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Alright Macheads, lets talk real deal here
bedouin:
I purchased my first Mac in 2002 -- a Quicksilver 2002. It's honestly the only computer I've ever owned that I have absolutely no complaints about. It's been updated from 10.1 > 10.2 > 10.3 without a clean install, and runs just as fast (perhaps faster, because of QE) than the day I bought it.
A year later I bought a 12" 800mhz G3 iBook. It suffered from one logic board failure, but has been fine ever since. The battery life is great (sometimes close to 6 hours), and the size is perfect. I haven't found anything comparable to Apple's laptop offerings in the PC world, especially in the 12" form. The x86 laptops I did like made no mention of Linux support, and I refuse to run another Microsoft OS in my life.
My dad is the owner of a 1ghz eMac, and it's been completely trouble free. I've been a computer user since 1985, when I received a c64 and I was PC user from probably '88-2002. As far as a desktop OS, there's nothing comparable to OS X.
The only OS I ever used comparable to OS X was BeOS. If Be was still adequately supported I'd probably still be using it.
I've kernel paniced OS X a couple times, but both times it was my fault. I don't know that I've had a Windows install last more than 6 months without going awry. As long as Steve Jobs keeps doing his magic, I'll be a loyal Apple customer.
Oh, and BTW: Microsoft could make the best OS in the world; I would never support them. It's a moral issue to me. They want to control every computer in the world, eliminate open standards, and subsequently control the exchange of information itself. Whether you install a pirated copy of Windows or not, by running their OS, or helping other people use it, you're just perpetuating a dictatorship.
Claris:
quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:
you can't
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You sure can. Watched my old man do it to a friend's 'book.
hybridhedgehog:
i have a g3 ibook running in OS9 right now and i am NOT having any problems!ive had an OS9 application crash, but it didnt bring the whole system down like in windows!now for X, by far the greatest OS ever! i NEVER have problems, i have NO complaints about it, its just perfect!hell, with every new OS, thing just get faster! in windows everything just getss even slower!
Refalm:
quote:bedouin: The only OS I ever used comparable to OS X was BeOS. If Be was still adequately supported I'd probably still be using it.
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Have you tried BeOS Max? It's BeOS Personal with modern drivers, DivX plugins, Heretic, Doom, etc.
Install it if you haven't, it's really awesome
bedouin:
quote:Originally posted by Refalm:
Have you tried BeOS Max?
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I looked at it once or twice, but never installed it. I actually purchased r4.5.2, r5 Pro, and even the BeOS Bible. If there was an underdog I ever wanted to win, BeOS was it.
Ever attempted running BeOS Max in VirtualPC? I'm pretty much all Mac now, so that'd be the easiest method for me to check it out. I'm more interested in seeing how the OpenBeOS project (now Haiku) progresses over the years.
After seeing BeOS fail I realized what Amiga folks must have felt like. Superior product in nearly every way destined for failure. Net+ was an insanely functional browser (for its time), and weighed in at like what -- 1.3mb? Boot times at 5-10 seconds on a 266mhz machine; 10 mp3s playing on that same box with no stuttering . . . etc.
With that said though, I think Apple probably made the right decision by going with NeXT instead of BeOS. I'm not so sure OS X would have all the geek notoriety it current enjoys if it weren't possible to compile so much OSS stuff on it. Not to mention Be had no multiuser support, making it pretty much worthless as a server OS.
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