Mac might have seen a ‘huge’ (to them) growth in sales in the past few years.

BUT.

So has the PC gaming market with venues like Direct 2 Drive, and Steam. “Macs can ga–” let me stop your right there. No, no the can not. Please, play Farcry in OpenGL for me. Have fun with that. Enjoy Half-Life 2 without DirectX. Run Crysis for me .

If Windows stopped marketing themselves as a utility and more as a gaming/media platform the switch to Mac would slow EXPONENTIALLY.

I think what will happen:

Mac grows to around 20%, but the PC gaming market will hold 20% of the gaming market with the other 80% in consoles. At this point Mac is going to meet a plateau in growth. The gaming market is too big to where Mac can wrench anymore users away and if Microsoft advertises like above they just might lose their ‘we’re that snobby kid that lives in that nice suburb with palm trees, buy us’ factor.

Make a real-time rendered hardshadowed day and night cycle without Direct X, please. Now if there were a way to say that to every male without sounding like Windows is made for nerds is the trick. I use Macintosh when I just want to boot up and check my social networks etcetra.

Some people like one, some people like the other — I don’t understand why you need to argue about it. There’s no wrong or right. Just buy the one you prefer.

In case you’re wondering, I tend to flit between Mac, Windows and Linux as the grass is always greener. Right now I’m on a Mac Pro with 8 cores and 6GB or RAM and loving it — but if you want to use another OS, good for you.

“I never liked Apple.

Ever.

I’ve used Windows since 3.1 and was blindly fanboyish towards them.

But when I bought an iPhone and actually saw the quality and attention to detail that Apple puts into their products, it made me go out an buy a brand new MacBook Pro for school.

It’s been about 3 months now and since I have transferred any important files from my Windows PC, I no longer use it. In fact, I actually packed it up and stuck it out in the garage today.

The point to this post is that he is claiming that Apple is going to eventually fail with the iPhone. But from my experience, the iPhone is what made me an avid Apple fan.

I doubt that I’m the only one who has done this.”

I guess that guy never lost his windows on his Mac…

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P.S. It’s the same with my girlfriends a 1,5 year old HP laptop. Now when she’s got a MacBook the HP is not used anymore and she doesn’t miss it (I’ve just started using it a little, it now runs Ubuntu).

“Where did f*** did that window go?” and “why is there a save button and a continue button on the same dialog”?

What are you talking about? Vanishing windows is not a feature I’ve seen in any version of Mac OS X, unless you close them. Was that what you did? The close button are on the other side, you know…

Where’s that dialog? At least there’s verbs on the buttons instead of the much more often seen “yes” and “no” options that’s in Windows.

Please do tell me when you start that blog. I’ll be happy to post a comment and continue the discussion…

There is enough material here for me to literally have a daily blog about how bad the Mac OS is. We’ll cover a new anti-feature every day.

Don’t worry though! I’ll come back to this thread and let you know when some of my articles are available!

I did:
“One look in the Task bar to see if one started to burn a DVD? What do you think it’s on the Mac? Same thing of course!”

Of course you can see in the Dock if you stared to burn a DVD. With the apps I’ve been using for this purpose there has ben status in the Dock showing this.

I haven’t dug into the Media Center area just yet, but I’ve been using a DVI to HDMI cable for my MacBook Pro and it’s been working fine those times. By the way, DVI has been standard on the Apple laptops for quite some time now and I still see VGA connectors on the new Dell machines people have at work. And where are the FireWire 800 ports so I get better transfer speed when working with external harddrives that support it? Maybe you can answer me on that?

It absolutely sounds cool with your Media Center PC. I wouldn’t say I’m jealous since I haven’t got any experience from Media Center-ish things to compare it with yet.

I still don’t think the lack of resize windows from all edges in Mac OS X is an issue. What do you do that require window resizing so often?
It not like you think “oooh nooo, now I have to travel all the way to the bottom right corner of the window to resize it” when you work on a Mac. If you do that you are too accustomed to Windows and should take a brake from it and look at the other things that are great on the Mac. Such as Quicksilver that I mentioned.

That you often bring up an open/save dialog to do file managing also seem like a habit.
It’s not something I hear people complain about that they can’t do. Just switch to the Finder. It’s quickly done since you see it as an icon in the app switcher, and not a mess of windows.
Anyway, I guess you should install Default Folder next time you try a Mac.

In all I just think you are too harsh and narrow minded on Mac OS X if you can’t see any benefits at all over Windows.

Finally, you who have so many options in the WIndows world. Can you give me some examples of Windows applications you think have a good GUI and feature set. Like an FTP program or anything. (by the way, there are an insane amount of FTP clients on the Mac, I think there might even be more than for Windows…)

If I have missed to answer any of your questions, I’m sorry, but you dodge many of my questions/claims too so I guess it evens out!

I’ll join you and start typing “Winblows” instead, something I’ve seen many times more then your “OSuX” (first time I saw that actually).

I still don’t get this talk about being “locked in” to one hardware vedor (Apple). How am I’m less locked in if I by hardware from Dell or HP?

Apple *are* “breaking” into the enterprise market (we have quite a few at work and just bought 8 new), it’s happening right now and yes, people like OS X if they open their minds and don’t think a computer OS have to behave exactly like Windows. Again, the one’s who has switched and are happy by far outnumbers the ones who tried and didn’t like it.

A new compuer every year? I don’t know what stuff you do with your computer if you need to upgrade it every year. A new processor every year? A new motherboard?
Yeah, you can upgrade the Mac Pro, and the Mac laptops are just the same as laptops from other manufacturers.

“There are soo much more software for that Mac than moste tunnel visioned Windows users like yourself think…”

Yeah, but compared to the sheer number of options available for Windows? I don’t think “much more” means what you think it means.

Care to reply to this? “In Windows, I can glance at the taskbar to see if a program is already running. Did I start burning that DVD already? One quick glance tells me yes or no.”

How about actually replying to some of my actual points?

About the resizing, you’re wrong. It’s so much more useful to be able to resize by all window edges when you need to. I use the feature often. There is absolutely no reason for it to be any other way. You have already lost on that one, so just give up. It’s not because it doesn’t work “like Windows”. It’s because it’s less flexible. There’s a difference.

“About the options talk; I don’t need options if they aren’t good”

Haha, sour grapes, right?

How’s this for options? I got a $500 Acer with 3GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive and a video card with 256MB of DDR2 video RAM that also has HDMI output. It comes with Vista Home Premium that has Media Center on it. Can you even get a Mac with an HDMI video output built-in? Oh yeah and then I added this “wii” style media center remote to the mix. Basically, I can wave my hand around in the air to move the mouse cursor and click things. Yep, I can sit back on my couch and watch Hulu.com or any other video site, as well as normal TV (with the addition of a tuner card), without ugly wires running out to the couch.

Check this remote out, it’s pretty awesome (Windows only, of course!):

Gyration GYR3101US –
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You have my permission to be jealous You’re probably just going to claim more sour grapes though.