I guarantee you that most people will find windows taskbar much more intuitive than mac's dock.
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I guarantee you that most people will find windows taskbar much more intuitive than mac's dock.
Exposé, Spaces, Quicklook, Time Machine, Dashboard, Stacks, CoreGraphics, CoreAudio, Multi-Touch Trackpad/Magic Pad, Voice-Over, etc. are all timeless productivity enhancers.
Hopefully, Grand Central, Open CL, and Quicktime X will take off in tandem with 10.7.
Looking forward.
What a bunch of uninformed nonsense.
The "trucks" thing was not calling computers names. It's true. In the future, most people will get the Internet on portable devices. You'll only need desktops or even laptops in numbers much like are out there now. The growth is all in iPads and iPhones and whatever's next.
They're definitely working on 10.7.
I am new Mac convert this year. When I first hooked up my Mac and I noticed the icon to my Buffalo Link Station Samba share in the Finder, it was funny as hell because I noticed that the icon to the windoze share was a monitor with the blue screen of death. LMFAO! That pretty much summed up what I went through from windoze 3.1 to XP. Today I really like how I spend zero minutes trouble shooting my Mac as opposed to the days I spent doing clean installs as a result of a corrupted windoze OS. I have more time to laugh at the comments on this forum from windoze huggers.
Microsoft, once again catching up.
Its like a magnificent human centipede throughout computing history.
Its like a magnificent human centipede throughout computing history.
I think that's great, but you can put stock in at least one ... mine. I like WinXP, but it did, in fact, slow to an unusable crawl over a period of three years.
In any case, to each his own. I don't hate everything MS; I like Office for Mac better than its companion Windows version, and I'm looking forward to getting the next Office in a few months.
Virus's these days are relatively easy to get rid of but god help you if you get malware - some of it due to stupid end users but some times it can happen behind the scenes with the problems not showing up until months after being infected. With that being said, Microsoft is now providing a pretty good security suit free of charge for users to download.
Hence the reason why you shouldn't run crap like McAfee - Microsoft has a great anti-virus package not only for the individuals but the enterprise as well. So why the heck do your corporation choose to go with such crap? I'm not getting on your back but it seems to be a choice you made to go with one of the crappiest anti-virus vendors on the market.
... they've certainly been duds in 10.6....
Since less than half of OSX users are on 10.6, you can't blame software vendors for not rewriting everything for 10.6-only features. But, in 2013 when 10.7 ships - it might be reasonable to update with 10.6-and-later APIs.
This headline epitomizes them, most succinctly.
A most curious and recurring question, one which makes many of us here go hmmmmmmmmm?
... they've certainly been duds in 10.6....
Since less than half of OSX users are on 10.6, you can't blame software vendors for not rewriting everything for 10.6-only features. But, in 2013 when 10.7 ships - it might be reasonable to update with 10.6-and-later APIs.
So they're not duds then.
For apps optimized for multiple cores, GCD and Open CL will work as advertised.
Just for the people moaning about windows users being on a mac forum, a few of points for you.
1. Just because the forum has mac on it doesn't exempt 95% of computer users from using it. You are NOT some elite group with your own rights online.
2. Maybe a lot of windows users use a macrumors site because they own iPods, iPhones or iPads. Like myself. So I like to follow these sites to see the latest news.
3. If your like me, your a huge tech enthusiast. Which means I like to keep a tabs on technology coming from everywhere, including Apple, since it interests me.
Is that OK by the select few, arrogant mac users on here? (most mac users here are actually sensible, just groups make you all look like c**ks)
1. Just because the forum has mac on it doesn't exempt 95% of computer users from using it. You are NOT some elite group with your own rights online.
2. Maybe a lot of windows users use a macrumors site because they own iPods, iPhones or iPads. Like myself. So I like to follow these sites to see the latest news.
3. If your like me, your a huge tech enthusiast. Which means I like to keep a tabs on technology coming from everywhere, including Apple, since it interests me.
Is that OK by the select few, arrogant mac users on here? (most mac users here are actually sensible, just groups make you all look like c**ks)
I don't think they were talking about the Windows users so much as the handful of users that bash Apple in every single news article on here.
No, but that's even worse. Why would we want someone childish enough to use the word "fanboi" on a forum that wasn't centred around the art of juvenile ****-flinging?
Then you have the anti-Apple conspiracy theorists, who claim such things as Apple faked the other phone death-grip videos. Because only an Apple product could suck.
I don't get it. I would think that most people on MacRumors would be those who like Apple products, and yes, would criticise some things Apple do, but the noisiest group on MacRumors by far are the Apple-hate crowd. Surely they have something better to do?
The use of derogatory terms such as "bashing," "arrogant," and "fanbois" are most revealing here.
Apparently so.
Apparently not.Surely they have something better to do?
Fine parallel.
As are the majority of the rest of them.I work in a Windows-only Fortune 100 company (meaning IT only supports Windows) and many people have introduced Macs on their own. People run Mac native applications (such as MS-Office) when they can; and run the corporate Windows image when they have to, via VMWare Fusion. I happen not to be one of those (I want to be able to choke a single IT throat when my work environment goes down), but said stealth Mac users claim to be quite happy about this. Most everyday business applications can be run, quite compatibly, natively on the Mac.
Obviously, this particular claim by MS is bogus, since Office for Mac is highly compatible with Office for Windows (if it weren't, which corporation would be at fault?
the noisiest group on MacRumors by far are the Apple-hate crowd. Surely they have something better to do?
And miss out on a nickel a post?
Nice wheels.
Seriously, DIY PC enclosures suck. All of them. I shopped every one in creation back in the dark days when I was building PCs for my own gaming and for friends/relatives who wanted them. Utter crap. Ugly, cheap, tacky. Why do they all need so many stupid drive blanks on the front face? I would have paid good money for something of Mac Pro caliber. Sadly there was nothing even remotely close. I ended up with a Coolermaster Wavemaster, which sadly is no longer sold.
Somebody needs to man up and design/manufacture/sell something worth owning. Something like an HP Blackbird would be nice. Of course DIYers wouldn't buy such a beast because it would 1) be too expensive (and it's all about squeezing blood from a penny, you know), or 2) not have enough of TEH NEON LIGHTS AND DRAGONS AND NINJAS AND STUFF!
Funny, nobody accuses DIYers as being posers, you know, with all the shiny lights and stuff...
I'm getting a PC for my next workstation, and I may have to stick with HP or Dell simply do I don't get a case that looks like it was copied out a TMNT comic book. Holy crap, there is no shortage of freaking ugly PC cases.
Really? VGA projectors aren't cutting edge technology, but they are everywhere, and if you expect to use your Mac to give any kind of business presentations, you'd better show up prepared to hook up to one. You'd look awful pretentious otherwise.
Very rarely do you see projectors capable of DVI input, and even when they are, they're probably wired using VGA. If it's a small room you can maybe bring your own DVI or M1-DA cable, but if it's wired into the ceiling, it's likely done using miles of VGA cable behind the walls and ceiling.
And I bet you can't name me one model of projector that uses Mini DisplayPort.
The only other type of projector connection that you might even consider reasonably "cutting edge" is HDMI -- which is mostly for theatre applications, and even then -- you still need to buy the dongle!
In one of the other threads, I gave the point to Microsoft on this one. Apple should have continued to include dongles in the box, at least for VGA. They used to, but they don't anymore. Why inconvenience your users and give the competition talking points over a cost saving of a few dollars?
Note, however, that I see the trend is for PCs (laptops especially) to have HDMI connectors, and not VGA. Those PCs, too, will need an adaptor if they expect to play nice in the (usually VGA) business world. So at best, it's a draw.
Agreed. This cheapskatery - especially for a "premium" product brand - is just embarrassing. Like removing the iPhone dock as a standard "pack in," not throwing in a couple of cheap dongles to give your product full flexibility out of the box is just bad form. Apple should be better than this.
Not that I ever used my Apple Remote or the stillborn Front Row, they at least included the remote and IR receiver on the Macbook.