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Mac OS v Windows - 26-10-2004 |
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This info taken from the Ford Australia Forums:
Apple or PC???
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Originally Posted by Surreal
Macintosh
is owned by Apple Computers. It comes shipped with it's own operating
system, monitor etc. Usually should only be purchased by people who do
intense graphic design, or have little technical accumen. The drawback
of the Macintosh, in my opinion, outweigh the advantages. Whilst you're
getting an easier computer to muck around with, you're also stuck in
terms of upgrades and software compatibility. Most games, and a lot of
applications will not work on a Macintosh; simply because they weren't
programmed for them.
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Sort of right but mostly uninformed - pretty much any popular new game
is now ported for the Mac and what sort of upgrades do you perceive the
Mac users being "stuck on"?
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Originally Posted by Surreal
The
best thing that Mac's have going for them right now is the compilation
of OSX. (The Operating System) The core coding of it is Linux based.
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This is not correct - Mac OS X is based on BSD Unix, not Linux - two similar but different systems.
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Originally Posted by Surreal
Also, if you want a hardware upgrade - tough. They're near impossible to do that.
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Depends what you want to upgrade - there are loads of aftermarket
processor upgrades for most Macs and they have used the same RAM and
Hard Drives as the Wintel machines for quite some time now.
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Originally Posted by Surreal
PC's
have a much steeper difficulty curve, but the choices that come to
upgrades... well, the sky is the limit. Stability used to be an issue,
but I think Microsoft has pretty much sorted themselves out with
Windows XP - I never get problems with it...
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Well that is great!
This from a Windows Technician in Melbourne:
"I LOVE the fact that customers get hit weekly by viruses and spyware
(every single machine that comes in will have spyware on it -
guaranteed - that's $50 labour right there). And that Microsoft keep
bloating their already bloated crappily written software.
Actually we've had some funny cases with the release of Service Pack 2
for WinXP (the "patch to end all patches") which causes a reset loop on
the new Intel Pentium 4 Prescott processors (which make up 70% of our
CPU sales 
- naturally they came out with a patch for that. Now we take calls from
random customers who've taken the plunge and installed SP2 only to find
that their PC's go crazy and can't boot into windows.
All this makes for a great service based PC business that will last for
years to come. Even when we're selling little wristwatch digital
assistants there'll still be PC's in every office begging to be
serviced  "
Need I say more about Windows???
How long since an email virus caused any of you grief on a Windows platform?
I (and most of my Mac-Lovin-Fruitcake customers) don't use ANY virus protection and guess what - no problems...
I kind of like it that Most of the problems I have to help with are operator error and not flakey software and operating systems
Actually, tonite I have to fix a Mac workstation with an app that quits rather than booting up properly - guess which one?
Yep, Microsoft Word - need I say more?
OK, I will - the computer in question is in an office with 8 Mac workstations, an OS X server and an OS 9 mail server.
I get less than an hour a week work from that site - hardly anything
actually goes wrong - mostly just users trying to do stuff the wrong
way...
I am sure this is one of the reasons why IT managers are rabidly for
Winblows and eschew Macs - protecting their jobs regardless of the beta
nature of their preferred OS.
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Originally Posted by Surreal
And
about 95% of the computer market is PC based... so a relatively high
number of software vendors design applications & games for them.
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Yeah it's really useful to be able to choose from, say, 200
Windows-compatible image editors when after you finish wading through
the crap ones and the "General Exception" errors, you'll probably end
up using Photoshop or The GIMP anyhow - both of which are available for
the Mac.
Also, there are about 10 times more cockroaches than humans - sheer
weight of numbers does not necessarily denote a higher life form.
In the automobile industry, Honda and BMW both have about 5% of the
market - do we put them down because the plethora of accessories
available at Auto Barn for Commodores don't fit??
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Originally Posted by Surreal
PC's
are also not "owned" by anyone; unless you purchase a brand-name PC.
And even then, they have *some* degree of upgrade potential...
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The issue here is not the hardware, but the Beta-quality Operating System they come installed with.
Any PC that will run Windows can have all of it's software-related
problems fixed by formatting the hard drive and installing Linux of
whatever flavour blows your hair back.
Ideally, you should be able to return your copy of Winblows to
Micro$oft for a refund due to the product being unsuitable for it's
intended purpose.
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Originally Posted by Surreal
Some
drawbacks to PC's are, like I had mentioned before, the learning curve,
and also the fact that support is very limited. (Unless you buy a
brand-name PC; and if you MUST do this, get a Compaq.) Keep away from
that DELL sh*t.
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Dell and it's CEO have long envied Apple and their position in the market and tried to emulate them (unsuccessfully).
The key to the Apple/Macintosh synergy is that the company who built
the OS also built the hardware that it runs on, so, to quote an old
adage:
"Macintosh, it simply works."
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Originally Posted by Surreal
I'm
a born and bred PC guy. I'll never buy a Macintosh on the condition
that it remains restrictive with upgrades and general software
compatibility. I like to do *anything* to a PC; it's kinda like
customising your car... think of a Macintosh as a permanent company car
you can't touch, whereas the PC is your very own (potentially) fast
sports vehicle.
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Until you get one and use it day to day, you should reserve your
judgement on this - as stated above, the lack of upgrade path is
largely a Furphy...
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Originally Posted by Surreal
All in the eye of the beholder, really...
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OK, here are some comments from well respected beholders:
"It really is coming down to just Apple and IBM. If, for some reason,
we make some giant mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we
are going to enter sort of a computer Dark Ages for about 20 years."
Steve Jobs, Playboy February 1985
"Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that
looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming."
- Guy Kawasaki
"I have to agree that with enough time and effort, you can get a
windows computer to do almost anything that can be done on a Mac."
- Steve Kayner
"I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I
don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have a
computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby."
- Fritz Anderson
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft?"
- Christine Comaford, PC Week
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners."
- Ernst Jan Plugge
"If I'm going to sit in front of a piece of equipment for hours a day,
I want to feel the intelligence that went into my operating system. I
want to sense that an English major lost sleep over the wording of the
dialogue boxes. I shouldn't have to teach my computer what kinds of
files it has by adding .txt and .psd to their names. I don't want a
default system font that looks like someone drew it on the bus on his
way to work."
- David Pogue, MacWorld UK, June 1998
"PC users brag about what the media has said about their computers, Mac
users brag about what they've done with their computers."
- Neal Porter
"Don't ask people what sort of computer they use, if they use a Mac,
they'll tell you anyway and if they don't, why embarass them?"
- Tom Clancy
Also, if you run across an application that REALLY HAS to run on Windows, you can use Virtual PC to run it in a window on your Mac.
This is a great way to use Windows, because when it starts to eat itself and crash, it doesn't take down the whole computer - just the Windows emulation bit.
Just reboot Virtual PC and you are away again - all other apps running on the Mac will continue to work normally...
Virtual PC
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