Quote: "I use a mac and pc daily, ignorance on how to use a mac usually breeds this sort of whinger."
I think it's more amusing because it's a stereotypical view, this said it is more of the view from a MacOS9 user imo
Maya and Shake on my iMac would often just poof! for no reason at all. I mean I bet if you've been using them long enough saving every few minutes is a reflect action especially before you do something that is processor intensive.
The fault of this isn't so much the OS though, but rather the IBM PowerPC. 4xx Series PPC are quite notorious in how often they'll cause an internal error. So for the OS to have ever been as stable as it was, was quite amazing.
Since they moved to unix though, there's no denying there is a very clear fact it's now pretty stable no matter what your doing. Maya will still just close (more verbose now though) whenever you try something intensive. This said, it does the same on Windows... Linux I'm lucky if I can even get the damn thing to run for more than a few minutes without just going poof!
I mean so much changed between OS9 and OSX, although not so much visually speaking but definately stability and compatibility wise.
One gripe I have about OSX and it's only minor really, is it's slow.
Quote: "Well, XP was designed so idiots could use it. You can't use real operating systems if you're an idiot. "
If your Macintosh user then your either in the graphics industry, your a college student (why they get them is beyond me) or you don't know anything about computers and want something simple.
It's how Apple sold the iMac and PowerBook to the public, is through the fact that MacOS is actually fairly simple to use.
Quote: "(long, long ago... we had one mac and 30 apples)"
I take it I'm not the only one who sees a small snafu with that sentence? Unless he ment the rest of the kids were trying to use fruit, in which case you can see why that wouldn't work so well.
Anyone see futurama last night?
Bender: "And then on his screen appeared the Windows logo!"
Fry: "pfft! That's not so scary."
Bender: "It is if your a printer!"
heh ^_^
Quote: "I had hte pleasure of using MacOS 9 to try and set up broadband on a friend's pc. 5 hours later I was finished."
Windows 3.1 took me half the day.
Linux SuSE / Red Hat ... I got Broadband (ADSL) working in a few minutes, but it's been 4months and I still can't get it to connect to the Windows network via samba or share the connection.
For the Mac it's quite easy though, just a case of inputting the correct address (most modems have them on the bottom) and letting the OS sort the rest out. Pretty much does everything itself.
