Posted on 04/25/2005 8:18:50 AM PDT by r5boston
Yeah, that's one area a Mac has a great advantage. At least it did when I used to use them on a daily basis, about 10 years ago. Are they still as good?
LOL!
Shucks. Macs are even better than they were 10 years ago!
Seriously, I still think they're superior for graphics/video work.
Yeah, that's why I stopped using them ... once they get the patch working, I may go back.
I would hope so! =)
In this thread you have to read all the way to the third sentence before you get to the MS bashing. Apple releases Tiger and MS releases XP64. Which is a tweak and which is the future?
OH yes, the upgrade to XP64 is free.
"Are they still as good?" Yes! I can't pry my wife away from her new G5. Amazing machine for publishing our real estate magazine.
Oh yeah. Now that I think about it I always search out mediocrity in products.
I have neighbors who have a printing business, use a Mac and swear by it. I do software development and never got into the graphics area too deeply. I have never had a client ask about programming on a Mac, but then, I don't list Apple as one of the environments I work in.
It's all about the philosophy of software development that underlies Linux and free/open source software in general - ie, that the source code for software should be freely available to all. Any gain for Linux is a gain for the entire movement.
Basically, they're commies =)
So, it's like Islam?
P.S. to Linux people: ... JUST KIDDING!
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Oh puhleeeeeeeeze
I thought 'puhleeeeeeeeze' just had eight e's in it :)
This is perhaps the most bizarre and unsuported statement I have seen on FR this month. And I've seen a lot of 'em.
As a matter of fact, these threads nearly always start out discussing a new or improved feature of a Mac with hardly a reference to the other side of the street, and then some distressed and anxious PC user barges into the discussion with the tired canard that Mac users are "snooty" or "condescending", or are somehow "bashing" Microsoft.
Nonsense. The truth is that Mac users are WAAAY past caring about what goes on in the MS world.
That's what REALLY scratches the PC users irritability bone; there is nothing worse than being ignored.
Don't forget the classic "I'd buy a Mac, but I'm not Gay" comment.
Did you actually read this thread? Perhaps you'd care to revise your in light of the first real comment here, post #5. For crying out loud, the first post out of the gate was a MacMoonie slamming on someone else.
Interesting, considering the article that started the thread ignored XP64 and bashed Windows for not having anything new.
Actually, general_re, I didn't see post #5 as a "MacMoonie" slamming someone else as much as making an arguable statement.
Where was the slam in the comment "hundreds of thousands of mac users showing off the future of Windows"?
You may not agree, but most unbiased technology people will agree that there are at least some features of the new Mac OS that will not be available until some future release of Windows (Searchlight, for one single example)
Granted, it can be argued there are features in XP that are unavailable in OS X, and vice versa, but if there is at least one factor that is true in post #5, then the person who made it at least had a leg to stand on.
Well, I would say that is more an issue of Stephen Levy being a biased technology reporter, and the quality of Newsweek in general (which in my opinion, is rather low from an informational perspective)
As for ignoring XP64, is XP64 considered a consumer OS, or is it more along the lines of a server or specialized OS? That is, are there Dells and HP's being sold to general consumers with XP64 on it by default and without the customer making a choice? I would guess not, but I might be ignorant on that point.
As for Windows not having anything new, that is a relative complaint. Certainly XP does not anything as "new" as OS X later this week, which isn't even officially out yet, so...who is newer as of the last update on the part of each OS? A semantical difference, I agree.
I wasn't referring to the article. That wasn't written by a Freeper - only posted by one. It is what it is, but let's face it, it came from MSNBC. It wasn't some fringe opinion.
Just to be very clear, I was specifically referring to alleged "bashing" by comment posters.
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