Jan 12
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…What is this trying to prove?
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This is trying to prove that how only Vista and Leopard were comparable visually .. all other Mac OS were So black and white kind
and in OSX beta this damn Dock came which ate good space from the Mac desktop screen.The dock is the poorest thing i encounter in my daily computing in my Mac.
between Windows 95 and Mac OS 7 , OS 7 stands no where..
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Lol, I like this. Finally we see why so many people go for Windows. If only they gave Mac a try…
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meh, I’ve used both.
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It is not really comparing like with like. Mac OS 7 was around years before Windows ‘95. Today you can even run OS 7 on your iPhone
The Mac OS was meant to be grey - for the same reason you still have a Graphite option in the Appearance section of System Preferences. You could “theme” your Mac OS. There was even a Windows theme if you needed a good laugh.
But it is only an OS. Consider what you could do with it at the time… Photoshop - first on a Mac. Microsoft Office - first on a Mac; or you could wait a few years for a Windows version to come along.
If you do not like the Dock you can turn it off with a cmd+alt+D key combination.
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I cant believe MS office and Photoshop were first launched for Mac only.. but yes they were.. Thanks for this fact Duncan.
. in contrast there are lot of inbuilt and third party windows themes from XP to Windows 7.
about theme Appearance manager doesn’t exist in Mac OSX . moreover i haven’t found customizable theme for mac . Just gray one color is what Mac user are to be satisfied with
yes I turn off the Dock but it still it comes in your way ( not to forget accidental click on dock applications ) when mouse freely moves to the bottom..
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Has everybody forgotten how Windows 3.1 looked like? Have you compared that to Mac OS 6? THEY ARE IDENTICAL. Well, not 100%, but you DO remember the menu bar being on top, just like the Mac OS. No? Look it up!
I have been a Windows user since 3.1 came out, at a very young age, and as of 3 years ago became a Mac user. And its great! I don´t miss Windows software, because there is one for each Windows version designed for Mac and does the same thing!
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i love mac… but i don’t hate win xp
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I agree rohit, I don’t hate XP either. As a matter of fact I have Windows XP running in Parallel Desktop on my MacBook Pro, I even got a chance to try out Windows 7 and I have to say I like it. I wont switch to Win just yet, but I will consider using it on my Leopard (soon to be Snow Leopard) from time to time.
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Vista is absolute inexcusable trash (that writing a 10 page diatribe wouldn’t do justice), Windows XP is okay, OSX is great. I was a huge Windows fan and Mac hater until basically I started actually playing with OSX. Before OSX, there were many arguments against the Mac. At this point, I see few valid ones, while there are many valid ones against Windows. Has anyone ever got a virus on their Mac? How often do you reboot it? How often have you had it completely “freeze”? In my experience its 10:1, Mac being the most stable by leaps and bounds. And I have yet to get a virus.
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The real problem with Mac users is they project their own OS issues onto Windows to justify the $1500+ price tag they WASTED on their utter craputers. The only time your Windows should have those issues is if you’re a fucking moron and almost go out of your way to fuck up. Which is the usual case of the extreme Macintard. Secondly, your bubbly OS suX can indeed get viruses, don’t believe the stupid commercials. Not that they really need em, considering they CRASH JUST FINE ON THEIR OWN. If my Windows freezes, I know it froze. On a Mac, you’re not sure if it froze or is just loading really slow cuz they both are frequent issues in the Macincrap.
But I get it. I’d have a hard time admitting a $1,500+ faux pas too.
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bullshitmacusers…
I don’t have to guess, but you’ve never actually kept your mind anywhere near open to the idea of a Mac, right? Because from where I’m sitting, no one who gives a Mac a chance isn’t impressed. To the power user, the appeal of Apple products is not a “bubbly os” that is for “fucking morons” who “almost go out of [their] way to fuck up [windows]“. It’s about a solid, polished product that from the time you type http://www.apple.com to check out the store, to the time you install your first piece of OSX software, there is a noticeable difference in everything about the experience. So much of a difference in fact, that I’m soon going to again “justify my faux pas” by buying a new, expensive MacBook. This is after 5 years of owning and abusing a PowerBook G4 that still runs great.
Quick question: anyone had a Windows laptop that stayed running in and out of both use and sleep mode for 186 days? Those of you who laughed at out loud since you had to reboot your Windows PC since you started reading this know what I mean. My PowerBook accomplished this. And the reboot after 186 days was voluntary, for a software update, that by the way, was not shoved down my throat every 5 minutes until I took the time to use a terrible piece of software called Windows Update which never works correctly. But I digress.
bullshitmacusers, it just makes you look immature when you give so many vague reasons why something sucks, reasons the informed person simply would not give. Have fun pretending that the money you save by buying a $400 WalMart HP is in some way worth it and that those PC’s never have serious issues, besides running Windows. I know I’ll have fun “wasting $1500″ because I know the old saying is true: you get what you pay for.
But hey, maybe all you want out of your PC is to read email and propagate malware, because that’s all a $400 PC will typically do well. Well, that and leech toxic chemicals into the soil 6 months from the manufacture date because you had a shitty warranty (imagine that… for $400?). But who am I to judge? I’m the weirdo who expects years and years of smooth functionality for my purchase.
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jajajjajaj I have to agree with you Jeffrey, I was just thinking what to respond but you did that for me.
bullshitmacusers give yourself a chance to try one for a couple of weeks. Borrow one and give it a run. Try and become a power user ASAP so you can feel the difference. But give it a run with an open mind, not that “$1500+ price tag WASTED on utter craputers” attitude which by the way might show how pissed you are you don’t have one (just kidding, sarcasm and making fun of other is fun).
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And then comes the age old retard argument “YOU JUST DON’T GET IT! YOU NEVER EVEN TRIED ONE!”
I used one for 8 years. Read that again: EIGHT YEARS. I never really cared for it. I didn’t hate it or anything, just never caught my attention that well (everything from the 90’s, I’ve used it). And those wonderfully colorful G3’s were a real treat (actually own one of those, so suck it). But then OS X was introduced and hipster douchebags flocked to it, and thats when I lost all respect for Apple.
Every time I try sitting with a new one these days, it freezes, it crashes, it does something I didn’t ask it to do. It’s like the system is designed to work against the user not for the user. And believe me, I have sat with them and tried my best. Is it prettier? Oh absolutely. But does it actually DO anything? Well no, not really. Well, it crashes more elegantly, I’ll give you that much.
So basically I just hate the hipster douchebags (IE you) and OS X. Everything before that was just fine. And I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on a TAM cuz that shit is pimp.
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That’s funny, bullshitmacusers, cause it sounds just a bit like you do in fact hate Macs. I also laugh that you stopped liking them when everyone else on the planet started liking them: the release of OSX.
What excuse you provide for argument is the inverse of the truth compared with mine and everyone I know’s experience, and apparently the experience of lots of other people (the expensive things sell like hot cakes).
In fact, as a heavy computer of 10 years now, you just described 75% of all my experiences with Windows. The types of problems rampant in Microsoft software that you would experience daily happen on the Mac once every week or two, or less.
Will some people like a computer better because it looks better? Yeah, probably. But if it doesn’t work worth a crap, why are people flocking from Windows to Mac in unprecedented numbers? I’m not thinking it’s because it looks better, I’m thinking because it’s solid from start to finish, ESPECIALLY at its Unix core, which provides for stability no one alive expects from a Windows box.
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Its called marketing. I give Apple credit for very well-done marketing. Feeding bullshit like “it doesn’t have this problem UNLIKE WINDOWS” And then idiots like you chime in “YEAH UNLIKE WINDOWS!” It’s a brilliant scam that has worked very well for them the last 5 years. Unlike their computers.
“Daily”? I’ve never had ANY serious problems with Windows. Ever. So again, stop projecting your precious Mac’s issues. Because from what I’ve seen, any “former Windows user” has always had issues cuz they were an idiot and did everything they could to fuck up their computer.
Sorry I’m not amazed by bubbly shit like you and the rest of the Macintards.
As for the stability of your system. I only had to take my PC to a shop once in my entire PC-loving life, and that was cuz I fucked up, not the PC. Versus your precious Mac, which calls for making RESERVATIONS at the Apple store cuz they’re so backed up the ass DAILY with people having SERIOUS ISSUES with their macbook pros.
Nice try. As for where I really stand on Apple. I hate the new macs, I hate the idiots that came (IE you), and I hate their game plan to market towards the hipsters.
I’ll stick to the G3 and OS 9 for any Mac needs I may have. Which is usually shits and giggles.
This post brought to you by my Apple iBook clamshell just to really be a spiteful bastard.
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It’s hard not to talk down to someone like you of an unknown computing background, when everything you say reeks of an amateur ‘hater’. I’ve been in the boat you were in, then I turned 13.
Just so you know, I’ve owned 1 Mac and at least 10 PC’s, one of which I write to you on now. Windows has yet to ever run full day for me ever, ever, without some problem. It is a cold hard fact that Microsoft allows hundreds of thousands of bugs to be released with a “final” version of an operating system. I’m not sure about Apple, but I do know that I can run a laptop for months without issue, while I’ve rarely used a Windows notebook that would go into and then successfully leave sleep mode two times in a row.
Your level of knowledge shows. I’m done with this thread.
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Translation: Wah wah wah, I don’t know what else to say cuz I’ve been completely shot down but I still need the last word and will continue to talk like a smug macintard rather than admit defeat.
You’re just another trend jumping hipster so suck it. Even REAL Apple fans admit Apple’s really been fucking up lately. I have a friend who is a die-hard Apple fan go into a rant longer than any I ever have about how pissed he is at Apple for their computers lately. And don’t even get him started on the Macbook Airs.
Like I said before (and you blatantly ignored cuz you’re a self-rightous twit) I’ve used Macs in all their stages since the days of Apple II, and they’ve never done anything for me. I like the G3 colorful era ones and the TAM, and honestly enjoy OS 9, but I can’t stomach the self-appointed computer “experts” like you who are just way too gay for Apple to ever admit Apple can do anything wrong, the arrogance and smugness that reeks in Apple’s marketing campaigns, and I definitely DEFINITELY do not enjoy OS suX in any shape or form. Was any of that really THAT hard to comprehend or are you gonna continue down your hipster warpath?
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Much to problems in Windows is not the OS, but really the user or OE (Operator Error). I think that is what bull is probably trying to state. I can never say I had the problem you had with my Windows PC and I can get a solid day without it crashing or any other applications. It really came down to what I was doing.
What the biggest problem with Windows Users is they install a lot of unnecessary crap and have it loading constantly. They have norton running, google, quicktime, itunes, some stupid toolbar, windvd, adobe speed launcher, etc.. running in their menu bar or processes. This is 9 out of 10 times the reason why their computer is running slow or crashes. The main design for this applications loading in the processes is to be able to load your application quicker or get updates which is nice if you actually use it, but most don’t.
Nice thing about the mac that it isn’t as a popular. Now I don’t know how a mac fan will feel about me saying that, but if you take the percentages then you will find out there is a lot more windows users than mac. Why? The are cheap and can be put on system which Linux is gaining ground on as well. I don’t see an Atom based Mac or even netbook.
Granted that it all comes down to what you pay for and that is how well your system runs as well. You can go with the big companies like Dell, Toshiba, Samsung, Lenovo, etc. to build your pc or you can do it yourself. I prefer myself because then I can put quality parts in it instead of OEM which apple does as well. A foxconn mainboard was found a a mac pro so it isn’t like apple does all their things in house. Hell they had to even fold to intel’s might core duo and core 2 duo and finally get rid of their powerpc line. Windows has been running on intel for years and not to mention you have AMD as an option.
I think what Mac fans miss is they should stop ragging on Windows and respect it as well. It can do a lot of what Mac can and better just as vice versa. If windows wasn’t around then what purpose would Mac have to make their system any better? Who knows what you might be stuck on if Windows and other PC manufacturers weren’t around? Mac is hardly known for innovation UNLESS it has to beat the competition. Look at the ipod touch that they just recently released in september 2009 which isn’t much better than the old version. Why? Because there isn’t really anything quite like it at the moment so why put a camera on it, gps, etc on it? Why not force the people to buy the same crap with just a slight memory upgrade and a boost in slight performance which wouldn’t overall change the experience in the first place.
Toshiba has come out with some great laptops such as the R500 which offers you to take your laptop outside and still see the screen. Not to mention the biometric reader. It’s a bit overpriced at their site, but usually you can find it cheaper from another dealer. Which with mac you really don’t have that option. They sell it themselves and so you can’t play with the price at all. Only way you can hope is someone sells a used one or got a free one from their office.
So if Apple ever becomes are popular as Windows then you can bet there will be someone ready to send you a virus. It isn’t hard to launch an APP and mac it load into the processes. Use you have to give it permission, but the same goes for windows. You still have to tell it to install by clicking on something. Most people will authentic in Apple if they want the program to run. If you say no then whatever app they are trying to run won’t.
At the moment all the popup windows are faked to look like Windows popup windows which of course never fooled me because I set my windows to classic menu. So when I see a well designed with that says I might have 7000 viruses to run an install then I can tell it doesn’t match my classic menu. Which I really do miss the toolbar on the bottom of the screen. I don’t care for this Dock style and it hiding itself into dots. Plus it takes up so much space I have to keep it hidden. So every now and then I have to look what is still running and wasting processing space.
I could rant on, but this is enough.
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One more thing with Vista and Windows 7 you can put the widgets on your desktop!
Leopard and Snow Leopard have to press F12 to get the dashboard or they can do a dashboard hack, but unfortunately the stupid widget will float on top of all applications. Only way around that is to get yahoo widgets at the moment for Snow Leopard, but that uses more processing powering than I’d like to. I check my activity monitor many times and I make sure to pick the smallest footprint application to be running. I’ve went through many apps that do the same thing, but hog the resources differently.
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I one dreamed of owning a Mac. Now I dislike them. One a user of Windows XP, then Vista and then 7, I have had some experience with Windows operating systems. I loved Vista but Windows 7 is absolutely magnificent. I haven’t used Macintosh computers much but what I have seen has not impressed me. I tried to use Word but I couldn’t fill the screen with the window! How can anyone use it like that? I still love the way Apple design their computers and a lot of the features are brilliant but until Apple make drastic changes to the Mac OS, I will remain a hardcore Microsoft Windows fan.
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the dock is awesome
I have only used os x and I like it better than vista or xp, but i haven’t tried out windows 7. speaking of, you should ad that