toolbox
macrumors 68020
I have to agree with you on that one!. Thank god for bootcamp.
But i will favor OSX over a windows machine any day, and i came from the windows platform that i used for about 10 years growing up.
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I have to agree with you on that one!. Thank god for bootcamp.
But i will favor OSX over a windows machine any day, and i came from the windows platform that i used for about 10 years growing up.
thejadedmonkey
macrumors G3
I prefer Windows because it is more advanced.
What's that? You don't believe me? Well, Windows is at version 7, where as OS X is at version 6. In the famous words of Sean Connery, "Suck it... Trebek"
What's that? You don't believe me? Well, Windows is at version 7, where as OS X is at version 6. In the famous words of Sean Connery, "Suck it... Trebek"
DeepIn2U
macrumors G5
You're joking right?
Windows as a desktop OS, I'm unsure if more advanced or not but there are things I know is lacking until Win7:
Built-in backup
Built-in Secure wipe data deletion (without 3rd party tools)
Built-in meta data searching (again without "competent" 3rd party tools: Google Desktop Search really SUCKS and brings XP SP1/2/3 to a halt over time).
Poor reliance on proprietary tools/coding practices. I'll say its GREAT to use IEv6 for calling up "Desktop/Control Panel/C:\ or windows explorer"; IEv7/8 no longer supports this.
I'd say DOS commands are on par with Unix commands with some differences and items lacking/different in both (however I'm guesstimating as I just found out WinXP SP3 supports "pushd" in dos.
Weird. That Win7 Backup & Restore app must have been named wrong. I'm sure it doesn't do backups.
The built-in indexing service probably doesn't do data searching either.
DeepIn2U
macrumors G5
Wow, didn't know that. I hadn't really seen the backup function in the early beta.
Is the metadata search from the Windows menu (start menu) & the explorer search button? Or is it elsewhere? Lastly, is the data within pictures (say text within the photo, is that automatically searched via metadata or not?)
XNine
macrumors 68040
I've started using Windows 7 and honestly, it almost feels like home (OS X) to me. ALMOST. Not quite there yet. But Windows 7 is by far the only version of Windows I could tolerate, let alone like. They've taken queues from OS X (such as quick drive formatting, easy networking, driver installations, etc) and so 7 is much smoother than Vista or XP.
I moved over because it's far cheaper, and I play a ton of games. Not to say that I still don't prefer OS X for practically everything other than the whole lack of games and hardware department.
For instance, in OS X, photoshop's pallets can be placed anywhere on the screen, allowing a dual monitor set up to support it, but you can also see other things on the screen. Photoshop in Windows is in...well... a window. So you can't just place the pallets wherever you want, it must be done in the window itself, and you can't put a color picker or console below the window and see it.
I can't say that one is definitively better, but I do prefer OS X's overall environment to Windows any day.
I moved over because it's far cheaper, and I play a ton of games. Not to say that I still don't prefer OS X for practically everything other than the whole lack of games and hardware department.
For instance, in OS X, photoshop's pallets can be placed anywhere on the screen, allowing a dual monitor set up to support it, but you can also see other things on the screen. Photoshop in Windows is in...well... a window. So you can't just place the pallets wherever you want, it must be done in the window itself, and you can't put a color picker or console below the window and see it.
I can't say that one is definitively better, but I do prefer OS X's overall environment to Windows any day.
thejadedmonkey
macrumors G3
All you had to do was count the number of versions of Windows, from Windows 1, and the number of mac OS's, from System 1, and you would realize how dead serious I was.
I think... 😉
andalusia
macrumors 68030
So, you have Windows 1, 2, 3, NT 3.5, 95, NT 4.0, 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7... that's 12 different versions?
And you have Mac OS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6... That's 16 different versions?
Hmm, I think Apple has more versions of their OS than Windows, therefore you should prefer them to Windows since they must be more advanced?!
It's a BS reason to prefer an operating system due to how many releases there are. Also, in your first post, you compared Windows (which was invented in 1985) to OS X (which was 2000-2001); you cannot compare two products so far away from each other on a timeline.
Seriously, come up with a better excuse to prefer Windows.
fireshot91
macrumors 601
Not necessarily.
For certain things, (AutoCAD) Windows is better.
For other things (Digital Photography) OS X is better.
It really depends on what you do with your computer.
andalusia
macrumors 68030
Exactly. Generally, neither can be classed as greater than the other. Of course, certain aspects are obviously more advanced, otherwise the two would be the same and that would just be boring... Or pointless. The companies may as well just merge if that was the case 😀
Ummm - which version of Photoshop are you on? CS4 - I can do everything you describe in all Adobe apps.