My PC friend and his complaints with Macs

[SiliconAddict]

Send him to http://www.xvsxp.com/

I think the site is probably the most nonbiased Mac site (The guy admits on the site he's a Mac user.) I've ever seen. The compairsons between XP and OS X are pretty much spot on with only a few small issues.

Unless this idiot is totally not even trying to be impartial he should agree with this site. Otherwise take this advice on this numbnut......

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. -Sun Tzu, the Art of War

 

[mateybob]

that site is an interesting read but the scoring is just stupid... i know macosx wins but it really should have won by a lot more... a lot of great things on macosx are not even scored (such as everything to do with unix) and the weighting of points on other things is just dumb... i mean expose is worth 1/1000 points...

 

[Les Kern]

Being a district director of technology I can say without doubt you might need a different person in that position, or at the very least he/she needs to have some more support. While it's obvious that computers in schools have to do more things more often and it might lead to a crash, the fact yours crash "often" and "a lot" leads me to think they are not set up right. My lowest ram is 1GB, and a high of 4GB for instance, and that alone goes a long way to keeping them stable. If computers crash a lot, and this goes for any platform, folks tend to blame the machine. The rest of the complaints are either silly or innacurate.
Whatever.

 

[Darwin]

that site is an interesting read but the scoring is just stupid... i know macosx wins but it really should have won by a lot more... a lot of great things on macosx are not even scored (such as everything to do with unix) and the weighting of points on other things is just dumb... i mean expose is worth 1/1000 points...

Well I'm sure we all know OS X deserves more points but isn't it suppose to be a fair comparison?

It would be unfair if we included all the cool features that Windows didn't have wouldn't it?

 

[SiliconAddict]

Well I'm sure we all know OS X deserves more points but isn't it suppose to be a fair comparison?

It would be unfair if we included all the cool features that Windows didn't have wouldn't it?

And it would be unfair to include all the powerful tools included in Windows that to the best of my knowledge OS X does not have. It swings both ways. There are some seriously powerful admin tools in XP and 2K that X doesn't have. Off the top of my head MMC, WMI both of which are powerful in their ability to allow remote admin of a system and its apps.

OS X is geared more towards the individual. Windows has the business in mind more then then home user and it shows in its tools.

 

[Darwin]

And it would be unfair to include all the powerful tools included in Windows that to the best of my knowledge OS X does not have. It swings both ways. There are some seriously powerful admin tools in XP and 2K that X doesn't have. Off the top of my head MMC, WMI both of which are powerful in their ability to allow remote admin of a system and its apps.

OS X is geared more towards the individual. Windows has the business in mind more then then home user and it shows in its tools.

Of course, it does go both ways and I agree on that

I guess there is much depth to go into when comparing these OSes

 

[Kingsnapped]

I don't have time to read the whole thread... or type a good response, but I gotta let you know I'm in the same situation (as of the first page of posts anyway.).

Our school has an emac lab with underpowered 10.2 emacs with 256 of ram. When I carried my powerbook around school, it was easy to see what a mac supporter I am. When these POSes in the lab crashed on FCP (all the time ) people would ask me how stupid I am in saying "I've crashed this thing (my PB) twice"

Cheap schools are creating a new generation of mac haters.... I propose that apple donate dual G5s to all the schools they can!

 

[Fukui]

Cheap schools are creating a new generation of mac haters.... I propose that apple donate dual G5s to all the schools they can!

Well, at least the have OS X. 99% of macs in UCI are still Beige 233MHZ OS9 machines!

 

[Jimong5]

Theres no excuse in application useage. Dual 867 1 GB ram did this:
http://tadepec.dyndns.org/dock.jpg
it was getting slow, but was still useable.


and, for the multiple application thing is easy. Just a plain old command D gets the job done.