OMG Commodore Invented WIndows 8 on the C64

[djos]

And I assume it never caught on because nobody liked the interface back then either.  

Lol, I liked Windows 8 so much I bought a Mac - very glad I did too!

[djos]

Just wait for the crap to break. Then you will have to book an appointment with your Apple dealer for service.

TBH my experience is the opposite, plenty of friends and family have bought mac's and are still using them 5 years later, cant say the same about PC's tho which seem to have a max useful life of 3 years tops!

[djos]

FTFY.  If you spend the right amount of money on a PC, you'll have a machine which will last several years.  A $300 Wal*Mart or Best Buy special ain't gonna make it.

I build machines for around $1000 (and that's retail, I *do* make a profit, you know) which absolutely will last five years, and can even keep up with bloated software.  Of course, that's when the warranties run out heheheheh

I used to build my own well equipped machines too, didnt make them last any longer.

[djos]

Im a former Mac & PC HW tech and Windows Server Admin so I know a thing or two about building a decent machine - it's not the HW that is the problem, it's the Windows OS and bloat filled software that is the issue! rebuilding you PC every 12-18months is just accepted norm and it really shouldn't be - on top of that almost every new WinOS version gobbles up more and more resources for no real gain!

Mac's dont have Registries to get filled up with sh!te and the dont suffer from DLL hell from every app installing their own bits of crap through out the Windows and System/32 folders.

99% of Mac software is 100% self contained and to remove it is as simple as deleting the icon from the apps folder. Extension all live in the Extensions folder so if one plays up it's very easy to troubleshoot. Most Mac software doesnt even have an installer as installing it is as simple as dragging it to the Applications folder - it's all very simple and just works.

[djos]

Some very good points there but I'm not talking about corporate desktops (although the Amount bloatware HP makes us install on our corp laptops is truly obscene!), mainly I'm talking about consumer systems where a much broader range software and hardware gets installed and frigged with.

I'm not anti-windows by any stretch, I just prefer mac's as my main machine at home but I do run windows 7 on 2 machines still; a netbook that monitors my solar system and energy consumption and uploads it to PVO and a quad core PC, that lives in my garage with my server and comms gear, for occasional use via RDP.

I also run a hp microserver with whs2011 and stablebit drivepool plus twonky media server, sickbeard and sabnzbd amongst other things.