Windows is buggy and slow lets buy a Mac

[NovaCoder]

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$.

The real problem that Microsoft has is that their main cash-cow (the home OS market) is coming to the end of the road, in a few years time operating systems will be consigned to the history books.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I sold my laptop which came with Vista pre-installed and wouldn't install XP pro. I'm now using an Athlon X2 tower with XP Pro and Ubuntu. XP uses a mealy 1% of CPU time compared to 5% or more on Vista.
Even though the laptop had 4GB of memory Vista would need to be rebooted because of "memory is running low".
My XP tower only has 2GB and can run a Mac emulation, an Amiga emulation play a movie and have several browser windows open without a single complaint.

[Amiduffer]

As someone who had to re-install Vista (blech!) on a friends laptop due to malware, spyware, and god knows what, making the system unbearably slow, I say good riddance! That was the absolute worst and most time consuming experience I've had with an operating system. Just setting up a basic system with spyware, virus checker, and browser took a day and a half.

Luckily, once her warranty is up, she'll ditch Win for a Linux system.

[guest7146]

The immortal words of wisdom from an Apple Mac computer:

"There was an error.  Because there was an error".

Give me a Guru Meditation anyday.  It may have made no more sense, but at least it wasn't pretending to make sense ;-)

[Daedalus]

Also, I heard you can not rename a file in OSX by marking it and pressing F2 ?

Ummm... If every operating system behaved exactly the same way in every case, there wouldn't *be* any other operating systems! Myself, I've always hated Windows shortcuts. F2? How does that make sense? It's just because you've learned that from somewhere, rather than having a logical shortcut like RAmiga-R (for Rename). Keyboard shortcuts in any other OS (with the exception of Linux) are easier to learn and remember than Windows ones. for example, to quit: Amiga, it's RAmiga-Q. In Mac OS it's Apple-Q. In Windows it's Alt+F4... And that's just one example.

Anyway, on my mac, I find it's easier to simply click on the highlighted file's name name and edit the file name that way.

[tone007]

Anyway, on my mac, I find it's easier to simply click on the highlighted file's name name and edit the file name that way.

Same with Windows.  I had no idea about F2 to rename a file in Windows!

[Arkhan]

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

My first puter was an A500 bitd.  Eventually it got replaced with Windows 3.1/Win95/Win98 etc.   I've been using windows for about uh... 12 years. (I am Only 21!)

I'm used to it. I've been flailing around with it since 3.1!  During that time I used a friends power mac also.  It was OK, but we were like 10.  It didn't matter.  We just played Oregon Trail, Wolfenstein, and Gahan Wilson's Haunted House.  

I bought a new Intel mac for the first time a few years ago.  It was nice for awhile.  Different GUI, looked and felt sleek...... but eventually I started to get annoyed.  The marvel of a new shiney toy wore off.  Some people get along fine in mac and make full use of all the software and whatnot.  I didn't.  I saw no real point for me to use an overpriced laptop to sit on the internet or use a text editor and GCC.  A 486 thinkpad would have been functionally equivalent!

Mac is OK I guess, but it's no holy grail of OS's..a few of my problems:

• No equivalent to FruityLoops for same price range.
• No equivalent to NeoPaint (I dont like GIMP).  I need PCX support that doesn't suck.
• My PC-Engine assembler has no mac version...
• games..... :(

I am comfortable with Windows since I have been using it for so long.  Sure I have had the occasional hiccup from downloading something stupid... but it has always been extremely painless to fix.   It wasn't the OS's fault either.  It was my own from going to OMG1337warezd0wnl0adz.com and downloading and running an .exe without virus scanning it .

I just recently did the Win7 jump.  I love it.  It runs smooth on both machines, the GUI doesn't have the same annoying things I found in XP (like the volume slider not appearing if you're actually doing a ton of crap), and it seems to play nice with some of the strange hardware I have.

Windows 7 runs all my old games.  Diablo 2 runs on it.  Doom 95, all the good stuff.  And then there is DOSBOX for the even older stuff.  The new games run great too (I built me a gaming PC).  But for any SERIOUS gaming, I use the PS3 anymore.  We're at the point where consoles are trumping PCs.  But it is still nice to have a computer that has the option to.  Mac's gaming options are limited at best.   It may get better since they're Intel now.

The home macs are also not as user-openable and add-to-able.  I like being able to crack the case open and start adding parts and doing all of that when I need to.  Spare parts all over.  Can't do that as simply with the Mac.   But some people don't care about that.  Some people never open their computer. *shrug*.   I like doing all of that stuff though.

My other big complaint, and it's preference really, is OSX's gui.  I grew to hate buttons on the left of windows, the lack of right click, the goony MIGHTY MOUSE, and that annoying Pinwheel of Doom when a program would tweak out.    It's probably because I am used to windows.

In short, Windows is great for some, and Mac is great for some.

and then Windows blows for some, and Mac blows for some.

and if someone thinks they both blow, theres all the free Linux/stuff they can use.

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.

[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.

[Karlos]

Same with Windows.  I had no idea about F2 to rename a file in Windows!

It seems to be the default key binding in gnome also.

[Arkhan]

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.

I use notepad++ and fly around with keyboard shortcuts.   I barely even use the mouse in it

Its pretty funny when you are tag team coding with someone who uses mouse-editing.  My friend usually stares at my hands while I'm doing it and goes "I hate you".

I loooove using keyboards to highlight entire lines.  

[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.

[Arkhan]

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.

Yeah the mac vs. pc crap is always going on at my school since we have mac labs AND pc labs, right near each other.

What gets me is when you get the person whos never used the OS that they are bashing.   Ignorance makes me :roflmao:

Its a shame when people buy into things, thinking that the amount spent directly reflects the possible productivity.  OCRemix guy proves this is not true.  I know a guy who spent at least 15000$ by now on high end synthesizers and hasn't produced a single thing with them, but acts like a know-it-all. :-/

I use a 30$ midi keyboard, and a bunch of VSTs in fruityloops, and get more done!

[skurk]

Hi,
I find the command line interface a very usable feature, I don't like using computers without it. The CLI in a multi task environment is like using gold, I liked it on the Amiga, and I like it in Linux and also on the PC. Since you brought it up, this is one of the features or lack of that I do not like a MAC. Once again it that old Apple saying, "Make it simple to use"

Once again you confirm that you have no clue what you are talking about.

[Arkhan]

Once again you confirm that you have no clue what you are talking about.

Im going to have to second that one.  I didnt even see this post.

smerf, you are fully aware that Mac OSX is an official Unix, complete with a terminal and all of that,right?

[KatManDEW]

I think F2 to rename is a carry over from Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS, for editing the contents of a cell. F2 puts you in in-cell edit mode in Excel.

For renaming a file, you can also click on it once, and wait a second and click on it again. Or right-click on the file and select rename from the drop-down menu.

[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....