Why so paranoid? I still use Mac laptops and have a Macbook Air on order as we speak. These anti-PC threads remind me of the Darwin-ID threads...needlessly acrimonious. I am not a Mac-hater. I just take great exception to the bashing of Windows PCs. XP is an amazingly stable OS.
Paranoid? Paranoia has nothing to do with it. I just don't believe you.
This is not an anti-PC thread... it is, however, an overwhelmingly pro-Mac thread made so by the participants who have raved about their experiences with modern Macs.
Then you pop in, self-proclaiming your credibility because you used Macs "from the first release until 2001" when you switched to Windows.
To those of us who are intimately familiar with Macs, that means you really have not used OSX.
When this chronological disconnect is pointed out to you, you change your story and claim you "...still use Mac lsptops..." and have ordered the newest released niche Apple notebook. Yet you are totally unfamiliar with the most widely praised component of OSX.5 Leopard and how it works.
Quite frankly, that has all the earmarks of the Windows users who commonly troll Mac threads and establish or inflate their "credibility" by claiming Mac usership or ownership who then demonstrate their unfamiliarity with the Mac in everything they post with remarks made from an obvious Windows bias... such as your mistaken claim that a Mac advertisement touting Time Machine is merely claiming something as new that's been available on Windows for six years.
"The latest one has Macs bragging about being able to restore themselves to a point before an install. HELLO! Ever hear of System Restore? Only been on PCs for like 6 years or more.
Then you unleash your coup d' grace - denying the truth of what Freepers on this thread wrote who have told Scoutmaster they experienced increased productivity when they switched to a Mac - you suddenly claim the exact opposite, asserting you and your co-workers are more productive on Windows PCs in the very fields where the Mac is pre-eminent and historically the preferred choice of professionals in those fields:
"We are far more productive since moving from Macs to PCs, and we are not number crunchers, but creative media producers, from print to video to internet."
After having stated that, you now claim that you use Mac laptops and have ordered a brand new $1800 Macbook Air, a computer that has yet to demonstrate that it can run Windows at all, lacking the means to install any form of Windows from an optical drive.
Good Grief, man, if what you claim is true, WHY? Why would you use OSX notebook computers when you claim you"... are far more productive" on a PC "? You want to have less productivity? Are you a masochist??? I call BS. Your posts reek of it.
Now do you see why I don't believe you?
Wow, that is exactly what I was wondering.
Windows is barely usable at all. In most respects, it is a frustrating, shoddy piece of crap. It's amazing that anyone gets anything done with it. Our national productivity rate would rise dramatically if everyone switched to Macs.
I have to admit that I've been totally spoiled by Mac OS X (and Linux for servers). I would quit the industry if I had to use Windows daily.
I thought of that joke when reading the post about the guy that complained about the Startup Gallery always opening up when he started Office on the Mac.
Why would I want to run Windows on my MacBook Air? Every Photoshop, Illustrator and AfterEffects file I create on my MacBooks transfer over to PC with no problem at all. I have always used MacBooks because I have never found PC laptops I like as much. I tried Sony but the battery life sucked. I use PCs only in our studio, jacked to the hilt doing 3D animation and video editing. Pound for pound and dollar for dollar we are faster in every way rendering on PCs. And many specialty effects apps aren't available on Mac. I really don't give a shit if you believe me. I am hardly the only one out there using both platforms. You Mac-Only maniacs are just nutbags sometimes. It really reminds me of the intelligent design threads. Take a valium.