NODEraser wrote:
I started using Macs and PCs at about the same time (1990 or so), and have continued to use both over the years. I don't find either OS particularly difficult to use or navigate, but perhaps it's just because I have grown with them.
Pretty much sums it up for me, I dont understand how you compare a MacOS on Mac hardware and Windoze on every piece o crap hardware thats ever been invented. Most pc users have never flashed their mobo bio's for example, a Mac on the other hand does whats needed at each update. Not really a viable option for M$ is it, really? As a linux user who relies on open source goodness, Linus is not the be all desktop nor should it be touted, it keeps getting better and has a way to go yet. You can't beat the price and no one is sorry that no companies where bought to to add function to the OS.
OpenOffice has many things to work out before it can become a serious competitor with Microsoft Office. It's still really buggy, and there are some semi-important things (in my opinion) that you just can't do, like only print a selected page(s) from a spreadsheet.
Little to far OT from the old nanny. :) It's free, if there's a problem join the development crew or the forum.
We paid for 10.4 server to replace OS9 and AppleshareIP in our x-platform office, 1 day it lasted. All sorts of problems running MYOB which we have used since the Colour Classic was new, problems networking with both the imacs and pc. Installed by the Mac tech at the local over priced mac dealer we are back running OS9 and ASIP6.1.3 (there's another joke, ASIP6.1.3) with a rain check on a OS that will work on our server and do the freaken job. In OSX's defence linux can't do the job either and only fixes half the problems. Now please Mark what large holes are you talking about? I like looking at OSX, its like a Fisher-Price toy for kids. I like *using* XP even on this 6 year old ex celeron 600. ;) this board was a good buy, it's come a long way so deserves to still be used for email and surfing and mac emulation - well not Pear, thats for the 3.6 that doesn't go online to often.
Moving from AmigaOS to Mac was a hard, to move again to the pc was complete chaos for me, in the end I stopped trying to compare everthing else to what I was used to, once I'd done that I could finally understand Nix. :) and enjoy what was in front of me for its good and bad points.
A MacOS on intel will not loose its soul it will still be different in a mac sort of way, it will still come in a cutting edge box and take a different approach to the way you work on your computer. Personally I'd like to see it try to cover everything XP-pro does in the way of hardware but no one does that do they? :)
P4 3.6, it will be a while before Pentium D gets to 3.6, dual cores+intel=heat if developers are getting 3.6 boxes now it narrows your choices down a bit. Alot changes in 2 years. Mac users are very adaptable, I'm sure to be reading a whole different lot of Windows bashing in three years time, I trust that wont change. ;) I'd like to see OS wars on a even playing field, if that doesn't happen I'll side with Jeff on this one. For what little its worth there's a nice story about M$ buying G5 macs to run emulation of the X-box 360 for developement on either Znet or Cnet - come's around goes around in this case? Is the x-box the only computer M$ has made? I call it a computer as you can run serval nix distros, downloads found on most public ftp servers along with a couple of emulators that I know of.
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