SubscribeI’ve never once encountered an Apple zealot half as frothy-mouthed as the jackasses who jump on every opportunity to take cheap shots at Apple products and their users.Bullshit. Frothy-mouthed Apple zealots are a dime a dozen.
I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it. OK, OK: I know other operating systems are available. But their advocates seem even creepier, snootier and more insistent than Mac owners. The harder they try to convince me, the more I'm repelled. To them, I'm a sheep. And they're right. I'm a helpless, stupid, lazy sheep. I'm also a masochist. And that's why I continue to use Windows – horrible Windows – even though I hate every second of it. It's grim, it's slow, everything's badly designed and nothing really works properly: using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I wouldn't change it for the world, because I'm an abject bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life.You didn't even read any of the links before you stuffed your head under your sheets, snorting up great lungfuls of your own flatulence. Look at you. Just look. Mac users as Catholics indeed: while you were typing your reply, did you have fistfuls of beads while your mumbling all that nonsense under your breath? Did you stand up and sit down seven times before you posted?
That's why Windows works for me. But I'd never recommend it to anybody else, ever. This puts me in line with roughly everybody else in the world. No one has ever earnestly turned to a fellow human being and said, "Hey, have you considered Windows?" Not in the real world at any rate.
One thing I will say for Windows. If youWell, here's the thing, George: I got those results from OSX without having to treat my operating system like a plutonium-dusted squirrel on crystal meth. Operating systems are supposed to work for the end user, not the other way around.
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The result will compare pretty well with OSX in terms of stability and longevity.
hdiutil creates .DMG files that Panther refuses to mount ("no mountable filesystems"). .DMG files created by the Leopard version of hdiutil mount just fine.hdiutil imageinfo subcommand seems to be telling me that the Snow Leopard-created images are indeed Apple Partition Table based, but the partitions appear to be arranged in a different order and named in different ways. This is all totally a topic I was hugely interested in learning more about. defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dockhdiutil create are -srcfolder and -ov. The partition-scheme is Apple in both the 'good' (built on Leopard) and 'bad' (built on Snow Leopard) .DMG files.hdiutil command is being run from a shell script under Xcode, so it's possible that I'm running some wacko binary in a directory that Xcode has shoved into $PATH, or that Xcode is setting some environment variable or some damned thing.tr...>I buy Mac notebooks because I save money. I've owed three, a Rev B TiBook, a 12" PowerBook G4, and now the Air. The first two lasted four years *each*, still work, and were only retired because they were starting to get beat up.What does that even mean? Don't most people replace their computers because they become obsolete, rather then because they fail? I still have the PC I built in 2000, and I only built a new one when the primary hard drive started to fail (which is unavoidable with mechanical Hard Drives and of course happens to macs too. In fact, the hard drives used in PCs and macs are the same). The hard drive could be replaced for $30. I also have a laptop I bought in 2001 and it works fine.
I have to say I bought an EEEPC for law school and at this point I'm desperate for something that has some good note taking software which is apparently missing from linux.If you want to go out of the box on Linux you're really going to have to learn a lot about how it works. I'm not sure what you're looking for but you can get Open Office for Linux. You can also use a text editor like Nano. You can also get netbooks with Windows XP nowadays though, including upgraded eePCs.
The same is not true the other way around. You can't run OSX on a PC.Did you miss all the posts from people running OSX on cheap PC hardware in this thread?
THEREFORE. The Mac is better because you have the choice of whether you want to use Windows, or an actual operating system that works.
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