On Dec 29, 2005, at 7:23 PM, Pablo Roufogalis L. wrote:
I'd venture my opinion on an old subject but please do not flame
me. I've been insulted elsewhere by Mac zealots (none here,
right? ;-) ) for stating my views on this matter.
1) The old Mac OS is easy to troubleshoot. Very few things can go
wrong.
2) The old Mac OS was limited, yes, but Macs were (supposedly) for
the rest of us. At one point in time that changed, and the market
and the developers expected top performance too.
Macs still are 'for the rest of us'. Trust me. I've introduced
numerous "rest of us'es" to OS X, and they've been far more
productive with the Mac than they were with Windows.
3) This is key: Switching to OSX was the same as switching to Linux
or Windows, except for the fancy and cute UI with some familiar
logos and icons. With OS9 you had a simple but marginal OS. With
OSX you have a complicated and marginal OS. It was clear to me that
there was no reason to go OSX and went mainstream (Wintel). That
was very right for me and my needs, might not had been so for others.
I don't feel that OS X is marginal in any way. That said, I've been a
Unix sysadmin for about ten years (among my many other hats) I took
to OS X like a duck to water. I like having a nice server-class unix
system on my desk.
In my work I have found that the one class of folks who had the MOST
problem with OS X were die-hard OS 9 users; truth be told, there's
more like OS 9 in OS X than not, but it's that very closeness that
trips people up, I think. People switching from Windows expect more
change, and so are better at adapting.
4) XP is complicated too but there are way much more resources to
tackle problems, and they are cheaper.
XP is *way* more complicated than OS X, and like the software, there
is large quantity in help resources, but limited quality. I do
Windows support at work and I know it generally takes me longer to
find the correct solution to a Windows issue I've never dealt with
before than it does to find one for an OS X issue I've never dealt
with before.
And the availability of software is exponentially superior (another
key issue).
Were it only that the software itself were exponentially superior.
It's of little use to have 300 Windows programs to do X versus 4 Mac
programs, when 298 to 300 of those Windows programs don't actually do
it right and/or make you want to gouge out your eyes or forebrain
with a dull spoon.
Yes there are a lot of cases where there simply arent' OS X versions
of a program; but OS X is rich in that you can often find at least a
Linux version that almost does what you need ;-)
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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