Apple Yourself MF
Recently I was fighting with computers a lot, crash of my notebook at work, huge problems with computer at home. Then a new machine at work and multiple troubles with Linux on it. So finally in my desperation I decided to give MacOSX a try. Since I am going to buy a new notebook and I was already thinking MacBook (for it's build quality) and that it can run WinXP.
Anyway, I decided first to try MacOSX on PC since I was reading many people tried. However, I was still very skeptical about it, since my thinking was that there is not really enough apps for mac.
Finally I gave it a try (you can find plenty of information at Wiki OSX86 Page and InsanelyMac Forums ) and I was amazed like never before. A system that was not designed for my computer just installed out-of-the-box without a problem. No need for drivers, updates, downloads, kernel recompiles, module installs, Windows Updates, etc. The system just works. And, hell, it works like a charm...
Being at the beginning scared of lack of apps I was quickly brought to the level that I found that I have everything I need Firefox, Skype and Office.
Amazingly all those things work better than on Windows. For example Word under Mac is way much better than on Windows. Faster, less bothering and what is most important really well organized. It is not like the same application. It just works. What's wrong with Microsoft? Why they can make great Office Suite for Mac but they fail to do that for Windows? Do they also hate Windows so much?
Anyway, giving a try for a MacOSX made me make my decision much faster. The next notebook will be for sure MacBook and I already start thinking about getting a MacMini as a replacement for my noisy tower.
I think that if Steve Jobs would decide to start selling MacOSX to "normal" users then he could be a real threat to dominant position of Microsoft. Linux for sure is not.
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I guess if MS Office are
I guess if MS Office are your tools of choice, then there is really no need for you to run Windows 8)
Nobody really needs all the software in the World.. I guess you won't be using Visual Studio or Direct3D anytime soon.
You won't be testing dsharingu or whatever else comes from me, and I won't be checking your next executable.
How long will it take for you to go back to Windows ? 8)
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I can't imagine my life without DSharingu :)
Since I never was able to get DSharingu to work I cannot live with/without it :P But if you want I am willing to port it to OSX :)
Talking VisualStudio... hmmm... recently I got pissed off with VisualStudio 2005... but I will write blog entry about it :)
Direct3D :P Hmmm.... I think OpenGL, even if being more and more obsoleted bu it's creators (sometime I wonder if they are not being paid by M$ to make OpenGL suck a lot) is a much better thing than Direct3D.
XCode as development system works good... also will write another entry :P
I think it sucks
My experiences with Mac have been all bad. Back then when I worked in a ciber cafe with 20 comps, we had lots of tourists that came with laptops to connect, either wired or by wifi. Connecting them was a matter of a minute to set up ip, subnet, gateway, and dns (we didn't run dhcp). It just worked. Hell I even remember a danish customer with is lame danish windows; it was np to find the settings etc.
Then this customer with his oh_so_powerful_and_nice Mac came. There was no way to make it connect. (after a long while to find where to change the settings).
Some other time last year, I had another customer at my current work, he had a new mac mini and couldn't set up his POP3 email account. Omg, setting up multiple email accounts in that crap was a fucking retarded pita. It sucks, honestly. Did I say it sucks? Yes it sucks, big time. The system to set it up was totally retarded, needed a thousand workarounds.
Hell, even Linux is easier to setup.
As for office sucking in Windows.. huh, I think it's pretty ok.
"crash of my notebook at work, huge problems with computer at home."
Can you define "huge" problems? I think windows is a pretty stable platform since XP :) (except for clueless people that open any email attachment and install anything following misleading ads).
Oh and this customer who came to buy a webcam. We had models from microsoft, Logitech and Creative. None had drivers for Mac. (they probably had for linux one way or another).
Some other time I went to a customer's to set up wifi for his mac laptop. I tried for 1 hour and couldn't make it work. It might be that I suck at that.. but after 12 years setting up and fixing computers I think I'm savvy enough to get around new systems and stuff.
No Drivers? No Patches? No Updates?
'tain't OSX.y you're talking about surely! I see imperative security updates for this OS weekly, and it would be *more* frequent if the OS were as popular as Windows. Yep..the reason security breaches are found in the first place is due to the likelihood of being able to exploit them, and with a 5% market share, that's not too attractive to l337 hax0rs.
Haven't had any problem with drivers for Windows since Win98SE to tell you the truth, and I use some pretty off-the wall peripherals, unlike the off-the shelf apple peripherals which work "surprisingly well" with apple's computers.
Yep.. Windows XP with careful avoidance of nasty and unecessary garbage programs such as Instant Messengers has lasted for 3.5 years on my main machine without an overhaul and literally no performance hits. I'm using the money I saved by NOT buying an Apple on some "nappy headed hos" for sex, oh..and buying Rince some beers! :)