Why I love my Mac!

[tony]

PC is not a complete and total waste, neither is Mac anything close to perfection. 

I agree.  My wife bought a Dell when she had the chance for a new pc and it is working very well for her.  I also use Windows (XP) at work and back in the days of Redhat 7 (linux), I tried using it instead of Windows for my work desktop environment but alas it was way too buggy for that. 

Linux has improved and has contributed a lot of modern computing, the company I work for uses it on hundreds, actually probably thousands of servers.  I  get frustrated with the linux graphical UI when compared to the Mac.  I wish instead of the linux groups fighting / debating over the merits of gnome verses kde would just settle on one and get to a single, better ui like I have on the Mac.

But, to me, the great thing is that now users have far more choice than they did only 5 years ago.  I certainly don't hate windows, but I prefer mac and use it wherever I can.  Server side, I prefer linux and use it wherever I can.

[Iridium]

Really my Linux distribution is quite interesting. I have all the functionality of both KDE and Gnome in one. As the user I get to choose which interface or application based on what I desire. It is still sort of buggy though leaving me wondering with each boot if my wireless mouse will work this time or not. The ultra crappy part about Linux is the nearly non-existent driver support. Of course since I'm a complete geek almost any computer is a kick in it's own way. (I still want a Mac in the worst kind of way...)

[Ironwolf]

Virtual Machine will run Mac, Linux and nearly any other OS you can cram onto your hard drive.

You're serious? It can run Mac OS X?

[Iridium]

Virtual Machine will run Mac, Linux and nearly any other OS you can cram onto your hard drive.

You're serious? It can run Mac OS X?

It does not list any Mac OS as supported but neither does it list Linux. You simply need a bootable kernel of the OS you want to run in the virtual environment. It creates a virtual hard disk and voila, you have your running OS in the VirtualPC application. While setting it up you can create the shared directories for moving documents and such across the platforms. As I said, no click and drag at this time.

[Iridium]

My bad, Ironwolf, apparently it is not possible to run Mac OS X in VirtualPC, and I quote:

This is not possible for three reasons:

        1) Apple does not allow this in their OS licensing (Kind of stingy huh?)

        2) Mac OS X specifically checks to ensure that it is installing on Apple hardware (Ah, more             
            proprietary bullsh*t.)

        3) Mac OS X requires that the computer has an APIC - which we do not emulate (Aww..)

Source: Pietschsoft.com

So, I am sad again because I was entertaining the idea of loading the Mac OS X so I could play with it.

[tony]

There are some hacked versions of OS X that you can run on non-apple hardware.  I've not played with them myself but found this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSx86

[tony]

The multi touch trackpad is a huge productivity improvement.  Going back to an old mac or a windows pc feels archaic.

[Deicidal]

I Love Mac only cause I have to.

I have the responsibility of administring 20x 24" iMacs, which are more of a headache than the 200 Laptop users or 800 odd PCs I have to look after. They are dual boot but FSAA and AA are not effective in Windows. Mac runs proprietary graphics drivers similar to HP business class laptops. If only they let the GPU manufacturers design the Drivers.

other than that I love XP because I know so much about the Operating system.

You will hear more from me in future and pass all your PC/Mac queries to me.