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

Burnsy2023

Burnsy2023

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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 switched from windows to OSX at christmas, I bought a MacBook which has been upgraded to 4GB ram. For a simple answer yes I would switch, OSX is very stable and if one program crashes nothing else does. 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.

Also all the programs which are on windows have alternatives on OSX which most the time are better than what the same type of software offers on windows.

You don't need a very powerful machine to run OSX smoothly. I was running OSX on 1GB ram fine and it was very smooth. You only really need more ram in OSX if your using your machine for something specific which uses a lot of ram like photoshop, or VMware. Otherwise 1GB is perfect for OSX there is no noticeable difference between 1GB and anything above when running OSX.

I doubt apple will ever let people legally run OSX on hardware which is not made by apple, As it is their selling point for their hardware, the main reason I went with a MacBook was purely because of OSX but also I do like the style a lot. Plus it would be a trough job to get hardware manufacturers to produce drivers for an entirely new OS.

If I was still a windows user I would still like to make the switch to OSX although I already have. Simply because it just works, no messing around and it takes half the time to do tasks on OSX which take up a lot of time when doing them on OSX.
 
If Apple released their OS for standard PC platforms, whether because of an EU order or just to open their market up, yes I would try it out. Arguably there are three main OSs in existence, Windows, Apple OSX and Linux. I've used Windows a bit ;) Linux hardly and Apple barely ever never. :(

I wouldn't dual boot though. One PC per OS. :D
 
Nope, OSX = Linux anyway. Plus I can't live without my games, if game developers started making games for Linux/OSX then I'd definitely consider it.
 
Been tempted before, but the big reason has always been the hardware. It's too expensive and doesn't lend itself to upgrades.

If they did an OEM copy I'd take a look, but I can't see it offering anything Windows doesn't already offer me. And lacks decent support for gaming.
 
I would try it then make my decision then. I would welcome OSX to be opened up to general x86 hardware, mainly so it can fall from the graces. Once OSX has to do what Windows does and has a strong foot hold in the desktop OS market, i think it would start to crack wide open
 
Wow there's a lot of misinformation already (to be expected)

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 haven't known that to be true since the Windows 9x days - 2000, XP and Vista have all just shut down the program that broke and got on with things. I assume NT4 did as well but I've never used that.

Lots of people said:
OS X is Linux
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I was going to not bother dignifying that with a response, but it's as much Linux as Solaris is (e.g. not at all). Did you actually get that information from somewhere or just make it up?
 
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I haven't known that to be true since the Windows 9x days - 2000, XP and Vista have all just shut down the program that broke and got on with things. I assume NT4 did as well but I've never used that.
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I agree, reliability really isn't a distinction between Windows and OSX, bar the fact that OSX currently doesn't have driver issues, but that doen't fit into the hypothetical situation ;)

Burnsy
 
I don't take claims about differences in reliability seriously between Windows and OS X, the current incarnations both hit the public at around the same time (2001 for XP and OS X) and since then have proven themselves to be just as stable as each other. Anything before that was crap in comparison.
 
I would probably run it in a Virtual Machine rather than in a dual boot setup.

I'd certainly give it ago if it was made avaliable though, but since I am a gamer I doubt it would ever replace Windows as my primary OS.
 
Oh god.

Wasting your time posting this type of thread in here.

OS X would be horrible (performance wise) if it was shelled out like Windows is across multiple pc-configurations, in my opinion.
 
I wouldn't say "Windows 4 life"... but to be honest OSX just isn't that good. It offers little over and above what any Linux distro does, other than perhaps a few bits of specialist software and a arguably "slick" UI (although IMO I think XP looked more modern...)
 
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