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Re: 50 Reasons to Switch From Mac to PC

BlackTenshi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:33:48 -0000

Well, my own personal experience: I first saw a mac at a friend's home, his family had this small printing plant, and a mac had been adopted to do homework and such. When we had to make a report complete with a presentation, using graphics and images, we couldn't do it on it, we couldn't find how to... We went to another friend's home to use Win 98 SE (don't remember the mac version, sorry).

Then, at the graphic design school, in the library they had this mac, still a cream gray-ish square box thing, that was too difficult to use, I don't know about the version of the OS, but I remember someone had been playing with it and left it all clustered and ugly. You just couldn't search the web comfortably.

Then, at work, in the department of Design and Prepress for a medium-size printing plant, we had 2 main computers, a PC with Win XP Pro SP2, and an eMac with OS X 10.3.9, everyone wanted to use the PC, perhaps because of Win being more familiar to all of us. Despite my previous experiences with mac, I decided I would work on the eMac... And that's when it all started...

I really don't understand how so many people are out there defending it as perfect and claiming that "it just works!!", I have had only not-so-pleasant to really-extremely-frustrating-bad experiences with it.

First of all, in this place, in this media, there are still a whole lot of people that uses Corel Draw when creating vector graphics or layouts... And in order to work with them on the mac I had to ask my fellow designer to convert it from Corel X4 or X3 to Corel 11, because that's what the mac have (there are no more versions of this software, as I understand).

Then, the programs closing by themselves without any warning... I got to really hate that little windows that the mac showed every time my work suddenly disappeared, asking me if I wanted to send to apple the description of what I was doing. It happened so often that sometimes, I just lost it and, enraged, sent a lot of insults and bad words in the message to apple.

Also, the slowing, oh my... When opening a large and complicated AI file, or converting a PDF into TIFF, or copying a large amount of files, the system would slow down soooo bad... and remained in slow motion EVEN LONG AFTER the task was completed, to the point that the interface of the OS didn't quite recognized my mouse input, causing that whenever I tried to switch to another program the icon got dragged off from the dock and *poof*... I had to wait several minutes until the system got back being at its usual speed...

Speaking of performance, it seems that you can't "punish" a mac as much as you can do it to a PC... I remember trying to solve this issue about speed and performance and one of the Google results led me to this article or thread saying that for the SO I had, with the hard drive I had, there had to be at least 20 GB of free space in order for OS X to run fine... I remember the PC having less than 5 GB of free disk space and Win still running pretty well...

Lastly, that dreaded, hated, feared Black Screen of Death (just to call it something) with this message in all those languages saying me that the system just couldn't resist more and the mac had to be shut down... With no possible way of getting out of there and reset being the only solution...

So, yes, same problems in the operating systems, closing programs, slow performance, blue and black screens of death... And still I would have preferred to work with Win XP every time I could.

On a side note: I've always liked it how with a PC you can build your machine from zero using the pieces you want, if you know how. I was always amazed as how with Linux, after you build up your machine as you want from zero, you can configure almost every aspect on how the system runs, if you know how to... With mac, it seems like a little less freedom, but it's ok if you are an average user I guess. Linux would be that monster car a mechanic would be working on, Windows would be that tuned up car you drive, and mac would be a (nice looking, perhaps) car with little side wheels attached to the sides... And the prettyness of the macs don't work for me, after all, I see them as tools... And if I were a carpenter, I wouldn't have my hammer and saw all decorated and polished as my priority.

Regards

Re: 50 Reasons to Switch From Mac to PC

willie wonka — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:28:09 -0000

After 20 years of using Macs, I recently switched from Mac to PC because I coulnd't find an _affordable_ Mac that did what I want. I wanted a tablet PC, and, unfortuantely, Apple hasn't made one yet, although one is rumored. Furthermore, I wante something that was affordable; so I bought a $400 tablet PC that so far does everything I wanted it to do. I do miss the Mac interface; I wish Apple would license its OS to 3rd parties or I wish I could get my PC to run MacOSX.

Re: What Happens When Short URL’s Are No Longer Short?

Joe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:37:32 -0000

Interesting post. I've been seeing these .ly's lately and wondered what it was about. I knew it wasn't a country code. Thanks for the info.
Btw, where's the login here?

Re: What Happens When Short URL’s Are No Longer Short?

Joe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:34:52 -0000

Interesting post. I've been seeing these .ly's lately and wondered what it was about. I knew it wasn't a country code. Thanks for the info.
Btw, where's the login here?

Re: What Happens When Short URL’s Are No Longer Short?

Jordan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:41:54 -0000

I think there will always be a demand for shortening a long url - it may be at 19 characters but the possible arrangements of strings grows so exponentially that every digit opens room for worlds of urls.

Re: What Happens When Short URL’s Are No Longer Short?

Kingdutch — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:14:00 -0000

Recycle Recycle Recycle

Monitor when the url was last used, if it's more than say, 2-3 months ago, recycle it.

Re: EASEUS Partition Manager Review

tony — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:24:15 -0000

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Re: How To: Configure Nginx As A Reverse Proxy

Henry — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:42:32 -0000

How Apache identifie different sites, in your nginx.conf, you are redirecting to the same url http://127.0.0.1:8080/

Re: How To: iPod Touch Screenshot

Joel Gonzalez — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:27:21 -0000

This is a cool feature on the iPod Touch (This works on 3.1.2 firmware as well) which allows you to take a screenshot of your iPod Touch without any additional software.

It’s very simple to do it. To take a screenshot all you need to do is to hold down the power button at the top of the device and then press the Menu button (the black circle) – you will see a white flash on your screen which means the screenshot was taken. Then if you want to email the screenshot to someone else, you're going to be able to do that by accessing your pictures.

I hope this will help!

Joel Gonzalez

Re: 50 Reasons to Switch From Mac to PC

twitter-14791817 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:14:14 -0000

*drumroll* ...and the result of the challenge is: You fail miserably!!! Biggest piece of crap list I've ever seen!

Re: Windows Vista Rant – I’m Getting Mad

drewross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:16:38 -0000

vista user's caution a lot of your hardware is built for vista and xp may not find drivers if you wish to put you OS back to xp.

Re: Windows Vista Rant – I’m Getting Mad

drewross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:15:01 -0000

i agree Jeff sp1 fixes nothing and upon the release of the infamous widows seven we vista user's are a thing of the past so to speak, Like when xp first came out, soon like older versions of windows such as me 98/me/200 will be obsolete

Re: Windows Vista Rant – I’m Getting Mad

drewross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:10:46 -0000

put your xbox online. theirs updates for music and video, avi, mpg etc buy your self a usb drive and play what ever just as easy or easier. just a though

Re: Windows Vista Rant – I’m Getting Mad

drewross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:08:23 -0000

lol windows has gradually upgraded from there basic operating systems 98/Me/2000 are all basic Operating systems, windows Vista was just put out to early but in truth has verry little difference as xp. they integrated the updates into the Operating system changed the look and style of menu's slapped a new name and made millions

Re: Windows Vista Rant – I’m Getting Mad

drewross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:02:47 -0000

NEGATIVE when using free anti virus programs you subject your computer to a limited virus database. this means that there are a certain amount your covered for, another issue is if you run a virus program that only does a scan during operating system being open than harmful viruses can be attached to system files that will not be scanned because they are being used. i recommend Avast Pro, been around for years and has a very effective virus and spy ware database. also one of the few that protects thing like msn or any messenger email web page browsers and also runs planned scans before you OS has even started. as well as runs while the operating system runs. a great program for a low price by the year. also great for vista because it uses very little ram and processor

Re: Windows Vista Rant – I’m Getting Mad

drewross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:55:15 -0000

windows Vista needs a decent amount of knowledge to operate it properly. your cards and other hardware needs to have drivers that support vista, problem is if your card is not new chances are your not going to find a driver for it made in windows vista version i to gave up a three hundred dollar digital cable card because the company was not going to create drivers for it. as for the pop ups asking you to verify permissions it can be turned off so it doesn't ask you any more

Re: Windows Vista Rant – I’m Getting Mad

drewross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:49:59 -0000

its true even with windows seven. same base Operating system a few style Changes and a few programs that where designed bu widows to control media and games a bit better but still same old garbage

Re: Windows Vista Rant – I’m Getting Mad

drewross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:43:29 -0000

froze up posting this fresh reload nothing installed.

Re: Windows Vista Rant – I’m Getting Mad

drewross — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:41:46 -0000

windows to say the least have abandoned Vista as the have xp. There are a few reasons for its recent sluggish behavior. For some it may be low ram as vista requires half a gig to run, put more programs running and the system process freeze's. To say the least i have had the worst experience possible. i have two computers and one laptop my oldest computer runs windows xp. NOT A PROBLEM with it at all. in fact i have had it for over three years and no problem except every month there is so called mandatory security updates. what is it there securing NOTHING except there own failure in design. i reloaded my xp and took off auto update there is not one security update on that computer and it runs fast and smooth, been running games and high end graphics on it for a year. My laptop i reloaded it not a day ago, i had to call windows help line to verify that the copy was in fact genuine. i was Pissed needless to say, i have spent well over two thousand dollars on genuine crap and been treated the same. crap. when i first purchased windows vista there was one security up date and my laptop ran alright. Windows seven has been out for a short time now and i count seven security updates, the O.S is maybe a year. my laptop has hardly any programs and the system specs are more than enough to run it, i experience every thing from internet freezing to program crashes. 7 of them. I have anti virus programing as well, this is not the answer. windows a multi billion dollar company, as quick as they came out with windows vista operating system they have abandoned it even quicker. even with the release of of beta version there was noon stop problems. for all of us suckers that pay our hard earned money for this crap switch to apple. i hate apple but hate being used as a guinea pig even more. forget windows seven, you buy it you to will find out in a short while that its the same as vista with style changes and sound changes sure they added a few programs to help users use media and play game etc easier but that was all possible before, even years ago .
Listen to the pc vrs mac commercials some are funny but really true. i know i know its a commercial supporting mac but really, owning and running windows for years. a legit user that purchases and supports a company that won't even give you an disc for reloading any more. i for one am completely sick of of this. Move to mac. i picked up a 1300 dollar mac i know expensive but worth it. this coming from a person who has helped and made a decent living off of fixing other peoples issues with windows pc's of all operating systems.

Re: Illegal Music Dowloading: Look At The Facts

Cody (Cballa) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:09:09 -0000

If iTunes can tag all of the songs you buy and not allow you to save backups, what keeps them from purposely bugging there software so you have to re-buy all new songs again.

Re: Part 1: Malwarebytes vs SuperAntiSpyware

richardweinstein — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:40:56 -0000

I have been using Malwarebytes and Superantispyware together for about 2 months now. Strangely enough, Malwarebytes does not pick up anything but SAS picks up cookies that are unwanted. Maybe I simply don't have a spyware problem. I also run Spyware Blaster which is supposed to stop spyware from gettin gin your computer in the first place. Additionally, I run Bit Defender Anti Virus 2009. Funny thing -2 months ago, with all this protection running I got a viruse -computer locked up and I had to reinstall windows from zip. Aren't computers fun?

Re: Will Google Wave Break Into The Mainstream?

Jack — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:48:24 -0000

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Re: Will Google Wave Break Into The Mainstream?

Jack — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:47:32 -0000

Iamrealnotacomputerprogram@yahoo.co.uk thanks

Re: Will Google Wave Break Into The Mainstream?

Kenny — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:26:22 -0000

No question... It will change the way we use the internet.

Re: Will Google Wave Break Into The Mainstream?

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