Just to give a good contrast to my pro-MacOS post, here are the things that
sucks about the Mac:
Memory allocation blows. You can't use virtual memory for anything important
and the OS eats up almost 1/4 of your RAM.
The finder is a seriously old application. The roots of the OS (called the
Finder) haven't really changed since 1984. While today's finder looks much
different and has many more bells and whistles, the core of it is 16 years
old. To see how stupid this is, boot up your computer, control click on a
icon and wait a few seconds before it pops up the contextual menu. No matter
how fast your computer is it still lags.
Mac hardware costs too much money. There is a good reason for this but Apple
has done some questionable things in the past when people tried to make Mac
hardware more affordable. Here I cite the Power Computing case...
that's all for now...back to work.
-l
on 12/5/00 12:45 AM, andrei@world.std.com at andrei@world.std.com wrote:
quoted 55 lines Bill Wright wrote:> Bill Wright wrote:
>
>> Windows 98 and its variants are as unstable as MacOS.
>
> I wasn't aware that the MacOS is unstable !? Actually, implying that the MacOS
> is
> more unstable than Win98 kinda makes me laugh. I mean it's not perfect, the
> memory
> allocation issues being my biggest annoyance, but overall I think it just
> feels
> "smoother" and less cluttered than Windows. It seems to be more logically laid
> out
> and there are less conflicting elements in the OS. I don't know, you just
> generally
> don't hear Mac users complain about how the OS they use sucks, like you do
> from
> Windows people.
>
>> Windows 2000, however, is nearly as stable as Linux/Unix.
>
> Isn't it kinda early to say that ? Plus I just find that hard to believe.
>
> Andrei
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <andrei@world.std.com>
>>
>>>> At 09:34 PM 12/4/00 EST, Loptimiste@aol.com wrote:
>>>>> <<Mac's suck!! oh no, I said it >>
>>>>>
>>>>> Heh.. Care to back this up? I have yet to hear an explanation for this
>> type
>>>>> of comment on this list, yet.
>>>>
>>>> let's not. it was made in good fun. no harm, no foul.
>>>
>>> Well, I work at a place where we're all forced to work with Windows, Macs,
>> Linux and
>>> Unix and all I hear is endless complaints about how terrible Windows is
>> and this is
>>> coming from people who really know what they're doing and who are normally
>> Windows
>>> users (most of them are migrating to Linux these days, btw). They have to
>> reformat
>>> the Windows machines on a regular basis so they'll stop crashing
>> (temporarily).
>>>
>>> Andrei
>
>
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