You know, forget what I said. ...Windows ME. Hands down.
Ha! My sister bought a machine with that excuse of an OS; she's got a Macbook now for some strange reason.
Main thing I like about OS X over windows is that I can open a preference/options screen in %99 of applications without losing the ability to use the app unlike every single Windows application in the universe; it's stupid and unnecessary.
A lot of stuff Mac OS does isn't "just to be different" (have we forgotten that the Mac gui pre-dates MS Windows, so if anything it's MS "just being different?" See also DOS commands being lame versions of Bourne Shell ones and using backslash instead of / as a path separator. Oh and someone wake me up when Windows has a proper command-line interface because the DOS shell is not only crap, but it's tired and needs to be put to sleep), but is to be more intuitive and easy to use. My wife mad the transition with zero effort and really hates having to go back to Windows because it's so damn clunky by comparison.
I much prefer Windows (7) over Mac because, y'know, things actually run on it. On top of that I got a Windows rig for $500 Aussie about a year ago. It maxes out BioShock. A Mac with similar specs would cost me triple.
OSX all the way because you know it works, like its supposed to. I hardly think Mac does things just to be different if anything Windows is a pale impersonation of it.
I've "ran" things on Windows before, and I'll stick with my Mac, thank you.
What's wrong with being able to run things?
Outside of games (which I don't really use my computer for outside of emulators and a couple of shareware titles) I'm unaware of anything I would need to run on a Windows system I couldn't do in OS X.
I've "ran" things on Windows before, and I'll stick with my Mac, thank you.
What's wrong with being able to run things?
Outside of games (which I don't really use my computer for outside of emulators and a couple of shareware titles) I'm unaware of anything I would need to run on a Windows system I couldn't do in OS X.
You'd need to run Task Manager for all those unresponsive apps
Also, I agree with you Sean, Terminal all the way!
And I don't know how I'd live without a second mouse button.
You editing bastard
I don't know how I'd live without a MacBook trackpad, the greatest portable input device ever devised. I can, indeed, right click (I set "clicking with two fingers on the trackpad" as right click, which is extremely comfortable for how I rest my hand), and I can also drag just by sliding two fingers, which is so much smoother than any scroll wheel. With the newer Mac laptops, you also have the additional touch gestures that they introduced for the iPod touch in recent years (pinch, etc).
Even for a desktop Mac, you can get the Apple Mighty Mouse, which allows you to assign functions to right click and left click (no buttons, it's just determined by whether you press on the left or right side), and to 'squeeze' (which is nice for Spaces and Expose), plus you have a nice little all-way scrolling wheel. If that mouse is too expensive or weird for you, you can always use any USB mouse that you already have for your PC.
(Apologies for the over-proliferation of phrases like "sliding two fingers", "pinch", and "squeeze" in the above descriptions.)
And I don't know how I'd live without a second mouse button.
You do know you can practically use any mouse currently on the market with OS X. Apple also finally got rid of their (immensely stupid) one-button mouse a few years ago. I prefer Logitech mice, anyway.
OS X all the way for me. Sure, when I transitioned to it from Windows in '04 it wasn't quite as easy as some may say - it took me about a month to get used to the differences - since the underlying structure is vastly different. After that though I found it to be much more user-friendly and stable than Windows ever was - Windows always has that habit of making you jump through hoops. So it may not be exactly perfect for gaming, but I've still managed to get good mileage out of that department, since I've never been the one to want the latest and greatest.
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I don't know how I'd live without a MacBook trackpad, the greatest portable input device ever devised.
That really is the biggest shock when using a crappy Windows laptop for work: teeny tiny unresponsive trackpad that lacks gestural input for easy scrolling and has tap-to-click enabled by default (why, god?!?). Even better is if it uses the bottom and side for touch-scrolling so that the usable trackpad area -- which is already the size of two postage stamps to start -- is even smaller.
@Sean God yes, we have a Dell in the conference room that makes me cringe when I have to use it -- I agree that tap-to-click is an abomination, and even if I turn it off, someone always goes in later and re-enables it, for reasons I can't possibly fathom.
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