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:

[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 ....

[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...

[Marcb]

Faidinkem,
 
You've expressed it much better than I did but your post sums up how I feel about OSX...
Spending far too much time playing Minecraft on it at the moment though
 
@Moto leave Madge alone! She features heavily on the soundtrack of my teen years :lol:

[Marcb]

Moto,
 
Agreed, mutton dressed up as lamb now.