Okay since everybody forgot the real reasons why mac will never be superior to a real computer I’m gonna remind you:
A mac is equal to a dell (or any cheap OEM computer), except more expensive, less flexible (can’t order a mac with a 5870 and i7 920), doesn’t come with windows, and you have to spend twice as much time cleaning up after you bought it. (erase OSX, format, install 7, as opposed to just reinstall 7)
When you buy apple because you’re more used to OSX remember that it’s easier to go on TPB or Google and download OSX and install it on a homemade PC than to work for a month just so you can give Apple the money and the choice of what parts go in your PC (yes I call macs PC’s and I’m not ashamed).
And before you start questioning my reasons for bashing on apple, watch how they keep pushing the iPhone os onto their brand new tablet platform ignoring the fact that every other manufacturer agrees that tablets should be running x86 architecture. Also iPad is a shitty name.
Indeed since I only managed to cover 1% of the potential reasons…
I don’t need to write a 600 word argumentative essay about the superiority of the PC, I’m not in school anymore, just trying to help poor macfags see the light.
Most people have always gone with the “I don’t like Macs because they’re expensive and can’t be customized” or similar reasons, while pro-Zuner (one of the 10 in the universe) garthbartin has been making up false arguments since the dawn of time.
I generally accept the price and customization as a valid argument against Apple, but that’s pretty much all I can agree on. Apart from those things, there really isn’t a difference that makes or breaks the different players in this market, so it boils down to preference.
Ehn, I feel no need to defend my choice of operating system. But price and customization is what I like about PC/Windows. I will, however, defend against lies (such as “LOL Blue Screen” or “LOL malware”).
shrug They are aesthetically almost identical (a fact that the article you posted itself admits) and I find it very difficult to believe that Windows was not, at the very least, heavily inspired from Mac’s Dock. At its core, the article contends that the application centric Mac Dock is entirely different on an operational level from the document centric Windows dock.
However, from a logical perspective, here’s how the two function: You pin apps on the Dock, you pin programs to the taskbar. The only difference is how the individual windows within those programs interact. Windows 7 does it through that display of windows that comes up when you hover your cursor over it or alt/windows-tab, Mac does it through right-clicking or using Expose. Its as near as makes no difference.
And as I said, if that bothers you, get Cinch.
Firstly, what on earth are you talking about with the Start Menu. Your unrequited love of that functionalist utility is verging on the insane. Its a list of programs you have installed. The Apps folder does exactly the same thing. And guess what? You can also uninstall any of those programs very easily by just dragging the .app to the trashcan. Let’s not even go into the amount of issues uninstalling programs on Windows poses.
As for pinning items, that’s what the Dock is for. I can’t imagine why you would have system where you can pin programs to the Start Menu and the Taskbar, but you can in Windows. You pin your well used Apps in the Dock and you can throw your other Apps in folders so you can quickly access them if you need to.
Lastly to jumplists. If you have documents that are that important that you open them all the time, the Dock can do that for you. If you’re looking to open a recently opened document, then you can use the ‘recently opened’ bit of the program. If you want to quickly zap to the document, use Spotlight. I don’t see the niche it fills.
Even with Steam it doesn’t save that much time, since it has to login and launch Steam before it launches the game. And you can just create a desktop icon anyway and pin that to the Dock.
Even if any of your arguments holds any water, this:
So your contention is that neither of those problems exist? Or just that you’ve never encountered them. Because most of the examples brought up in the last thread were entirely anecdotal, and we never got anywhere close to a consensus on stability. I must say, while Windows 7 is the most stable Windows version I’ve encountered so far, comparing the number of crashes I had on my old laptop with the Mac I’m currently using, Mac still wins. But that’s entirely inconclusive, and I’ve never seen any objective evidence. If it exists, someone please post it.
I’ve seen hardware failure BSOD’s on cheap OEM computers and low-end laptops of almost any brand (including macbooks) And the only time I saw one on my PC was when I was looking for the maximum overclock my CPU can take (around 3ghz).
I say that problems exist in both Windows and Mac. Windows has the Blue Screen of Death and Mac has the Black Box of Death. Now tell me what the difference is?
I think, perhaps, I didn’t explain properly my opposition to the BSOD. I don’t feel that the BSOD is particularly bad in and of itself (though for debugging purposes I’ve found it entirely useless, though that’s probably due more to technological lethargy than anything else), I just thought your comment was along the lines of ‘Windows never crashes, saying that it does is wrong’. If it wasn’t, then I apologise. If it was, then I’ve already responded to it.
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