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Mac just works? Sorry but that is a lot of hooey.
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hmmmmmmmm ... hooey to you too
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Consider the following.
A few years ago I bought 2 new macs for my studio. Within 6 months the change to system 10 was announced. It did not run well on the "older" machines so we were stuck on system 9, then the next version of photoshop was announced but it did not run well on system 9. Lots of crashes and very slow. The result was 2 machines a year old running software that put me at a competitive disadvantage. Did not cheer me up.
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yeah, i can immagine that sucks. i switched after 10 was out and already had the first update to 10.2 or something.
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A year or so later when I upgraded to new machines again we had a much more expensive fiasco with the change to intel chips. I now run my new MacBook pro on XP. Camera drivers come out quicker for XP and I can use local Garmin GPS maps and my Polar heartrate monitor with ease.
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i don't disagree. if you want compatibility, use windows.
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Don't want to start a religious debate here
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too late
my god is better than your god.
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but I see far more posts on this forum from mac users having hassles with simple stuff like dos formating cf cards then would leave me to believe they are trouble free and just work.
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then you first turn to a bunch of windows users and ask how to format on a mac. sheesh. of course things work different. the close/enlarge/minimize buttons are on the other side of the window, there is no menu INSIDE the window but ABOVE it, the red dot does not actually close the app ...
people will have huge problems if they fail to adapt. compare stick-shift to manual ... sorta similar but different.
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Before anyone attacks me over this I own 4 G5's, a Macbook Pro, emac, ipod and several pc's. I would not say I am against macs but consider myself realistic. If I was smart enough and interested enough I would give Linux a go.
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your main problem is probably that you're using multiple devices. i get confused when i boot my windows pc and keep on pressing the windows-key
anyhow, what i want to say, in my line of work (multimedia) i realized i do not need a windows PC, and i can work better when i actually do not use windows. so we have an XP laptop left in our studio, to do browser-compatibility-checks, use our scanner/fax/printer that does not work properly on a mac (driver issues
) and run win-only software that's sometimes needed for non-business things.
i am completely converted, i am proud to say, but to each his own. i have tried to "convert" a couple of people, some are glad about it, others use win and osX on their macs, and others b*tch and whine about how crappy the apple is and basically blame me for throwing money out the window. (no, not my fault, i just "suggested" politely)
but yes, i do longfully look at windows users when they're playing the latest 3D games, or when they can convert ebooks to mobipocket format
etc.
my macs (powerbook g4, now macbook pro) have always worked, i had one busted cd-drive in the powerbook that worked for 3 years almost nonstop, and the cooling fans in my macbook pro needed replacement a month ago. but the system never needed reinstalling, i have no kernel panics, an occasional freezin app is force-quit and restarted, and have never lost any data due to software/os-faults.
i just wanted to voice my position. every time a windows user comes to me and asks me for help, i love my mac a little more. because even if it is not perfect, it is perfecter (?) than all the windows machines i have worked on in my life.
okay, back to topic, bleeding edge et cetera, please continue!