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Originally Posted by UCF w00t
Of course you use Apple products in printing... all of the graphics people seem to. I don't know why. It doesn't make sense anymore. Yea, it used to but these days it just doesn't. I guess it's just habit. And maybe you guys like to feel cool and hip and artsy and fight the man by buying such trendy products.
I haven't gotten a virus in years. Probably at least 6. I don't even know the last time I did. And no, I don't run any virus scan other than COMMON SENSE. Don't do stupid crap and you won't get a virus. It's all about numbers... why would malware authors go after 8% of the market when you can go after 90%? It would be stupid for them to go after such a small audience. Most malware doesn't use flaws in Windows as attack vectors but flaws in people's intelligence. And stability? Come on... my Vista box at work hasn't been rebooted in at least a month.
And I guess I'm not a real programmer. I better go tell my boss at work tomorrow that half of the work I've done doesn't exist. Oh and that VIN database? I guess I better just turn off that Dell laptop (yes, it's my old laptop) that is running Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server that happens to be hosting it. Since, of course, no real programmer wrote that site or anything. It's all just make believe.
If Mac OSX is so great, why won't Apple let people run it on any hardware? There's no technical reason they don't. It would just shatter your notion that it's so great when you realize that OSX driver support is deplorable. That and Apple would actually have to compete for their hardware sales.
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I do not know you or what you do, and it does not matter to me. So do not take it personal. There is no way you can compare Windows with Mac OSX. Unix/Linux is the most stable, solid Computer language ever designed. It is FAR MORE secure and has many other advantages. Why do you think government based servers are all Unix based.
As far as Mac OSX and why it is still in printing and advertising, because it is much more user friendly, stable, more creatively designed, makes more sense in the way it works, and for years had superior color calibration tools. It is not a habit.
Don't know how old you are, but I am 39 and have worked on Apple's since 1984 back in school. My generation was the first generation to grow up with computers in school, so I was introduced there. Before that I was working on a Tandy TRS-80 and a Texas Instruments computer. Apple came along with a visual unique way of looking at a computer to make it far more usable. As far as why they won't let others run the OS, If you know anything about Apple's history, they tried to let others run there OS back in the 90's, and it was a disaster, other companies failures was making them look bad. Thank God for Steve Jobs. They build superior Hardware and support it. They are the Mercedes of the Computer world.
So maybe we are both forced to our own platform, due to work. But when you put the two next to each other, you cannot compare them. Apple is leaps and bounds ahead as far as OS Features, if you looked with a truly open mind, you would not be denying it. And why would creative graphics people switch, Apple was more creative then and supported graphics, even if the PC can handle it now, where were they back years ago.
Apple has turned the table on the PC market and pound for pound is grabbing more and more market share. They have changed the way the world listens to music, looks at graphics, and they have brought people who just got confused dealing with all the drivers and crap to get a printer running, into today where things are plug and play. Nothing on the PC was ever plug and play, until they started to copy apple...............Driver, what the hell is a driver. There were so many companies creating what they wanted for the PC and none of it was ever tested for compatibility with each other. So you load one thing and it conflicts with other things. It was, and still is to some extent, a large free for all to create product for PC users. Software created for the Mac is much more consistent and under UNIX more independent from each other. Apple engineers check this stuff before it hits the market.
I could go on for days...................Windows
And by the way, I do use both. Many rips, front ends on equipment, and office machines are PC's. And I am setting machines up and doing intense operation on them, hence my very strong loathing. So I am commenting as a person that uses BOTH EVERYDAY. How many of you PC guys that are commenting work on MACS and are comparing from an educated perspective?......................That is what I thought.
