FYI, I've been a Mac user much longer than you have, and the way
most Mac users compare Vista and OS X gets on my nerves. Its
fanboys who give us a bad name; Do you know how many people have a
bad impression of us Mac users? Words like, 'Oh, OSX is sooo smooth
and fast, not like Vista!', could have been rephrased into much
better words. I was not, and never do, like flame wars.
I use a Mac Mini, and sure, its fast, but Windows is my
preferred choice.
Also FYI: Pros and cons dude.
Macs aren't upgradable, and applications for Macs are few. Sure,
no viruses, but who wants to waste time on an OS that less than 5%
of the world population use?
Windows are upgradable, and sure, they CAN be unstable, but
their code was meant for a variety of platforms and processors:
IA64, x86(-64), Intel, AMD, VIA. Mac code was optimized for a small
amount of hardware, and Ive gotten my fair share of kernel panics
on my Mac(More than my desktop, actually). And my desktop is a
not-so-new quad-core.
So yeah, you can't really blame me for not liking fanboys. They
always ruin the image of the users. Just try not to be one, and its
fine.
Are you hyped-up about Snow Leopard?
It's not like I'm mindlessly bashing Windows. I've been a
Windows user for my entire life, up until December of last year, so
I know what I'm talking about. OS X *is* much smoother than Vista.
Why is it so bad that I stated an honest observation?
Before I got my MacBook in December, I had an HP Pavilion laptop
that ran Vista. It was slow as hell. (And btw, this laptop had
decent specs.) I had to do multiple system restores because one day
it stopped starting up. I had to reformat once because programs
constantly crashed. On my desktop, which ran XP, Windows got slower
and slower until it took over ten minutes to start up.
My Mac has given me very few problems. Yeah, Safari crashes
multiple times per day, which really annoyed me. I'm now back to
Firefox. I'm not saying Macs are so perfect and totally flawless;
I'm appreciating how much better the overall experience is. The
fact that less than 10% (I thought it was like 8%, not <5%) of
the world uses Macs doesn't matter to me... I'm not trying to be
like everyone else for the sake of it, you know. I have everything
I need on a Mac: MS Office, Firefox, uTorrent, Photoshop,
Dreamweaver, FileZilla, iTunes, VLC, Audacity... hell, even
Geometer's Sketchpad. I bought VMware Fusion together with my
MacBook because I thought I would need it. I don't. How is using a
Mac "wasting time"?
Also, I understand how Macs aren't for everyone. I hardly even
understood what you said in your fifth paragraph, and frankly, I
don't really care. The average user doesn't, either. I don't care
much for the technical details; as long as my computer has decent
specs and works fine, I'm happy. I haven't had that experience with
Windows computers (the part where it works fine, I mean).
Lastly, I know this post is really defensive and whatnot, but
you said Macs are a waste of time. Therefore, I get to respond to
that.
