I've Moved To Mac

[Ian Osborne]

And I will be your .EXEcutioner.

Genius!

 

[voidx]

You say what you want. I still say they smell a bit of wee.

Thanks for popping my seriousness bubble .

I guess I'm just amazed, although not surprised anymore, that people can go through 6 pages of posts, and come out the other side completely un-phased, with all misconceptions still firmly intact .

Why are you smelling them anyway?

 

[JeffJo]

Because Windows works perfectly fine for lots of people. There's simply no easier answer than that. You'd be upset at people tossing uninformed and blanket statements about the inabilities of the Mac, yet here you are doing th same about Windows.

You'd do better at argument if you weren't so obviously ignorant, and semiliterate at best. I happen to have a PC running beside this Mac as we speak. I already mentioned that in the thread, which might have been noticed by those who can read. You're just jumping in with an uninformed, blanket, ignorant outburst when you haven't even read the thread. Actually, that's no surprise from a Windows user.

It's Windows, itself, that does that to people. Windows is such a horrid crap-pile that Windows users inevitably go into denial, just from being subjected to it. Windows users quickly learn not to read what's on the screen, whenever they can avoid it, and they soon learn to pay as little attention to the crappy interface as possible. They also get cranky and irrational, like you, just from using Windows.

I'm fully aware than many in this thread are simply stirring the put for sh*ts an giggles which is fine. ...

That would be you. Yes, you're fine.

... But honestly, most people in here are not here to learn, or to consider, ...

Suddenly the thread is all about you.

... The idea that any OS is far and away better than any other is a clear sign of ignorance of what the major OS's can accomplish these days. ...

It's a fact that the Mac is better for the average person, but a Windows user in denial wouldn't know that.

People are here to argue, simply because they love to argue and to barf ...

And the thread remains all about you.

And that's why in 6 months, or a year from now, and on and on and on, there'll be another thread just like this one with people arguing and pounding their chests and learning absolutely nothing.

Okay, we'll all mark it on the calendar that in 6 mos we can expect you back, to talk about yourself, again.

 

[Zep]

It is popular because there is a plethora of programs people can choose from that solve their particular problems.

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

 

[CFLarsen]

You'd do better at argument if you weren't so obviously ignorant, and semiliterate at best. I happen to have a PC running beside this Mac as we speak. I already mentioned that in the thread, which might have been noticed by those who can read. You're just jumping in with an uninformed, blanket, ignorant outburst when you haven't even read the thread. Actually, that's no surprise from a Windows user.

It's Windows, itself, that does that to people. Windows is such a horrid crap-pile that Windows users inevitably go into denial, just from being subjected to it. Windows users quickly learn not to read what's on the screen, whenever they can avoid it, and they soon learn to pay as little attention to the crappy interface as possible. They also get cranky and irrational, like you, just from using Windows.

That would be you. Yes, you're fine.

Suddenly the thread is all about you.

It's a fact that the Mac is better for the average person, but a Windows user in denial wouldn't know that.

And the thread remains all about you.

Okay, we'll all mark it on the calendar that in 6 mos we can expect you back, to talk about yourself, again.

Oh, the humility of a Mac user....

 

[MetalPig]

The natural question of why anybody would ever want to use Windows,

1. It works fine.
2. PC are cheaper than Macs (not sure if that's still true)
3. Games.

But for doing something myself, like this, where I must interact with the machine, I always reach for the Mac. The reasons are manifold, and have little to do with the small red button at the upper left of this window.

What are the reasons then? What makes writing a post on this forum easier (better?) on a Mac than it would be on a Windows PC?

 

[Ian Osborne]

Oh, the humility of a Mac user....

It's hard to be humble when you know your computer's the best!

 

[richardm]

Then I'll join in with my own anecdotal evidence. I have never had to reboot or put a CD in for a mouse or scanner, nor for a printer. And this, despite the fact that my last two printers came at a bargain price from Mac users who had bought commonly available printers off the shelf and found them to be incompatible with Macs.

... do Macs still require you to use a postscript printer? That simplified the driver situation considerably in the past, but surely it's too restrictive today.

 

[Zep]

... do Macs still require you to use a postscript printer? That simplified the driver situation considerably in the past, but surely it's too restrictive today.

"Restrictive" would be discovering that the printer you just bought does not have a Windows XP or Vista driver that supports it, so now you can't print at all, even slowly.

 

[Zep]

1. It works fine.
2. PC are cheaper than Macs (not sure if that's still true)
3. Games.

1. ...sometimes.
2. Debateable, but generally true, even now.
3. That's not Windows, that's DOS! For when 640KB RAM is more than enough!

What are the reasons then? What makes writing a post on this forum easier (better?) on a Mac than it would be on a Windows PC?

Nothing, because they are almost identical requirements (network, browser, keyboard, mouse). It's when you try to do other, more interesting stuff that the differences stand out!

 

[richardm]

"Restrictive" would be discovering that the printer you just bought does not have a Windows XP or Vista driver that supports it, so now you can't print at all, even slowly.

Actually I'll have you know I already had that printer when I installed Vista and discovered it was unsupported.



(The XP driver worked okay anyway, I think I'm still using it).

I ask about Postscript because I remember it being part of the deal-breaker when I was looking into buying a Mac. "You can have any printer so long as it's Postscript, and any hard drive so long as it's SCSI." - it added too much cost to the proceedings.

 

[Zep]

Actually I'll have you know I already had that printer when I installed Vista and discovered it was unsupported.



(The XP driver worked okay anyway, I think I'm still using it).

I ask about Postscript because I remember it being part of the deal-breaker when I was looking into buying a Mac. "You can have any printer so long as it's Postscript, and any hard drive so long as it's SCSI." - it added too much cost to the proceedings.

Yep!

The Postscript thing was long ago and far away. It's all USB now, or networked. However I bet some smart aleck is going to point out some namby printer that doesn't have Mac support! OK, I admit I don't know everything about them!

By the way, do we recall that Apple invented USB? It was wizzo new feature on the Macintosh for all except the very first models (interestingly, it was also on the later models of the Apple ][SE).

 

[Darat]

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

That's why I now have to use paper plates.

 

[Darat]

...snip...

What are the reasons then? What makes writing a post on this forum easier (better?) on a Mac than it would be on a Windows PC?

Certainly not the released version of Safari*!




(*This by the way is a simple fact only IE 6 & 7 support all of vBulletin's features or rather vBulletin was wrote with IE 6 (and now 7) as its primary client-side platform. Yes Jelsoft's development priorities can sometimes be stupid - long time Opera user on Mac & PC & Wi & phone opinion)

 

[JeffJo]

Oh, the humility of a Mac user....

Oh, the semiliteracy of a Windows user. It's Windows that causes that. I've already posted TWICE in this thread that I use both OS's, but habitual Windows users are so abused by the system to which they're subjected that they lose ability to read with normal comprehension.

 

[Powa]

Oh, the semiliteracy of a Windows user. It's Windows that causes that. I've already posted TWICE in this thread that I use both OS's, but habitual Windows users are so abused by the system to which they're subjected that they lose ability to read with normal comprehension.

I use both Windows and OS X on a daily basis, so I must be somewhere between semiliterate and literate, but I still don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Zep]

And I'm just giving this whole big merry-go-round another push when it looks like slowing down!

 

[JonnyFive]

You say what you want. I still say they smell a bit of wee.

Who doesn't?

 

[coalesce]

Oh, the humility of a Mac user....

As a lifelong Mac user, I ask: please don't sink to Jeff's level.

Michael

 

[JeffJo]

[Re: why anybody would want to use Windows.]

1. It works fine.

Oh, it works fine, unless you get a virus or other malware. Or you want to organize your files your own way for a project. Or you want individual control of what software to update. Or you want to grab a quick copy of something to the desktop. Or etc. etc. But sure, Windows generally works fine. Sort of.

2. PC are cheaper than Macs (not sure if that's still true)

Cheap PC's are cheaper than Macs, that's true.

3. Games.

Which ones? There's not much difference these days in the "major releases" from the "major game companies."

What are the reasons then [for using the Mac]? What makes writing a post on this forum easier (better?) on a Mac than it would be on a Windows PC?

In terms of raw function there's little difference.