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Just bought a Dell Vostro instead of a MacBook -- Here's why

A computer is a computer. It's a tool. It might have emotional connotations attached, but its main purpose is to perform stuff.
Everyone should know what they want to do, and decide which system comes closer to their frame of mind and their way of learning.
I'm totally against Microsoft's marketing tactics, if only because it tends to deprive the user of an important choice: the choice between a system or another, a way of working and organizing and another. I'm sure, though, that Apple would do the same, if put in the same position: business is business, after all!
I've tried all Microsoft operating systems (apart from Vista: my 2 years old laptop would have struggled and anyway I didn't need it), a fair number of Linux distros (the "tough" ones, of course: my point in installing Linux was ultimate control and freedom), now I'm learning Leopard... do you know what's the best OS out there?
Amiga Workbench. Fast, multitasking, the perfect "butler OS": it required the least interaction from the user for everyday tasks; its "guru meditation" was cool, too!
Would I come back? Of course not!
I confidently switched, confident that with Bootcamp I would make a slow and gradual transition (not to the OS, of course, but in terms of software): I'm really disappointed that Bootcamp messes up with Firewire audio interfaces, enough to make my MoTU Ultralite useless; that, of course, means I must forsake my main software "instrument" (Usine, a great real-time processing and routing software), because it's windows-only...
I'm still happy, because the same audio interface has flawless support under OSX, and as soon as I buy the necessary software I can be on my way again (fortunately for me, music is "just" an expensive hobby)!
 
K-Funk said:
I'd prefer an OS that does what I want it to do rather than the OS telling me, "Trust me, you'll like it better this way in the long run."
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Well, then Windows certainly isn't where you want to be then, is it? After using Windows since.. what.. 1995 or so (it was all Apples, Amigas, and Dos machines before that for me) I can say that the only OS that does what the user specifically wants it to do is one like Linux that in the end requires you to code what you want it to do. Windows is far from that in it's MS provided form.

I genuinely prefer the way OS X does many things including window management and the Dock. Not to mention the lack of any real equivalent of the registry which has to be the worst part of Windows. Of course the lack of cut/paste in finder is annoying, but that is definitely an issue I got over quickly. Why anyone would move to OS X and expect(or even want it to)it to act like Windows is beyond me. It is different and should be expected to be so. Learn the right way to use the OS(just like you did with Windows whether anyone will admit that, it was and is far from intuitive) and you will begin to realize that it is vastly superior in design.

After getting my MBP (with the original intent to bootcamp Windows XP.. which never happened) in September I have increasingly found myself disillusioned with the Windows way of things and if it weren't for gaming (and Apple's reluctance to make game development easier for OS X) I seriously doubt my long term home use of Windows for anything outside of gaming. I have already moved all my photography software to OS X.
 
Again, IMO these posts should be moved to another forum or removed altogether. This isn't the 'why I went with Windows over OSX' blog spot. Great for you if you bought Windows, but please go elsewhere to blog your 'ramblings'.
 
I just thought I would add an interesting story to this thread.

Dell has a factory in Nashville, TN.

I lived there up until 2006. While living there, I was sort of the IT guy at the church I attended.

They used PCs with Windows XP Pro. Because much of the finances of the church were handled on line, I installed a combination of Internet Security programs. The church secretary was a bit computer illiterate, and would load the church office PC up with all sorts of junk that caused it to run slow. BUT ... we did not have any viruses or key loggers or pop up window problems.

Then one day while I was out on errands, the secretary got frustrated with the bogged down OS and a new guy to the church was asked to try to make the computer run faster. His method was to uninstall all of the protection and anti-virus, anti-key logging, anti-pop up window software.

When I got home later that day my mailbox was loaded with messages frantically wanting me to come to the church to check out the PC. I went, and found that when you started the computer up it was buried in pop up windows. When I checked the system, I found all of the protection gone, but the guy was still there. I asked him what he had done and he told me he took off all the protection to make it run faster. Well it took me quite a while to straighten out the mess. I had to reinstall the protective software, and when I did I did a scan and found a load of viruses and keyloogers, plus the self installment of things that were not wanted. I worked hard and cleaned up the mess. When I asked the guy what his motive was, he said that the software was not needed, just that the operator had to be educated. I told him to never lay a hand on any computer in the church again and told the minister if he let him at it again that I would NOT ever fix it again. They all were reliaved that I was on hand and saved them a lot of frustration and money.

The sad part of this story is that Dell in Nashville hired this guy that had messed up the computer as a service tech support person.

That is Dell for ya'

Smart company ... LOL
 
My problem with virus protection (especially Norton) is that they can cause problems as much as they would try to correct problems. And from personal experience, they cause more problems than they can correct. All the problems I had were due to slowness and bloat coming from virus protection. It is so damn annoying when majority of your ram and cpu power is taken from virus protection.

At the minimum for me, I have Windows Firewall. I don't need protection to be running in background (especially if they're going to take so much cpu and ram) when I don't need it so I try to look for programs that you can manually scan.

I am a supporter for educating in order to protect, but when you try to educate people, who you feel will never become literate in computers, you have no other choice other than providing automatic and bloated protection. Ya, KISS, Keep It Simple and Stupid. It annoys me to no end especially when I have to play as IT for my friends and family.
 
Reverend Wally said:
I just thought I would add an interesting story to this thread.

Dell has a factory in Nashville, TN.

I lived there up until 2006. While living there, I was sort of the IT guy at the church I attended.

They used PCs with Windows XP Pro. Because much of the finances of the church were handled on line, I installed a combination of Internet Security programs. The church secretary was a bit computer illiterate, and would load the church office PC up with all sorts of junk that caused it to run slow. BUT ... we did not have any viruses or key loggers or pop up window problems.

Then one day while I was out on errands, the secretary got frustrated with the bogged down OS and a new guy to the church was asked to try to make the computer run faster. His method was to uninstall all of the protection and anti-virus, anti-key logging, anti-pop up window software.

When I got home later that day my mailbox was loaded with messages frantically wanting me to come to the church to check out the PC. I went, and found that when you started the computer up it was buried in pop up windows. When I checked the system, I found all of the protection gone, but the guy was still there. I asked him what he had done and he told me he took off all the protection to make it run faster. Well it took me quite a while to straighten out the mess. I had to reinstall the protective software, and when I did I did a scan and found a load of viruses and keyloogers, plus the self installment of things that were not wanted. I worked hard and cleaned up the mess. When I asked the guy what his motive was, he said that the software was not needed, just that the operator had to be educated. I told him to never lay a hand on any computer in the church again and told the minister if he let him at it again that I would NOT ever fix it again. They all were reliaved that I was on hand and saved them a lot of frustration and money.

The sad part of this story is that Dell in Nashville hired this guy that had messed up the computer as a service tech support person.

That is Dell for ya'

Smart company ... LOL
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yes, it was a corporate decision to hire that one guy as a service tech support decision. i dont see anything wrong with what he did, he has the right idea. in this day and age, everybody should be at least be able to tell when a program called "free virus scanner" is spyware. my nan is 75 and i taught her how to use email and word around 5 years ago. at first she was the same, installed loads of crap. but i didnt install a load of ****** "anti-virus" software. i cleaned up the mess and told her what she did wrong. 5 years on and my 75 year old nan has a 1 year old netbook that has no adware/spyware crap. and she hardly even speaks english.

people need to learn, you cant baby feed them all their life.
 
Reverend Wally said:
I just thought I would add an interesting story to this thread.

Dell has a factory in Nashville, TN.

I lived there up until 2006. While living there, I was sort of the IT guy at the church I attended.

They used PCs with Windows XP Pro. Because much of the finances of the church were handled on line, I installed a combination of Internet Security programs. The church secretary was a bit computer illiterate, and would load the church office PC up with all sorts of junk that caused it to run slow. BUT ... we did not have any viruses or key loggers or pop up window problems.

Then one day while I was out on errands, the secretary got frustrated with the bogged down OS and a new guy to the church was asked to try to make the computer run faster. His method was to uninstall all of the protection and anti-virus, anti-key logging, anti-pop up window software.

When I got home later that day my mailbox was loaded with messages frantically wanting me to come to the church to check out the PC. I went, and found that when you started the computer up it was buried in pop up windows. When I checked the system, I found all of the protection gone, but the guy was still there. I asked him what he had done and he told me he took off all the protection to make it run faster. Well it took me quite a while to straighten out the mess. I had to reinstall the protective software, and when I did I did a scan and found a load of viruses and keyloogers, plus the self installment of things that were not wanted. I worked hard and cleaned up the mess. When I asked the guy what his motive was, he said that the software was not needed, just that the operator had to be educated. I told him to never lay a hand on any computer in the church again and told the minister if he let him at it again that I would NOT ever fix it again. They all were reliaved that I was on hand and saved them a lot of frustration and money.

The sad part of this story is that Dell in Nashville hired this guy that had messed up the computer as a service tech support person.

That is Dell for ya'

Smart company ... LOL
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That seems very unfortunate, I ran an xp box for 2 years with out virus protection, did a scan after the two years and saw there were only half a dozen pieces of malware. Then I clicked on a window instead of force quit and got a virus. One major problem (it was really easy to get rid of, end process, delete file) in over 2 years without protection is not bad at all.

And those Genius Bar guys never messed anything up?
 
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