i have more problems with internet browsing on a mac in about 10 hours of use than i had one my windows 7 machine in 3 months of use (with out reboot). im not saying that win7 is god...but it sure is messed up to assume that osx is. the way i see it, on ANY os, the best programs are third party...
"There is no way I'm going to read all that crap you guys wrote, but once again, I have to say, OS X is better by far. Better luck next time, Microsoft."
you dont have the right to judge an OS if you arent willing to learn about it. have fun fanboy
"WTF? Hitting CMD + N is a pain? And haven't you heard of Tabs? Who the heck opens up multiple browser windows these days?"
i use multiple firefox windows to make use of different "thoughts" in each window. for example, i use one for my street fighter 4 forum browsing, i use one for email + home page etc, and ill pop open a new one if i want to look something up real quick on wikipedia. then ill open a new one for my Quake Live-ing. think of it as adding tabs with-in tabs. except in OSX its a hassle so of course you wouldnt bother to do that. its actually quite easy to do it in Win7.
"..In OS X, just about everything is in System Preferences..."
Control panel. and making things like the function keys act like function keys instead of shortcuts is pain to do on OSX. youve got to go to 3 different spots to disable them completely.
"And to whomever said, "OS X crashes too." Give me a break. I've had one OS crash in six years. Apps crash all the time in OS X, but it's never bad enough to shut down the whole system."
i crashed my room mates brand new Macbook Pro with in 5 minutes of its very first boot. he hadnt even installed or uninstalled anything. i can make certain programs crash on OSX consistently and on Win7 ive rarely have anything crash at all. system or program...Win7 is definitely more stable than OSX in my use.
"And to insky, I know about Aero Peek. I know I referred to it as "Show Desktop," but that's what the function is called in Expose. That's a lot easier to understand than saying, "Hey, just use Aero Peek." You say "Show Desktop" and people immediately know what you're talking about. Apple is better with their naming conventions."
Show Desktop is a part of Win7. Aero Peek is different. Aero Peek is when you hover over an icon on the taskbar, and then hover over a preview window and it singles that window out on the desktop. If you hover over the little button in the bottom right, it will show your desktop, and when you pull away, it will go back to how it was. if you click, it auto minimizes everything. if you click again, everything comes back.
And I don't have a Win+D key combo. I'm using a Mac. I don't think the Option/ALT button works that way, if that's what you're talking about.
iirc, its the button next to space. the System button and the Alt key are switched on a mac keyboard.
"And to whoever said the taskbar is better than the dock on the Mac, I'm sorry to say, but it's not. Microsoft only innovation here is to include a couple of Expose functions in the dock itself and as I discussed, Hot Corners are a lot easier than Aero Peek. You can also assign keys on my keyboard to activate Expose functions. You can also assign Hot Corners or keys to Dashboard, and your Screen Saver. The OS X dock also allows you to put folders in it."
Clearly you have not explored the new task bar and its associated hot keys to the fullest extent. for example, WinKey + [number] will launch the program associated with it on the task bar (for example, if you press 1, it will open what the first icon is. 2 opens the second icon, etc).
you should also explore some of the possibilities involving the WinKey + arrow keys and dragging different parts of the window around. drag the bottom of the window to the bottom and it auto full heights it. win + arrow keys can move stuff around (including from one screen to another). up maximizes, down from maximize restores, down from restore minimizes. or you can win + M to go straight from full screen to minimize. win+home minimizes all but current window.
"And that "Show Windows side by side" function in the Windows 7 taskbar, how is that different from "Tiling?" People keep saying it's a new feature. It's not."
this happened in a class just 2 days ago i was in. my teacher wanted to put two windows side by side for comparison. he was on OSX. if it was Win7, he could have just dragged on to one side, and the other to the other side. ta-da, task done. he got it done but it took longer AND it wasnt as clean.
The problem with the taskbar is that I have a screen resolution of 1920 x 1200, which makes everything ridiculously small. In OS X, this isn't a problem because everything can be resized and still be in high resolution.
right click taskbar > properties > make sure you have "use small icons" unchecked (i prefer small icons personally)
You guys still haven't told me how to get rid of the translucency. I searched everywhere. The Control Panel. Taskbar and Start Menu dialog.
right click desktop > personalize > window color > uncheck use transparency (this is also where you can change back grounds with out having to navigate hidden folders the hard way like you were doing)
or
control panel > personalize > window color > uncheck use transparency
Basically, Windows 7 seems to have the basic layout of XP, the dock from OS X and the rest is Vista but without the bloat. Not much wow here. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's more stable either. I also remember people saying the Vista RC was stable, but that changed when MS finally released it. And I've already had my first BOSD.
its been extremely stable for me. i mean, my computer in general isnt very stable and yet win7 is a dream of stability. and the taskbar is not an osx dock lol. its soooo much nicer than the osx dock. previews, peeking, opening new windows with ease (ya, opening a second firefox browser is a pain on osx, and a single click on win7)...ill take XP taskbar over dock, ill take vista over xp, and ill take win7 over vista. your first BSOD maybe the result of....
I was trying to change the log-in screen and tried a registry hack to do it. When I restarted, instant blue screen. Windows 7 was able to recover it, but I was disappointed because according to the word of most MS fanboys, the BOSD was supposed to be a thing of the past. Nice try. I guess some of you guys forget that Mac users can use Windows in boot camp.
"tried a registry hack to do it"
how is that windows or microsofts fault? if you open the hood, of course something can go wrong.
Running any OS in a virtual environment for more than one or two tasks is a mistake in itself. If I just run windows, I don't need to boot into OSX for anything, so why not just boot into it?
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