I Hate Mac II

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But the key to anything is timing!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_dd2DOZkGQ

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mlgqknkQYw&mode=related&search=

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Karlos wrote:
Anybody who remembers my posts from over a year ago when I had to work with OSX running on macs will know I had nothing but loathing for them.

That view, however, was from the perspective of a developer forced by an unrelenting mac fanatic boss to use a basic G4 eMac when the specific application was clearly best suited to an x86 running linux. Problems were encountered that were all but intractable under OSX 10.3 Server that just about any linux distribution you can think of would handle without problems.

Yeah, but OSX 10.3 was absolutely awful... It wasn't until I tried OSX 10.4 that I actually realised I could live with a Mac... And then actually love one :-)

Also OS X on a G4 is not a pleasurable experience by any margin... you need at least two CPU's (OSX is VERY heavily threaded) and a G5 or intel Core cpu to really see what it capable of.

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Karlos wrote:
I had to use OSX10.2 on a G3 mac for a while. That was agonizing.

Now that was a truely terrible operating system!!! Serving no otherfuntion than hogging resources and reducing your machine to a pretty brick...

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Matt, I'm not telling you again mate. Take that mac notebook, record your voice and send it to voicesofaorg ;-)

Do it, or you will incurr my extreme displeasure :lol:

Oh? what's voicesofaorg? hmmm... I'll do it for you ;-)

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Karlos wrote:
@Matt

see here

Jup, found it :-)

Isn't this a bit retro? My MBP has a built in webcam you know... I could record a video :idea:


Hahahahah... You sound northern :-D

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sdyates wrote:
@alenppc

Well, that's the beauty, many of us see the correlation. Many Amiga owners went to Mac because it offered us much of what the Amiga had and was going and that the wintel did nto have and may never have. This site iis Amga centric, but far from baning non-amiga topics. I think it provides us depth and shows we have other interests, even at our local Amiga club, we still talk about other topics. Look at the amount of conversations we have on PS3, Xbox, PC and the like. Some could argue that we cut down those topics, but why. When we have more news, we will want to talk about that news.

Additional; Most of us here are involved with the Next Gen AmigaOS projects... AROS, MOS and AOS4... for these projects to grow and be useful, we need to see the Amiga's faults and places where other systems have improved ideas.

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Starrunner wrote:
When I got into Amiga computers in the early 90s whilst in high school, I had an extreme dislike of the Mac.  What it was based on I can not remember at this point.

Almost certainly because Macs were expensive, lacked even basic features of the Amiga and all versions of MacOS before OSX 10.4 were pathetic, pointless and altogether a waste of valuble CPU time.

Over the years, I grew a brain stem and realised that each platform has it's uses and what it is good for.

Yeah, I grew one of those a few years back...

I wish that Commodore had never went away.  I have a small video business with a friend.  I would've loved seeing that business running Amigas, just like the ones I worked with in high school at the local cable station.  

Instead I wound up, as I had in my personal Life after the death of my A3000, working on PCs.

I think that happened to most of us.

At the beginning I said I hated Macs from the beginning of my computing adventures.  Even though I 'matured' ( I doubt that actually;-) I am still not fond of a Mac.

If you buy a Mac now, you will actually be buying a NeXT box... and they were cool! The Mac died in 2001, with the release of OSX.

The Modern Mac is a joy to behold.

With the advent of Vista, my next 2 computers for that business will be Macs, since it is the only other choice I have.

You won't regret it.

Sorry for rambling...I am not technically alive at the moment. :crazy:

ok...

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Karlos wrote:

Hahahahah... You sound northern

You don't say ;-)

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Reload the page.

Hey didn't you do Thomas the Tank engine? :lol:

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All northerners sounds the same to me ;-)

-Edit- You do sound scouse in the first clip... not the second :-)

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Karlos wrote:
So where is your contribution, Mr Parsons?

I've sent it to the gmail account.. I await its approval...

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Karlos wrote:
So where is your contribution, Mr Parsons?

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Honestly, it's like trying to get blood(line) out of a rock(-hard sock)...

:roflmao:

And now I know how to pronounce eyso's nick :-)

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Karlos wrote:
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It's there now :-D

I might sound like Ringo Starr, but you sound like... a serial killer :lol:

and?

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adz wrote:

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Yeah, but OSX 10.3 was absolutely awful... It wasn't until I tried OSX 10.4 that I actually realised I could live with a Mac... And then actually love one :-)

Also OS X on a G4 is not a pleasurable experience by any margin... you need at least two CPU's (OSX is VERY heavily threaded) and a G5 or intel Core cpu to really see what it capable of.

Running 10.4.8 on a PowerBook G4 867MHz and all seems fine to me. Admittedly, it is a whole heap nicer on my Core Duo MacBook, but it is still very usable.

After a recent thead diversion... yes 10.4.8 does run very well on my 1.5Ghz G4 Powerbook... but you should see it fly on this Mackbook Pro... :-)