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Originally Posted by Ryvyan
There are people who put Apple down because the programs they bought wouldn't work in Bootcamp, and there are people who put Windows down because they perceive it is cool to like Apple (I can't think of any other reasons). All I'm saying is that both are decent OS, and it's awesome that we have the choice to choose between them for our individual needs.
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Now how is this for a reason:
I bought an iMac G3 DV500 in year 2000. All my kids used it, I used it, upgraded it to OSX when it came out in 2002 (or was it 2003?) and it was like running Windows XP on a P1 machine back then. Still it slogged on, never let me down, I never had to format the hard disk or add to its 512MB PC100 DDR!!! Try running Win XP on a P1 800 Mhz PC with 512 MB RAM. Yesterday I put it in the attic because the power button had started playing up and the iMac was taking up valueable desk-space. All my four kids literally grew on that machine enjoying endless hours of Reader Rabbit, Jump Ahead and Blinky Bill educational games. I was so impressed with that machine that i bought an iPod first gen back when they came out. 8 years of usage and abusage untill the connectors for firewire port got worn out (it was used in the car on daily basis which involved plugging in and out of chager all the time). Bought my first iPhone exactly 2 years ago. All kinds of experiments with different jailbreaks were conducted on this excellent gadget and it survived everything. Since the year 2000, I have had at least 4 or 5 Windows laptops with hours of frustrated, slow and unstable computing. Heck, even OS 9.0 was more advanced than any version of Windows I have ever used, at least it never slowed the machine down and never attracted virii. Let's do the maths now. 4 laptops at £500 each (including antivirus subscription, the free ones are not as good as, say Kasperski, for instance). That's £2000 spent excluding the cost of time spent on defragging, running virus scans, loss of data because of crashes and re-formats, changes of hard disk drives because all the rubbish that Windows gathers which fills the space without your knowing and all those endless security updates to the OS. £2000 would have bought me a very good Macbook and it would have lasted 10 years as Apple products are reliable as far as my experience is concerned. In two hours, my iMac will complete its first 24 hours in the attic. I will never throw it because the memories attached to that machine are too beautiful to let me part with it. Incidentally my friend phoned yeaterday to tell me that his Compaq Evo desktop had stopped opening applications while complaining about system being low on memory and pagefile size (the usual complaints), I sent him to buy more RAM. A P4 1.8 Ghz machine couldn't handle Win XP without extra RAM!!!