I'm with you Petard but the thing I hate most about Macs is the zealous following of fanatics. It's like a strange religion with a silver and pearl white god.
I digg peeps comments up or down depending if they are stating a point and attempting to coherently back it up. Modded storn2 up because he seemed coherent though I don't agree with what he says. I love OSX, yet I also love Ubuntu. There are goods and bads on all and I just happen to love my Macbook Pro more than the rest. Doesn't make me right, just makes me happy :)
yes that's right, its a very limited OS, you can only do a simple set of pre-defined tasks. Oh and its UNIX based too so you can pretend you're a scientist (only if you know how to use *NIX though). But the real thing is more fun, nice. In a future version of this site I'd like to see terminal be able to take me round the server's content and actually run all the programs properly but its a good start :) jk
FLASH & VENT:FLASH:Super D Duper! This a an awesome flash. It'd be wonderful if I could publish my photos from iPhoto like this. VENT:As usual, anything mac related brings comments about macs in general. This post has more than it's fair share already, but I won't let that stop me. I'm the happy owner of a fairly new Macbook (2.0Ghz White) which I upgraded to 2 Gigs RAM after a month. But don't cast me as a mac fanboy just yet. I'm a PC & Mac Expert. I've lived in the days of OS 7 vs Win 3.11 (WFW). Back then the differences were ... different. In fact, the big differences were more hardware driven (call it a troll, but it's my opinion and I'm not ready to explain it). Now I run OS X 10.4.7 and XP SP2 in Paralles. I run dual monitors when I'm not running mobile, so XP is to the left and OS X to the right, both full screen, and my mouse just goes from one to the ohter. The dual processor has the wonderful quality of letting one OS sink to it's knees while the other just keeps humming (this probably has a lot to do with how Paralles makes use of the processors, so millage may very with other virtualization solutions). I mostly use OS X for Mail, Address Book, Video Conferencing with built in iSight camera, and Calendar.I mostly use XP for Video Surveillance (niche market stuff which is Windows only), testing of Network configurations, and remote desktop (Remote Desktop by MS for OS X is handy-capped, no way to log into the console session, only one Remote connection at a time).Contrary to popular belief, I find I have several solution on OS X that are not available in windows. Don't get me wrong, there are ways to get similar results in windows, but the best solutions have been OS X solutions. Trust me, I'm not afraid of Windows, so when it's a better choice, I just use it. Transport for OS X Ftping is awesome taking drag and drop to a new level with dashboard integration (obviously not available in windows). Disk Utilities included with OS X is extremely impressive, even compared to best of bread software of it's nature for windows, mac and Linux. I use it for all kinds of disk manipulations. And my personal favorite feature of my macbook is the multi finger track pad. 2 fingers at a time lets you scroll, like a mouse wheel, but sideways too. It's way better than a side clicking mouse wheel. And a 2 finger click is a right click (turn it on in System Preferences/Mouse)And ... well, that's probably enough. Except for one parting note: you can use Google Talk to do voice chat on a mac by installing it on XP in Paralles (until Apple makes iChat able to voice chat with jabber to google talk).Oh, and Command ~ is how you switch between windows of a single program. Command H hides a program. Windows doesn't have a hide feature, just minimize and it's not as efficient when you get a lot of windows in a lot of programs, but that wasn't much of an issue until windows got more stable with Win 2000 and XP. Maybe Vista will have a way to minimize/hide all the windows of a single program all at once.Wm
zwolfe12Jul 16, 2006
I'm with you Petard but the thing I hate most about Macs is the zealous following of fanatics. It's like a strange religion with a silver and pearl white god.
kyptJul 17, 2006
I digg peeps comments up or down depending if they are stating a point and attempting to coherently back it up. Modded storn2 up because he seemed coherent though I don't agree with what he says. I love OSX, yet I also love Ubuntu. There are goods and bads on all and I just happen to love my Macbook Pro more than the rest. Doesn't make me right, just makes me happy :)
lifestoryJul 17, 2006
This is wicked stuff... found this pretty site a few months back thats similar to this. <a class="user" href="http://osx.portraitofakite.com/">http://osx.portraitofakite.com/</a>
youngsterJul 17, 2006
I wonder if I keep the white macbook up for a while it will turn yellow?
ricedogJul 17, 2006
yes that's right, its a very limited OS, you can only do a simple set of pre-defined tasks. Oh and its UNIX based too so you can pretend you're a scientist (only if you know how to use *NIX though). But the real thing is more fun, nice. In a future version of this site I'd like to see terminal be able to take me round the server's content and actually run all the programs properly but its a good start :) jk
wjanochJul 17, 2006
FLASH & VENT:FLASH:Super D Duper! This a an awesome flash. It'd be wonderful if I could publish my photos from iPhoto like this. VENT:As usual, anything mac related brings comments about macs in general. This post has more than it's fair share already, but I won't let that stop me. I'm the happy owner of a fairly new Macbook (2.0Ghz White) which I upgraded to 2 Gigs RAM after a month. But don't cast me as a mac fanboy just yet. I'm a PC & Mac Expert. I've lived in the days of OS 7 vs Win 3.11 (WFW). Back then the differences were ... different. In fact, the big differences were more hardware driven (call it a troll, but it's my opinion and I'm not ready to explain it). Now I run OS X 10.4.7 and XP SP2 in Paralles. I run dual monitors when I'm not running mobile, so XP is to the left and OS X to the right, both full screen, and my mouse just goes from one to the ohter. The dual processor has the wonderful quality of letting one OS sink to it's knees while the other just keeps humming (this probably has a lot to do with how Paralles makes use of the processors, so millage may very with other virtualization solutions). I mostly use OS X for Mail, Address Book, Video Conferencing with built in iSight camera, and Calendar.I mostly use XP for Video Surveillance (niche market stuff which is Windows only), testing of Network configurations, and remote desktop (Remote Desktop by MS for OS X is handy-capped, no way to log into the console session, only one Remote connection at a time).Contrary to popular belief, I find I have several solution on OS X that are not available in windows. Don't get me wrong, there are ways to get similar results in windows, but the best solutions have been OS X solutions. Trust me, I'm not afraid of Windows, so when it's a better choice, I just use it. Transport for OS X Ftping is awesome taking drag and drop to a new level with dashboard integration (obviously not available in windows). Disk Utilities included with OS X is extremely impressive, even compared to best of bread software of it's nature for windows, mac and Linux. I use it for all kinds of disk manipulations. And my personal favorite feature of my macbook is the multi finger track pad. 2 fingers at a time lets you scroll, like a mouse wheel, but sideways too. It's way better than a side clicking mouse wheel. And a 2 finger click is a right click (turn it on in System Preferences/Mouse)And ... well, that's probably enough. Except for one parting note: you can use Google Talk to do voice chat on a mac by installing it on XP in Paralles (until Apple makes iChat able to voice chat with jabber to google talk).Oh, and Command ~ is how you switch between windows of a single program. Command H hides a program. Windows doesn't have a hide feature, just minimize and it's not as efficient when you get a lot of windows in a lot of programs, but that wasn't much of an issue until windows got more stable with Win 2000 and XP. Maybe Vista will have a way to minimize/hide all the windows of a single program all at once.Wm