Poll: Would you go from Windows to OSX?

Would you consider buying a OSX licence?

  • Yes, give me some Apple goodness!

    Votes: 73 23.9%

  • Hell no! Windows for life

    Votes: 130 42.5%

  • Never used OSX, so have no idea

    Votes: 103 33.7%
  • Total voters
    306
Its funny people say "It just works" and "Doesn't have driver problems", when still, even now, there are fundamental OS-hardware interface problems with their newest Macbooks.

I mean what the heck? Wifi still only occasionally works when waking up? They've been out for months now! Not to mention all of the other problems with HD video, their Mini Display port, their gesture-recognitions screwing up.
 
I think if OSX was opened up to 1000's of different hardware combination's with their dodgy hacked drivers it may not be as quick anymore... they're quite lucky really with only a few to worry about.

Didnt Apple say 'up yours' to all programs on the old pre x86 macs? and naturally they all had to be completely re-written? I think a lot of MS's problems come from backwards compatibility with old programs.

I have tried OSX, it was quite nice... but doesnt do anything I cant do in Windows... I'm not the type to pay over the odds for an iMac because they're cool and hip, if anything it makes me dislike Macs more :) It's like paying £100+ for an iPod, it's not an MP3 player...its an iPod!, lets face it, you've paid over the odds for a MP3 player :)

Besides if you know the know that knows you know that OSX is already on the PC but you may not know this unless you are in the know, just incase you didnt know... you know?
 
I've used OSX back in the day of g3 ibooks, and it was a decent enough OS - but until either DirectX gets ported, or games start using non-proprietary APIs like OpenGL, I'll always be a windows user.
 
Nah, I wouldn't bother. OS X seems to be a very good OS, but Vista is stable and does everything I ask of it. I've been using Windows since I was young, and it's just not worth the effort of learning a new way of doing things. Plus the range of software available is clearly smaller.

1337z0r said:
Where as a lot of time on a majority of windows machines if a program crashes your whole machine crashes meaning you have to reboot.
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I've never known that to be the case with Vista or XP. The majority of the time you can just close the affected program. Hasn't really been a problem for me from Win2000 onwards.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
I was having a conversation with a friend earlier and we were talking about what our opinions would be on OSX if the EU forced Apple to allow it on a standard PC platform.

If you could get decent drivers, would you consider dual booting with Windows or going OSX only?

One of the main reasons for my not wanting to use OSX is becuase of the price of hardware, but if Apple released an OEM copy for the price of a Windows licence I would seriously consider at least a dual boot.

So what are your thoughts on this hypothetical situation?

Edit: oh, and this is specificaly for Windows users, the discussion was about whether Windows users like or would change to OSX

Burnsy
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I would consider OSX if it could run my games and handle all my hardware properly. Same goes for Linux.

But, it can't :p

Never used OSX, so have no idea
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Fstop11 said:
It should be a Mac only product. Its highly stable due to it having to only deal with a small number of hardware. Using a mac is gorgeous for me so I would be just as happy to use it on Mac only machines.
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Yeh but its kind of cheating. Its amazing the way windows can run well on so much different hardware.
 
I use OSX while at university doing a graphics course (old G5's) and i much prefer my machine when using the adobe suite. (could be down to this is set up how i like it)

When i first started using them i REALLY wanted to like them, if only to justify buying a mac book, but i found i didn't get along with them all that well.

A few months in, i like them a bit more, but im still not a huge fan.

For the foreseeable future my money will go towards PCs until apple do something that blows me away.

However if i was to buy a laptop, it would probably be a mac book, as to what operating system it would run most the time is another question.
 
The reason OSX is so stable is that it runs on a unified hardware platform, if is had to support the myriad of PC's out there with literally 1000's of combinations of hardware I think there would be big problems.

I've used OSX it a fine OS, but for me Vista x64 does all I need it to do, the lack of games on for OSX would put me off.
 
OSX looks ok, but I doubt it would be as stable as it is on Apple Computers on PCs due to the huge hardware platform. However, I have never used it personally so I can't comment too much (I chose this option).
 
Ross1234 said:
Yeh but its kind of cheating. Its amazing the way windows can run well on so much different hardware.
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Its not cheating. Apple design hardware for the software and vice verser.
It is amazing that windows can work well on unlimited configurations of machines but the usp of apple is the Mac and not the OS.

The money the would have to put in to get it to work mutli platform would probably would be imense. They want to sell hardware.
 
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