This is a veritable Essay and most of it's off topic so read it at
your peril...
On 24 Jun 2005, at 09:56, Darren wrote:
Pretty much sums it up for me, I dont understand how you compare a
MacOS on Mac hardware and Windoze on every piece o crap hardware
thats ever been invented. Most pc users have never flashed their
mobo bio's for example, a Mac on the other hand does whats needed
at each update. Not really a viable option for M$ is it, really?
I'm not complaining about the hardware, my personal PC hardware has
always been of the highest quality I can afford and has seldom been
at fault. I just don't find the Windows interface intuitive. It's as
simple as that.
We paid for 10.4 server to replace OS9 and AppleshareIP in our x-
platform office, 1 day it lasted. All sorts of problems running
MYOB which we have used since the Colour Classic was new, problems
networking with both the imacs and pc.
And you think that's never happened to anyone upgrading a Windows or
Linux network? Were you still using the Old World version of MYOB
that you had when the Color Classic was new? ?If so whoever expected
that to work with OS X needs their head examined. Things move on.
Technology occasionally advances to a point where, despite a lot of
swearing and blustering, you have to change systems. The reason it
hit your office so hard is that on the Mac it hasn't happened since
the introduction of System 7. Apple don't up and change the whole
rule book every 5 years like Microsoft. People in Windows offices get
hit by this little darling of an issue every 5-7 years. Think
yourself lucky this is the first time it's happened since you
installed MYOB back in 1993!
Also servers and networks are an entirely different matter here. They
are a law unto themselves. I was purely discussing the client OS side
and usability. If you want to pull server OSs apart then OS X server
is still way behind in terms of features. It doesn't have the
hardcore security of Linux or the feature-rich out of the box status
of Windows Server. It's good but it's got a long way to go.
I like *using* XP even on this 6 year old ex celeron 600. ;) this
board was a good buy, it's come a long way so deserves to still be
used for email and surfing and mac emulation - well not Pear, thats
for the 3.6 that doesn't go online to often.
I rarely use Windows without swearing at it at least once because it
does something I didn't want it to. It's not just that I'm used to a
Mac because I use a Windows machine more on an hours/day basis than a
Mac. It's simply that me and Windows don't compute.
Moving from AmigaOS to Mac was a hard, to move again to the pc was
complete chaos for me, in the end I stopped trying to compare
everthing else to what I was used to, once I'd done that I could
finally understand Nix. :) and enjoy what was in front of me for
its good and bad points.
Odd you should mention Amiga OS. I've used OS 3.1 and 3.9 on my 2
Amiga 1200s and find them quite enlightening (despite the fact I'm
currently all fingers and thumbs on an Amiga but I'm still
learning!). It's a good OS. You could stack up your pennies and buy
an AmigaONE ;o)
A MacOS on intel will not loose its soul it will still be different
in a mac sort of way, it will still come in a cutting edge box and
take a different approach to the way you work on your computer.
Personally I'd like to see it try to cover everything XP-pro does
in the way of hardware but no one does that do they? :)
No, not even Windows XP Pro ;o)
P4 3.6, it will be a while before Pentium D gets to 3.6, dual cores
+intel=heat if developers are getting 3.6 boxes now it narrows your
choices down a bit.
Yes but 2 cores means it's (almost) twice as fast so the question is
begged that if Apple take advantage of the computational power of
Dual-Core Intel CPUs then do they need to be 3.6GHz?
Alot changes in 2 years. Mac users are very adaptable, I'm sure to
be reading a whole different lot of Windows bashing in three years
time, I trust that wont change. ;) I'd like to see OS wars on a
even playing field, if that doesn't happen I'll side with Jeff on
this one.
I just voice what I find unsatisfactory. If that involves bashing an
OS then I'll go there. For what it's worth I have voiced plenty of
displeasure with OS X over the 4 years I've been using it. I just
believe that, on the client side at least, OS X is somewhat more
developed. All OSs have bugs and missives, and I have the patience of
a saint, but not all of them constantly annoy me, as Windows has done
for the past 13 years consistently. I bet even St. Peter would mutter
something and get out a roll of duct tape if one of those clouds at
the gates of heaven kept dripping on him for 13 years...
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