That is totally incorrect. Do some reasearch before you post bunk like that.

If you think that the only major applications that work on both Mac and PC are video editing ones, you are quite far behind the times and probably shouldn't even be commenting on this thread.

 

That's like saying I used Windows 3.1 and based on that, I'll never use Windows again. You know how silly and outdated that sounds?

BTW, just about everyone in the graphic design and print community use Mac, OS X...

Warren

 

true, but that community is still a minority compared with all the computer users in the world.

 

Ok, I'm sorry I forgot to mention the 1 million alpha apps on sourceforge.net that are never going to get past beta

 

Sounds to me like he shouldn't be commenting in any thread...

But I'm not going to add him to my ignore list yet, not based on his behavior in just one thread.

I'm a Windows user, who was very seriously considering getting a Mac. Then Apple announced their ingenious marketing plan to make all current Macs obsolete within a year or so...

I'll probably still get a Mac, because I do like the OS, but I guess I'll just have to wait a couple of years and see how the new Macs do.

 

I've got an iBook G3 for sale if you want it.

$500 takes.

 

I'm pretty sure, even if we switched the world's population from Windows to Macintosh, the Macintosh OS will be more secure because of permissions.

Safari asks me every time I download an app in the .dmg format, if I would like to open it. If I don't want it to open, I press no. You can run a program easily without permission from the user on Windows.

I was born using Windows and I used "the worst OS Windows ever made" for over four years. I had no problems at all. It was frustrating sometimes, but I lived through it.

the macintosh system is just more intuitive for me. everything molds together and it just makes sense. that's why i use it.

 

OS9 did suck, but so did Windows 95.

The masses need an OS that is simple and that just works. Right now, thats OSX, but users are getting smarter about computing, and Windows keeps getting better b/c MS adopts best practices from Apple - gates admits this, and its good business. Linux just needs artists working on the GUI instead of developers.

Mac OSX does suit everyone's needs as a whole, and that's part of why Macs have been gaining in popularity over the past 5 years. If you don't understand why people bash MS, its because you don't yet know anything of MS's history, its products, its reputation among developers and competitors, or its markets. Windows has been around for about 15 yrs, not as long as other gui OS's, and it gained market share through low cost & licensing, not superior engineering. It is not a good, solid OS - it is the preferred OS though.

This is pretty much true. You can't get a virus on a Mac or Linux box unless you physically load it yourself, and then you'd need admin/root access. In Unix, everything is isolated. On Windows, apps can run automatically and nothing is isolated, which is why you can visit a web site and get spyware or a virus on Windows, but not OSX.

A person could write a virus for a Mac, but it requires a user to download that virus, and manually install it, for it to work. There is a lot of effort involved here, and its not easy to spread, which is one of the main reasons you don't see mac viruses. The other is probably the Mac OSX/Linux market share, which is small compared to Windows. Its much easier to infect a Windows computer, and there are many more, so the work/reward balance favors Windows.

Macs make up something like 3-9% of market share, depending on where you go for answers. The thing about that percentage though is that there are something like 30 million Mac users in the world. Small percentage, but a lot of users none the less.

To say something sucks b/c it has small market share is silly. S2000's have a tiny market share of all cars in the world, but we all know how great they really are. The S2000's market share will always decrease too, since they are made only by Honda, in limited numbers, and many more other cars are made each year. Same goes for Macs - Apple is the only company that makes them, while Dell, HP, Lenovo, all make more computers than Apple per year, and Gateway, et al are right behind.

 

yeah but Linux and Mac get shafted because they never get the lastest apps and games until months or even years later.

 

just about everyone in the industrial sector/gaming/networking/heck 90% of all the other sector uses win machines, win xp, win 2k, and soon to be win vista

0s 9 lived up to the days of win xp and it failed to convert me. my statement about os 9 is not outdated. they had 10+ years to convert the masses and they failed.