Re: [OT] Mac Vs Window (was [OT] 'kin Windows!)

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay but what does that have to do with the OS? Your list is
applications.

Before I get flamed in return I have spent the last ten years or so in IT.
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I started off with working with Macs and PCs, overall the Macs were
better.=
You could link a Macbook to a Mac and see data without any effort, you cou=
ld hold the shift and boot without extensions, you could boot from the OS
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D to resolve problems. However, downside was memory managment was awful,
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u had to find a specific CD for both the OS and hardware for it to work.

I'd go back to an Apple today but I am forced to buy over-priced hardware.
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I can't virtualise the OS to try before I buy. The experience with the my
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Pod Touch 1st Generation being "forced" to use iTunes and only
allowed to u=
se software Apple agree with is incredibly draconian in my view.

Windows biggest success is also its biggest failure, the shear diversity
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the the applications and hardware is both both a benefit and failure.

To me no-one OS ticks all the boxes and I guess that is why we argue over
w=
hich we consider better than the other. I run mainly Windows OS but that
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my job, I have Linux distros installed on VMWare so I can play and try the=
m out as well as a NAS. I'd run MacOS but Apple have decided I am not
allow=
ed.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Jamie Bennett <jamie.bennett@...> wrote:
>
> On 6 Jul 2009, at 19:28, Paul Bendall wrote:
> > Apple has it relatively easy they control the hardware and boy
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> > you pay for it.
> >
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> For me that is a misconception that a lot share. Lets get this=20=20
> straight up front, I'm a Linux guy (as can be seen from my website and
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> own company - http://www.linuxuk.org) and I'm pretty
technical (I'm a =
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> Senior Software Developer) but I got a Mac a few months back and
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> has been the best purchase I ever made.
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> I went for the new 24" iMac (got it on day of release) and I love
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> Yes it cost around =A31200 but for that I not only got a 24" all
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> computer with a reasonable spec, I also got a lot of top quality=20=20
> software in the form of iLife among other things. Yes its not
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> but you do get what you pay for in my experience.
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> I have five computers around the house, two desktops, one with Linux,
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> one with Vista, a Viglen MPC-L server running Linux, a laptop running
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> Linux and an iMac. The Mac is by far the nicest to use, the easiest to
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> use and the one that I couldn't do without. Everything from
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> iMovie for my home video editing, Kinemac for animating, XCode
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> development, iCal and Mail and everything in between has 'just=20=20
> worked'. I would gladly pay the bit extra for the time and effort
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> has saved me (and this comes from the former lead developer on a tool
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> to build whole Linux distributions using just XML profiles so I'm not
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> adverse to a bit of effort- http://www.linuxfromscratch.org).
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> So would I buy anything other than a Mac for my main machine again,
NO!
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> (let the flaming begin).
> > Paul
> >
> Regards,
> Jamie.
> --
> http://www.linuxuk.org
>




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