Apple MAC

[WoodPeckr]

The Mac has been around for 25+ years and simply 'just works'
It's only become the 'in' thing for Windows users who finally opened their eyes to try something different (and IMHO, something much better)
Yes, Safari is crap (still better than IE), so use Chrome, or Firefox.

No OS is perfect...

If you really want your eyes opened, try Linux!
About 5 yrs ago I flirted with the idea of getting a Mac when Vista came out. There were all those 'horror stories' out about how bad Vista was.......mostly spread by Apple fans. Looked at Macs but was turned off by their high price, which made no sense to me in spite of all the Apple sales talk/spin/BS.

A Linux buddy at work told me to give Linux a spin first because it's FREE. He said you have to learn a new OS anyways with Mac so give Linux a try first. Then if you don't like Linux, go out and buy a pricey Mac. Well it turns out that WAS the best advice I ever got. Tried out Linux and luved it! Was amazed at what it did, was FREE and MORE secure than Windows.

Today it's a great feeling to be FREE and out of the clutches of BOTH M$ and Apple!....

 

[danibbler]

Look who's doing the spinning now! "spread by Apple fans"? Prove it.

There were all those 'horror stories' out about how bad Vista was.......mostly spread by Apple fans. Looked at Macs but was turned off by their high price, which made no sense to me in spite of all the Apple sales talk/spin/BS.

 

[Clear History]

If you really want your eyes opened, try Linux!
About 5 yrs ago I flirted with the idea of getting a Mac when Vista came out. There were all those 'horror stories' out about how bad Vista was.......mostly spread by Apple fans. Looked at Macs but was turned off by their high price, which made no sense to me in spite of all the Apple sales talk/spin/BS.

A Linux buddy at work told me to give Linux a spin first because it's FREE. He said you have to learn a new OS anyways with Mac so give Linux a try first. Then if you don't like Linux, go out and buy a pricey Mac. Well it turns out that WAS the best advice I ever got. Tried out Linux and luved it! Was amazed at what it did, was FREE and MORE secure than Windows.

Today it's a great feeling to be FREE and out of the clutches of BOTH M$ and Apple!....

Kind of the same story with me. I needed to replace my Dell which was running "ME". I was waiting for Vista as I figured that I may as well get the latest OS with my new hardware. But it kept getting delayed. The rumour that I heard, and I can't substantiate this, is that Microsoft had to redeploy many of it's developers to address the problems with XP sp2.

I used to really enjoy using the Mac early in my career (circa 512K "fat mac") but our company went strictly "IBM clone" as the platform was called then. Anyhow, I grew tired of waiting and bought an iMac. It was nice to be free of AVG, spybot, Mcafee etc. I loved OSX and did it ever boot-up fast! There is a learning curve no doubt when coming from Windows.

I have Linux (Ubuntu) running on a couple of netbooks used for travel. I really like that too but Ubuntu and I think most Linux flavours wouldn't run iTunes easily or Netflix at all. So one of my netbooks is a Windows/Linux dual boot.

I wanted to "hackintosh" one of my netbooks but after reading about it on the web, decided not to. So I bought a Macbook Air for travel.

 

[oldjones]

I recently made the switch to an iMAC. I've been using an iPad for awhile and loved it so when my Dell started acting up, it made sense to me to switch over. All the reviews noted that MACs were great. Unfortunately, I'm kicking my ass for doing it. It's just been a headache and it doesn't work well. The graphics are great but that's about it. Here's some problems I've had:

1) Safari doesn't allow me to enter my banking website (or maybe the website restricts Safari - whichever??)
2) Online purchases can't be done on all websites so I have to switch back to my Dell to use Explorer
3) Access to change settings can be very restrictive

Stay with your PC if you are thinking of changing!

1) The Bank's website doesn't accept Safari. It likely will be quite happy with Internet Explorer's bad HTML though, and may even be optimized for it. Complain to your Bank (It's the equivalent of shutting out francophones) and switch browsers. Almost every website accepts Firefox.

2) Same as 1). Besides Firefox, there's also Shiira and Opera as browsers that might be more acceptable for those sites. Easier for you than switching whole machines.

3) Hard to be helpful wen the problem's so vaguely described. There's a fair lot of stuff out there that you can Google about changing OS behaviour via the command-line, and there's a pile of mostly free-apps that do that sort of thing with prettier interfaces. But mostly—going back to the days when Apple had the only GUI and PCs were strictly command-line—Apple's intention has been to set the interface for its users so they can just use it to get on with their work, and not hafta monkey with it at all. Their recent fascination with 'design' as a means of increasing market-share has led to some silly oversights and shortfalls, but that's marketing for you. Nobody beats a path to your door to buy the same old mousetrap, but better.

 

[djk]

I guess my issue is that I don't want to give my browser "a few minutes".

Just yesterday, I lost two fucking hours worth of work because Word crashed on me. I was working on a Sunday to meet a deadline for Tuesday, and that's now out the window. As far as I know, I have the latest updates - I've got Lion, and MS has auto-updated its office suite a few times. I'm on my laptop now, but when I go to my iMac, I'll check to see if MS has any updates. I just got a 27-inch iMac a month ago, and I am NOT impressed. I had the 21 inch iMac for four years prior and was happier.

Shame on MS for not supporting Lion's auto save and versioning feature.

 

[danibbler]

I give Safari a few minutes if it goes non-responsive because if you do a Force Quit on it it may lose its recent history of sites and/or it will not remember what tabs it has open. If you don't have other windows/tabs open and Safari goes non-responsive then Force Quit it.

I don't understand how you can lose that much work because Word crashed on you. Don't you have Word's auto-save feature turned on? I have mine set for every 5 mins or so. I had an issue where Word was crashing once in a while and it turned out that I had not updated it for over a year. Once I did that, not one crash and it's been 3 months since I updated it.

I guess my issue is that I don't want to give my browser "a few minutes".

Just yesterday, I lost two fucking hours worth of work because Word crashed on me. I was working on a Sunday to meet a deadline for Tuesday, and that's now out the window. As far as I know, I have the latest updates - I've got Lion, and MS has auto-updated its office suite a few times. I'm on my laptop now, but when I go to my iMac, I'll check to see if MS has any updates. I just got a 27-inch iMac a month ago, and I am NOT impressed. I had the 21 inch iMac for four years prior and was happier.

 

[WoodPeckr]

I have Linux (Ubuntu) running on a couple of netbooks used for travel. I really like that too but Ubuntu and I think most Linux flavours wouldn't run iTunes easily or Netflix at all. So one of my netbooks is a Windows/Linux dual boot.

I wanted to "hackintosh" one of my netbooks but after reading about it on the web, decided not to. So I bought a Macbook Air for travel.

Never saw the need for iTunes.
Basic universal mp3s have been all that was ever needed.

Thought about doing a hackintosh, just to have it. Even found a site showing an easy way to do it but never saw the need after toying around with OSX. In the end preferred to play around with another Linux distro instead...

 

[danibbler]

Hey WP, see this? Or you going to hide?

Look who's doing the spinning now! "spread by Apple fans"? Prove it.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Hey WP, see this? Or you going to hide?

Saw it and just HAD to counter YOUR incessant Apple spin nibs.....

 

[Clear History]

Never saw the need for iTunes.
Basic universal mp3s have been all that was ever needed.

Thought about doing a hackintosh, just to have it. Even found a site showing an easy way to do it but never saw the need after toying around with OSX. In the end preferred to play around with another Linux distro instead...

I use iTunes mostly for movies and TV shows. That and Netflix is why I went dual boot with XP. If it wasn't for those two, I would have been very content with running Ubuntu.

There's a lot of sites/articles on how to "hackintosh" but the degree of "success" seemed to be very dependent on the make/model of the netbook. The models I have didn't seem to be well-suited for OSX. It would have been fun to try but in my case the end result wouldn't have been satisfactory. I seem to recall that getting wifi to work would have been problematic in my case which would have made the thing useless.

 

[WoodPeckr]

I use iTunes mostly for movies and TV shows. That and Netflix is why I went dual boot with XP. If it wasn't for those two, I would have been very content with running Ubuntu.

I don't really bother with TV Shows or movies on the PC but they are available on Linux now and work pretty well when tested awhile back. Mainly used Hulu and another app in the repositories I can't recall right now. Shoutcast was great with many radio channels and TV stations from all over the world and even had several XXX porn stations running. They all worked great. Even used a sports TV link that showed all Blacked out Bills games last year.

Here's a Google link with lots of info:
http://www.google.com/search?client...rceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

 

[danibbler]

Yep, looks like I caught me a lying WP.

Look who's doing the spinning now! "spread by Apple fans"? Prove it.

 

[WoodPeckr]

In your delusional mind perhaps.....





Get your password 'patch' yet???

 

[danibbler]

If you can't prove it then you're either lying or you're making it up. Both of which you've been caught doing before.

 

[WoodPeckr]

If you can't prove it then you're either lying or you're making it up. Both of which you've been caught doing before.

It's all in your old posts and you know it nibs.....
Where you always knocked Linux because you feel like a fool spending all that money on a pricey Mac when Linux would do it all for FREE!

 

[danibbler]

The truth that is in my old posts is that you can do all of what YOU do on your Linux machine for free on OS X too.

It's all in your old posts and you know it nibs.....
Where you always knocked Linux because you feel like a fool spending all that money on a pricey Mac when Linux would do it all for FREE!

 

[WoodPeckr]

The truth that is in my old posts is that you can do all of what YOU do on your Linux machine for free on OS X too.

Nope.
That's another nibs lie.

You have to buy a pricey Mac first....

 

[danibbler]

And you compute on what? Air?

You have to buy a pricey Mac first....

 

[WoodPeckr]

And you compute on what? Air?

On my reasonably priced PC of course....

 

[djk]

word has had a autosave feature for years. you just have to set the time interval.

OS X's feature offers much more.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/auto-save.html