Thread: who needs linsux

Originally Posted by MickS

My new 13" macbook is brilliant. No problems getting my head around OSX - its easier i think. Love the dashboard, widgets etc.....should have bought one ages ago. When the desktop carks it again, hello iMac...

The battle with PC users is getting them to....

A) Admit they have a problem.
B ) Getting them to have a drive of a mac.

I've driven the Mac with OS X (wife has one) and I can't fathom it. It's too damn difficult to use so I avoid it like the plague.

Windows is much easier.

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

I've driven the Mac with OS X (wife has one) and I can't fathom it. It's too damn difficult to use so I avoid it like the plague.

Windows is much easier.

Ron,

Maybe you're trying too hard. Windows makes you do things with the OS on a fairly regular basis, but with the Mac one just starts the app and works. If anything it's a little boring (probably why I spend so much time here )

I regularly use Windows, Mac OS X, Free BSD, Linux, but my preferred system is the Mac.

Oh, and by the way - Leopard has been certified as a Unix OS. It is only the third OS to be certified as such, joining the heady, big iron ranks of AIX, Solaris, and HP-UX.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I've driven the Mac with OS X (wife has one) and I can't fathom it. It's too damn difficult to use so I avoid it like the plague.

Windows is much easier.

Ron

When you switch off PC's to a Mac there is a period of horror. For me it lasted two nights. It doesn't look like you made it through that. I reckon with you and your mac for 1 hour I could cover everything you needed to know to get well underway.

Also, the tendency for pc users is to look for hard ways to do things. They look, and can't find them and get frustrated. That's because a **really** easy way was looking them in the face.

How do you mail a link to someone with a pc? Click the link. Then go into the location bar, highlight it, and copy it. Then open your mail program, open a new message, and paste it in. How do you do it on a mac? Click and hold the link and drag it over the mail icon. Mail opens up with a new message open and the link in the message. Just address it and add comments

I've had these things for 2 years now and I'm still finding surprise and delight features. I was playing music through itunes last night on my stereo when I called you Ron. When I hit dial it muted the music and paused it in itunes. When I hung up it hit play for me and my music was back on.

Originally Posted by tombraider

To maintain quality etc, Apple never released the rights for generic manufacturing of their systems, instead retaining full control of their manufacturing and programming.

What about the Mac clones built in the '90s under license by UMAX, Power Computing and Motorola?

Originally Posted by cdrtravis

What about the Mac clones built in the '90s under license by UMAX, Power Computing and Motorola?

That was an aberration and a really stupid decision that was made as part of a last gasp attempt at appealing to PC users and PC hardware manufacturers. All they succeeded in doing was fragmenting their own market, alienating core users, and failing at trying to take on MS at their own game. Apple was nearly against the wall, to the extent that MS invested 150m to keep them afloat. Remember that soon after that Jobs was welcomed back and the rest, as they say, is history. Apple started out making hardware running proprietary systems and that is where their strength always lay, that is where they are still successful.

Oh, and they never released core system components, which is why most of those clones were failures.

Originally Posted by tombraider
To maintain quality etc, Apple never released the rights for generic manufacturing of their systems, instead retaining full control of their manufacturing and programming.

Their single biggest mistake I think


Well that and building the MAC in the first place.

Lets face it though in the early days Apple computers, (why does everyone insist on calling them MAC's?) were technically streets ahead of everything else; both OS and architecture. Now they are essentially a "pretty" looking PC with a different OS.
Nothing special at all and I would suggest that it's only the nostalgic and the iPod brigade that are keeping them alive now.

Originally Posted by HangOver

Originally Posted by tombraider
To maintain quality etc, Apple never released the rights for generic manufacturing of their systems, instead retaining full control of their manufacturing and programming.

Their single biggest mistake I think


Well that and building the MAC in the first place.

Lets face it though in the early days Apple computers, (why does everyone insist on calling them MAC's?) were technically streets ahead of everything else; both OS and architecture. Now they are essentially a "pretty" looking PC with a different OS.
Nothing special at all and I would suggest that it's only the nostalgic and the iPod brigade that are keeping them alive now.

Your messing with us right?

Macs have NO IRQ issues, never have....
Have stable architecture, full standards complaince and dont suffer from nostalgic restrictions like BIOS and limited IRQ access

They are efficient, well designed and use a superior integration of their core components to provide a stable and seamless performance.

Combine that with the ultimate in user friendly OS... And your on a winner...

I taught my old man to do web sites, send email and manipulate photos (enough for his needs) on a mac in 20 minutes...

It has taken me years to even get him close to doing email and photo manipulation/handling on a PC.

He's even made a few DVDs of his trips now, with sound track, video and stills...

All from the stock standard OS....