Windows is buggy and slow lets buy a Mac

[KThunder]

When Windows 95 came out, it's strong selling points were plug and play and ease of use. It impressed gamers because you didn't have to fiddle with DOS anymore.
Microsoft has gone daft, putting in more and more bloat. The OS is more of a whiz bang application than an operating system. The fact that you automatically buy Windows with any name brand PC or laptop means M$ can sit back and contentedly rake in money. That automatic bundling is really bad for non-sheeple consumers.

Gamers will simply abandon the Wintel PC and they have been. That is a fairly big chunk of business.
I can see innovation has ground to a halt, ty M$.

Are you serious?!?!?!?!?!?!
windows vista sucks but 7 is xp and then some.  its fast, streamlined and stable. the only reason we have multighz multicore cpus and video cards with shaders etc. is because of gaming on the pc. not mac (sheesh gaming on the mac has always been a joke). consoles never really pushed the state of the art either. all along the way they have been ither right at or a bit behind pc chipsets.
"m$" has been at the forefront of innovation by supporting and upgrading directx and other api componants. opengl was stagnant for years and has only just pulled up semi-level.
the only people "abandoning"  pcs is because of cost of upgrading not lack of innovation.

you may not like them but without intel and microsoft computing would be nowhere near what it is today.

[KThunder]

I love keyboard shortcuts I use them all the time. especially alt tab to switch apps and alt f4 to close.

when guis came out some people thought keyboards were going to all but die for anything other than data entry. ive found that for entering data and working with multiple apps keyboard shortcuts are way faster and easier than reaching for the mouse or even the touchpad.

ive found that it doesnt really matter if a shortcut is intuitive or not. f1 is help alt f4 is close  once you learn them you dont really think about it. what does mess me up occasionally is different apps especially those ported from linux that have completely different ones.

[KThunder]

Hmmm the good ol Mac vs. PC debate! WOO.

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All of the OS's provide the same basic functionality (file access/storage, productivity suites, browsing,chatting), so it boils down to picking which one gives you the nicest tickle in your pants when you use it.

my only real problem is the condescending OMG YOU USE PC? YOURE DUMB, MACS THE BEST. USE IT, WINDOWS IS CRAP, YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING. nonsense.  It makes the normal mac users look like idiots by association.

I totally agree. we have people in my computers class in college that all you have to do is say the word mac and they cheer. its kindoff rediculous.

there is a guy on ocremix.org (music created by people who love old video games mostly) who has put out some incredible stuff created on a pentium II system with only 32 megs of ram.

[KThunder]

can't be bothered to read your post...something about linux

just kidding linux is good. i hooked my micrsoft hating brother on in and now he only uses linux. mostly madrake. he hates apple too. linux can take some manhandling though.

to me they are all just operating systems i can do nothing with almost any os, i can install it and maintain it and make it pretty; but its not the os that creates. It's the person using the computer.
argueing os's is like argueing grades of gasoline. as long as it has the basics covered the os shouldnt make that much of a difference. people have created cool art and music on amigas, and others have produced crap on dual core monsters.