On 20 Jun 2005, at 15:02, Marco van de Voort wrote:
I'm no real mac'er, but I'd say it is the software/hardware
integration. The
OS is decent, but not vastly superior IMHO
Not vastly superior to what exactly? OS X 10.4 blows large holes in
XP in several areas. It also has large advantages over desktop Linux.
O'course that's only my opinion but it is shared by most industry
experts.
and neither is the hardware.
Here I agree.
If there is something to it, it is the combination of both.
If I thought I could run Windows apps and games through it I'd run it
on my PC as well. I love OS X. Yes Apple hardware is nice too and I
wouldn't necessarily stop buying the hardware.
Half of the PC OS problems are due to the infinite amount of
hardware it has
to run on.
Actually I have very few hardware problems with XP. It's come on
massively since the days of Windows 98 and balky drivers. All the
problems I have with Windows relate to a lack of intuitive interface
and missing features (or at the very least inferior versions of them)
that I use constantly in Mac OS X. Also the quality of software just
isn't there for Windows. Only the big-guns in design etc. (most of
which started out on the Mac - like Adobe) make relatively good PC
Apps. Most others simply wouldn't cut it in the Mac community. The
only really good free stuff I have found for the PC is from Mozilla.
I also hate the taskbar in Windows, it's a disaster of clutter and
confusion compared tot the dock.
Anyhoo. That's just me, or is it? Everyone in my office constantly
complains about things on their PCs and most if it is problems
arising from Windows being hard to use or badly thought out. Also
teaching people to use MS Apps like Word or Excel in Windows is a
nightmare. The interface is just so hard to understand. First you
have a menu bar from which you can do everything. Then you have
button bars in the same place (which causes confusion). Then you have
som buttons down the side... and some at the bottom of the screen (by
default). And for everyone who is currently preaching OpenOffice as
the way out of MS oppression think again, it might be free but it's
just as bas as MS Office to use.
OK I'm done... :o)
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