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Plaupius on 04 October 2008
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disolitude said:
Plaupius said:
 

When was it that you installed XP on your Mac? I'm just asking because bootcamp was in beta for quite some time before becoming a part of the OS X install, maybe that had something to do with the bugs and glitches you experienced? Anyway, I'd like to think that I'm a fan of Apple, but I don't pretend that Apple's shit doesn't stink. I know there are some seriously irritating, rabid Apple fanboys roaming the web, but quite frankly everybody who I know who uses Macs is a level headed person. They have all come from using Windows, and they all like using their Macs a lot better, as do I. Apple maintains a tighter control of their platform than MS, and it has both pros and cons, but for me the overall better user experience is well worth the price premium. And, judging from the sales numbers, an increasing number of people are thinking the same.

 

 I got my mac in Jan 2007. It was pretty simliar to the base model they have now except it had 512 of ram...I cant remember if bootcamp was in beta or not...I bought it with the idea of installing windows but once I foudn out that the blackberry desktop manager i was using did not work with mac osx and I had to get windows on there fast.

Once windows crashed I kinda gave up and got a PC laptop. I had the mac stored away for a bit without using it...and eventually this year I sold it for pretty cheap since DVD reader had issues with ejecting disks.

Never in all of this did I become an anti apple person...I still own an ipod video despite Itunes being a horrid syncing program and I understand that technology isn't perfect so what happened to my laptop isn't Apples fault. But I definetly am in the PC camp if I am asked to choose.

Ok, at that time BootCamp was still in beta, it actually got a proper release with OS X 10.5, before that it was considered beta. Maybe that amounted to some of the problems you experienced, and/or maybe you had some hardware issue. Macs are pretty high quality overall, but as with all hw nowadays, they have their share of issues, some of which can cause unstable behaviour.

I've never used iTunes on Windows, but I keep hearing it's an abomination. What exactly is so bad about it? The OS X version doesn't seem too bad, I actually like it, so I'm curious to know what they did wrong with the Windows version.