Originally posted by vic
Yes, i did. And BTW, it's nice to be back here, some of you may remeber me from long ago, i havent posted here in months... Oh, it's been too long. I was a macaddict, preaching the story all around me to everyone. untill OS X came. then Expectations led to dissapointment, and dissapointment lead back to OS 9. OS 9 led to crashes, which lead back to OS X, now os x.1 Os x.1 led to more dissapontments (they have been discussed here many times even by dire mac heads like i used to be, so i wont mention them).
After evaluating the factors, Slow mac hardware, (466 mhz) + Crashy OS 9 (not even multitasking mind u), + Slower than hell OS X (but stable) + uncustomizable interface (yes, this is a selling point, for me the more options the better, i am not affraid of learning new software or tinkering with hardware.) led to consideration of buying a PC. i said, ok, wait a while. i waited. I got into college, 3 labs full of mac, we just got 20-30 pieces of the "Clone wars" e-Macs, etc, in all i think i have access to about 70 macs on one campus -sweet you might say. All of them are running os 9. they crash to. and don't multitask. soon we will get os x, but i can't wait, time is money for me. So i evaluated my options: stay with current hardware. (slow, crashy fast os 9 v.s. slow stable os x) or sell it - i got 960 cnd $ for my mac - and add and extra 300 $ (effectively rendering a 1200$ computer only 300$ - sweet eh?) this new PC that i have is 2.0 Ghz, (overclockable to 2.6 ghz - 256 DDR ram 333 Mhz for those that care. <- see, PC's ARE faster! just look at the ram. 40GB hardrive(this doesnt count, my old mac had 30 gb, 10 extra, big deal). good souncard (this doesnt count, macs have prety good sound cards too) 16 DVD -do macs have 16X DVD? i dunno. 32 CD-RW, i don't think macs have 32X burners either. so now, i can copy from cd to cd. AND rip dvd's to cd's (oh, yeah like you wouldnt do it!) something else that bugged me was that my friend just bought (switched from PC to Mac 1 down, 95% to go.) a new mac for 2500$ cnd. adn his computer is 40GB hd, 800 Mhz g4 (like a 1000 - 1200 Ghz p4) 512 sdram (the slow kind 133Mhz) and cd burner. look at that money! i could have gotten 3 computers like mine for that money! I am also a student, so those fancy $1.000.000.00 dual Ghz macs arent an option for me. so, here i am, admitting that i have betrayed you, and 2 years of mac addiction, only to be reduced to a person who has knowledge of how to use very well both mac and pc's and who can have a unbiased opinion on the good and bad aspects of both platforms. - BTW, those that think XP sucks, it doesn't, i have not crashed ONCE with XP!. (got 2 kernel panics in one year of OS X) XP, is also WAY faster that os X is. (in the interface) and for those that don't like the look you can get the classic one (or even os x look alike skins if shiny buttons you fancy). something that i wish os x had available. (sometimes i feel like eyecandy, sometimes i don't.) and oh yeah, the start menu and task bar are way more useful than the dock and the idea that the interface should focus on switching between apps (ala mac) than switching between windows (ala windows) is better, is wrong (yeas i am a fan of sun on senteces and bad grammar, never mind spelling). and for those that think u can't customize windows, with os x on our shoulders windows has become the most customizable os around (exept linux perhaps) - this is not at all in defence of Microsoft! oh, please don't even go there, believe me i hate them as much as you do, but my preference for os is my preference, and the opinions above i hope will be repected as my opinions just as i respect your opinions.
that is my "swith over" and i leave you well.
