What separates a Mac from a PC?

[MRT144]

what i meant was that most PC users dont care about the lamentations of the Mac user. of course there are people like asher who love computers like nothing else and would debate it to death. but they are just wasting their breath.

[Asher]

Originally posted by MRT144
what i meant was that most PC users dont care about the lamentations of the Mac user. of course there are people like asher who love computers like nothing else and would debate it to death. but they are just wasting their breath.

I don't understand how people can use Macs knowing that their system bus is only 133MHz! It would drive me crazy, I would cry if I had one and beg Steve Jobs for an 800MHz system bus like Intel's.

Hmm. Okay, I'll shut up now.

[MRT144]

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
So are you saying that we should pay even more money to be able to use our Macs in a stable, decent way? What happened to your much-vaunted "Low TOC because they last forever" argument, lovingly brushed under the carpet eh?

Anyway, There's no OSX-native version of the only Mac killer App, Quark XPress. No wonder so many newspapers are switching to PC/Adobe Indesign...

Quark Xpress 6 should be out soon. That's their fault, not Apple's.

And most mac users have switched to Mac/Indesign.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Asher

I don't understand how people can use Macs knowing that their system bus is only 133MHz! It would drive me crazy, I would cry if I had one and beg Steve Jobs for an 800MHz system bus like Intel's.

But I'd have to use Windows. Which I won't do, ever again.

That is unless I buy a computer for the express purpose of playing lo-mac.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Agathon
Quark Xpress 6 should be out soon. That's their fault, not Apple's.

It's both.
99% of Win9x programs run natively in Windows NT, Apple just doesn't have the technical-1337ness of MS to pull something like that off.

Their solution is a cheap, slow VM which forces you to launch OS 9 inside OS X. Brilliant, Apple.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Asher

It's both.
99% of Win9x programs run natively in Windows NT, Apple just doesn't have the technical-1337ness of MS to pull something like that off.

Their solution is a cheap, slow VM which forces you to launch OS 9 inside OS X. Brilliant, Apple.

I doubt that's the reason. The Carbon API makes it reasonably easy to make Classic apps run in 10 if the developer can be bothered doing it -and the Classic mode runs fine with everything else. And it isn't slow - I've been running Falcon 4 with a full campaign and all the graphics turned up to the max and there is no appreciable difference in performance (In fact it seems to run better in classic than it did in OS 9 - strange).

But I'm now temporarily grounded as I managed to break my flightstick during a particularly vigorous engagement with a MiG 29.

[MRT144]

agathon, how are you even posting here, your plane crashed and youre either POW/MIA or KIA. If your captors allowed to post on a message board id be shocked as this seems like a lapse in judgement. If this is your ghost then may the lord help us all.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by MRT144
agathon, how are you even posting here, your plane crashed and youre either POW/MIA or KIA. If your captors allowed to post on a message board id be shocked as this seems like a lapse in judgement. If this is your ghost then may the lord help us all.

Unfortunately callsign "Agathon" perished many times at the hands of the North Korean enemy and once in the frag field of his own cluster bombs as he rained them down upon the enemy in an act of suicidal bravery.

[BustaMike]

Let me clear up the Mac vs. PC argument... as a Graphic Design/Print major I have been forced to use Mac's. The reason is bases on Postscript Fonts vs. TrueType fonts. Postscript fonts are Mac and TrueType is PC. Since the beginning of computers in the Print world, printing has been done with Postscript fonts, making Macs the dominant computer of the Print Industry. With the correct software and hardware, PC's will do the exact same job as any Mac. The problem is that Print companies have been and continue to use 95% Macs. And if you make something on a PC, and try to print it from a Mac, chances are it won't look the same... so you're stuck using a Mac.

Initially, I went in with an open mind about Macs. I've always been a PC person, but I figured that maybe there were good things about Macs. THERE AREN'T. I've learned that Macs suck and the only reason they exist at all is because print people won't switch!

Macs are ridiculously more expensive for comparable software.
Why the hell does the menu bar always have to be at the top of the screen?
Why only one ****ing mouse button?
Good games come out a year later if at all!
There's no way to minimize everything and just work from the desktop... all the stupid windows just close into a little bar.
There is no taskbar... just that little pull down thing in the corner.

Basically, it takes twice as long to do any simple action on a mac because there are less menus and one button and it costs you more to use one.

Why the hell would anyone use a Mac if they didn't have to?

[Buck Birdseed]

Is the PostScript font thing even relevant anymore? Everything we print gets turned into PDF files first anyway.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

You get lots of free software if you buy a mac.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
You get lots of free software if you buy a mac.

hi ,

shtttt , dont tell them that , ......

have a nice day

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
You get lots of free software if you buy a mac.

You can get lots of free software on PCs, too.

And even if you dont.....You can still get free software

[Panag]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000


You can get lots of free software on PCs, too.

And even if you dont.....You can still get free software

hi ,

like you cant get free ware for a mac , ....

have a nice day