Who needs OSX on a PC when you can get the vitrual equivalent...
Let me preface by saying that I'm a MAC user at home and there is no trade-off for the superior hardware designs and the integration of the iLife applications...but,
At work, I have to use Windows (company mandate). So I installed WinXp with a WONDERFUL little program called OBJECTDOCK, and a few skins. The result? Even a MAC-nut would be hard pressed to identify the difference between my WinXP machine and a true install of OSX (even Window's Media Player is skinned to look like iTunes!).
With this setup, I get the comfortable beauty of OSX on an x86 box with the utilitarian benefits of Windows (application options, overall compatibility)...
It's not OSX, but it tastes enough like it to satisfy my hunger during the hours at work. The people who made these free apps/skins are gods!
I have also know that there are mouses compatible with macs, with two buttons, etc. but I have also noticed that the context menus in Mac OS X are not nearly as good as ones in windows, probably because not all people use them...
Hrm what do you mean by that? Seem pretty fine to me.
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now that you mention it I am still trying to figure out a way to copy stuff, there is no Copy and paiste that I know of in Mac OS X which also was driving me crazy at school...
Do you know if they are running Jaguar? Mac OS X v10.2? I believe Jaguar introduced the feature to copy and paste files, I've done it a couple times. Apple gave away the update for free for teachers. Select the file, Command-C, and Command-V wherever.
I built three servers today with Windows NT. It was the biggest waste of my time ever. I work on PC's for living 9 to 5. Since I get paid for it I have to do it.
I installed Win NT on a bunch of PII 400MHz machines. Dinosaurs in computer land. It took me forever to get the NIC cards working and the video display right.
These machines are what, 3 or 4 years old? I was getting error messages galor!
The Mac I'm typing this message on has been on since I purchased it four months ago. It hasn't crashed on me yet!
If i could find a way to stop working on PC's for a living I would be in heaven. If I could find a wa yto work on Macs for a living I'd be in heaven!
I once heard a customer in an Apple Store argue with the Apple worker about why she couldn't install OS X on her Compaq PC especially since the hard drive on her Compaq had nothing on it! Ha!!
My conclusion of Bryan's comment is that he's cheap..we all are...I also have a Dell, 2.4GHz, 60GB HD and 512 memory purchased in 2001...But it just doesn't compare to my Mac. It just doesn't compare.
And as operating systems go, I've used DOS, Windows 3.11, NT, Me, 95, 98, 2000 and XP. Why, one time I tried out OS/2! and I'm convinced that after 4 months going day and night with OS X it's better than them all.
I hope Apple never becomes the monopoly windows has become. Becuase if it did, the quality I expect from them might go the way of Microsoft Bob.....
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Let me preface by saying that I'm a MAC user at home and there is no trade-off for the superior hardware designs and the integration of the iLife applications...but,
At work, I have to use Windows (company mandate). So I installed WinXp with a WONDERFUL little program called OBJECTDOCK, and a few skins. The result? Even a MAC-nut would be hard pressed to identify the difference between my WinXP machine and a true install of OSX (even Window's Media Player is skinned to look like iTunes!).
With this setup, I get the comfortable beauty of OSX on an x86 box with the utilitarian benefits of Windows (application options, overall compatibility)...
It's not OSX, but it tastes enough like it to satisfy my hunger during the hours at work. The people who made these free apps/skins are gods!
Won't this guy die?
I have also know that there are mouses compatible with macs, with two buttons, etc. but I have also noticed that the context menus in Mac OS X are not nearly as good as ones in windows, probably because not all people use them...
Hrm what do you mean by that? Seem pretty fine to me.
now that you mention it I am still trying to figure out a way to copy stuff, there is no Copy and paiste that I know of in Mac OS X which also was driving me crazy at school...
Do you know if they are running Jaguar? Mac OS X v10.2? I believe Jaguar introduced the feature to copy and paste files, I've done it a couple times. Apple gave away the update for free for teachers. Select the file, Command-C, and Command-V wherever.
I installed Win NT on a bunch of PII 400MHz machines. Dinosaurs in computer land. It took me forever to get the NIC cards working and the video display right.
These machines are what, 3 or 4 years old? I was getting error messages galor!
The Mac I'm typing this message on has been on since I purchased it four months ago. It hasn't crashed on me yet!
If i could find a way to stop working on PC's for a living I would be in heaven. If I could find a wa yto work on Macs for a living I'd be in heaven!
I once heard a customer in an Apple Store argue with the Apple worker about why she couldn't install OS X on her Compaq PC especially since the hard drive on her Compaq had nothing on it! Ha!!
My conclusion of Bryan's comment is that he's cheap..we all are...I also have a Dell, 2.4GHz, 60GB HD and 512 memory purchased in 2001...But it just doesn't compare to my Mac. It just doesn't compare.
And as operating systems go, I've used DOS, Windows 3.11, NT, Me, 95, 98, 2000 and XP. Why, one time I tried out OS/2! and I'm convinced that after 4 months going day and night with OS X it's better than them all.
I hope Apple never becomes the monopoly windows has become. Becuase if it did, the quality I expect from them might go the way of Microsoft Bob.....