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Originally Posted by Xepidemic
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This is the last I'm going to indulge this dead thread about why X is better than Y. Before I continue:
You (not Xepidemic you but the generic You) and I can find a list of reasons why everything on this Earth sucks. We are Opinion Generating Machines with a sole purpose to advance our cause, whatever it is. I hope everyone responds to the mass media, their neighbor, their boss, knowing that each of them have an agenda. That said, here I go in response to why the 10 Reasons NOT to Switch are partly bullshit.
1 - it does just work. I'm telling you, I make a living as a IT consultant in the PC world. After using the Mac for a bit, it does just work better. Maybe your tolerance for pain is greater than mine when it relates to Windows.
PCs can only be upgraded so far. Perhaps you can't install a Athlon XP running at 400 MHz because your system board only supports 266. Whatever the case, when you're ready to give new life to your PC you end up buying a new one. Same goes for PC laptops.
OS X is based on FreeBSD. Big deal. In fact, it's based off of the NeXT operating system from the early 90s when Jobs left (ahem, fired) Apple. It too was based on FreeBSD and based on something called "UNIX" that got very little attention in the Business sector. UNIX was popular in government and scientific areans but not business. In fact, Chrysler bought a number of NeXT boxes for development but unfortunately they closed up shop. As usual, Jobs was a foward thinker regard to UNIX in the consume sector as Slackware Linux was just peeking around the corner and a heap of fun installing from 29 floppies.
Windows XP is based on Windows 2000 based on Windows NT based on the never-released OS from IBM and Microsoft. MS had some different ideas and bailed on IBM.
Let's get the history correct.
2 - Every computer crashes. My Mac hardly crashes and my XP hardly crashes. It's not as much about crashing as ease of use and maintenance. I'm really, really, tired of MS security patches and the mish mash of application integration.
You don't need to reinstall the system on a Mac. OK, maybe with OS7-9 but OS X is based on UNIX and has a jillion log files.
3 - The whole "digital music" thing is marketing speak from every company that produces a player. Get over it.
4 - iPhoto is pretty nice and you don't have to scour the Internet to find it. Windows Picture Viewer leaves much to be desired. Apple gives their users a nice amount of software out of the box and unlike Dell or other systems, it's not stripped down versions of commercial products. Why should a new XP user have to hunt around for a decent freeware app? And they'll probably go into CompUSA and buy since not every computer person is a tech head.
5 - <sigh> That guy doesn't give up his tirade.
6 - Buy a bigger battery. Who cares.
Switching between Ethernet, wifi, etc. isn't so smooth on XP. If it were, my dad would quit calling me asking for help. Sometimes it works for him, sometimes it doesn't. My PowerBook can switch between anything without any hiccups.
Without a restart... OK so Apple was a bit behind on that one but so was the author for stating you need to completely reinstall a problematic OS X system.
7 - QuickTime tends to offer better video quality but isn't worth the extra effort. Who cares, really, when you can download WMP or Real?
8 - Um, the fact you can run Office on a Mac and PC with almost zero incompatibilites. Secondly, we want Office on the Mac because we're tired of XP.
9 - Apple used AppleTalk and Microsoft used NetBEUI. NetBEUI wasn't a routable protocol and was prone to saturating a busy network. NetBEUI was no better than AppleTalk, however ATalk (I think) was a routable protocol.
Wait a second, no one uses either of them so who cares?
10 - Apple does create nicer looking equipment. OK, their mouse sucks but so do PC keyboards that don't put the Backslash above the Enter key.
I'm done with this topic. Use whatever you want.