I worked for Microsoft for eight years. I’m a long time Windows loyalist. And, I admit – I mocked Apple’s switch ads and Macintosh users in general – even as recently as a few months ago. But gradually, I grew tired of Windows’ many problems and began to notice, even envy Apple products…” Read his blog here.
“I switched!” Ex-Microsoft employee falls for OS X
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If I just got a shiny new G5 + Cinema Display I would be happy as well. But I must comment that his experience is that exact same as I got when I got a IMAC (Desklamp)
Its just such a nice experience working/playing on the Mac after a hard day’s graft with Windows.
Like today a windows 2000 server just starting locking(Crashing) for no reason after months of no hassle. and I get home, instant start the Mac and i’m browsing via the excellent Safari.
More people should try it, you just might like it!
Well, the interesting thing is:
Safari is a browser for OS X only from Apple. And MS is offering at least two versions of Internet Explorer, for Win and OSX as well. In front of my Mac, I am thinking which company supplys the enough variety to the end-user. What I can say, I have been very lucky that I selected Mozilla as my web browser.
OS X is too good to use it. I am one of anti-apple.
Safari has components based on KHTML from the KDE project, and Konqueror has also benefitted from Apple. I really like the new Apple machines, but KDE is what I chose.
Well, OK, so I own and Apple too now.
You got it.
Even though this guy seems rightfully happy with his new machine (I’d be too if I had a Mac, now I’ve just did some serious .dll tweaking on my system… It’s an almost 100% carbon copy of Mac OS X
), I found this… well, rather “commercial”-like, if you know what I mean. He didn’t really go any deeper than just re-writing Apple’s “Switch” page.
But, on the other hand, I’d jump around as well if I had a G5
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Now that you can get a complete mac system for 799 more people should start trying them…you wont regret it.
yes, the new emacs are very good systems at an excellent price.
emacs are priced well but so are the new G4 iBooks. I recently acquired one of those and it is one of the best mobile computers I have ever used. The great battery life combined with the visual attractiveness and usability of OS X make it a real pleasure to use. While the nature of my work will always dictate that I use a Windows machine I can say that for personal use I prefer the iBook to my XP Desktop anytime. Although I will say that I don’t have the stability issues in XP that others complain and am overall a big fan of Outlook 2k3 so I’m no Anti-MS zealot.
I don’t think there’s much in the way of being able to upgrade the system. Also, I have a 17″ TFT screen. Why would I buy a system with a CRT built-in. The I-MACs have even less space in side to upgrade and it too comes with the TFT screen. If the G5’s could be priced in the $1500 range – with MORE RAM and an extra HDD Apple will have a new customer from me.
Unix offers a lot more flexibility in-terms of available applications and being able to quickly script/automate the system. This is one reason I’d like to get a MAC and get rid of Windows. Since its too expensive for me, I’m using Linux in the interim.
“commercial”-like, could be. Apple is one of the few companies that pay to get their computers to appear on TV-series and donate them to museums just to show them in use. I have seen those useless colored plastic “tellies” in a few places where I am sure nobody would have bought them. I guess they can pay for blogs as well.
I myself use g5:s at work all day. I am not very impressed. They are marginally faster than a g4. Only the few machines we have with double processors feel speedy compared to a modern PC.
As for stability, they are ok but not exeptional. At work they crash a couple of times a week. My own win2000 laptop has had a single crash in a year.
So, what is the X-fuss about? I only see a ordinary OS with lots of eye-candy. It has a few nice touches but also some weak points, like the file explorer. I do like that osX is a lot more like Windows than that horrible OS9.
I believe you have it the other way around. You see a lot of Macs in tv series because alot of the people producing those shows use macs. If you haven’t noticed, you’ll see shows trying to hide the apple logo… Why? So they don’t have to pay Apple to use their product on screen…
Also, I know for a fact that the Apples on the Drew Carey Show are used by the cast and crew between shots or when they’re off set. They’re not just props!
for god sakes, the article sounds like a commercial, not a blog! You don’t “fall” for Itunes! Please OSnews, FILTER before posting.
“You don’t “fall” for Itunes!”
I disagree, ITunes on a Mac is our house holds entertainment centre on Friday nights. It’s just works and the mac is inkeeping with the mood we are in at the time.
Speed and macs is a common point expressed by some PC users. I use my mac for home use not for running Borland Jbuilder Ent or Oracle 10g, so requiring 1gb’s of ram and mega processor speed is a mute point for me.
I’d purchase a 2xG5 machine if I needed to do some work.
Completely agree with you.
OSX is one of the good OSes, and XP is one of the best ones.
In addition, though I don’t like MS, I have to say when you use a win box, you can choose more softwares and hardwares so that you can get freedom, and a wintel box is very fit for a beginner. OSX, sorry. 10.2.7 makes me one crash per week, it’s not a happy thing for me because I met less crashes in either Redhat or Win2k/XP.
Literally, five minutes out of the box, I was on the Internet, ripping CDs and emailing one of my colleagues, a longtime Mac enthusiast. Windows doesn’t do this. Windows takes 30 to 60 minutes to set up even when factory-installed.
That’s not true. It is probably true when you install from scratch (It’s been a long time since I installed from scratch), but machines from Dell are already installed. I just had to enter my name and adjust the time zone. Windows detected my internet connection automatically, and the whole process probably didn’t take more than 5 minutes.
It’s an almost 100% carbon copy of Mac OS X
sans the stability, security, software, screen rendering, or kernel, of course
on a not so cynical note: i’ve been reading a ton of articles like this, and “switched” (i was primarily interested in BeOS/linux/UNIX before, and just kept windows around for some software that i couldn’t get working otherwise) about a year ago. i myself went through, and am still in a period of gloating over how great OS X and my TiBook are, and have not read (m)any articles (just FUD comments) about why Apple/OS X is bad and Microsoft is good, but it doesn’t seem to have affected Apple’s place in the market at all.
the company i work for hasn’t moved to integrating XServes into their projects (though they are in bed with MS, but they still do a lot UNIX work). i haven’t seen companies ditching their mangled, infested windows computers for i/e/PowerMacs or i/PowerBooks. and i keep reading about how company X’s network was mauled by this virus, or a bagillion people are getting their bank info stolen by this worm; none of which are affecting OS X.
it makes me think that Apple could be handing out gold bars and corporate america wouldn’t take em.
we’re called zealots, but we’re the ones sitting not having to worry about this patch or that (have you seen any real attempts at exploiting the protocol handler problem?!). when we get patches, they generally improve on an already great (albeit not perfect) operating system. and trying to convince people it really is easier, more robust, more secure, more usable, the list goes on just brings the snarls of windows users who cry to expensive, for artists and hippies, too little MHz, and all the other ignorant comments that come from people who just need to spend a little time with a mac.
No thanks
I agree with hotdragon that Jaguar did seem to ‘beach ball of death’ quite a bit. I put it down to me upgrade, rather than clean installing from 10.1.
Not had any stablity problems with Panther, I used the clean system, plus save apps+users directories upgrade.
Windows XP is stable as well when you use Microsoft Certified Drivers for your hardware. And you don’t get some half as_sed shareware app you installed for some reason crashing explorer (Like that’s never happened to you! 😉 )
The claim that Windows takes 30-60 minutes to set up is rubbish.
Also he mentions that the G5 is fast because it`s 64-bit – shame OS X is actually 32-bit.
Well like someone already said…this article sounds like an ad..also a bad ad because it’s so black and white..
Like a converted Hare Krishna or Mormon….
Unfortunately these guys are the same that after realizing that their shiny, golden toy also has weak points dish it completely..
It reminds me of this strange doctor that every season returns to osnews to tell us how bad OSX is because his MS software doesn’t behave like on XP…
Well…I like OSX and also the other BSDs and don’t bother for any superficial review…
why should he write nice about MS if MS eg. fires his ass?
don’t know why he switched… “he got tired about windows” … or tired in his job?
Yes, Mac OS/X *is* nice, my Fedora2 & Slackware-Cur is perfect :-), but M$ is not so bad like he describes it. It’s another cheap lie on the net. This report reads like he’s frustrated. Not with Windows, maybe about bad sex yesterday. Nothing more.
But gradually, I grew tired of Windows’ many problems and began to notice, even envy Apple products.
Everyone is just an their own expert nowadays…
In typical fashion, a ‘reviewer’ spits out similar FUD and then proceeds to NOT give any examples. This is FUD at its roots right here. Garbage reporting. Just give an opinion as fact since many others state the same so it MUST be true.
What, you catch a virus by opening an attachment in an email that came from Europe so windows has “many problems”? And now you are sick of it cause you hear others have ‘many problems’ as well so windows is just bad.
You can’t tell me that you are so obtuse as to think that another platform has ZERO problems (or even less). Come on. In all the “switch” reviews I read, I start to feel like I am the ONLT one who NEVER has any problems with Windows. There must be some kind of prize for this…
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“Linux is good…”
“Linux rocks…”
“OSX is nice, but Linux is the best…”
Why do you ever say this against Apple? 🙂
Because Linux is only a cover for your envy! 😀
> Because Linux is only a cover for your envy! 😀
linux is better because it offers full freedom, as in speech & source code. for hardcore tweakers who love editing sources, programming and such, linux is perfect environment in every way.
home/entertainment usage is different story, of course that is as easy and reliable on linux too if you just manage to get hardware working and software installed first.
os x offers good graphical software (well, same as in windows but anyway) and eyecandy stable unix-based os, windows offers entertainment and games, linux offers *lots* for programmers. some people also really want freedom and no lockups for single vendor.
“some people also really want freedom and no lockups for single vendor.”
FREEDOM TO CRACK PROPRIETARY FORMAT LIKE DIVX?
Sorry, I don’t call this “freedom”, but THIEF!!!
Apple invents brand new formats and it makes these open, like Apple Loops. I call this as “people who really want TRUE freedom”!!!
And, if you don’t even know it, Mac OS X offers good music software (NOT same in Windows!!!) and games, too. The XBOX/PC/MAC best-seller Microsoft’s HALO was developed on Mac, like Warcraft series.
Can we have a JohnOne ignore flag added to this site ? He says he hates Linux/*nix but uses an OS from a company that couldn`t develop its own ideas and so copied it !
No, I don’t hate Unix! I love Unix! 😀
I don’t like Linux for its open sourcing ideas, I prefer *BSD.
If Linux is so cool, why do many LinuxUsers on this site ask to Apple to make open Aqua? Aren’t KDE and Gnome cool enough for Linux? 🙂
Cracking M$ formats and releasing these for free isn’t a good open sourcing, because it help M$ to expand users of its formats, that REMAIN PROPRIETARY!!
Why are DIVX Players based upon Linux-embedded and M$ WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER FOR EMBEDDED LINUX? Aren’t there MPlayer or others?
Is this good open sourcing? I don’t think so.
I like when open users develop BRAND NEW THINGS, like KHTML. Apple is an open user (it use open technologies) and it developed Apple Loops to release it open. This is really good open sourcing, not cracking.
Halo was not developed on a Mac.
Initially it was a Mac RTS, but it then moved to 3rd person PC game, then to Xbox FPS
It was developed on PCs not Macs.
If it was developed on Macs, the Mac Port wouldn’t have been by a separate developer and would have been much more supported by Gearbox who is maintaining Halo.
I can bet a million dollars this guy was fired for probably using company software in the wrong way and got let go for it. So, this is his pathetic form of revenge. Ahhhhhhh!?, its not working.
The last time I checked, no ones switching, Windows has reached a 600 million user base.
I have a lot of problems with pages not formating properly in Safari, so I have use Firebird, but this isn’t a problem since I like Firebird better anyway.
microsoft created IE locked to windows, and microsoft later created a version of IE for Mac soon after. Safari came along and outperformed, outbeat, totally defeated IE on OS X… microsoft stopped making new IE versions for the Mac… because they claim apple has a huge advantage over them since they make the OS too.
Why can’t Apple sell more computers? They should fire their advertising agency and get guys like this to write ads. No stupid stoned chicks babbling about their term paper. Give real concrete reasons an examples to switch to OS X and more people will.
I think one big problem with selling more computers is the hardware. Not that there is any problem with the hardware that they have, but a lot of businesses have good relationships with companies like IBM, HP, Dell, etc… and with these companies they have the choice of running Windows, Linux, *BSD, etc… if they want. I am not suggesting that OS X be ported to x86, but if they could get some of these companies to sell models based on the same hardware they might be able to gain some traction, but who knows, that is just speculation. We had 20+ Mac clones and they were in production for 6 years, so it is possible to successfully run Mac OS on non-Apple hardware.
I like when open users develop BRAND NEW THINGS, like KHTML. Apple is an open user (it use open technologies) and it developed Apple Loops to release it open
Apple Garageband is really BRAND NEW.. Xcept it was developed by a company called Magix about 8 years ago.. And it was called Music Maker. Apple Garageband = ripoff of Music Maker. The Loops file format might be BRAND NEW but why reinvent the wheel? We have about 345231 sound file formats. Apple just likes to make EVERYTHING proprietary.. Let’s face it.. they HATE standards.. Because it’s so NON Apple.. If they didn’t see USB spreading like fire they’d developed their own interface.. Oh wait.. THEY HAVE.. FireWire.. and now it’s there using up space on my motherboard because noone cares about FireWire anymore.. (well I never did) Same with PS/2 and ADB.. And their pride didn’t allow them to actually USE standards.. If the world starts taking up a trend Apple will develop a ripoff, apply the Apple logo to that, and state that it’s superior, so yeah they’re full of great ideas..
Also.. with windows I have about 1 freeze every half a year, or none at all (no.. seriously) So what makes Apple superior then? NOTHING.. Apples are proprietary, cannot be upgraded easily (or at all), overpriced, with a heavily eyecandy centered OS..
Before anyone starts to derive “facts”.. YES.. I HAVE used an Apple before and i’m not suffering from Apple deprivation syndrome now. I sold my 333mhz G3 iMac.. and bought a 2 GHZ Pentium 4 from the money. And no. I don’t regret it.
I’ll presume many things about you without even knowing you, but hey, it seems that it packs more punch in posts. Anyway… if the hat fits for you…
So I can bet a million dollars that you regularly have Mac vs. Windows fights with a friend, brother, half-brother, co-worker, or simply someone at high-school. You have an almost viceral hate for this guy, and everytime you see anything Mac related it makes you think about him and you get mad, making up arguments in your head, ready to gloat that you choose the right side (600 millions people can’t be wrong right?), and that any people thinking otherwise are either dumb or victims of the “Apple propaganda”.
People like you usually leave the impression that you want to save “us” from this brainwashing, but actually you don’t care, you just have emotional issues with the Mac and this gloating and bashing helps you forget about it. It’s just practice for you for the next time you have an argument with that “stupid” Mac user you know in real life.
I’m sure in a contorted way you could try to apply I all said to Mac “zealots” so you can say “you are like that too and sometimes it’s worst”. The problem is that you wouln’t take the context into account, and between being a pro-Mac user and a pro-Windows user, there is a big difference in context and it’s not a thing you can simply describe in a few phrases.
Anyway a good part of people that can’t believe that Mac OS X is overall a much better design than current and past versions of Windows, is more stable and less buggy, base their beliefs on the idea that Microsoft now dominates the industry because they wrote better OSes and software. Guess what, it’s not true.The reason MS is on top is mainly a combination of chance,context and exclusivity contracts. The simple backward-compatibility lock-in that exist since the dos-windows transition has also plays a great part in securing it’s quasi-monopoly. Why do you think MS tries to squash Linspire or whatever it’s called now, and recently bought Virtual PC?
Guys.GUYS! Give it up! OS X is the best operating system on the planet today. PERIOD. PC Mag awards it and sings its praise, and this week PC WORLD MAGAZINE (“PC World”, as in “All the world’s a PC”) has called Mac OS X the best operating system of 2004.
Yes. PC World mag. Quote:
“Panther’s sleek interface and reliable performance are impressive. Although we aren’t suggesting that you ditch your hardware and buy a Mac, Apple deserves credit for raising the bar for OSs. And we hope Microsoft is paying attention as it works on the next Windows.”
Of course they’re not saying to ditch your PC. If that happened, nobody would buy their mag
And then, they gush about iTunes/Win:
“Apple makes Windows apps about as often as Microsoft ships bug-free products, and if ITunes for Windows (free) is any indication, that’s a crying shame.”
OUCH! That’ll leave a mark!
Have fun holding your breath for Longhorn. My God; what will OS X be like by then??
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116015,pg,4,00.asp
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116015,pg,3,00.asp
Hmmm scary… Great dose of old myth’s, those reverse-switchers are the worse…
First, I won’t deny Apple had it’s shares of not-invented here-syndrome and like most consumer electronic companies a couple lock-in tricks like special connectors ect.
But please don’t exagerate just for the cause. The Apple Desktop Bus interface was introduced in 1986 on the Apple IIgs, it was used to connect keyboards, mouse and other things in a chained way, much like usb. There was simply no standard like it at the time so Apple had to develop their own. The ps/2 interface was unveilled in 1987 and is was inferior as I can recall. Anyway Apple had invested much in this interface, working with vendors so they could produce peripherals for them, and the Mac II and Mac SE were introduced in 1987 with ADB. It was not clear anyway that the PS/2 connector would become a standard. So Apple was stuck with adb until a few years later. Apple was then very involved in the CHRP project where IBM and many other vendors pushed the thing as the unifiying open hardware platform where you could run Unix, Windows NT and the Mac OS on the same platform (using the PowerPC processor). Vendors could have built custom boards based on the CHRP platform, some actually did. The design included the possibility of having PS/2 ,parallel and ADB connectors on the same board and I’m sure Apple hoped it was a bridging-gap measure until a unified superior connector like USB replaced them. This project never made it and it happened as Apple was loosing money because of the Mac clone market.
As for SCSI for HD’s and NuBus for expansion cards, again there was no standard on the x86 platform side that was even close at the time. The whole desktop publishing revolution would have been delayed by several years (up to until 95?) if Apple had waited for standards like IDE to catch up and PCI to appear. You could in 1988 on a Mac II work on Photoshop with your desktop spanning across up to 6 RGB monitors… Yeah it was costly (if you think Macs are too cosly now…look at the price of the Mac IIfx…), but simply impossible to do in a standard way on the x86 platform. There are other things like the Mac Ascii format wich is different because when the Mac twenty years ago, there was just about no support of foreign and typographical signs on DOS, so again Apple had to do it themselves (is it bad by itself?). The same could be said about FireWire, and the home digital movie edition phenomenon.
Since many open standard are now up to what Apple want to have, it started to adopt them. All Macs now have PCI, IDE, USB, VGA connectors and Ethernet since many years. I guess Apple hates standards…
On the software side, Quicktime is a unified architecture to view hundreds of -standard- media files. The Quicktime file format has been choosed to be the MPEG-4 file format. MPEG-4 is a proposed industry standard that is not controlled by the major OS vendor, just like MP3 is. You know the WMA format didn’t start the digital music boom. Also let’s not forget that Mac OS X is a UNIX variation with an open-source core and can run thousand of UNIX programs and tools, and it uses a tons of open protocols.
Funny how you blame Apple when it’s not using Standard, but when it does you say it stole it from the community.
As for Garage Band, Apple never claimed it was the first loop based music tool. No programs is exactly like Garage Band. Apple is proposing this particular mix of music tools all wrapped around a simple interface for all it’s users. Non-techies and techies alike on the Mac side are able to share tips, tricks and tracks about GB because it’s a standard part of OS X Application suite (free on every new Macs, and sold for 49$ with iDVD and other apps on CDs for the older Macs). Does MS propose it’s users to make music? No, they tell you: “look unlike Apple we have 320345 sound file formats and sound applications… just try to find the one that suits you”. I don’t see the multiplicity of sound formats as standardization, but you seem to…
As for upgrading Macs, you can use IDE HDs and standard RAM in iMacs and up, there are processor upgrades too. Yes there are more options on the Wintel side for processor/motherboards, but as you’ve experienced yourself, Macs have such a high resale value even after many years, so you can sell a 4 years old Mac and buy a brand new Mac for only a few hundreds more, roughly the amount a comparable upgrade would cost on a PC. After 4 years, a PC is worth just about nothing so you are forced to upgrade it unless you want to pay a new one with only a 100$ rebate from selling your old one.
I forgot to adress this. You said you have about 1 freeze every half a year or so. First I guess it’s only since you have XP. Also you talk about freezes only… Computing is more than just freezing or not (it’s also not just about the interface graphics, Mac OS X is much more than a window manager for UNIX). Tell me you never had any driver or .dll conflict, registrery problems, viruses, worms, trojans, spywares ect… If you really didn’t I guess you are lucky and don’t install much software. Or maybe all my pc-using friends are unlucky having problems and being infected by viruses?. And let’s not talk about the thousands of “unlucky” people already infected by worms and viruses. I guess it depends on your point of view. I have 2 friends using different boards with the same processor the same video-card, and with a fresh install of Wndows the same programs and games work on one and not the other, and vice-versa. How is it hard to understand that there are some cheap badly designed motherboards out there. Once these are found to have problems with some specific software and peripherals, they don’t throw it in the trash…they resell it to small shops that sell it at a very low price… That’s where those 200$ incredible deals comes from, there is no such thing as free lunch. Maybe 50% of these boards have problems that are hard to detect as is. When you buy those it’s like gambling, you may be lucky enough to get a machine that won’t give you any software problems for months/years, but if you get one that is problematic on only some specific issues, good luck convincing the guy at the shop that this is because of the motherboard…Also pray that when you discover these issues (maybe a few months or years later) the shop still exists.
Quote from blog…
Soon, I learned – OS X kicks ass! OS X is a real pre-emptive, multi-threaded operating system, which means…you can always interrupt your computer to tell it to do something else and it never crashes, at least mine hasn’t yet.
So the NT kernel isn’t, am I missing something here? Why does he say real.
When my computer is under load in XP, it does have problem sometimes. But if I am encoding a video and the program has the option to set it priority to low. The system is quite responsive because I can always interrupt that process, when I do nothing with my computer that process goes to high CPU usage automatically.
So real, what does he mean by real.
“If they didn’t see USB spreading like fire they’d developed their own interface..”
USB spreading like wildfire? Yeah! Right!
The PC world had completely ignored USB until Apple released the original Bondi iMac with USB as standard equipment.
I believe Firewire was developed before USB, and Intel,etc didn’t like Apples licensing scheme for it, so they developed USB.
USB is a very poor standard, but hey it works
“I hate Steve Jobs.. WTF is with the ONE button mouse, sure it “has all the same functionality” as a 3 button wheel mouse.. but I have a brain-stem and can operate a mouse with 4or5 or more buttons (thank you videogames) ”
Then buy a 4-5 button mouse. The system supports it.
{sarcasm}
Yeah.. Apple is god.. They invented the wheel in the first place.. I don’t think I should argue with you.. (mac zealot alert)
OH. and you’re most probably right about custom computer shops being evil and selling low quality hardware so that 50% of our customly built computers will always end up back in the store part by part.. Your idea suggests that apple however will never suffer from hardware defects because they are perfect.. Btw I never had problem with Asus/Intel hardware.. NEVER.. But in your opinion I should just go and spend all my money/sell my pcs and buy macs instead right? Oh and I won’t even get viruses lucky me.. I’ll be rid of the trouble of installing and keeping an antivirus software up to date.. Also I can forget the thing called “common sense” that until now hindered me from opening dubious files/email attachments with .vbs .js .pif ..etc as extension. {/sarcasm}
I have a 5 year old PC.. I use it as a server and I’m quite happy with it.. but according to you it’s worth “nothing”. To me it’s a perfect and speedy remote desktop, and I don’t feel i’m forced to upgrade it..
I had a G3 iMac.. It took me 2 weeks to find suitable laptop DIMMs for it.. So much for standards.. And ofcourse ATI Rage Pro Turbo 3d = no comment. and ofcourse.. it can’t be upgraded..
Furthermore.. Yes macs have high resale value.. But if you want to upgrade it you’ll still end up with an empty wallet anyway.. So it’s just best to sell it.. As for driver conflicts.. You might want to retry populating irqs.. When I constructed pcs in the past I spent about 2 hours just to do that. There’s no need to do that with newer pcs though.. And actually I never had problems with drivers that weren’t solved by repopulating the irqs.. And you might want to try using non-noname hardware..
Neway.. tis my last port to this argument..
I was considering a mac laptop for my school work, but after asking in some mac dedicated forums, there weren’t any PIC assemblers for me to do my work on.
and I’m also a gamer…
So what I basically have is: have to use a PC for school work and have to use a PC for games. Not that I’m complaining, but I think we can all agree that PCs are more common in the workplace. And of course, PCs are the mainstay for gaming. Now, if only apple could compete more heavily in one of those two areas, you’d see me switching in a heartbeat. As for now, my winxp + linux dual boot will have to do (not that I mind).
Did you ever read an article about anyone switching from another OS to Windows? I’m sure I havent!!!
thats because Windows is uninspiring, dull and doesn’t motivate people to share their computing experience with others- as *much* as the Macintosh seem to these days.
“Hi! my name is Alex, I owned a Macintosh up until 5 days ago. Now I use Windows XP. I am quite pleased that my productivity time has dwindled to 40% due to the inexplicable and sloppy nature of Windows!
Now I can stay up late at night fixing registry files, give up a days work to figure out exactly is causing Adobe Illustrator to repeatably ‘vanish’ suddenly and without any rational explanation whatsoever before the client deadline arrives in a few hours!
Anyways- Life is great with Windows now. I just can’t wait till the next wave of horrific Trojan’s devastate my home network and I have to scrub my hard drive once again!
Life is cool”
I recommended four guys (mac users) to switch IE to Safari. Results: three run Safari for only one day and went back to IE, and the last one is still stick to Safari, however, she forgot how to use tabbed browser.
Again, as to web browser, I am using Mozilla on Win2k/XP, Mac and Redhat (Linux), though Safari maybe more beautiful than Mozilla. Updating pace might be the reason why I chose Mozilla.
At last, the reason why I became one of anti-Mac is that Apple said too much and did little.
give it a rest.
admins, can we have a filter by IP?
– a user of OS X, slackware, freebsd and xp.
I never said Apple “invented” those things. Apple didn’t invent a Mouse connector type on the Mac 128k, but they had to do a custom one because there were simply no standard Mouse connector then…It’s not because “they hate standards” as you said. I thought every example I gave was clear enough.
Anyway I guess you won’t even read this…