I almost forgot how heated these debates get, its worse or equal to the ps3 vs 360 debates.
I'm a mac supporter first and foremost. But i am running windows 7 on an HP dc7900. I like it. mainly cause it did manage to capture the simplicity of the mac os and (its always the simplest things) i really like the way windows 7 shuts down. no more of thatn "END NOW" bullshit where apps wont close. smooth start up? forget that, smooth shut down goes a long way.
but the mac is still a better OS for the common user. (not the right price for the common user but the better OS)
i'll use the snippit tool as an example. before on windows you would have to use print screen to screen capture, then paste it to a word document etc manipulate and etc etc etc by that time i just gave up the image iw as trying to capture wasn't' worth the trouble unless i'm working on a powerpoint document. with windows 7, similir to mac you can just click the snippit tool, and select your image and save it as a .png file. much better than before.
mac os?
shift + command + 3 = full screen screen grab (jpg image saved automatically to desktop)
shift + command + 4 = Selectable screen grab (jpg image saved automatically to desktop)
when you compare ease of use like that OS X is clearly the better OS for the common man.
Running Music apps? plenty of windows apps. mac is the clear cut winner here. as for which apps? that is completely preference. THere are people running old music apps with older mac os x (or windows) software, you basically stick with what works.. The last time i took music seriously i used an MPC200 with an external Zip Drive and a Yamaha MD8. Go to 5 studios and they probably all have a different main set up.. what a good studio has is the ability to run them all for the purpose of working with other people with different set ups.
companies? (real companies not someone's loft apartment)
we need a cheap computer for our research or finance teams.. cheat below budget pc.
we need to run adobe design suite... macpros, maybe a few imacs for their assistants so they can run incopy and photoshop on the cheap.
buh buh you dont need macs to do this? just like many of you say pc's are a standard and you cant break a standard.. the same applies here. dont believe me? go ask quark what happened to happened to them when they said they were going to drop mac support and that pc's were the future of magazine editing..
quark handed the industry over to adobe by dismissing apple. and thank god cause i was a bit clueless to quark and picked up supporting adobe and woodwing servers much quicker.
you can build a pc to run mac os x on the cheap. but running a mac with parallels or vmware works a lot better.
I'm glad to finally be able to run pc games. mind you i had a pc and windows xp but the only thing that pc was good for was as a media server as a budget pc can't do much else. you get what you pay for there are well. but other than games and running playon media server? its mac all the way for me. even on its busiest day my older macs run quiter and smoother than a new pc (this does not include you build it yourself pc guys, we are talking out of the box common user computers)
funny thing is apple fans are called snobs, but mac users are former pc users and most pc users that hate apple (majority) have no reason to hate on apple other than their own snobbish pc ways as well.
The sounds sounds almost sound like general midi sounds...It was beyond corny...sorry thats just my opinion... I'm better I just tell you the truth of how I feel about it, than to lie to you...
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