Mac Time
Should I switch from the functional black box of my Windows laptop to the gleaming toy of a Mac? I am probably 20 years behind in facing this question. Everywhere around me, I see people willing to live with single threaded Mac OSes, slow browsers, flash-less world, walled garden, whatever, to own and display Mac products. Here is the onion's take on this cult.
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New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products
posted by metoo at 8:10 AM
3 Comments:
Threadless, flashless, walled garden world of a mac?!? Uh, last time I checked it had a UNIX base that you can actually touch and play with? It plays nicely with threads, like any other unix, it runs <*cough*>flash<*cough*>. I only cough because flash is horrible and always has been. I know coming from a windows world flash is a gem to have but I've always preferred perl, unix, emacs, and other open source applications, so the closed off world of flash I've never understood.
All I can say is that 20 years ago I left windows for BSD, and played with Linux till 2002 when I was tired with the crappy GUI implementations and picked up OS X. I haven't looked back and never will.
So, you can decide if it's for you. The GUI is nothing like Windows, it's easier in some instances in others confusing, to a windows person but I can tell you that all my scientific UNIX apps ported over just nicely and it took me seven years before I wanted to change out my old G4 box for a shiny new Mac Book Pro.
It's been just that stable that I have never needed to reinstall the OS for that seven years. And I say that because a friend of mine as had 3 machines and countless reinstalls of the OS in the same amount of time.
It may seem to be a toy but it's what a computer should be. Stay out of way and have lots of processing power for your applications.
Your choice if you want a new machine but consider why everyone seems to be buying a Mac around you if that is what you are seeing.
I think OS X is better for getting work done than Windows (if your work involves programming). Most scientific / programming utilities are easier to get to compile in OS X than in Windows. OS X handles threading nicely, has a nice UI, has Flash (and Silverlight!). It's massively more expensive than a comparable PC, and Ubuntu is now actually quite good. As macshaggy said, Apple computers last a long time: I had my G3 iMac for 5 years and my current iMac for 3 years (with no plans to replace it).
Thanx. I was biased by my ipod/iphone experiences... Um, Ok, I am going to hold my breath and jump.
-- Metoo
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