Ok Zombie874987654
Let's take these one at a time.
I will now proceed to prove that the image labeld b, is genuine OSX and why all of the others are sucky skins.
First, let's start with your most recent submission:
http://pcdesktops.emuunlim.com/pictures/ss/macosxa_dp4.jpgNotice that the dock has no devision for Drives and DA's . On a real OSX dock there would be such a division to the left of the garbage can. Also, note the small little Start menu icons bellow the dock. Clearly not OSX.
Look thrughout the system and notice the hard edges around the windows were OSX's PDF base would have anti-ailiased everything. An easer way to note the lack of Anti-Aliasing is in the text, which is just plain ugly.
The window in the background, while it's menubar is made transparent still retains active window characteristics for the scroll bar and other controls.
Note the menu bar within the window.
There is a big ugly arrow where the apple menu should be. The apple is in the wrong place.
It looks shitty overal. Pin-striping is to contraty.
I submit this picture as the real thing:
http://www.stevenisthecoolest.btinternet.co.uk/a.jpgNotice the correct divion bar in the dock, where his hard disk, home directory, and trash are located.
Note that the application being used to capture the screen is none other than Grab. A utility included with OS X for just such a task. It is active, 6th icon from the bottim. Correctly active mind you, with an arrow.
The webbrowser being run, is indeed the legit OmniWeb browser. Note the active arrow next to it's icon. The correct name display on the menu par, and no "windows with in windwos" throwbacks.
Further, the menu bar's top right has the display select icon, modem connect icon, and battery life icon. This is deffinetly a screen from a power book, that is pluged in to the wall.
As far as I know, Windows has no built in laptop battery messuring utility that is on live display in a menu bar. Windows never had this capability (at least up till 98), which is why most PC laptops carry the power readout on the phisical unit.
We also note the british flag in the menubar. It is the localization selector. To my knoledge windows has never had real time locolization selection like the MacOS.
The hardrive on the desktop is scaled up to 128x128 in real time scaling (mote the two other slightly smaller network drives). XP has no realtime scaleing.
Note the font's thruought the system are anti-aliased. The network drives bear the correct icons, and one is clearly an alias to an iDisk. The other a drive shared with an XP machine.
This leads to my origional hypthasis that the creator of these images was comparing and contrasting this picture, with his creation in the following image:
http://www.stevenisthecoolest.btinternet.co.uk/b.jpgThis is why this one is clearly fake:
Note the dock, it has no division. All of the icons are transparent, where as the real OSX reserves transparent icons for hiden applications.
The alias for iTunes in the dock, has a windows shortcut arrow instead of an Apple aliase arrow.
There are shadows under the icons in the dock, non-existant in the real OSX.
There are no arrows under active applications (iTunes or whatever is skined up to look like it, QCD I guess)
The home icone is used for My Computer. Pure BS, as the harddrive would maintain that possition on the right of the screen.
The network drive icon, is an iDisk icon. etc. etc. etc.
Further proof that the creator of these images is mearly comparing:
http://www.stevenisthecoolest.btinternet.co.uk/omniaqua.jpghere you can read a post being made by the creator of these images explaining what he is up to. Also note what the hacked up OmniWeb looks like as well as the tell tell signs that this is not OS X.
As far as stealing GUI's:
http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_history.htmlThat is the real history. M$ are a bunch of theeving bastards wether you like it or not.
As far as why someone would choose a Mac over a PC:
I think Mac's are better computers. They run great, are speedy, and have an excellent OS that is so Good, people seem to be going to extreem mesures to copy it
Even the Mac Luna theme isnt as comprehensive as some of the ones you have posted atempt to be.
Mac OS is UNIX based, and talk all you want about NT or whatever, you can't beat UNIX that's a fact.
Programs written for G4's run better than their PC counterparts. I'm a graphics guy and Photoshop is way better on a Mac.
Productivity on a Mac is fantastic.
Mac's are truely easy to use but are backed with power that rivals any windoze OS.
Say whatver you want about processors. My Mac runs faster than any clunking windoze box. It looks a whole lot sexyer too
Show me the program that has 2Ghz required on the box, and I'll show you a need for a personal computer that goes faster than 450Mhz. Honestly, who cares about obsceen speed, when usability is the prime factor. And OSX has it in spades.
None the less. The G4 proccessor has proved time and time again, that vectorized apps run amazingly fast.
Oh yeah, BTW, in case you didn't know. Speed and performance actually depend on what program you are running! I have seen 100Mhz UNIX machines doing things a 500Mhz windoze box could only dream about.
Finaly, the Mac is not ownd by some 3rd rate, backstabing, money grubing, monopolistic, company, hell bent on takeing over the world.
Say all you want about Apple would be a monopoly if not for M$. But Apple has and does support open source, MP3, internet radio, and all the other things computer users value that M$ would rather have squashed in the name of the almighty dollar.
EDIT:
BTW, I'm scoring a cheep ass PC off a friend. An AMD 1200Mhz. He paid, about $300 for it in an auction. So he's giving it to me for about $150.
So now I can take advantage of the "broad range of sotware" or whatever
Actually, Im just gonna load it up with all of the Baldurs Gate games and let it sit on my desk as my game consol, as that seems to be what evryone insists these machines are good for
I'll do my REAL computing on OS X.
[ May 06, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]
