solrac
Mac Ninja
That's what I feel too. My powerbook G4 400 (Which i just sold to help me get the 17 inch powerbook in March) is WAY slower than my PC.
If anyone remembers, I bought a $600 PC (with hookups / deals) which is a 1.8 ghz Celeron with GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64 MB card, and 684 MB of RAM.) I use this PC to view flash sites, test web sites on PC, and play Counterstrike (plus other games), which are the only 3 things I can't do on mac.
However, I don't care about that. There's only ONE REAL way that the PC is better than my mac. It's WAY faster / snappier.
Opening windows (especially the layer effects window in photoshop) is ALWAYS instantaneous on the PC.
On the mac, it takes like 2 - 3 seconds to open that window. (And several other areas in several programs where the mac is always slower)
However, I still get more done on the mac. It's just easier to use. And on top of that, the extreme snappiness of the OS in windows screws me up all the time. Like I'll click a close button and if I release the mouse to fast, the close button will depress and un-depress, but the window won't close. And a jerky movement can always happen and close the wrong window, and stuff. That stuff NEVER happens on mac os x.
Rootless windows rule on mac os x. (If you don't know what that is, do a search or something.) It's basically where: you can see the desktop behind photoshop, if your in photoshop.
And there's nothing like column view on the PC. Column view is the ONE thing Apple came up with that truly beats the PC. It's the one thing the PC has in NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM. Maybe there's a 3rd party app that lets you do something similar on PC, but that means millions of people just don't know about it.
And the OS is just so much more beatiful. Everything's so smooth, and I NEVER see redraw problems on mac. On PC, if an application is going slow, like an explorer window, you'll see the desktop behind it INSIDE the window while it waits to redraw the window. That kind of stuff never happens on mac. Everything's so smooth and silky on mac, windows can't TOUCH it. Especially the dock.
And Mac os X handles application crashes better. An app is stuck thinking or crashed? just move the mouse anywhere else, like click on the desktop, and your INSTANTLY back to work, every time. Windows 2000 is only that good like 60% of the time. Sometimes an "End Task" message in windows can make the WHOLE system wait for a while. This NEVER happens on OS X.
Basically mac os x wins because of:
- Column view
- Extreme smoothness / silkiness
- Dock
- rock hard stability
- smoother and more consistent user interface (although slower, as used on a 400 mhz G4, probably the 1 Ghz is WAY better, with quartz extreme enabled!)
- no jerkiness / redraw problems
- better hardware (expect of course CPU speed, PC has that these days.)
- Mulititasking is much better. Music will never skip if I'm doing a photoshop filter, and 5 other things, all at the same time, for example. On Win2000, it probably will skip....
also, optical mice are smoother on OS X!! I can use the SAME optical USB Microsoft mouse on my OS X and on my windows 2000. I'm using it on a grainy wood desk, with many grain patterns.
On windows 2000, I HAVE to use a solid colored mouse pad, or the mouse movement will be SUPER squirrelly and jerky, like UNUSABLE. On mac os x, I don't need a mouse pad. The wood grain works just fine. Amazing, huh???
So I do need my PC. Flash player works 20 x better on PC, and it has lots of good games these days, and it is faster hardware so if a encode a DivX or something like that it's useful), and the OS is much faster (but harder to use).
Soon the mac will have the same library of games as the PC, the OS will be just as fast (almsot is already, if you have a new mac with quartz extreme), the search feature now works faster in Jaguar than the PC, and hopefully macromedia keeps improving flash player for mac.
At that point, PCs will have absolutely no use to me. I'll just get Virtual PC for mac to test web sites on PC.
If anyone remembers, I bought a $600 PC (with hookups / deals) which is a 1.8 ghz Celeron with GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64 MB card, and 684 MB of RAM.) I use this PC to view flash sites, test web sites on PC, and play Counterstrike (plus other games), which are the only 3 things I can't do on mac.
However, I don't care about that. There's only ONE REAL way that the PC is better than my mac. It's WAY faster / snappier.
Opening windows (especially the layer effects window in photoshop) is ALWAYS instantaneous on the PC.
On the mac, it takes like 2 - 3 seconds to open that window. (And several other areas in several programs where the mac is always slower)
However, I still get more done on the mac. It's just easier to use. And on top of that, the extreme snappiness of the OS in windows screws me up all the time. Like I'll click a close button and if I release the mouse to fast, the close button will depress and un-depress, but the window won't close. And a jerky movement can always happen and close the wrong window, and stuff. That stuff NEVER happens on mac os x.
Rootless windows rule on mac os x. (If you don't know what that is, do a search or something.) It's basically where: you can see the desktop behind photoshop, if your in photoshop.
And there's nothing like column view on the PC. Column view is the ONE thing Apple came up with that truly beats the PC. It's the one thing the PC has in NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM. Maybe there's a 3rd party app that lets you do something similar on PC, but that means millions of people just don't know about it.
And the OS is just so much more beatiful. Everything's so smooth, and I NEVER see redraw problems on mac. On PC, if an application is going slow, like an explorer window, you'll see the desktop behind it INSIDE the window while it waits to redraw the window. That kind of stuff never happens on mac. Everything's so smooth and silky on mac, windows can't TOUCH it. Especially the dock.
And Mac os X handles application crashes better. An app is stuck thinking or crashed? just move the mouse anywhere else, like click on the desktop, and your INSTANTLY back to work, every time. Windows 2000 is only that good like 60% of the time. Sometimes an "End Task" message in windows can make the WHOLE system wait for a while. This NEVER happens on OS X.
Basically mac os x wins because of:
- Column view
- Extreme smoothness / silkiness
- Dock
- rock hard stability
- smoother and more consistent user interface (although slower, as used on a 400 mhz G4, probably the 1 Ghz is WAY better, with quartz extreme enabled!)
- no jerkiness / redraw problems
- better hardware (expect of course CPU speed, PC has that these days.)
- Mulititasking is much better. Music will never skip if I'm doing a photoshop filter, and 5 other things, all at the same time, for example. On Win2000, it probably will skip....
also, optical mice are smoother on OS X!! I can use the SAME optical USB Microsoft mouse on my OS X and on my windows 2000. I'm using it on a grainy wood desk, with many grain patterns.
On windows 2000, I HAVE to use a solid colored mouse pad, or the mouse movement will be SUPER squirrelly and jerky, like UNUSABLE. On mac os x, I don't need a mouse pad. The wood grain works just fine. Amazing, huh???
So I do need my PC. Flash player works 20 x better on PC, and it has lots of good games these days, and it is faster hardware so if a encode a DivX or something like that it's useful), and the OS is much faster (but harder to use).
Soon the mac will have the same library of games as the PC, the OS will be just as fast (almsot is already, if you have a new mac with quartz extreme), the search feature now works faster in Jaguar than the PC, and hopefully macromedia keeps improving flash player for mac.
At that point, PCs will have absolutely no use to me. I'll just get Virtual PC for mac to test web sites on PC.
After, I closed them and continue to delete other files as well... The same thing happened but this time the Start button opened and THEN the system freezed 
