Mac Users

What I find strange is that the utter domination of Macs over PCs is long since a thing of the past, but that hasn't stopped them becoming very popular again recently (largely thanks to that Ipod contraption).

I still think a nice Coolermaster case is prettier than any Mac desktop chassis.
 
I have a Macbook Pro but I must admit I hate being associated with the "typical Apple user". Why Apple users feel the need to worship Jobs I have no idea, OSX is decent and Apple stuff looks nice - but it's hardly life-changing stuff unless you lead a very sheltered and depressing life to begin with.

The biggest frustration about it is how the fanboys will quite happily justify being disadvantaged somehow as "a feature" or something. The iPhone for example ships with no 3rd party app support, no MMS or 3G, woeful SMS support, limited bluetooth support and a hefty price tag - yet everyone lauds it as a "revolutionary device" and/or tries to justify why features that everyone else has come to expect as standard are missing, etc. It's not just the iPhone either - newest iPod comes with encrypted firmware and people are jumping to Apples defence by claiming the users are better off for it, etc.

Apple, in my opinion, are no better or worse than Microsoft - both of them are only ultimately out to make huge profits, both are no stranger to selling upgrades (OS, hardware, etc) at a big premium and both have been known to alienate customers as and when they see fit. The only real difference between the two is that Apple somehow manage to do all of this traditionally capitalist stuff whilst maintaining a customer fanbase one would normally associate with a much smaller "community" business.

Unfortunately you're largely wasting your breath arguing with people with "the Apple = God mindset" as they're so indoctrinated. I read recently about a guy who exposed a remotely-exploitable flaw in the OSX WiFi stack ending up getting death threats from Apple fanboys. Death threats, over an operating system. That speaks volumes for the typical Apple evangelist imo.

Indeed, couldn't have said it better my self.
 
Can your PC do this?

Open every application at once and not crash? Digg Article

Just did that! Immense! Everything still worked perfectly, doubt my PC could have done that. This was off the battery aswell.

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This was an expose screen shot for the PC buffs.

Josh
 
Holy dock Batman!

Missed a few there too, some of them just opened their respective application folder....fail.
 
Just did that! Immense! Everything still worked perfectly, doubt my PC could have done that. This was off the battery aswell.

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This was an expose screen shot for the PC buffs.

Josh



But this all depends on how many applications you have installed and what these applications are.

A fresh install of windows will be able to open every app. SO what?
 
I have both and but i must confess i like the Mac OS more. Not sure why but i just do.

But i prefer my PC for everything else, well apart from rendering OBVIOUSLY, oh and music production/djing
 
Holy dock Batman!

Missed a few there too, some of them just opened their respective application folder....fail.

:p

Ill do it again shall I! Hehe, ill have all the apps out of the folders.

Ill try it on my G5 now, should be faster as its RAID 0.

To D.P., im sure windows can do this, but i have never done this on windows.

Josh
 
What's your guess? If you accidentally open every application on your Macbook Pro at one time, will it crash or can it handle the load? It's running 10.4.10 with 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 3 GB of DDR2 SDRAM. After 12 minutes of churning along and in internal temp of over 160 degrees F, this is what happened...

Not a very good OS if you can accidentally open everything. :D

Never used a Mac, so I cannot make any useful comment.:rolleyes:
 
Just a question, if you did open every program on a PC (as i never did it) would it still respond very well, no "lag" etc...Just interested as i have never done it.

I just opened up all my programs on my G5 and then proceeded to play lego star wars and it responded exactly the same way as it would if i had been just running Lego Star wars, same framerate etc...

Josh
 
Just a question, if you did open every program on a PC (as i never did it) would it still respond very well, no "lag" etc...Just interested as i have never done it.

I just opened up all my programs on my G5 and then proceeded to play lego star wars and it responded exactly the same way as it would if i had been just running Lego Star wars, same framerate etc...

Josh


Depends on what OS you are using, how much memory you have, and what kind of swap space you have etc.

Provided you had enough total memory (virtual or otherwise), then you shouldn't experience much slowdown. It certainly wouldn't behave any different to OSX anyway.

It depends a lot on the application. If the application just sits there waiting for input and it is unfocussed then it will use almost no CPU cycles and its memory footprint will get placed into virtual/swap memory. Something doing number crunching thats always active will be troublesome.



In essence anyway, linux will behave identically to OSX, and there is no underlying reason why windows wouldn't cope as well.
 
But this all depends on how many applications you have installed and what these applications are.

you can see all the applications in the dock at the bottom. should be able to recognise the apple-ised logos
 
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