Posted on 01/12/2008 4:06:08 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
I love the Mac, Beautiful hardware, seamless operating system, Instant start up’s, support and training is almost unbelievable.
I will never go back.
Which is just another example of MS foisting a piece of junk off to the consumer. I was one of those that had to wait for the stores to open so I could spend another $208.00 for the sp, just so I could use my new pc without getting the blue screen all the time. Be nice if we could all get rich by ripping people off like that. Whatever happened to debugging software??
My "state of the art" XP 1GB system is 6 years old and I have to upgrade.
I use memory intensive graphic stuff like Adobe CS3, Lightroom, printing utilities, etc. and would need at least a 4GB system with Vista. I'll need that much RAM anyway.
I have to stick with some version of Microsoft's offerings. It's very frustrating. I'm ready to buy an expensive multi-monitor system and I'm afraid to pull the trigger.
(I know, I know.... Buy a Mac, vote for Ron Paul, wear hemp-fibre clothing....)
I've been running Ubuntu 7.4 on a small 7.4Gb partition in addition to Windows XP. Does Mint come with the pre-installed applications, such as OpenOffice, as Ubuntu does? I know Mint is built on Ubuntu. I ask, because the manual suggests a 10Gb partition because of future software. I really don't want to resize that drive at this time, but would like to try Mint. I'm impressed with Ubuntu, but really don't like the terminal/sudo experience for handling many tasks. I want to see what Mint has to offer.
Digital Rights management. Or, Die Roll Modifier, if you're an old-school gamer. :-)
When we bought our new computers, at the end of 2006, we had the choice of XP or Vista. I made sure they we loaded with XP. They are Vista capable, but I don't anticipate ever using it. I learned from past experience to avoid MS's first generation OS's.
Correction: Mac's new OS does NOT work on PC's...but Windoze OSes do work on some Macs. I think the writer got it backwards.
And only a foolish Mac user puts Vista on their machine! Well, ok, only a fool of either stripe puts Vista on anything but their "to avoid" list!
I haven’t, but I’ve read that is okay (legal) to downgrade to XP if you have Vista Premium or Business. A Google search should return many hits. Best of luck. My new notebook (ordered yesterday) will come with XP. You can still get XP on a new machine if you order online through Dell. Or through a couple of other OEMs.
On my Mac Pro tower, I run OS X (10.4.11), Win XP, and Vista.
XP isn't so bad compared to OS X. OS X has more eye candy and is somewhat more intuitive. You have to learn more about the OS to use XP, but once you do that, it's snappy and responsive.
Vista, OTOH, is ponderous and slow (8 core quad processor Intel Xeon, 8GB of RAM). It's like driving a truck instead of a sportscar. And it's always inserting itself into what you're doing, by connecting to the internet, or asking you if you really want to do what you are trying to do, etc, etc.
I would think, for experienced XP folk, that Vista would be a step down.
Microsoft is allowing the installation of XP on new machines through the end of June. You just have to order them online, like through the Dell website. I believe you can do the same at the Gateway website.
Read This. Guy "upgrades" from Vista to XP and review's the "new" operating system.
Pretty funny for Windows users anyway...
Just bought a new Dell Inspiron 1521 laptop. Vista installed on it. Took a racehorse and turned it into a nag.
will be installing OpenSuse 10.3 today.
Jack
I do not know about anything else but Debian, which I have installed on 4 machines so far. Some posting on here last year clued me into it...It is FREE.
Just plug in your ethernet cable and go to:
http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com
Then fasten your seatbelt.
Digital Rights Management. RIAA-like entities stand behind you watching and if you do something they don't like it deliberately degrades your drivers, among other things.
You end up paying for "licenses" to use some AV formats, etc.
“http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3672_7-5021075-1.html?tag=bhed
This is a review of XP six months after it came out. Sound familiar? You could substitute “Vista” for “XP” and be right at home for today.
And if you think Leopard doesn’t have its share of problems take a look at the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom forum.
I run Lightroom, Bibble Lite, Photoshop Elements, Video Studio 11 (both video editing and DVD authoring) and it works fine.”
That’s the thing. These Apple guys who are running here to extolling the greatness of Leopard are basically pretending, or not telling the truth about how there have been zero issues with Apple’s new os. Apple users have been complaining about bugginess left and right, but I bet no one is going to write an article about it.
And the guys who are trying to pawn Linux like it’s paradise are even more off.
I am old enough to remmeber when Apple treated its customers JUST as badly as MS does theirs, now. I have a long memory.
Intoxication by success infects any company eventually.
I just bought a laptop for my assistant, and I foolishly got one with Vista, instead of buying a Dell online with XP. How bad could it be... it’s newer, therefore it’s better, right? Wrong. It’s slow. All the buttons are in different places, so it takes a long time to do anything. The Vista computer won’t network with my other XP computers... still working on that one. So far I have yet to find one thing the Vista machine does better than my old XP’s.
10.5 is the greatest. My company has been Mac since 1984. We were laughed at by my friends. I got the last snicker.
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