macintosh Vs windows

smitherz

smitherz

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what is the prefered operating system in this forum? all my life i have only run on a windows operating system but i want to change because Mac's are more stable.
can i hear some other peoples views on this.


smitherz
 
Heres a comparosin of XP V MACOS X http://www.xvsxp.com/final-score/
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That scoring method sucks badly... For example, consider the comparaison of XP and MacOS dialog boxes: http://www.xvsxp.com/dialogs/. Is there anyone who actually read those boxes? The context-sensitive dialogs could be useful only for newbies, but if you already have some experience with softwares, you know what that dialog box wants to say and choose Yes, No or Cancel with <TAB> (feature unavailable on Mac) and hitting enter or space bar (or simply using shortcuts).
MacOS is not just made for newbies, a Mac user will always remain a newbie...
And believe me, MacOS isn't more stable than XP. I work from time to time on Macs and never had a sigle day without a Mac-crash...

Here's my final score (on a scale from 0 to 10):
XP: 8
OS X: 2
 
Let me tell you a story about Macs.
Recently I had to work a few days at a weekly magazine's office filled with Macs. Besides the fact that QuarkXPress crashed several times on me (this happens rarely on PCs), when I wanted to scan an error dialog popped up saying that there's no scanner detected. When asked for help, the Mac-users said that this happens all the time, since the first install of that scanner, and the solution is clicking on import once again. So for every image scanned these are the steps: click on import, click on OK on the error dialog, then click on import again. And all this at an illustrated magazine, so you can imagine how much clicks hit that poor import button...
Now tell me, do you know a single PC-user that would tolerate that? He would solve this problem even if he must reformat, reinstall, uninstall drivers, install drivers, etc. several times.
MacOS is an unintelligent software for unintelligent people.

So stay with Windows and you'll be fine. :)
 
Well, I hate Windows, wish i could get away from it. Tried FreeBSD. Sucked at it. All of this just because I dont like Bill's empire. But hey, I dont know shit else do I. So I guess Ill have to stick with it. What I do know is that the Mac/Apple processors work differently from Windows cough* pentium cough*. Our processors have the data go in them, get processed, turn around, go back. Apples processors have the data pass trough them, so the data isnt sent back. Not a very good explanation but thats what Ive been told. Also i dont know why , maybe for this same reason, they are used more for video editing, picture software (hardcore photoshoppers?) and the like. :)
 
they are used more for video editing, picture software (hardcore photoshoppers?)
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Yes mac's have very good video editing software....thery're good for making movies, at school at the moment in multimedia, we can use mac PC'S or just normal PC's but for making our Movies it's MAC :P although you have to know what your doing on it only a few people can use it....but that class is so easy, YOU can get set work done in 5 mins and the rest of the class is just LAZY :P
 
they are used more for video editing, picture software (hardcore photoshoppers?)
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I work a lot in Photoshop on PC and from time to time on Mac. And believe me or not, Photoshop is faster and more stable on PCs than on Macs.
For some time I was video editor at a television company. I worked on PCs and it was very ok. Never tried video editing on Macs, but what the hell could Mac do on video editing that PC can't?

So just get a test-ride with a Mac it and you'll see that the Mac-myths have nothing to do with reality... :)
 
i would say windows is alot better with the newer photoshops etc. but mac has originally been the best for editing and is considered very stable.
but then that is from what i hear cus i dont work on macs

smitherz
 
And what's that software's name?
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I've only used it once so I cant remember the softwares name...but I can tell you next tuesday when I have multimedia again ;) .....I think it's called

Final Cut Express video editing
 
Final Cut Pro was at its origins a PC software, but Apple bought it from Macromedia. But Adobe Premiere Pro is more than enough to create broadcast quality video material.
And if you want a very serious video or audio editing tool, then the solution is not a PC, nor a Mac... there are dedicated hardware and software for it.

It's an interesting fact that nothing is original on a Mac. The Mac-GUI was taken from XEROX, the MacOS X kernel is Unix-based, and surprise: the trash can is a Microsoft invention.
 
I'm surprised nobody said linux. I've used a dual boot setup for a couple of years with Win98 for games and Mandrake Linux for everything else and loved linux for it's stability! but when I moved to Windows XP I found it very stable and saw no point in continueing to use linux as rebooting just to play games is a pain in the but and I've ran my system days at a time with windows xp without a crash.
 
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