> MacOS will get there, but it is good to be honest about the state of the > operating system... I've never been a big promoter of the emperor has no > clothes mentality. It's much better to be bluntly honest about the state of > the platform so that you can address those issues/problems instead of going > "la la la la la" with your fingers in your ears... > >> No offense taken Michael, but I sorely disagree on a few of your views.
Awesome. :) If everyone thought the same, I'd get pretty bored. :) > I was just thinking of how back in the early to mid 90's Microsoft was taken > to court by Apple because in one of their program's dictionary (I believe it > was Word) the had the word 'innovative.' Apple fought to say that Billy and > his crew didn't know the meaning of the word and shouldn't be allowed to have > it in their dictionary. It was a good fight, but in the end the judge made > Microsoft leave it out of their future programs until they could prove to 'the > court' that they understood the meaning of the word. They have yet to be > permitted to return the word 'innovative' to their word programs..... If this actually happened (I don�t know if it did or not) then it is about the funniest (and dumbest) thing I've ever heard... Really. That must have been back when apple had about the worst legal team imaginable. > A very good friend of mine fixes PC's for a large local (Northern VA) company. > He is kept VERY busy, even with the company keeping up with every upgrade > possible. Him and I can sit down side by side me on my G3 Mac and him on his > slow 1500 MHz PC and we can have the same task (upgrading, fixing, etc.) to > complete on both computers, and I can do it in 75% the time it takes him > every > time. Absolutely. :) See some of my other posts on that... I don�t think you disagree with myself or some of the others who have posted as much as you think you do. :) > Before I started on my Macs many years ago, I was a PC'er. Fixing, repairing, > upgrading, etc.... A girlfriend 'converted' me and for that I will always > love > her (don't tell my wife! :)) ). I still touch base with the systems and > even > run a PC card or two for the ignorant programmers that can't figure out how to > make Mac platforms (I know, there's more to it than that! $$$$) BUT I will > never step back to the run of the mill Joe Blow computers ever again. A lot of this has to do with the PC platform in general, it's a trade off. You can see this with someone who goes out of his way to trick out his apple- suddenly he's become dependent on the company who bought his hardware to actually be competent and write compatible drivers/etc. What usually happens is someone buys a Hewlett Packard or compaq computer, made with the shi*t*est god-awful components (heh, I dated someone who was one of the heads of tech support for HP) with god-awful drivers and all sorts of screwy things. If you buy a GOOD PC with an abit motherboard, a good-name video card, good ram, good hard drive, good compatible sound card you just don't have the above problems in normal use. Now, it can start to go downhill if you buy some cheapo game and it does weird things to your system, but you wouldn't =believe= the weird stuff diablo 2 did to my mac. :) Basically, apple lucks out in the above area because if someone makes mac software, there are only so many machines/configurations that they have to test for. The ease of trouble shooting many problems that come up if you install weird software is an innovation, but it's an old one, and is going away with macOS X. Get used to using the "un-install" button that comes with your OS X software. :) > And seriously, look at everything that Apple comes out with and then check the > PC market in about 12 months. It seems to be an ongoing trend. BTW... do > PC's have a reliable DVD burner yet? Actually... Yeah they do have reliable DVD burners, and can even make home movies... It's just nowhere as nice as it is with iDVD, iMovie or final cut pro. Apple has had an =awesome= track record over the last two years of buying software, then putting their own personal spin on it (all ove the above plus itunes were developed elsewhere, apple bought them and made them awesome). But at the operating system, there hasn�t been that much innovation regarding 7.5-9.0. Yes, it has gotten better... But you couldn't really call it innovative. OS X is awesome. It is doing things that winxp couldn't really hope to (a third generation graphics layer as the OS, =awesome=... But Next did it first...) but it hasn't reached fruition yet. More than anything, apple right now is laying down groundwork that is going to let them do some =amazing= things in the future, it's just not there yet. But XP is... And OS X compared to XP... XP wins right now. People are just saying they want OS X to be where XP is. :( -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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