would you OS X?

Would you buy and use OS X?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 29.2%

  • No

    Votes: 11 45.8%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 6 25.0%
  • Total voters
    24
diroga

diroga

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If Apple would let you legally instsall OS X on your standard PC would you buy the OS, ~$130, install and use it? I'm talking about the OS not the hardware. You can use any normal hardware you want.
 
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I voted yes but I can't picture myself turning on my PC and working on OS X all day. See I'm a gamer and would most likely be on Windows all the time anyways. BUT, I'd still do it, it'd be cool :D
 
I have a MacBook which ran 10.4 for several months, and 10.5 since September. It's a great OS for consumers who want everything built in such as audio/photo/video editing programs, word processing, music handling, etc. They are also very easy to use, and don't take much time to get used to. However with the network we have setup at my work it causes some major headaches getting AD/OD to work side by side which each other.

So in my opinion, Mac OS X is great if you want an OS where you don't need to download and/or buy additional software, if you don't want to pay as much as what Microsoft charges, or just want to try it out.

On a side note, whoever says MacBook's are the best laptops ever are the lucky ones. I've seen numerous problems with random shutdowns (even after the firmware updates), bad optical drives, discolored top cover, magnets breaking pieces of the top cover, bad power adapters, etc.
 
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I have a MacBook which ran 10.4 for several months, and 10.5 since September. It's a great OS for consumers who want everything built in such as audio/photo/video editing programs, word processing, music handling, etc. They are also very easy to use, and don't take much time to get used to. However with the network we have setup at my work it causes some major headaches getting AD/OD to work side by side which each other.

So in my opinion, Mac OS X is great if you want an OS where you don't need to download and/or buy additional software, if you don't want to pay as much as what Microsoft charges, or just want to try it out.

On a side note, whoever says MacBook's are the best laptops ever are the lucky ones. I've seen numerous problems with random shutdowns (even after the firmware updates), bad optical drives, discolored top cover, magnets breaking pieces of the top cover, bad power adapters, etc.
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Shutdowns shouldn't happen and if they do apple knows about it as you can send a report they actually read. I agree with the white macbook optical drives. If you tilt it side ways by accident you have to reboot. iscolored top covers plastic only and is from ware. Magnets breaking off is prob from miss use of the latch and the only problem with power adapters is people and them out from the computer properly. The pull them by the tail instead of the head.
 
ive heard of alot of Apple problems from discouloration to just simply not working mind your PCs do that too
 
Kill Bill said:
Shutdowns shouldn't happen and if they do apple knows about it as you can send a report they actually read. I agree with the white macbook optical drives. If you tilt it side ways by accident you have to reboot. iscolored top covers plastic only and is from ware. Magnets breaking off is prob from miss use of the latch and the only problem with power adapters is people and them out from the computer properly. The pull them by the tail instead of the head.
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The shutdowns happen because the heatsink inside the MacBook expands as it heats and causes a wire to short out, the firmware update tried to fix this by having the fan run at a higher speed more often.

The plastic cover was a defect in the earlier MacBook's, and was fixed with a new design that didn't discolor like the previous ones did. The magnets themselves didn't break off, it was the plastic between the magnet and display. This was also a defect and will be replaced my Apple.

Apple is pretty good with repairs, but dealing with hundreds of MacBook's it gets to be a pain to send each of them back for various issues.
 
If I could use it on a PC vs the over priced crappy mac systems AND it supported all the current games as well as old games like Diablo 2 or Two Worlds then use I would use it.


Will never happen so Mac will never be in my home.


Seriously 2 grand for a dual-core mac is pitiful.
 
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The shutdowns happen because the heatsink inside the MacBook expands as it heats and causes a wire to short out, the firmware update tried to fix this by having the fan run at a higher speed more often.

The plastic cover was a defect in the earlier MacBook's, and was fixed with a new design that didn't discolor like the previous ones did. The magnets themselves didn't break off, it was the plastic between the magnet and display. This was also a defect and will be replaced my Apple.

Apple is pretty good with repairs, but dealing with hundreds of MacBook's it gets to be a pain to send each of them back for various issues.
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You think that is a pain, try supporting Gateway and Dell laptops. I had about 6 to 8 break on me every day at my old job. The HP business class weren't so bad, they didn't break down as often, but not a day went by that I did not order a part for a PC. Of course we only had about 300 Macs at my old job, and now I have 6,542 so my repair rate is a lot higher because we have a lot more.

A lot of it is user error or the user dropping the laptop though. I will say I see a high rate of HD failures in the Macbooks. I don't see the over heating issue at all, and I have 6,000 Macbooks. I imagine that isn't the issue or there is something else at hand causing it. My most common failure is HD. Most of the time it isn't that HD either, it is the little connector that connects it to the main logic board.
 
Hmm, i have to use tiger at school for one of my classes, its ok, but its not the best os i have ever used....i would take ubuntu 8.10 over it. OSX needs to mature a little more, leopard is much better than tiger, and i think snow leopard will hit the nail on the head. I am thinking about buying a mac mini if(when) they import the 9400m video chipset off the macbooks.
 
tlarkin said:
I don't see the over heating issue at all, and I have 6,000 Macbooks. I imagine that isn't the issue or there is something else at hand causing it.
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It's what the SMC firmware update attempts to fix, and it was the issue with the pre-2006 MacBooks.
 
I don't like mac hardware in the slightest as it is extremely uncustomizable and the dekstops are basicly laptops inside.

I would prob dual boot it if apple sold it for pc hardware (which they wont!) and use windows for most stuff and mac so I can learn it (same reason I installed vista).
 
[-0MEGA-];1144546 said:
It's what the SMC firmware update attempts to fix, and it was the issue with the pre-2006 MacBooks.
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well all of ours are mid 2007 models so that would explain why I don't see that problem.
 
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