Nope. OS X is compatible with all the files that Windows is, and has more than enough equivalent programs/ports for you to deal with. Games are an exception, but that’s not what you brought up here.
[COLOR=‘Red’]Touche, but you do have to download special things so that mac will support .wmv. I’m sure there are many, but none come to mind immediately.
Use WINE, Crossover, Cider or Parallels. If that doesn’t work, then just go use a Windows installation for gaming.
[COLOR=‘Red’]All of which cost money and are a hassle to use.
A mac with windows installed is nothing but an over-priced pc.
Like what exactly? What can you not do in OS X that you can in Windows in regards to ‘customisation’?
[COLOR=‘Red’]You can easily change theme and color by right-clicking on the desktop and going to personalize. On mac you are stuck with the slate gray appearence.
How exactly?
[COLOR=‘Red’]The scrolling function is waaaaaayyy too sensitive and slow start just to give some examples.
As opposed to…a taskbar and a dock in Windows 7.
[COLOR=‘Red’]There’s a HUUUUUGEEEE difference between a taskbar and a toolbar.
And? You can just use another media player if you want. iTunes has nothing to do with Mac OS X, just like Windows Media Player has nothing to do with Windows.
[COLOR=‘Red’]No you cant. OSX doesn’t support Zune (even if you use crossover games) or windows media player.
Mac OS X has more of those features, and they’re better implemented. Have you USED a Mac? My laptop (which I finally bought) is fantastic; the trackpad is awesome, the keyboard is brilliant and its the easiest thing I’ve ever used.
[COLOR=‘Red’]Keyboard and trackpad have absolutely nothing to do with the os.
[COLOR=‘Red’]Really, mac has aero snap and shake and aero peek and a taskbar and quickly closing minimized windows and previews of minimized windows and it does all of them better than windows??? As it turns out, I’m on a mac book right now, let me check.
pulls window to far left and it doesn’t auto resize
looks around for a startbar and doesn’t find one
shakes window and nothing happens
hovers over minimized window in dock and doesn’t get a preview
hovers over bottom right corner and nothing happens
It appears to me OSX doesn’t even have those features let alone implement them better.
Pinned objects? You mean like, on the dock at the bottom. The dock that was stolen out of OS X. The dock that OS X does 10 times better. Ohhh, THAT dock.
[COLOR=‘Red’]First, no, I don’t mean pinning objects to a dock, I mean pinning objects to a startbar, which, by the way, is very very different.
Second, if you had ever even watched a windows 7 review let alone used windows 7, which I highly doubt, you would’ve known what I was talking about.
Third, how does mac do a dock 10 times better? A docks a dock.
Eh. If you want to play games that aren’t supported on Mac, then use Windows.
[COLOR=‘Red’]The one thing in your post without flawed logic.
And so is your mother, but you don’t hear me going on about that all day.
On a more serious note, OS X and Windows 7 look about the same in terms of visuals, so its a moot point.
[COLOR=‘Red’]Really?
IMO and I’m sure in a lot of other’s opinions, the first looks better. Also, if you can customize it to fit your personal likes and dislikes far more than you can in OSX.
Doesn’t Stardock provide Windows with the same functionality as Mac? Like with the dock? I could be wrong, but that’s the only product I’ve ever used of theirs (and found that it destroyed my PC’s speed, so quickly removed it).
[COLOR=‘Red’]They provide other things such as desktop fences. If their dock slowed down your computer then you have a really shitty computer. My computer runs their dock fine.
Mac OS X is faster.
[COLOR=‘Red’]Debatable.
Uhhh, no. Firstly, the indexing system is stupid, and doesn’t cover your whole HDD. Secondly, OS X already had this feature about a decade before Windows did, and still does it better.
[COLOR=‘Red’]It did have it sooner and that’s not the point, mac didn’t have a patent on it and the point of this thread is to debate which os is better. I don’t know anything about it’s indexing system and IDGAF, all I know is that when I type in what I want to find, I get it almost instantly.
And under OS X all the programs are easily accessible from the APPS FOLDER. And they’re a billion times easier to install and remove.
[COLOR=‘Red’]They are easier to remove, but not as well organized or as accessible.
Give me one example of where there aren’t an array of programs for every task on OS X, then I’ll start listening to you. Until then, your fallacies will get no reaction from me (bar this one).
[COLOR=‘Red’]Media players. Screensaver making programs. Video converter software. Software that downloads videos from sites like youtube. These are just the ones I know from personal experience, I am sure there are many many more.
sigh And so is OS X.
[COLOR=‘Red’]Not without difficulty.
Like…what?
[COLOR=‘Red’]Killing frozen programs and processes. On a mac if something freezes and command Q doesn’t work, which it almost always doesn’t, your fucked. On my mom’s macbook whenever I watch south park form southparkstudios.com and then close the laptop with the window still up, the browser will freeze and I will have to reboot the computer.
Also, it allows you to see what processes on your computer are running, what ones are taking up the most cpu, and what ones are using the most memory.
Like…what?
[COLOR=‘Red’]xbox 360 controllers and Zunes to give two examples.
The more you ask for examples the more I’ll give you them and the more you’ll look like a dumbass.
From your tone whenever Zune is mentioned, I’d say you’re just as guilty as some of those iPod fans of fanboyism. Zune software is not more intuitive than iTunes; in fact, for the most part, it is exactly the same as iTunes.
[COLOR=‘Red’]OSX stresses the drag and drop above all else, but when my aunt asked for help taking some music from a cd, rather than easily dragging and dropping the music to where we wanted it, it first made us rip the music and throw it haphazardly into the music section mixed randomly with other songs and then drag it into a into a playlist(it wouldn’t let us drag the music into anything else). Of course I’m sure you are going to tell me I wasn’t “doing it right”, and I’m sure I wasn’t, but with Zune software, it’s obvious how to “do it right.”
Also, in itunes, when you click on music, you get a long list of artist and have to sort through them. Also, playlists are thrown into the main menu. On Zune software, you click on music, and you get to choose whether you want to see albums, artist, all songs, or playlists. When you go to videos, you get to choose if you want to look at all videos, or tv shows, or movies or all un-categorized videos. Maybe itunes has these features, but if it does, they are hard as hell to find.
And Zunes are not infinitely better than iPods; they are, for the most part, exactly the same as iPods - a symptom of Apple doing it first.
[COLOR=‘Red’]ZuneHD has a better screen (much much vivider colors less battery usage dark blacks), IMO more attractive, smaller, comes in different colors, has a completely different organization scheme, and more.
You’re muddying this thread with a) your own personal bias and b) irrelevant side discussions. You wanted us to talk about OS X, then let’s talk about it, not whether Zunes are discontinued or crap (and, just by the by, iPods rule).
And can you say definitively that OS X doesn’t work with Zunes?
[COLOR=‘Red’]Yes I do and I know from personal experience.
And so will OS X, if you take 10 minutes to set it up.
[COLOR=‘Red’]You’ll have to pay for a program to run it and it’ll take more than 10 minutes.
Also, will it run full settings with no glitches? I know with crossover games games don’t run well. For example, about 1 out of 10 textures in episode 2 will show up as black.Fast Zombies are super fast black blobs. And L4D runs at about .2 fps per second even with every setting turned as low as possible. Sure this is probably because of the hardware, but if the very same hardware were running windows I’m sure the games would run fine.
What on EARTH do you do to your computer? Who uses the Task Manager for anything other than fixing their computer when its screws up? By definition, you’re having to fix your computer when you use that program, so it is by definition an inconvenience to use (unless you like your computer to not function, in which case be my guest to use it).
A truly unbiased and objective analysis there. /sarcasm
[COLOR=‘Red’]Your entire logic assumes that OSX never ever needs fixing. That seems like a pretty unbaised analysis to me. /double sarcasm
Task manager is useful because it fixes problems BETTER than command Q and other things in OSX. Also, as I’ve explained earlier, task manager does more than just fix things.
And apologies for the mega post; I thought each of the points deserved their own response.
