Uncharted: I distinctly remember going into HMV and seeing that game that was the first to take advantage of MMX, that really crap racing game, can't remember it's name though. That must of been nearly 9 years ago. Man, i'm getting old
P.O.D., I believe.
Hyperspeed: Could someone tell me what the hell makes a Mac?
The pretty packaging. It really bugs me that iMacs still don't have any real expandability, but Apple is a hardware company, so of course they encourage people to throw their old machines to get brand new ones. I was Amazed that Apple finally released a budget machine without a Mandatory Display Attached(TM).
Hyperspeed: Someone enlighten me what makes OSX special and why everyone is ecstatic about iBooks...
I don't understand the iBook thing. I've used plenty of good PC laptops, though they're usually all black. iBooks do at least look better.
The thing I like about OSX is that it has a
lot more tools built-in than a Windows machine. Windows doesn't come with anything, really. Of course, OSX weighs in at over 12GB, and sucks up a hell of a lot more memory than WindowsXP, which I didn't think was possible.
Tomas: I dont think it does... Both BeOS and QNX came closer then...
QNX? Absolutely. I was so mad when QNX got turned down as the foundation of the new Amiga.
I didn't think BeOS was all that interesting, and I hated the toolbar and context menus.
Tomas: As for OS X being a resource hog and bringing modern systems to a crawl, I'm yet to see my G4 Mac mini grind to a crawl, or my kids eMac, or hang on, how about the 6 year old G4 PowerMac at work. Nope, they all run very well.
My mini was a snail with 256MB of memory. I put 1GB into it and it's a whole new computer. Apple is famous for mis-matching hardware in ways that makes any experienced PC builder cringe. Funny how they'd happily applaud the mini with the faster CPU, but still give you 256MB of memory. Though the price is now rediculous thanks to the system's popularity, at least the new minis have more memory.
I wouldn't say OSX is responsive, though. I still get the pinwheel cursor far too often and OSX has a nasty habit of thinking for a long time before putting a window or something on the screen. Just because something bounces on the dock doesn't mean the OS is giving appropriate feedback as to what's going on.
My Win2000 system likes to think every now and then, but since I keep it clean of spam, it boots in 20 seconds and windows pop-up like lightning -- far faster than my mini... and that's with Apache and MySQL in the background.
They're both good OSes. I prefer OSX technology, but I think Windows still feels much better. The OS doesn't try to put all my files into places where I don't want them.
Bloodline: The File system is much better than FAT32... and bit better than NTFS, with a cool resource fork feature, based and around special directories called bundles. This feature allows drag and drop installation, as we are used to with AmigaOS.
Bundles rock. I've been wanting that for Windows for years, although integrated ZIP files are about the only thing Microsoft seems interested in offering, and not very well, either. I still prefer WinZIP.
Still, I do miss having the quickstart links like on my Windows machine. On the dock, everything is the same size, and it's hard to tell applications from folders. I tend to move files around a lot and the new Finder has its issues if you want lots of folders open at once. Though different from Windows, OSX is still very much an application-centric system, rather than document-centric. Apple's obsession with brand-awareness ensures that, unfortunately.
