Well comparison after comparison, test after test, survey after survey all give OS X a higher ranking, unless you go to some Windows fanboy site.
Well, at least US surveys done amongst US citizens and published in US magazines.
However, that has little bearing on anything I argue.
Oh, and btw. What do you mean that "OS X" gets "Higher rating"? You mean "customer service", "the hardware" or do you really mean the OS?
And here once again I will point out that you have no empirical evidence to back your claims, but we know Apple customers are more satisfied.
Yes, we do know that. But we also know from this very forum that people were perfectly happy to have to, say, play around with the voltages for the CPU and fan speeds in orer to not have core shutdowns on their MB Air. Satisfaction averages doesn't really mean much. And it certainly doesn't mean that it then should work for someone working in a niche as audio is.
I can tell you plenty of anecdotal stories about PCs that break and Windows users losing data after hardware failures, viruses, etc. Can you say that Intel parts in PCs are more reliable the Intel parts in Macs??
As I already mentioned, there is such a thing as "quality control". You know, the thing Apple used to be good at.
Windows does not come with backup software OOTB does it? But Leopard comes with Time Machine and that works very well and is user friendly.
Is it possible for you to miss the point more than you just did? And this in a partial argument you yourself began?
You were claiming that I was an idiot if I didn't have a back-up MACHINE. Not what amounts to an external drive, or a NAS-drive if so set up.
So of course I respond like I did, but as usual you move the goal post, and now you try to argue something completely different? Who gives a flying ef about "time machine"? I don't use it, simply because I like to be able to use my information in another environment as well.
In the time that it takes Time Machine to restore onto a new machine, you are up and running as if another machine with OS X.
Except: I cannot go out and buy a portable Mac with working firewire in any and all Apple retailer here in Denmark. And I'm sure as hell not buying inferior hardwarex2 to have one just sit idle at home waiting for the first one to break down.
I use Firewire 800 and it took a few clicks, then ~30 mins. later EVERYTHING (VPN, mail, etc.) worked exactly as on the last machine, but faster.
Good for you.
It is the same with every company. As a test, find me a computer company in Europe that has a free 800 number for customer support (not pre-sales, which almost all do have) where Apple does not.
LOL, there are much more to customer support than a toll-free number. The fact that I'm passed on to ireland to talk to some idjit who doesn't know shyte about danish consumer laws and are unwilling to recognise any and all problems, while "forgetting" to send me a box, "mislaying" my case and so on so forth.
Now call Dell, Lenova and Apple and time how long you're on hold. With Apple only in my experience, you're on the phone with a live human on the other side very quickly.
Again, I'm not going to do a test of anything of the sort, as there is much more to customer service than those things.
Well then good luck with Windows
This is particularly funny, considering I have explained some of the hoops I have to hop through. Yet again, you seem incapable of recognising that anyone can get tired of something like that, because you personally have no problems with what you do. I guess I should just give up my job and do something behind a desk where the most demanding I'd ever do would be to back-up over a network.
What's more, this seems to have become your standard reply whenever you can't even come up with your pseudo argumentation.
I have seen the same issue in several computers in several companies.
Of course you have
That's why you first describe .docx as "obscure" and then use your "solution" to make believe you had a clue as to how slow or fast XP is, based on that "solution".
I have worked with plenty of PCs and was referring to a recent (less than one year old) Dell with a dual-core processor.
Suuuree..
I guess that people, including myself, who have worked (and still do) on XP have no clue, because Macrem says so. You seem intent to try to use user experience surveys (which, as best is severely difficult to quantify objectively), this time I think you should take your own medicin and look up some speed comparisons.
Your standard mid-range office workstation. I have one and installed Linux on it and it works great with all the latest Compiz effects turned on, but its butt-slow with Windows.
I really couldn't care less about your linux projects. That platform is a no-go, since there is no decent audio apps for what I do on the platform. Until there is, your anecdotal linux arguments is useless.
Several colleagues confirm its the same for them, that they boot and launch Outlook, then go get coffee and chat awhile while everything loads.
Go look up some speed tests. I'm sorry, but perhaps it's your servers in your company?
Even on an older Dell Linux kicks ass.
As mentioned, who cares about your linux boxes?
Even on a PPC PowerBook, OS X Mail can load mail from an MS Exchange server much, much, much faster!!!
Seriously, that's not my experience at all. On the contrary.
Btw. .docx is not an obscure format. It stinks, but it's not obscure. Office 2007/2008 use it as the standard format to save in, so you better get that open office package or go upgrade your office-suite, because more and more people use the format.
Answered above.
Indeed. So let me respond to it here:
Sure you said it as a "joke"
That's why your response reads uncannily like something you looked up on wikipedia.
