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Windows expert slams Panther

Simply no improvement over the previous operating system.
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Mac OS X is MUCH easier to use than the NeXT operating system for the first time user.

Most of the 10.1 -> 10.2 -> 10.3 user interface has been refinements, with the drastic improvements occuring underneath the GUI.

Apple is working with the open source community to improve the kernal, programs, and compilers.

Unfortunately these can only be pushed so fast/far.

Sure Apple could jump ship from GCC to XL C and realize a drastic improvement in programs.

But this would mean walking away from the open source project and letting the compiler and the OS diverge from the wealth of help Apple is getting and giving to the community.

Of course with MS, they are the standard -- so they can easily dictate their wishes on the world. :rolleyes:

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Really funny when you consider this guy is comparing a 15 year old operating system to one that will be released in a few years.

And that acient grey haired NeXT gen OS is still evolving and getting better. :p
 
This is a man who blurts out utter garbage with nothing to back up his claims. Should be have a check box comparison on UI alone, OS X is superior. I think I have some time, and I will do it.
Does Windows have Anti-aliased 128x128 icons? No.
Can Windows implement great, high quality themes as easily as we can?
Can the use Exposé? No.

Just a few. Exposé is the best feature OS X has had. IMO. I have, every day, Soundtrack, PS CS, Keynote, Acquisition, and iTunes–maybe even Mail or something to that tune–every day. Life just got better.

But back on topic. The man has never used OS X before. Ever. I argued with a guy by the name of "Pascal314" on wc3campagins.com. He was a rabid PeeCee loser who posed as a college kid. He cnp'ed almost all of his arguments from **** like macsucks.com or something, which I realized in retrospect. The man–boy–posted stuff almost straight from Microsoft's website. I didn't agree with everything Apple did, but 95% I did, and he called me a drone. It was annoying. Then he pulled out some bogus benchmarks and some article that said the G5 was less than 1/2 of its said speed. He argued with Windows, yet, at the same time, used Red Hat.
Add that to the fact he never used a Mac, let alone OS X. And I've used almost every incarnation of Windows.

Hypocrisy is their game. They are just losers who never used one before.
That man from the MacWorld article has never used it and makes judgments on it. I could sit down and tell you every difference I found between Windows -2000 and XP–on a fingerless hand. All XP had was a lousy UI adjustment to copy Aqua–and failed. It looks like a candy coated kiddy piece of crap. First, they had those drab grays and reds and blues, now they have the ugliest and most out of place reds and greens like a Macy's in December. Add that to the most virus laden OS. And the fact that is still based on the original DOS, which wasn't much even back then. Now you have the most un-userfriendly UI imaginable with gloss. And the fact it needs drivers and BIOs **** to worry about doesn't make for something very fun.

But when it comes down to it, what does the man go home to? A beige box with XP and I go home to by 1900x1200
?Drifter
 
Originally posted by Drifter
Reminds me of the French. And I hate France.
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Um, well, I'm sad to hear that you've managed to develop a hatred for an entire nation of 60+ million people. I can only suppose you base your opinion on more experience with French people than Pascal314 had with Mac OS.
 
Originally posted by revenuee
Its name suggests it's doomed to fail

common longhorn?

It's a cow with giant horns :D ;)

The OS has potential, it's being build from the ground,rather than just being modified ,,,

BUT i would rather use an outdated mac running OS 9 then subject myself to a MS OS again.... shudders
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i will never use os0 again. I recently booted into 9 just for kicks and i was remined why osx was needed. Os9 sucks any windows offering since 95 on up is more usable than os9. Osx is a different story.
 
OS 9 is incredibly stable, I have used it for over 3 years and it has never given me a single problem. Nothing ever crashed and the only time Finder would give me a hang up would be when the network went screwy and made it unresponsive. I loved OS 9, it was really stable and extremely fast.

Well I lied...I do remember AOL unexpectedly quitting on me quite a few times due to low memory errors...but AOL sucks in general.
 
AOL horror stories would take pages. Although it'd be funny, let's keep on the topic of stupid PeeCee users who bash OS X as Microsoft slips them a twenty.
 
Originally posted by jonapete2001
i will never use os0 again. I recently booted into 9 just for kicks and i was remined why osx was needed. Os9 sucks any windows offering since 95 on up is more usable than os9. Osx is a different story.
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i think your wrong.... :D


LOL .... oh how insightful on my part ;)

I switched 4 years ago from Windows 98 into OS 9, and it was the easiest transition i have ever had, but it was almost like starting from scratch because i had no attachment to my old setup... but this switch from OS 9 to OS 10, has been deadly... SCSI drives won't mount, manufacturer of the SCSI card didn't have a firmware update, had to find the chip manufacturerer and get a chip firmware upgrade.... but now if i want to use my Hard Drive, i have to install the drivers then restart the computer and only then it will mount... if for some reason i need to restart the computer, after the restart the drive won't mount anymore... so i have to delete the driver, and then install it again and then restart...
 
designuk, we all know that Microsoft "repackages" version of OSs and slaps a new name on them.
XP is just a bastard offspring of a bitch of an OS. I don't care what garbage color scheme and rounded buttons they slap on it, it is still based on a buggy frame, DOS. Originally, QDOS, Quick and Dirty Operating System. Quick and dirty in the early 1980's…today…would be trash. And it sure as hell is. Granted, they have made modifications, but it still is DOS. And DOS is flakier than a spastic cat.

Viruses, it has alot of. My friend's brother had his whole system hosed when he gut Blaster a couple months back. And there has never been any recorded OS X virus. A wonder why that is? Well, to my knowledge, alot of ports on OS X are closed. But it also has UNIX under it's GUI.

It would be much more interesting to see what this neanderthal would say about the G5. And those PC fanboys are still believe in a pipe dream called a good MS OS.
MS, I believe, has never made an OS from scratch. They have just added more to DOS. Now they have this dream of something called "Longhorn".
Firstly, that is the lamest code-name. Eva.
Second, it has been delayed like no one's business. Odds are it'll slip again.
Thirdly, by 2006, Apple will have an OS that has really come of age. And by that time, we'll have OS XI at some dot release like .1 or .2. Apple has the head start, and Microsoft has been ****ing up every chance to outdo them. Now their next OS is at least two years away, and XP is still ugly, unintuitive, and basically crap. And the weeds of the OS, viruses, will become more frequent. You could probably write a virus in less than an hour for XP.

XP just seems a little…crude, unpolished, ugly, and slow. And they'll have to deal with that piece of **** for another two years. Then Longhorn comes out, as hyped as plug n play, and fails to meet its expectations of something like, I don't know, OS X.

Speaking of which, I wonder what OS XI will be like? Can they really make it that much better?
 
Originally posted by Drifter
Now they have this dream of something called "Longhorn".

Speaking of which, I wonder what OS XI will be like? Can they really make it that much better?
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Maybe call it "Longshot" instead? :D

The OS future, and hopefully Apple's, lies in approaches that haven't even been imagined yet. Look at Expose. Expose exists now because machines have the graphics ability to handle it. As machines get stronger, we'll be running all kinds of voice activated, expression and gesture recognizing software. Someday, OSX will be looked upon the way that OS6 is looked upon today. A quaint start to something great. And that great thing will be rendered quaint one day as well.

Just expect the unexpected and you'll be spot on. ;)
 
By OS 12 I expect to see a "Steve" button, where upon pressing it, a miniature Steve materializes next to my PowerBook and asks to grant 3 wishes. It should be a part of .Mac subscription where you get access to Steve once a month to grant you those 3 wishes.
 
Originally posted by peterjhill
Windows XP is nothing more than NT6.0 that had some colorblind person design a new interface (no offense to those who are colorblind).
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I take offense!

How could you!!!

Hooww!

I am red-green color blind!

Yuo Are Evilll!

;) (okay so I am color blind)




Okay people.

My New Os will Blow everything out of the water.

It is called the 'StarUltraMaxToTheExTremeXX Os'
Or 'SUMEXTXX'

It will run ALL OS'S.

It will run Mac Programs.

It will run PC programs.
Any OS?
Any Application, I can open it.

File is corrupted?
The Os will fix it.

You need a file?

Think about it, WHAM it is right there in front of you.

Prepare to be blown away people...

Prepare!

Coming 2020
 
- drifter

Have you used windows xp? My XP system is just as stable as my OS X system. I have NEVER had a virus, and never had a BSOD (been using it since release candidate 2). We all know there are many viri out there just waiting to attack windows, that's why anyone with half a brain should have GOOD antivirus, and have windows update automatically download and install updates, by doing this I have NEVER had a problem.
And as for XP looking like sh*t, that's easily fixed. Sure it looks pants out of the box, but windows xp has a very easily skinable UI. Themexp.org has many great themes to make your XP look good.
I am not a PC "fan boy", but I will not be a blind Mac "fan boy" either, zealots on both sides really piss me off! :mad:
OS X is a great stable OS, and for me, so is windows XP.

edit: typo
 
One thing I like about Windows that I wish I had in OS X is the ability to change font style and color to icon labels, system fonts, etc. In Windows you can literally change every single thing from every widget, font, dialogue box, icon, etc. Heck, you can change the location of the close, minimize, and maximize buttons. That is something that'd be awesome to have on OS X.
 
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