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mirgro on 23 April 2010
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TheRealMafoo said:
mirgro said:

See now you are talking their brand new PCs. All I have to say about those is that they have no place. They are not as open as Linux, and don't run as much programs as Windows. Basically they have none of the benefits and all of the downfalls that come from being in the middle of the two standards, so as far as OSX comes, it has no real benefits.

It has no benefits to you. That does not mean it's bad, or has no benefit. I am in OSX 95% of the time I am not coding, or playing games. The reason is:

  • It works VERY well. It never crashes, and I never need to reboot. The uptime on my OS at the moment is 37 days. The only reason it's that short, is a software update required a reboot. In the 4 years I have owned this laptop, it has never crashed.
  • I like the UI much better. I use Expose all the time, and not having it in Windows sucks.
  • Two finger scroll on the touchpad. Everyone has it now, but I have been using it for 4 years in OSX.
  • I like when you close a program in OSX, it doesn't really close. It just removed the window. OSX can get away with this, because it has outstanding memory management. I have a bad habit of closing windows when I am done with an app, and in OSX it doesn't matter. Tweetdeck and mail are still running (good thing).
  • Spotlight kicks ass. Windows 7 ripped it off, so I do have that in that os as well, but the Mac version still works better for me.
  • Not sure what you mean by "brand new PC's". I am talking about anything with an intel cpu and OSX. That means anything around 4 years old.
  • Other then it being Free, there is no advantage to Linux over OSX. Anything you run on Linux, you can run in OSX.
  • I run Windows in a VM on my old ass laptop, and it runs great.
  • I got this laptop 4 years ago. It came with Tiger. I installed Leopard on it when it came out using the upgrade option, and I installed snow leopard with it came out using the upgrade option. I have yet to reinstall the OS. I don't think I could have gone from XP -> Vista -> Windows 7 without a full install, and I think I have installed an OS on my PC 6 or 7 times in that same time span
  • I don't have virus protection on my laptop. I never think about it actually.
  • If the laptop is closed and in sleep mode, by the time I open the lid and let go of it, I am restored and connected to the internet.
  • And dozens of other things if I wanted to keep typing...

You might not like OSX, but there are many reasons I love it.

 

See I have never had my Windows 7 box crash since I have used it. Granted I switch between Linux where I code and W7 where I do everythign else a lot. In fact my Linux has crashed more, but that's because I deal with the memory a whole lot.

I use proto launcher in Windows, I have absolutely nothing on my desktop, it's amazing. As for the expose, the alt-tab and the corner desktop does the same thing, in terms of useage.

I am sorry, but I count the 2 finger scroll as a negative. Having the little scroll area on the side of the touchpad is far better for navigating pages.

I hate that in OSX, along with it's default on jumping icon dock. When I want to close a program I want it dead, period, not working in the background. Though I do have a close to tray on my thunderbird. I use IMing exclusively on my phone now unless I have to talk code with someone, so those programs are never even up anymore, but they did clsoe to the tray as well.

Face it, Spotlight is grep. Mac stole it from Linux, don't try to play the copy card on things OSX copied itself.

Linux is more open then OSX. Maybe I wasn't informed well, but I thoght you can't go into the kernel and change things to th way you like them. All the way down to the basic UI you use, suck as KDE or Gnome. OSX is far more restricting than Linux.

I bought my laptop at the start of 2007, the last ones before they came in vista. I am now running W7 Pro and I have never had to reinstall or reformat, then again I never put Vista on the laptop to beign with.

At one point I put OSX on a desktop. I uninstalled it because I never booted into it since there was absolutely no use for it between my then Ubuntu and XP partitions. Now with W7 it seems even more useless.

You should get virus protection, as well as try and scure your Mac. OSX has far more holes in it than Windows, and Apple sucks very hard at maniging security on their platform. Since 2007, I have never had any problems with malicious code of any sort.

 

I can keep on going and going and shooting down any feature you mention about the usefulness of a Mac.