I agree with Macdanalife

I've tried the MAC os and if you minus all those fancy gui, its nothing to shout about.

Only difference is the gui and im a person who dont go for gui appereances. As long i can do the task then its a good done job. GUI is only fancy for a few months and after awhile u get sick of it

And for Windows XP being slow, the main difference between XP and Mac os is that XP has tons of drivers and compatibility drivers/scripts written for it whereby u can run almost all the Apps out there that is Windows compliant.

For Mac Os, u need to get specific applications built for the OS to handle(lets not get into boot camp..its just another emulator)..Lets not get into hardware shal we

Apple atleast some part is based on *nix and we all know how stable it is. But for compatibility is concerned, it cant and will not rival Windows platform ever.


If u wana talk about technological wise, Apple is nothing compared to windows. If werent reliable, the company that im supporting would not have roughly 4xx Windows Based Servers (Win2k, Win2k3) that hosts numerous critical applications needed by end users. ( and this is from a company that is currently the No.1 in telecommunications solutions so dont come and tell me that Windows isnt reliable. Infact almost everyone uses Windows XP. Those who are not uses Linux....and some run on mac os...( and thats just a small scale)

The only reason people say windows aint reliable because they are NOOBS who dont know how to properly use an OS. They think to turn on all services, all gui options, everysingle functions on thier machine on and expect it to perform like a champion.


If an apple machine can do atleast half of what a windows machine can do, i would switch to it..but sadly..it would never be that good in terms of total functionality

This post has been edited by thefryingfox: Apr 21 2006, 07:41 AM

Well an uncle wouldnt know what is IIS or event log

these services when on eats up resources and slows down stuff...like system restore, fancy gui effects, dynamic/basic disk and such

they just press button, come to desktop and do thier stuff. if corrupted, bring to shop and reinstall.

these are normal users...those who dont have any clue what background task ar...they just use it for the sake of making thier life simple.

Windows XP at default, is not as snappy once u've optimized it. normal user dont see that. they just think that the computer is busy processing something or some big files are getting transfered.....


If a computer does not respond for me for 10-12 sec, i would investigate whats the problem, kill it..restore session back and resume my work(hopefully watever task im doing gets saved)

Mac OS as a whole is a great GUI OS...it definites how GUI should look like, but as for its function...it seriously lack of alot of things a power user would definitely want