Well it's not that bad... People will praise Microsoft if Microsoft starts to do things better than the competition...
You're kidding, right?
Apple makes high quality products, while Microsoft makes low budget products...
ROFL. Now I know you're kidding.
Have you used one of the "retina" MacBook "Pro" units with the high-res displays powered by the Intel HD4000 integrated graphics?
Who, other than Apple, would dare to release a high-res "pro" machine running with a netbook graphics chipset?
Worst of all, the Apple guys will use the "quality" argument and then convince themselves that they don't need adequate speed/performance for the machine they just dropped $3K for. While the "budget" Dell or Vizio or HP machine that is 1/3 the price has a decent chipset connected to a high-res display and outperforms the Apple machine in, frankly, every way.
for resolution, speakers volume and lag free OS, Apple won again
Boot up one of those awesome $2K to $3K Apple Retina machines from last month with an HD4000 in it. Try running an old game from 2009, like Dragon Age Origins, on it in "maximum" settings. Laugh helplessly as the machine runs at eight FPS and then crashes.
Now, grab any old Dell or HP laptop for $1,000 with an ATI or Nvidia card and run the same title in "maximum settings." It will crank by at 30 FPS or better.
Then we can discuss "lag" and "resolution."
How many times have we seen reviews saying that the surface kept crashing when launching apps or that the Keyboard was poor quality.
From the Apple press, this is a common statement. The same people told us that we didn't need 3G on the original iPhone, didn't need multitasking on iOS, didn't really need Windows at all (until the shift of Mac to Intel), etc. There's significant cognitive dissonance in trying to convince people that all they need is a single, monolithic choice from Cupertino, and that actual choice is "bad."
Microsoft needs to go premium.
Microsoft IS premium.
I have a MacBook Pro... a "premium Apple laptop." It's crap. Overpriced crap. It's pretty when running the few apps that OS X supports, but once you start to do anything even remotely demanding -- like light gaming or video editing -- the fan kicks in and the OS slows down. It's got a slow graphics chipset, a slow hard drive, and cost way, way too much. I don't see how that's a "premium" product (other than the Apple people constantly insisting that it is, and that I "don't need" to edit video or play games).