Windows is buggy and slow lets buy a Mac

[pyrre]

And yet, the machine that sells the most games is the lowly wii and DS, with crap graphics.
 
For most normal users, "pc game" means little silly flash games. The developers have mostly seen the writing on the wall. Corporations don't care about anecdotal evidence. They care about who buys the product. Why does it take a (for the time) cutting edge game like Crysis 4 months to sell a million copies, when a Mario game on a glorified gamecube can do exceed 2 million in its first month?
 

Excuse me, but the most played game in the world right now is "pet society" on facebook. With just over 60 million users.
And it is flash based....

[pyrre]

My point was that I don't want to be bothered by the OS while I'm working.
moto

 
What exactly do you mean by being bothered by the OS....?
 
I have used XP for quite some time now.
Win2K and 98SE before that.
But i have never "been bothered" by those OS.
In my experience they have done what i wanted them to do...
 
I have worked on one mac in my life.
A powermac G4 1.8GHz, 768ram. and an Nvidia videocard. (dont remember the version) and OS x, when os x was released....
 
In my hones oppinion i have never worked with a slower computer in my life. The OS was very slow to respond. and video editing was a PITA...
Using the final cut software...
For this reason, and price.... i will neve buy a mac for main computer.
 
My pc, at the same time was a P4 3.2GHz with 2GIG ram. and Nvidia gfx...
And of course win xp...
 
Using vegas video 4.0 i could do the same i could on the mac... at 1/3 of the price. including software license...

[pyrre]

Yes, OSX 10.0 and 10.1 was very slow.



Well, to be fair, that was proably 10 years ago.  What if I said "I didn't like Windows 2000, so I will never buy a PC for main computer", what would you say?

I swapped for W2K in 2001. and for XP in 2004/2005
Only reason i swapped for 2k was  drivers were no longer written to 98se.
And again, lack of drivers were the reason to swap to XP. This time it was DirecX 9.... and games support.

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My first real encounter with mac was in 2005. and many people said that the mac i was about to use was a "state of the art" mac. and macs could not be better at that time... (apart form more ram)
And it was a os x... version unknown...

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Fair enough if you make your decision judged by the os you try...
It is the os you are supposed to work with.. no matter whats under the bonnet...
Win 2000 was far from the easiest os to learn.
And the transmission from 2K - Xp was harsh... i hated XP in the beginning.


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As far as games go with mac....
I was playing WOW and EVEonline at that time... and at least wow worked on the mac. eve was said to work later on. but i don't know that....
Never tried wow on the mac though...

[pyrre]

Cant be bothered to read  this thread but just thought would say, drop both and go with ubuntu

I have ubuntu on my laptop. it is a great os. for linux, it is easy to use.
Works great for web, mail, facebook, etc....

But it sucks for gaming. Have tried it in my pc.
Getting games to work, specially new games ain't easy.
And when they work. it works at half the speed of windows, at half the GFX settings of windows.

[pyrre]

Take 'Find Files Folder' on a Win98 machine that took a blink of an eye to scan a machine compared with say XP and the process just takes for eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer.

How big was the disks at W98 times?
compared to disks today?
(i have 3tb in my computer....)
I cannot support that statement, i feel it quick and responsive. compared to the size of my disks, and the size of todays files...

Same goes for changing sharing privileges etc. Everytime Windows has to scroll a long file list, check a directory etc there is this security process that is instigated that slows things down.

What?
I use my pc as media server sharing my files on the network. Using an xBox (the first one) with XBMC as media center... I see no evidence of your statement. even browsing files shared on the network from another computer while i play movies on the tv is swift... And yet even copying files while watching movies on my TV....
I use "simple file sharing"... BTW....

And browsing a couple of thousand pictures in a folder is no problem, even on network.
Oh, i use windows commander as my main filemanager. (the most likelyhood to Dopus i could find)

My XP machine is slower than my Win98 machine by a mile and this computer at work is a pain in the...

What computer are you using?
Cpu, ram, videocard...+++?

I have an old P III 1.4 GHz with xp as media server....
gigabit Ethernet. no problems with it. (it has though 1.5 gig ram)

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I do like how things are going.
Ubuntu linux... just need some driver developing.

And google os may be interesting...