, for example, it is not possible to insert a PDF or bitmap into the drawing. For now, I solve autocad on an old HP with winXP.
Even today, my 8-year-old Vaio (now it's with my girlfriend), a really handy tool - especially when I remember how my colleagues used Asus etc. within two or three years. :-)
I sometimes write it in the discussion among Win users, I get minuses for it :-), but never VAIO! I had three (top models) and all of them are just design toys from today's point of view. The only thing it can do is heat, blow and harvest energy. The last one, which Bond also had in the movie, is used by his wife and he has to put a book under it so that he doesn't burn it when he greases the FCB bones. In each case, the battery lasted only a third of the stated STAMINA. Yes, I still have them all working today, but it doesn't work for Apple.
I am also a former Vaio user, Had a TZ, Z and most recently a Vaio 13 Pro. Also, the last one was returned within 1 month of purchase. It was blowing, the bluetooth worked poorly and the display was like a mirror. I did not understand…
I also had before Mac. Unfortunately, not much.. Plus Windows :-))
For sure, I wouldn't change the apple now :) It's not so bad with the blowing - it has to be vacuumed/cleaned sometimes and then it's almost like new (it depends on how well you take care of it). The batteries generally worked from ten to five. I had Winy and Linux on it and all the drivers worked great - you can't say the same about all the little things...
I also have a piece of Sony VAIO and I would never use it again. Sony has pretty terrible software back support for these things. If you have something older than 1 year, you can throw it in the trash and ideally buy a new one. I bought it at the time when Win7 was starting and getting all the drivers was quite a big job. On the other hand, he earned himself an ideal solution at the time and enabled me to switch to a MAC.) So thumbs up, RIP VAIO
I quite liked the logo… :-/
For a change, I'm glad that Vaio is ending. I bought the Vaio before the Mac Book Pro (specifically the VPCYB3V1E) and it was a blast. Loose hinges, noisy fan... After 3 months of use, both lower corners cracked. Complaint rejected, they say my laptop fell on the ground. Never more!
by the way, my first mac (that is, in the company it was a performance) but my first mac (it was a 7100, by the way) and my kujva, like the first one I worked on was a umax! yes I was working on a clone! damn it.-) and how the 8 did it :-)) it was better than the 7100...
dog cuz that logo is really terrible, someone already posted it here, it's like a pear :-/