Ok, so you rebutted and corrected my spelling of MAC. Whoopdee doo. I have nothing against the MAC...just the high and mighty idiots that make grandeous claims about it. Ever since the first MAC they've been claiming how superior it is...when they finally get decent OS they claim "we really really really mean it this time...we even have real multi-tasking like windows NT did years and years ago."
I gave up on Mac a long time ago when I was duped into buying one to find out it crashed more than my windows box (but it did give me a pretty little bomb to look at as opposed to a blue screen with meaningful data on it to figure out what went wrong).
You ever heard of the story of the little boy that cried wolf? That's what the Mac user fan club reminds me of.
I gave up on Mac a long time ago when I was duped into buying one to find out it crashed more than my windows box (but it did give me a pretty little bomb to look at as opposed to a blue screen with meaningful data on it to figure out what went wrong).
I see. So your experience with a Mac is at least 6 years out of date. . . probably a lot longer. Apparently your psyche was so damaged by seeing the bomb that you hold animosity to a computer to this day. Sad.
. . . when they finally get decent OS they claim "we really really really mean it this time...we even have real multi-tasking like windows NT did years and years ago."
Mac multitasking was introduced in Multifinder in 1988 and included with the OS in 1991. I will grant you that it was cooperative multitasking but it was available five years before Windows NT's introduction in 1993. (Both were eclipsed by the Pre-emptive multitasking in the Amiga 1000 in 1985.)
Have you ever USED an OS X Mac? I suggest that you do not have the experience to make a judgement whether claims are "grandiose" of not. There must be a reason why people who switch from Windows to Mac say they'll never go back. Has it ever occurred to you that the claims are NOT grandiose but are literally true?
Ok, so you rebutted and corrected my spelling of MAC. Whoopdee doo
Now that your ignorance has been corrected about the proper spelling of "Mac" you continue to misspell it. That moves from ignorance to willful ignorance. Your continued use of it probably puts you into the same category as the hackers who want to "stick a lit cigarette into the eyes of Mac users."
If you are so turned off on the Mac, what are you doing trolling in a Mac thread?
If you wanted "meaningful data" about a crash, why didn't you install the free Macsbug utility from Apple and Motorola? It would invoke the interactive debugger instead of the bomb screen when a crash occurred.
"Ok, so you rebutted and corrected my spelling of MAC. Whoopdee doo. I have nothing against the MAC...just the high and mighty idiots that make grandeous claims about it. Ever since the first MAC they've been claiming how superior it is...when they finally get decent OS they claim "we really really really mean it this time...we even have real multi-tasking like windows NT did years and years ago."
I gave up on Mac a long time ago when I was duped into buying one to find out it crashed more than my windows box (but it did give me a pretty little bomb to look at as opposed to a blue screen with meaningful data on it to figure out what went wrong).
You ever heard of the story of the little boy that cried wolf? That's what the Mac user fan club reminds me of."
And you are the perfect poster child of the Windows Troll crowd - you're holding a grudge over a piece of equipment from years past, nothing will change YOUR mind, nope, and you know it all, simply because you bought a copy of Windows, doncha? Your post DRIP with seething, childish anger and petulance, something anyone who uses a Macintosh has had to endure now for a long, long time.
It's a computer.
Get over it.
And while you're at it, get over yourself. What OS you use or don't use does not define nor improve you, it's a tool, not a definition. Try and understand that.
I use Macs and Windows machines, and have dabbled with Linux. I prefer Macs, as I've used them since the Mac II and System 7. I'll be the first to admit, there are those among the Mac user crowd who are pretentious and annoying, and make ridiculous claims, and annoy everyone - along with us Mac users - just as there are those among the Windows "faithful" who are just as annoying. I'll even admit my share in the Platform Wars over the years, but I approached it as a game, not something I really took seriously, nor did I ever actually judge someone based on what kind of effing computer they used - something I see in the Windows crowd and makes me embarrassed for them. I also try to correct some of the more outrageous claims Windows users tend to make, just as I would expect a knowledgeable Windows users to correct a Mac User making specious claims about Windows.
I don't care what you use, I care about what you can DO with a computer. It's just a tool. I've found, and it's quite amusing, that the most heated and obnoxious defenders of the their platform, be it Windows, Mac, or else, are the ones who do the least with their computer - while the rest of us are learning our skills, and pushing the envelope, they're online waving virtual epeens at each other trying to gains some kind of wierd computer geek alpha dog status, and can't really do much with their computers beyond typing (and they tend to be bad at that, as well).
Give me a copy of Photoshop and a computer, and I can make art and money - it doesnt matter which platform.
What can YOU do? Besides annoy people? That's what matters. Owning Windows is easy. Doing something with it that matters is what counts. That someone else chooses a Mac, is none of your regard, and your posturing and blowhard attacks just serve to make you look like the greater fool.
Having said that, it's time to go make some money with my G5.