why Macs suck!

[Sjakihata]

But it is not true. Upgrades in a mac is TWICE as easy as in a PC. The new G5, my half brother bought one, since he is a gfx designer, it beats the PC in every area, except gaming. Diablo 2 and Americas Army works on a mac as well as AoE II

[Crazed Rabbit]

Diablo 2?! Sweet! I loved that game when I played it 5 years ago on the PC! And they have AoE II?! Awesome, I loved that too!

Now, I'm not going to apologize for the steaming hunk of crap that is windows, but macs are even worse. The epitome of form over function. Linux+PC = nigh-on perfection.

Crazed Rabbit

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

No love for Mac! No Total War!

And stupid interface.

I gotta try linux.

[Sjakihata]

It's easy to tell who have actually tried the mac, for other purposes than gaming, such as photo or video editing and who has not.

[Leet Eriksson]

It's easy to tell who have actually tried the mac, for other purposes than gaming, such as photo or video editing and who has not.

QUOTED FOR TEH TRUTH

My sister uses a mac, since shes an artist, and god damn, its ages ahead of my comp, which is only designed to run games.. but not photo/video editors.

[Xiahou]

I've used Macs and I like them. If someone was to give me a decent Mac with OSX on it I'd happily use the thing. But to actually buy one.... I could never justify the expense when I could get so much more bang for my buck on a PC platform.

[Sjakihata]

Xiahou, I agree - I would never buy a mac - then again Im not a professional grafich designer. If I was, I'd probably buy one. Macs are for specialists, designers, artists and creative people, who dont play games like RTW and EU II

[Xiahou]

Diablo 2?! Sweet! I loved that game when I played it 5 years ago on the PC! And they have AoE II?! Awesome, I loved that too!

Hehe, yeah- I think I was running it on what? A 450mhz pc?

Now, I'm not going to apologize for the steaming hunk of crap that is windows, but macs are even worse. The epitome of form over function. Linux+PC = nigh-on perfection.

Well, I like XP ok- it's just overpriced and has too many security vulnerabilities. But, Id take Linux (and I do - Mandriva) of OS X on most any day. It's free, arguably more stable, and doesnt force you to use a closed architecture and a far deeper software library. I'd just like to see Linux get more user-friendly... I had to install the Gimp from source code and it definitely wasnt a good time.

I like OS X ok, but I'd never pay Apple's exorbitant prices for it. I never found the performance argument very compelling for Apple- if you're telling me that a $1300 Mac can outperform a $500 PC.... my response would be- I would hope so.

[itchrelief]

I had an original iMac, and while it wasn't a bad machine, there was no truth to the contention that Mac's crash less than Wintel machines, at least back in the OS8 to 9 days. I managed to crash that mac daily just browsing the web. I got real handy with a paper clip in those days (actually, I found pushpins to be a lot easier to use to reboot the thing).

The buzz now is that OSX is leaps and bounds better than Windows, but honestly, I look at Mac prices and Windoze doesn't look so bad, on second thought.

[Lemur]

Let me confess: I am an operating system floozy. A man of loose principles and unsavory associates. I'm not just bi -- I'm tri. I have a G5 OS X Mac and a dual-boot Athlon running WinXP and Fedora Linux. I'm a slut, and I know it.

The're all good. And they're all good in different ways. If I want to game or use a common app, I have the Windows love. If I need to run a quick server the Linux gives me bliss. If I need serious security OS X has the stuff I need. And if I'm too lazy to put together a real web page, and just need to slap up a quickie for the family, the iLife apps are killer.

Now if only some evil genius would combine all three, leaving out the following:

(1) Overpriced Max hardware.
(2) Ever-creeping DRM in Windows.
(3) Interface wonkiness in Linux.

Then I'll be the happiest Lemur on the block.

Don't go hating another OS until you've worked with it. There's plenty of love for everyone. Of course, only a man of low character would say that, but that's where I'm at. Say no to platform hate. Say yes to dual-boot love.

[edit]

Oh, and with the new Intel Mac OS X, it may just be possible to create a single machine that boots three ways. Who's up for a three way? I know I am. The key will be getting it all to work on an Athlon 64 dual-core machine ... oooh, I sense a new project coming on ...

[Scurvy]

brilliant vid, funny i dont know anything about macs as i'v never even been near one...

[R'as al Ghul]

Oh, and with the new Intel Mac OS X, it may just be possible to create a single machine that boots three ways. Who's up for a three way? I know I am. The key will be getting it all to work on an Athlon 64 dual-core machine ... oooh, I sense a new project coming on ...

I trust that you, as a slashdot reader, have heard of the possibility to run OS X on a PC? (now!) There's been news of a hack lately.

I also run a dual boot system with XP and Suse 9. Sometimes I toy around with live systems. The Projekt Looking Glass 3D desktop from Sun is
quite interesting. You can't do much with it yet though, it's eye candy pure.
Another thing I want to test these days is to put "Damn Small Linux" on a
USB stick. An article I just finished claims that it will only take 50MB and
is able to run on most hardware configs. You can also save your personal stuff on the same stick.

[Lemur]

Yah, I knew about the OS X hack, but I thought we weren't supposed to talk about such things in the Frontroom. Since that would involve, you know, um, borrowing software. I guess the situation was implied by stating that I wanted to get it up and running on an AMD64 box anyway, since Apple has thrown in with Intel ....

[Crazed Rabbit]

Hehe, yeah- I think I was running it on what? A 450mhz pc?

180mhz PC here. Still ran AOE II pretty well, unless I had an 8 faction battle with max units late in the game. Darn, that was a good game.

It's easy to tell who have actually tried the mac, for other purposes than gaming, such as photo or video editing and who has not.

I've been forced to use it, for writing and other various tasks, for years. People who used it for more intensive editing than I cursed those wretched machines, in violent, perverted ways. And they cost way too much.

Oddly enough, the system requirements for CoD are higher on a mac than a PC.

Crazed Rabbit