To me this is all a bit ridiculous. Who cares how the OS looks? That means exactly nothing when it comes right down to it. Sure, Vista's pretty. Sure OS X is pretty (and bears resemblance to Looking Glass). So what? I would use Vista over OS X any day just because it actually works. My experience with OS X is that it's about as fun to use as braided mop. I have to manually centralize my applications in their ridiculously animated dock, just so I don't have to go digging through Finder (the most-outdated file browser anywhere) just to open a text editor or calculator.
And when something goes wrong in OS X (about every ten minutes) I'm not left with many options. In Vista, I can hit ctrl-alt-del and get some information as to what is going on with my system. In OS X I use their little key combo (there's no character for the stupid apple key, so I'll omit it) and all I get is a listing of the programs that are running (or not running as the case may be). Macs were made for first-time PC owners who don't know anything about how a computer works except how to turn it on. If you want a real system, go for a dual-boot Ubuntu/Vista rig. You won't miss OS X at all, trust me.
really, if your mac is stalling up so much, it's BROKEN.
and if you're at all interested in really getting-things-done, nothing (and i mean nothing) beats OS X with QuickSilver. - you really don't know what you're missing.
i'm sure the 6 old macs in your office are a great way to judge all macs ever shipped.
and yes, if all the macs in your office suck, they're all broken. (ie: set up like shit, maintained like shit, etc.)
I've seen a lab of nice Mac Pros that were maintained by some moron who was only moderately versed at XP and had no idea what he's doing with a mac, and he really did manage to make them work poorly. (just like hew made every single windows computer in the PC lab seem like windows was written by retarded monkeys.) he BROKE them. Does that mean every mac ever shipped is broken? no - it means your administrator is probably a moron.
or, there is always the possibility, that you're just a hater and all of your "experience" is just made up. that's equally as likely. in that case, there's not much i can say.
I have been dual booting Windows/OS2 then Linux for some time now. I currently have Mandriva 2007 installed along side of XP. I don't boot to XP all that often, only when I need to run a piece of software that doesn't have a Linux equivalent.
I have Beryl and Compriz loaded so I get a lot of similar visuals available from Vista and OSX. Plus a neat utility called gDesklets lets me run widgets, and startbars giving me the same functionality found in OSX. Best part, ITS FREE :) (Well minus the work getting everything working).
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To me this is all a bit ridiculous. Who cares how the OS looks? That means exactly nothing when it comes right down to it. Sure, Vista's pretty. Sure OS X is pretty (and bears resemblance to Looking Glass). So what? I would use Vista over OS X any day just because it actually works. My experience with OS X is that it's about as fun to use as braided mop. I have to manually centralize my applications in their ridiculously animated dock, just so I don't have to go digging through Finder (the most-outdated file browser anywhere) just to open a text editor or calculator.
And when something goes wrong in OS X (about every ten minutes) I'm not left with many options. In Vista, I can hit ctrl-alt-del and get some information as to what is going on with my system. In OS X I use their little key combo (there's no character for the stupid apple key, so I'll omit it) and all I get is a listing of the programs that are running (or not running as the case may be). Macs were made for first-time PC owners who don't know anything about how a computer works except how to turn it on. If you want a real system, go for a dual-boot Ubuntu/Vista rig. You won't miss OS X at all, trust me.
nerd. :P
really, if your mac is stalling up so much, it's BROKEN.
and if you're at all interested in really getting-things-done, nothing (and i mean nothing) beats OS X with QuickSilver. - you really don't know what you're missing.
from PPC all the way up to PPC? wow.
i'm sure the 6 old macs in your office are a great way to judge all macs ever shipped.
and yes, if all the macs in your office suck, they're all broken. (ie: set up like shit, maintained like shit, etc.)
I've seen a lab of nice Mac Pros that were maintained by some moron who was only moderately versed at XP and had no idea what he's doing with a mac, and he really did manage to make them work poorly. (just like hew made every single windows computer in the PC lab seem like windows was written by retarded monkeys.)
he BROKE them. Does that mean every mac ever shipped is broken? no - it means your administrator is probably a moron.
or, there is always the possibility, that you're just a hater and all of your "experience" is just made up. that's equally as likely. in that case, there's not much i can say.
I have been dual booting Windows/OS2 then Linux for some time now. I currently have Mandriva 2007 installed along side of XP. I don't boot to XP all that often, only when I need to run a piece of software that doesn't have a Linux equivalent.
I have Beryl and Compriz loaded so I get a lot of similar visuals available from Vista and OSX. Plus a neat utility called gDesklets lets me run widgets, and startbars giving me the same functionality found in OSX. Best part, ITS FREE :) (Well minus the work getting everything working).