My new Distraction

[Marcb]

Hi,
 
I'm not what you'd call a prolific poster so therefore it is unlikely anyone would have noticed I've been absent from here for a bit ... It is all because my lovely wife gave me a Macbook Pro for Xmas...
 
I can honestly say that not since the Amiga have I been so happy with a pc , maybe it's just because I've never used an Apple before so it's just the newness of it all but I love the operating system!
I've been bitching for years about how long my Windows Dell laptop or my home made Windows PC takes to boot up but -aside from my amigas- I have now found boot up bliss... in a matter of seconds I'm staring at my desktop... and shutting down actually works.. first go!
 
 
I'm just left wondering what could have been if Amiga had not gone the way it did... I think it would be very similar now to my Macbook!
 
...Let the trolling begin :laughing:

[runequester]

I had the same experience with linux

My wife has an older macbook and although it can hardly be said to be fast (its an older G4) i must say, its never given us a single problem or crash.

[Retro_71]

MAC'S !!!!!!!!!! BAH Humbug!!!!

[4pLaY]

Hey

Glad you found a new "home" :-).

However, im always stunned to see and hear about people falling in love with the OSX and telling me its theyr first love/fondness of an OS since Amiga and how this must be where Amiga would be today etc etc.

For me that could not be further from the truth personaly, ive used it mostly at work myself and i even dragged home from my old workplace an old G5 PowerMac that had been retierd and sometimes use it for photoshop, anyways, to the point, i cant stand the OS, id rather use anything else, even Win95 i suspect, what, besides all the eye candy is it seriously you find so attractive?

Hi,

I can honestly say that not since the Amiga have I been so happy with a pc , maybe it's just because I've never used an Apple before so it's just the newness of it all but I love the operating system!
I've been bitching for years about how long my Windows Dell laptop or my home made Windows PC takes to boot up but -aside from my amigas- I have now found boot up bliss... in a matter of seconds I'm staring at my desktop... and shutting down actually works.. first go!
 
 
I'm just left wondering what could have been if Amiga had not gone the way it did... I think it would be very similar now to my Macbook!
 
...Let the trolling begin :laughing:

[coldfish]

I use Mac, Win and Linux (Xandros) regularly and they all have their good/bad points.  OSX just "feels" more playtested/polished than the others.

[kolla]

OSX far too often stand in my way and refuses me to operate the computer the way I want to operate it. It's a system where you as a user have to adapt to fit the system instead of adapting the system to fit you, which I find highly annoying.

[clusteruk]

Have to say I bought a Mac Mini a couple of years ago, played with it and after getting over the cute bits got bored and sold it after 6 months and bought a nice 1080p TV, much better.

[motorollin]

I also feel like I've found my home on Mac OS X and it feels more Amiga-like than any other OS I've used. I don't really get the "OS X isn't tweakable like Amiga OS" argument, since most of tweaking I did was superficial (VisualPrefs, NewIcons etc).

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moto

[Marcb]

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4Play originally wrote

For me that could not be further from the truth personaly, ive used it mostly at work myself and i even dragged home from my old workplace an old G5 PowerMac that had been retierd and sometimes use it for photoshop, anyways, to the point, i cant stand the OS, id rather use anything else, even Win95 i suspect, what, besides all the eye candy is it seriously you find so attractive?

I've reached a point in life where eye candy don't do it for me, but I must admit I love the case design, only thing I would add would be a numpad !

It's difficult to put my finger on it, I jumped ship to IBM clones after having been a loyal C= user from the Vic 20 days just in time to experience Windows 3.11 and then through all it's iterations, 95, 2000, XP, etc.

 The Mac Os truly does feel more "polished" (as coldfish said) and everything just works not like I expect it to... But like I want it to... Seriously subjective but there you go:)

Realistically, I'm probably just enjoying the wonderful feeling of learning something new ....

[4pLaY]

Gone kind of the same route myself.

It might "feel" more polished but in my experience its nothing special compared to latest Win7 or Ubuntu wich i use both 50/50 of my time these days.

As for working as i want it to, not at all, i feel trapted, Apple has full control over me and i cant stand that. And i dont understand how it can be this stable for you guy(s), it used to crash on me and my colleague from time to time at work (more often so for him) it should be noted that it was not the latest OS/X version so comparing it to Win7 or latest Ubuntu would be wrong.

I guess its a matter of taste, a local ex Amiga friend of mine have also gotten bit by the OSX/Apple bug and is now a fanatical user of it and all he does is use Apple software/hardware down to his phone and keep telling me how great it all is .

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4Play originally wrote

I've reached a point in life where eye candy don't do it for me, but I must admit I love the case design, only thing I would add would be a numpad !

It's difficult to put my finger on it, I jumped ship to IBM clones after having been a loyal C= user from the Vic 20 days just in time to experience Windows 3.11 and then through all it's iterations, 95, 2000, XP, etc.

 The Mac Os truly does feel more "polished" (as coldfish said) and everything just works not like I expect it to... But like I want it to... Seriously subjective but there you go:)

Realistically, I'm probably just enjoying the wonderful feeling of learning something new ....

[Marcb]

In contrast to my current experience I remember when I first jumped over to the IBM clones... "IRQ conflict? WTF? Why can't it just work like the Amiga?"


And : " I have to write batch files to play my games? "

Of course all that is now long gone but I remember being frustrated with the differences rather than welcoming them as I do now...

[mingle]

I too have tried and left OSX

I just found it restrictive and it had several 'features' which I just couldn't get used to.

It's certainly looks polished, but it's far more of a 'Consumer OS' rather than something your average computer geek/enthusiast feels at one with (IMHO).

I reckon something like Ubuntu/Linux is far more in keeping with the feel of Amiga - so many ways of tweaking the look and feel and so many great free/shareware apps...

Mike.

[motorollin]

I don't really understand the "OS X is restrictive" argument. Can someone explain it to me please?

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moto

[Piru]

All my MacBook Pro laptops run Mac OS X and I haven't found them any way restricting or limiting. Also I hate flimsy plastic x86 laptop HW, too: Knock the laptop a bit and the plastic breaks. Automagically adjusting keyboard backlight, magnetic power connector and cooling system that doesn't melt the laptop when used on soft surface are the small things that make the difference to me.

Before anyone jumps to any conclusions: I run Debian/GNU Linux on my servers and desktops.

[chiark]

I have found OSX annoying and getting in my way once and only once: Finder.  When dragging a folder to copy to another location which already has a folder of the same name...  Rather than the sensible approach of combining the folders in the destination, it removes the contents on the destination then writes the source.

Who thought of that should be taken out and shot.

Other than that, the flexibility really reminds me of AmigaOS in some ways.  You can have your GUI, but you also can have your all powerful CLI .  The amount of ways of customising the behaviour are astounding as well: the default write stuff is quite mindblowing...

(Use Win7 Ultimate for my HTPC, use Linux daily, and am responsible for microsoft related products at my place of work...)