well first off thanks for the lack of flamming. It's was actually Apple diehards who put me off moving to a Mac more than a year ago; I'd noticed that off Steve Jobs produced an iTurd, they would be calling it a break-thru, and lining up over night to eat it first thing in the morning. The other thing that put me off a year back was all the hardware reviews on Apple.com; it's incredibly clear that batteries, cases, power supplies, mice etc. are the worst Chinese made sh**.
Anyhow now I've fully switched over to using the Mac (the newer MBP with UI gesture and the best spec they had - 4 gig ram etc), I'd offer the following advice:
a) If your a light computer user, just read the Web, type the odd Word document, email etc. then a Windows machine will be a lot cheaper and you will not get much benefit by going Mac, i.e. buy a Dell
b) If your more of a hardcore user, run multiple apps, probably a knowledge based worker (or it goes without saying in the creativity business) then once your thru the pain barrier of switching you will find yourself more productive and be glad of the switch. So if productivity is a key issue to you, switch - you will be glad you did.
A caveat to be added to b) is that you may notice some lack of program availability. You can't get MS Access which is a great low user database. You can't get anything for note taking as good as MS OneNote. And you can't rip DVDs as successfully with Mac software, plus there is not burning software as good as Nero. BUT the wicked thing is you can still run these apps in Parallels or VMware (I use the former and it hangs up quite a bit), so you still have Windows. Additionally the equivalent of Explorer, Finder sucks. And there is nothing that touches the 3rd party file manager - DOPUS on the PC. Finally there is no file/folder comparison utility on the Mac that matches Beyond Compare.
it would be nice if the diehard Mac aficionados would sometimes just state the obvious instead of taking an almost politician's path and spinning it.
Yes - this was the point of posting, the amazing denial that goes on and the double standards. It seems that pre-Leopard was solid but Leopard is not. in fact reality states this is true! It's more stable etc. than XP, but then again XP is 7 years old!
Also your still on 10.5.2 apparently. 10.5.3 is out, get that, it will improve your system a lot
I thought of that the other day and Googled around it, but too many people were bitching that it caused them more problems, so I've left it for now.
Also user g4dp posted to this thread stating
I'm having the same trouble since 10.5.3. Quiting applications doesn't alway work and neither does force quiting. You have to continually hit force quit, on the 4th or 5th time it decides to do it.
Take heart my fellow antivistanarian - it is better than most OS's......
Agree. Ubuntu seems more stable/faster but lack of apps, setup/hardware complexity issues mean it only is good for a more limited sector of people.
What is it that you're force quitting exactly, the finder or specific apps?
It seems to be random apps yesterday. It was either because it was a hot day and this thing is over heating (it gets super hot yet this CPU is meant to run cooler) or because it does not like Parallels running that much. Today is cooler and I've not been running Parallels, and only Firefox frooze so far today. Also yesterday one of the most annoying things was the machine turned mega slow, like I had to wait 30 minutes! I listed the processes and one called WindowsServ was eating up 92% CPU and I had to do a kill -9 on that.
In short I never knew the meaning of SPOD till I got a Mac. Not that I regret it - too many good things and the occurrence is less than XP by quite a bit. I just can't take more of reading "rock solid" whilst I hit Force Quite for the 5th time and consider removing the battery etc.
