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One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't:

I dunno... I'm with Vista now, and it does everything i need it to (except run my printer that's 5 years old...)

I think the MAC ads lately are a bit... arrogant, and I read somewhere that Apple was considering dropping that campaign, but I guess not.

Anyway, that site you linked was amusing.
Thanks
 
While I think the Mac commercials are basically just fanboy gloating, and don't really raise any useful points on Mac products, I must admit that they are hilarious. PC Guy is great in my opinion.

There's definately a smug air to the ads, so I could see that turning some people off.

But come on, even I laughed at the Vista one.

"You are coming to a sad realization. Allow or Deny"
".......allow...."

:)
 
That was funny. Thanks. My one experience with a MAC was helping someone who was having printer troubles. I encountered the same crap and the same difficulties as with PCs. It was like any other computer. They have similar ways of doing things, just given different names ("Open the Printer Chooser, blah blah blah"). It didn't "just work." If it did, that person wouldn't have needed help with it, would they?
 
Almo said:
Windows irritates me on a daily basis due to its poor interface design. All OSs are not equal. SOME platforms have more troubles than others.
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This is true, but I was trying to avoid Claus coming in here all Windows-fanboy and flaming linux and mac with platitudes worse than the stupid mac commercials.

Personally I don't run a windows machine except in a vm and use that only very occasionally to test how a website looks in IE. My wife likes to play her RPG's and getting her to try to learn how to use linux and wine is too much of a hassle, nor can I afford to get her a mac right now (though she wants one).
 
fowlsound said:
This is true, but I was trying to avoid Claus coming in here all Windows-fanboy and flaming linux and mac with platitudes worse than the stupid mac commercials.
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This is why we need a BSD fanboy.
 
geni said:
This is why we need a BSD fanboy.
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Terry's an OpenSolaris fanboy, and I am a pretty big fan of BSD, but I'm not a "fanboy" even of my mac, which has a BSD layer.

Hmm. Chasing23 is a pretty big BSD fanboy. I'll try to get him to post more.
 
Terry said:
Only because Jonathan will beat me otherwise. It is a good OS, and has some unique features. But you know, if it's unixy, it's probaly acceptable to me...
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If it is unixy, it is also acceptable to me. :)

Jonathan would be happy to know my new web/sql server is going to be opensolaris.
 
A much underrated OS was the OS the Sinclair QL used - QDOS - which I believe was quite an inspiration for another OS that also seems to have fallen by the wayside called "Linux".
 
If I take the time to learn the OS, the "big three" will all do what I need to do as far as pure utility goes.

When it comes right down to it though, I base my OS choice on one thing, what games can I play on it? So, I have XP. I know I can use an emulator in Linux, but that's a rather roundabout way to get something I already have with greater compatibility. I can install XP on a mac, but um, I'm not sure why some people make that argument. I was talking OS, not hardware. Yes, I'm using XP already thanks. Further, why would I buy a whole new system if I'm using the same OS? My hardware does everything it needs to.

Then again, some people just like the "feel" of this or that OS. Whatever. I click on icons, they do the thing. That's all I need.
 
Darat said:
A much underrated OS was the OS the Sinclair QL used - QDOS - which I believe was quite an inspiration for another OS that also seems to have fallen by the wayside called "Linux".
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QDOS was the forerunner of MS-DOS. (source)

Linux was based on Minix which stands for minimal unix.
 
jimlintott said:
QDOS was the forerunner of MS-DOS. (source)

Linux was based on Minix which stands for minimal unix.
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Different QDOS's - Sinclair QDOSWP

Hadn't read the Wikipedia entry on the Sinclair QLWP, just noticed under the trivia section:

....Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, owned a Sinclair QL in his youth, and used it to learn programming. He was inspired by both the shortcomings and virtues of the Sinclair QDOS operating system to create Linux. ...
 
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