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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Frosty_Storm]
#7749057 - 12/12/07 12:02 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Frosty_Storm said: Each OS has it's faults and strong points, but I hate macs, they are too trendy, it may just be the coding junky geek in me, but i enjoy my linux with XFCE or Fluxbox, beacuse there is no need to be "neat" the OS just needs to let you start applications and manage files.
Hating something because its trendy sure shows alot about your character. Maybe its trendy because its not only sexy hardware but things function properly, and aren't vulnerable peices of junk.
Get a macbook pro you'll thank yourself. I'd run boot camp with XP and get a solid copy of OSX 10.4.11
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Frosty_Storm]
#7749083 - 12/12/07 12:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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That's the dumbest reason I've ever heard to hate macs. You could at least hate it because Woz is a hippy nutjob 
I'm a unix nerd too, I deal with BSD/HPUX at work all day. At home I want a machine that can talk ssh/nfs/etc natively to the systems back at the office, but also something easy to maintain software on, without dependency hell, and dammit....something easy on the eyes. Linux/BSD can do this, but I don't want to have my hands in kernel configs and dependency hell after I leave work. I want to surf the web, check email, and ssh into other machines to do any heavy lifting. There are those of us who "switched" from other unix platforms, I used to use an SGI w/IRIX until OS X came out and provided what I wanted at a better price.
Though your other point is valid, my laptop is a P3-600Mhz w/bsd+fluxbox. Runs like a champ. 
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: slackophage]
#7749527 - 12/12/07 02:02 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I guess I'll be getting a macbook with dual OS's then. I hope it's just not a pain to switch back and forth between them. Or can they run at the same time (?)
That would be awesome.
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Seuss]
#7749600 - 12/12/07 02:20 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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That explains why I dont see any performance issues with Vista. I have 2 8800 cards and 2GB of RAM.
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Robo]
#7749617 - 12/12/07 02:23 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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With boot camp you boot into one or the other.
There's an app called Parallels that will let you run Windows apps alongside OS X apps, tho.
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: slackophage]
#7750376 - 12/12/07 05:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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>>> Isn't the root password still stored plaintext somwehere in /var? >> Misleading at best... > How can a question be misleading?
I thought you were implying that the root password is easily read by anybody "as plaintext" when you knew it was encrypted. We were both wrong.
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Seuss]
#7752774 - 12/13/07 07:36 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was just saying when it comes to operating systems I'm a minimalist. If it provides the basic functions I need I'm fine. I write more code than anything and eye candy gets annoying. Plus I hate that bouncing crap in the icon bar at the bottom of macs, and the tray icon notifications in windows. I save the eyecandy for quake ^.^
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Frosty_Storm]
#7752949 - 12/13/07 09:37 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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if you're making music get the mac. no brainer
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Frosty_Storm]
#7753407 - 12/13/07 12:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Frosty_Storm said: I was just saying when it comes to operating systems I'm a minimalist. If it provides the basic functions I need I'm fine. I write more code than anything and eye candy gets annoying. Plus I hate that bouncing crap in the icon bar at the bottom of macs, and the tray icon notifications in windows. I save the eyecandy for quake ^.^
the nice thing about most things on a mac, are you can customize them. Especially lil things like the bouncing effect on the dock and other things. I have most that shit shut off just so things run even better then they do already.
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Robo]
#7757994 - 12/14/07 11:33 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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MAC BOOK PRO!!!!!!!
But this is coming from someone who also has a mac book pro.
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: nihilistism]
#7758016 - 12/14/07 11:38 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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> But this is coming from someone who also has a mac book pro.
What's that saying? Once you try mac, you never go back?
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Frosty_Storm]
#7758082 - 12/14/07 11:53 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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well if you look at pcmag.com it says macbook pro is the fastest laptop to run vista. so even if you dont use osx teh mac is a better computer regardless of specs. it was compared to soem pretty high end like alienware laptops if that means anything.
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: Seuss]
#7758083 - 12/14/07 11:53 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Seuss said: > But this is coming from someone who also has a mac book pro.
What's that saying? Once you try mac, you never go back?
he's saying once you use a mac, and you try using a pc again you puke a lil each time.
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: snoot]
#7761004 - 12/15/07 06:04 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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snoot said:
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Seuss said: > But this is coming from someone who also has a mac book pro.
What's that saying? Once you try mac, you never go back?
he's saying once you use a mac, and you try using a pc again you puke a lil each time.
true story.
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Re: Decisions Decisions OS X vs. Windows [Re: snoot]
#7783528 - 12/20/07 09:20 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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snoot said:
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Seuss said: > But this is coming from someone who also has a mac book pro.
What's that saying? Once you try mac, you never go back?
he's saying once you use a mac, and you try using a pc again you puke a lil each time.
My last web design job I had to use a mac with os X loaded on it and it sucked big balls. Really, Really fast and it wasn't that hard to get use to, although it had some major issues with flash, what I was doing most of my work day. It would periodically crash all day long. Reinstalled it with no luck. Constantly hitting control s all day long and then redoing work if you forget to sucks balls. Not to mention cross browser coding css when you can't even test it on a real version of internet explorer was horrible. I criticized my boss for using it and he laughed at me. The guy that had been there for a long time got to use a windows desktop but the rest of us where stuck with the damn macs and I seemed to be the only one complaining. Then again I was surrounded by graphic designers . I eventually quit because I was getting bitched at for not getting stuff done quick enough, with my major mac handicap. Never got one complaint about quality though
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