Saturday, January 12, 2008

WINDOWS XP BETTER THAN MAC LEOPARD!!!!!!

Sorry I don't have graphics to put up with this post. I can't figure out how to do that on my new  Mac.  With Windows you just go to your "My Pictures" and grab a picture. It's intuitive. With Mac....OK, I give up, where do you store your graphics? In the photo bin?

MAC SUCKS!  The default size of the Mac windows are thin and unattractive, and it's not clear how to widen them.  With windows you just pull on the sides.  The Mac welcoming screen should be called "the unwelcoming screen" because it's loaded to the gills with garish ads for Apple products, and the tiny sliver where you type in searches is lost in the clutter.  Making a picture larger or smaller on Windows is done with icons that visually describe your choices. I still haven't figured out how to do it on a Mac.

Confusing? Fear not! Mac has seen fit to answer questions on a free-for-all "forum" where you can mingle with random, confused users of all the Mac products and attempt to find something useful, if you don't die of exhaustion first. Dopey old Windows provides a manual, both physical and virtual, and it has an index.

My PC monitor had controls for brightness and saturation  that were on the front of the monitor, where everybody could see them.  You could use keyboard commands or just turn the knob. Ditto the volume knob on my PC speakers.  Not so with Mac. Mac even hides the on/off button.   

The set-up was alternately easy and confusing.  Mac wanted to know if I wanted to subscribe to .Mac but stupidly neglected to tell me what the heck .Mac was.  I was told I could get this mysterious, precious  thing on a free trial for 60 days, but I had to type in a password. The same password I use to log on?  Who knows?  It didn't say. I still don't know how to eject my installation CD.  With my PC I pushed a button next to the CD tray. 

So far almost every operation I've encountered, the ones that both Windows and Mac perform in a similar way, can be done more intuitively and with fewer steps on my PC.  Sorry, but there it is.  Probably I'll get used to the Mac system soon and will grow to prefer it like everybody else, but I want to record my first negative impressions now, before I forget them.

 

57 comments:

Unknown said...

With Windows you just go to your "My Pictures" and grab a picture. It's intuitive. With Mac....OK, I give up, where do you store your graphics? In the photo bin?

In the DOCUMENTS folder. Every Application (found in the folder of called "Applications") makes a document. You can save everything anywhere, but they start in the document folder... think of it as "My Documents" without the misogyny.

The Mac welcoming screen should be called "the unwelcoming screen" because it's loaded to the gills with garish ads for Apple products, and the tiny sliver where you type in searches is lost in the clutter.

Right... you don't want to have all the ads the first time the system starts. You want all the advertising all the time in all possible ways. Okay...

Making a picture larger or smaller on Windows is done with icons that visually describe your choices. I still haven't figured out how to do it on a Mac.

Um... you can't really. If you open System Preferences, and go to Displays and lower the resolution, and it shall look like crap.

Confusing? Fear not! Mac has seen fit to answer questions on a free-for-all "forum" where you can mingle with random, confused users of all the Mac products and attempt to find something useful, if you don't die of exhaustion first.

Yeah, they are stupid, about the web and their Macs.

Dopey old Windows provides a manual, both physical and virtual, and it has an index.

Where did you get a manual with Windows XP? I got a stupid 20 page folder... which is what you get from Apple. Look, its there in box... btw... go to Help and type a problem in and boom... problem solved.

My PC monitor had controls for brightness and saturation that were on the front of the monitor, where everybody could see them. You could use keyboard commands or just turn the knob. Ditto the volume knob on my PC speakers. Not so with Mac. Mac even hides the on/off button.

Yeah... cus you don't have to see it. AND you should never turn your computer off... and your computer will handle the dimming, shutting off and all that...

I still don't know how to eject my installation CD. With my PC I pushed a button next to the CD tray.

Eject DVD/CD: button on the right of the F12, Grab your disk and drag it to the trash (will not throw your DVD away) right click (you are using a PC style mouse, right) and select "eject disk", AND select DVD and open-apple "e"... more than XP!

You need to go to
www.apple.com/support/switch101/
that site lists things that are done on the PC and their Mac/Apple equivalents.

Happy Macing!

Anonymous said...

The instruction manual is on the Mac OS.

Go to the HELP menu at the top .

(starting at the left side you'll see an apple, then
Finder , File, Edit , View, Go, Window, Help. )

Click on Help. There's an index of topics or you can type in question or keyword to find what you're looking for .

For instance , in the Mac Help window type in:
"Eject CD". This will give you a range of topics about ejecting discs.

Simplest is to right click on the CD and choose Eject. ( If you're using a Macbook trackpad Ctrl-Click instead of Right Click with the mouse)

Or from the File menu choose Eject.

Or to eject a CD just drag it to the Trash can icon in the Dock. Or there's also an Eject Key on the keyboard that looks like a little pyramid over top of a line . Press it down and hold. That will eject a CD.


Pictures can be stored in the "Pictures" folder or in iPhoto . (or anywhere you want. You can create a photos folder on the Desktop . I have one where I download misc. images that I grab on the internet )

You resize a window by the clicking and grabbing on the little triangle area at the lower right hand corner of the window. Click and drag ... resize it any size you want.

If you have a bunch of windows open and you're looking for a specific one the F9 key will reveal all windows (as smaller windows arranged on the screen.) Then you can click on the one you want to look at . In Leopard this may be different (I have Tiger , not Leopard) . See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposé_(Mac_OS_X)

kenkyushiryo said...

YES YES YES!! finally someone has said it! i couldnt agree more. its all one big well designed ad. ive been using windows for quite sometime, and have everything i want to use on it. i went to use a mac to find it often very counter intuitive. too many ads for apple stuff. i often found it slower for programs i used often too. bah! who needs a mac...pcs get the job done!

Paul said...

Wow, I was first going to say how surprised I was at you not liking the Mac, but then I thought back to my first introduction to the Mac a few years ago in college...I *hated* it! hahaha! And now, a couple years later, I own one. Weird. So I guess it really does grow on you.

Thad said...

Wow someone else prefers Windows to Mac? Awesome.

I actually use Windows Vista. I don't know why it's gotten so much bad publicity, it's worked fine for me for the five months I've had it.

Marc Cantlin said...

I promise you will get used to it. It is always a little painful in the beginning of any change... and all computers are still just computers.

Good luck with your transition (and I bet you can ask here anytime and get quicker and more efficient answers than any silly forum)!

chinaberry said...

Hi Uncle Eddie! I'm a long time lurker that never bothered to make myself known. (Creepy, no?) And I couldn't help but make a comment today, being mac-blooded for years now. I'm glad you've crossed over and I hope you will soon be enjoying this fab machine once you get settled :-D

-Shells

PS
you can eject the disc by dragging the disc icon right to the trashcan!

Eshniner Forest said...

I use and enjoy both systems just fine. I'm a freak.

Anonymous said...

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

Kali Fontecchio said...

No offense, but you're insane.

Krishva said...

That's how I felt about Mac the first time I used one too. I had grown up on Windows and things in Windows SEEMED intuitive because I had been doing them for so long. After I learned "the Mac way" of doing things I found it easier than the Windows way. Now I own a Mac and will always have one as my main computer.

P.S. Your photos go in your "Pictures" folder. It should be right under your home folder (the one with your name on it).

Click the little blue square face thing in the dock (should be the first icon) to go into Finder. That should take you to your home folder automatically so you can see your folders for pictures, movies, music, etc.

Adam Tavares said...

I went through this experience about 3 years ago when I got my Mac. You'll get used to it soon enough but if you want to speed up your learning try this...

Get a good 3rd party reference, like this one... Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide and when a problem arises look it up as best you can in the index. This company has the best technical manuals, many of them are better than the official documentation.

Also another big help is this page Mac OS X key shorcuts. Good luck, Eddie!

Anonymous said...

It can be tough getting used to a new OS, Eddie. You think Windows is intuitive probably because you're used to it, but I work at a library and I can tell you the newbies don't find it intuitive. Hopefully you'll get to loving your Mac.

Graphics: I don't think you have graphics unless you also bought IWorks. Except for photos or graphics that you download, either from the Net or from a camera (for photos). (you'll enjoy uploading photos from a camera, you just plug it in and IPhoto senses it and opens and says "want to import?" and you click yes and that's it.) Put those downloaded graphics or Net pictures wherever you want them. If you put them in Iphoto it converts them to Iphoto's file style so to make them be a jpg again you click and drag your chosen photo out of Iphoto and onto, say, your desktop so you can easily find it when you're browsing from Blogger. Hopefully that makes sense.

Mac windows: resize them with the lower right hand corner of the window. See where the corner has 3 little lines drawn on it? Click & hold that corner and drag it around to resize. The Mac windows are cool I think because you can have multiple windows open layered on top of each other however you want to click and drag and resize them, unlike in XP. So if you need to look at two window screens at the same time you can have them right next to each other, or half on top of each other, or whatever. i find that handy.

I'm not sure what you mean by welcoming screen with garish ads. My desktop is pretty much clear except for my junk on it. I think I might have had an icon for a trial of IWorks when I first got my Mac last year but I was too cheap to buy it since I still have Appleworks from my previous Mac so I just dragged that icon to the trash bin, I think.

A manual would be handy, I concur. Hit up your library for a book, if you need one.

Monitor settings are under the System Preferences icon in the dock. The one that looks like a bunch of gears. Click on that icon and then on Display. There you go.

The .Mac thing was dumb, I'm with you.

To eject: look for the button on your keyboard with an arrow pointing up with a line under it. That's your eject button. Alternatively, you could control-click on the icon of whatever you've got loaded (might be an icon on your desktop, or if it is a music cd then look for the cd in Itunes) and choose "eject".

Hope that helps a bit.

Anonymous said...

HA! What a coincidence, I write this as I'm being forced to use my sister's Mac to connect to the internets. I hate it! Macs don't have a page down or page up button! They don't have a left or right click option! They don't have a taskbar! I wanna open up a new window so I can show you a funny article on why Macs suck, but how they heck do you open up a new window? Where are the tabs? Yeesh!

I couldn't agree more. Mac also had the coldest most sterile design sensibility on the planet. I like sleek gunmetal black designs on computers, and Mac gives me this minimalistic garbage.

Macs make you use their hardware and software, they've somehow sucked people into having less choice, regardless of whether or nor their programs are better than the alternatives.

The only people who use Macs are either artfags or musicianfags, you know, people who go to art school and adore films like The Royal Tannenbaums, I Heart Huckabees, and listen to indie rock. Hipster morons. Ditch this shit.

I'm gonna convince my sister to get Windows XP on her Mac.

Ryan G. said...

I had an Imac awhile ago and I loved it. Then I got a PC. Now I love PC. It will just take some time to get used to.

You could just make a new folder on your desktop for your pictures.

The eject button on mac i think is on the top right hand corner of the keyboard.

Windows Vista came out awhile ago, and although it looks cool, people did'nt take to it because they are so used to XP and Vista takes to much memory to run proficiantly.

Good luck with Mac. Im sure us bloggers could help with any troubleshooting problems you have!

david said...

macs are too slick and lame. plus you can't customize them. its not a computer, its like some weird appliance.

Anonymous said...

With Mac....OK, I give up, where do you store your graphics? In the photo bin?
Try iPhoto. Upload images to your blog? If you've got "Show Tool Bar" selected in the finder, a panel to the left of your main window contents appears, and can see your folder "Pictures," that's where your images are stored through iPhoto.

MAC SUCKS!  The default size of the Mac windows are thin and unattractive, and it's not clear how to widen them.  With windows you just pull on the sides.
There's a little box at the bottom right of every window. It has three little diagonal lines in it. Grab it and stretch in any direction. Also, did you click those little Red, Yellow and Green circle buttons at the top left of all windows to see what happens?

Dopey old Windows provides a manual, both physical and virtual, and it has an index.
At the FINDER (Desktop) click on the menu item "Help." There's the manual. Type anything in the search field or browse.

I still don't know how to eject my installation CD.  With my PC I pushed a button next to the CD tray. 
Tap the keyboard button that looks like a triangle over a bar. Alternately, with the CD selected in the finder type Command-E.
Alternately, with any window open, choose View>Toolbar. A list of drives, externals, CDs, or DVDs will appear. Click the eject symbol (triangle over bar).


Mac wanted to know if I wanted to subscribe to .Mac but stupidly neglected to tell me what the heck .Mac was.
Although you don't need .mac, it's pretty handy. An easy way to transfer files, store images for use on your blog, create pseudo email addresses, create a forum, store entire web sites before "Going Live" and probably a hundred other uses.

Eddie, I'm you in reverse, although less suave and sophisticated. My main computer is a MAC, and every time I have to use my PC, I piss and moan.

Chris S. said...

I'm a Mac user, and what you're saying frightens me. I don't know how to respond. It's like finding out you're favorite uncle hates puppies and likes to drown them in bags. Please ... don't say these things. Join us. Like every cool and well marketed cult, you will find happiness amongst us. Drink this - it will make you free.

Anonymous said...

NOOOOOOOB

Anonymous said...

Oh no!!You just invited a bunch of computer geeks to chime in on all the pro and anti mac vs pc debate crap you hear non stop at IT watercooler chat.
There is no faster way to encourage and entice a bunch of blow hards to spout boring boring boring posts that rival listening to little old ladies talk about stitch techniques.

I'll come back in a few weeks when this fiasco blows over.

Anonymous said...

You do better when you write reflectively, not out of frustration. I guess tantrums are OK on blogs but they don't make very good reading. Hope things go better for you.

Anonymous said...

Eddie, for gods sake return it and get a commodore 64!

Jenny Lerew said...

Somehow I feel I should have known this would be the fallout. :-/

Steve Jobs and Apple invented "intuitive" computers. All PCs ape/copy/try their damndest to imitate the mac interface. That's a fact.

All the other little things are simply that-little things you've gotten used to. Really, macs work much better. Ignore the .Mac thing, btw.

You don't need it.

And I too have no idea what you're talking about with all the "ads"? On the other hand, my PC laptop is incredibly annoying in that it has popups that pop up every few seconds, every time I use it. Lame.
Oh well--happy landings!

Anonymous said...

This is exactly why I stick with my old cell phone that is the size of a loaf of bread and looks like one of those military phones you see in battle.
Technology comes so quickly that it wigs me out. Change is bad, right Eddie?

Eddie, I'm would wager a weeks pay that you also still use a rotary phone and haven't parted with your old calculator from 1968 that is about as big as shoebox and takes 4 size D batteries.

Anonymous said...

All the Mac hatred in this room warms my heart. I'm a fan of XP, I think I might like it better than Vista, I don't like how the new Vista Word makes you use Calibri 11 pt font by default, but I haven't used Vista that much.

David's comment that Macs are uncustomizable is very astute. You can literally make your PC desktop look anyway you want in any colour combination you want by right clicking your desktop, clicking properties, and clicking the Appearance tab. There's no such option on Macs.

I found the funny Mac articles I wanted to share, too!

One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't:

The iPhone is a piece of shit, and
so is your face.


I admire the folks are Apple for innovating such ideas as windows, graphics, and point and click interfaces, and obviously without those innovations we wouldn't have Microsoft Windows, but in the end, Microsoft's verison of the taskbar and windows interface proved superior.

Here's a cool old 80s Mac commercial that basically shows their innovations (back when other computers were still using DOS and Command Prompts)

Mark said...

I have a PC at home and used a Mac at school, I would only get confused occasionally. Changing to a Mac now would cost me a lot of money so for now I'll just put on my suit, tie and glasses and stay a PC. Though I have to admit that the Macs ability to open almost any file type is pretty cool, sigh.

Whit said...

.Mac is their proprietary fancy e-mail but it costs a hundred bucks per year! Use something cheaper, unless you have need for some of the other things .Mac does. And I prefer Amiga because it's a lost cause.

Lester Hunt said...

Well, Eddie, that sure answers my question about how you like your Mac. Thanks for the info! I personally know nothing about Macs. I am very proud of how tolerant I am of Mac users, though. I've learned not to stare at their pointy heads. I know that hurts their feelings. So I don't do it anymore.

Anonymous said...

I have a Mac and a PC and I HATE HATE HATE my Mac...

If I could go back in time I would stop myself from ever buying this piece of crap.

I will never understand this love for Macs. I hope your experiences end up better than mine.

david said...

eddie after you take care of your computer problems and get over the glossy weird annoying mac interface you should start working on some cartoons. they got cintiques at my work and when first trying them it was a little weird, different from the wacom, but you definitely have more control.

i would like to see you sit down with a cintique and flash and animate something.

i bet you would be super excited to do so.

they have smaller ones out right now that are less expensive but still get the job done.

Matthew Cruickshank said...

Macs give better blow jobs Eddie.

Patrick McMicheal said...

Most PC fans have invested countless hours of their lives learning the archaic structure of windows, they feel very proud of themselves for this monumental achievement.
Computer freezes and restarting have become common place in their day!
The concept of a computer that doesn't freeze,doesn't have to re-start every 30 minutes, doesn't have viruses, and just WORKS, frightens them somehow!
It's like spending years learning how to walk on your hands(pc) and then suddenly someone shows you how to walk on your feet(mac). You are so proud of yourself learning how to walk on your hands that it becomes too troublesome to do it the easier way.

Anonymous said...

Some Guy wrote:

"You can literally make your PC desktop look anyway you want in any colour combination you want by right clicking your desktop, clicking properties, and clicking the Appearance tab. There's no such option on Macs."


You are incorrect.

When I right click on my Mac desktop you know what pops up ? An option in the menu to Change Desktop Background (amazing!). When I select that option to Change Desktop I can customize my own desktop colors or use any photo from my iPhoto or Pictures folder to set as my desktop . I can make custom textures and images in Photoshop and set those as my desktop . What do you mean by "no such option on the Mac " ?

You also wrote something earlier:

" Macs don't have a page down or page up button! They don't have a left or right click option! They don't have a taskbar!"

Huh ? It's called something different but there sure is a "taskbar" in Mac OS X , and what on earth are you talking about that Macs don't have a page down or page up button and don't have left or right click option ?

Not true.

Honestly , Some Guy, these sort of comments make it sound like you're stuck back in 1997 .

Guess what , Some Guy ? Because of my work I sometimes have to use both Windows XP and Mac OS X . I only have one computer . My Mac. I can run Windows XP on my Mac with Bootcamp . Easy.

What's the big deal ?

Anonymous said...

One weird thing when you start out with Safari is that you have to go to preferences to enable tabbed browsing. It's not the greatest browser on earth. I use Camino... it's much better.

Here's a good page for browsers:
http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html

Chris Merritt said...

Oh man - Eddie - you make me sad!

Mac is so much easier, so user friendly, I'm shocked to hear you say this! I finally sold my PC for the exact same reasons you are complaining about your Mac - everything required about 10 more steps than I wanted to get it to do something. Not to mention the constant updating of drivers, etc. just so the damn thing would run.

Perhaps this is because my first computer was an Apple, that windows was so frustrating for me - but every time I am forced to use a PC, it is a maddening experience...

Anonymous said...

Don't be too hasty Eddie! Right now you're saying it sucks because you're not familiar with it. That's like moving to a new city and saying it sucks because you don't know where everything is yet.

I'm sorry you're having trouble getting used to the Mac OS. It's actually much better than Windows, but it's going to take some time to familiarize yourself with it. You'll probably find that you're over-thinking some tasks because they're more complex on WIndows. There are a lot of reasons why most creative professionals prefer the Mac OS.

Anonymous said...

>>There are a lot of reasons why most creative professionals prefer the Mac OS.

Because they're fags?

>>You are incorrect.

I meant the color of buttons, taskbars, windows, and menus. You can also choose between Classic or XP style, along with sizes and fonts. Vista gives even more options. Macs give you exactly one: OS X Leopard. And teh Mac version of the taskbar isn't as good.

Mac users are snobs who believe everything their beleved company tell them. "It just...works!" BS.

I don't think PCs are perfect, there are lots of faults.

I.D.R.C. said...

I am a PC guy from the first PC. Now I can run OSX on it, though.

I tell everyone to get a Mac even though I don't have one. Everybody with a PC wants me to fix it, sooner or later.

Jake Thomas said...

http://www.parallels.com/
Get this for Mac, it will let you run Windows XP on Leopard, so whenever you want to do something that you can't figure out in Leopard, just open up XP.

Anonymous said...

What IDIOT came up with the idea of dragging a CD to a trash can to eject it?

Taber said...

I've been using computers since I was 6. They've been as much a part of my life as shoes have been for almost as long as I can remember, yet I still had to sit in front of a Mac in the computer lab at my school for 10 minutes looking for the ON BUTTON.

Talk about bad design getting in the way of function.

David Omar said...

Well, I have a a MAC notebok and a PC WINDOWS workstation. I can't figure any of them out. As long as I can log on to the net and draw on it, it's alright with me. they are just tools, afterall. It's like driving a new car. Once you drive it enough you get to know where all the gadgets are located.

-David O.

Ryan said...

Windows 98 > Leopard

TheFuzzyPubes said...

HAHA! That big fight between Mac users and PC users is one of the funniest thing on earth.

You'll probably get used to your new CPU Eddie! GOOD LUCK!!!

Computer freezes and restarting have become common place in their day!

PCs don't freeze anymore... I admit that maybe 7 years ago it was a problem, but now, PC or MaC !? it doesn't matter you can have a GREAT computer which both in my opinion.

JM said...

Wow, this debate. My quick two cents: OSX is a better OS behind the scenes (all the Unix-y stuff behind that's hidden), but I absolutely hate their software philosophy. Mac is based on the idea that the computer lets you do things the best way to do them, instead of letting you have granular control over everything you want to do. On a Mac, the computer is in control. When I use a computer, I want to be in control.

Erik Westlund said...

I agree with jenny; you have developed habits while using Windows. Those habits are in your way more than anything else.

I use both Windows and Macs everyday. Have done so for many years. They each have pluses and minuses. Its really not a big deal.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for nothing Eddie!!!! I warned ya we would have to listen the retards (no offense to the more educated and tolerable actual mentally retarded) go on and on about this PC vs Mac using arguments they heard were good points to argue back in 1993. Crap like..."I have had my mac since 1958 and it still does addition and subtraction like an ace" and other insane "better than yours" comparisons. And yes for those forementioned dopes, it was sarcasm. i know macs werent around in 1958. This truly is how common sense challenged most are. They have to have simple sarcasm and joking told to them or they blow a mac gasket. **Notice it almost always are Mac-tards that get bent out of shape. That has to mean something.

Eddie, I am convinced you are so deprived of attention and comments on your post that you intentionally solicited responses on well known geek hot topics, but boring lame real world interest. Thats a shame. I suspect that Star Wars vs. Star Trek posts are coming down the pike. Wait... you already did the Lord of the Rings debate back months ago... which is the new generation of Star Wars geeks....tsk tsk. Oh Eddie.... what ever happened to you and the days of yore?!?! :-(

Phil Scoville said...

Too bad that you don't like the mac. It is excellent and offers many wonderful features that are explained both on the apple website and also in their manual. Good luck. I love OSX. It is great. I also like XP but mac is awesome.

lastangelman said...

Ok Eddie, you need to shell out the $99 service to go to Mac school at the Apple store. I know it sounds retarded and fishy and isn't this stuff supposed to be intuitive? but if you're used to doing things the Windows way, you need an hour or two with one those "geniuses" from the Apple store to show you how the do things in Steve Jobs universe. It's worth the extra time to sit down and learn some of the stuff, especially Time Machine and Stacks.
It could have been worse Eddie ...you could have bought Vista!

Eddie Fitzgerald said...

Many thanks for the great comments and links! I got so busy that I had a hard time answering! I'm not so critical of the mac now that I've learned how to do a few things on it.

Boy, changing an operating system is traumatic! My digital camera, scanner and video games don't work on the new system. I'm going through withdrawl!

BTW, I will take those mac classes as soon as I can.

Eddie Fitzgerald said...

Many thanks for the great comments and links! I got so busy that I had a hard time answering! I'm not so critical of the mac now that I've learned how to do a few things on it.

Boy, changing an operating system is traumatic! My digital camera, scanner and video games don't work on the new system. I'm going through withdrawl!

BTW, I will take those mac classes as soon as I can.

Anonymous said...

From my perspective having used both at home and at work i honestly say i have a mild preference for xp.
I prefer the menu structure for xp with is very stoical not arcane!
It allows an effective interface to deal with most problems without having needing the knowledge required to use the console on osx(especialy inportant when trying to completly remove faulty software installs).
It deals with hardware installs better including plug n play type usb connections very easily compared to the mac(and rarely needs to reboot). Quite frankly deals with hotswapping pretty poorly in comparison to xp.
Backwards compatibility is a plus for windows as is the wide availability of hardware and software (And its generaly cheaper too).
The golden rules are is dont by cheap hardware and dont download spyware infested crap software and remember to defrag your Harddrive every so often. If you do those windows xp will out perform OSX at pretty much everything including apps like photoshop.

For the "but macs just work" guys, the easyiest phone as modem set up is a windows mobile 6 device with internet sharing on a xp machine.
For example..
1- turn on phone and pc.
2- go to start >> menu >> comm manager (on the phone).
3- Launch internet sharing and click connect.
4- plug phone to the pc with the usb cable.

Thats it.

As far as using xp on a mac its ok but for phone as modem set ups it can be annoying if you use a macbook. No right clicking unless you buy a second mouse and no hash key!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

I hate mac os x it's extremely useless. I have 17 inch IMAC G5 but I prefer Windows XP for my primary operating system.

Glosnas Sab said...

Yeah compared to Windows Mac is suck and useless in the world where Windows is a dominant culture. If you learn programing on mac, it's unlikely that you'll be successful. Whereas if you develop for the Windows Platform, no need to say anything. A couple years ago i switched to a mac, now im switching back to windows :D. Here are my reasons why:
Eclipse's performance on OS X sux.
Photoshop CS2 is unbelievably slow compared to the Windows Version.
Photoshop CS3 (mac) is much faster than CS2 yet slower than Ps CS3 on Windows.
3rd party applications are mostly useless (they look great, but they don't do anything productive)
Flex 3 on Mac is usable but still much slower than the Windows release.
No such thing as Web Browser control- developer can hardly embed a web browser component in their application whereas in windows the same job can be done in a few seconds.

Anonymous said...

All the keys for anything you're missing are on the keyboard...the finder windows can be dragged just like windows explorer windows.

No offense but any of your grievances could've been resolved in taking a minutes to look right in front of you.Also your attitude about these problems are so provincial it's almost humorous.

This article should be the front runner in explaining why XP users hate macintosh...cause people like you pretend you have a clue what you're talking about.

Anonymous said...

Retard

Unknown said...

This guy is too ignorant (or stupid) to learn how to use a Mac. It takes getting used to if you switch, we all know that, but if you don't take the time to learn than you're not qualified to talk about it.