This seriously is a totally worthless thread. Anyone who has ever owned a Windows based PC can not honestly come in here and tell me that they didn't have stability issues, virus/malware issues compatibility issues, Hardware Interrupt issues etc.

I've gone around and around about this for years, and even on other threads here. I'm an MCSE. I was the Network Admin for a fortune 500 company, one of the largest park systems in the US and have designed and supported WANs for everything from Banks to Police stations.

Windows is a piece of fluffy crap. There is only one thing to really say about the people claiming that os x is for people that don't know computers... OS X is a Unix certified OS. Unix... Now I know many of you windows people might not know what that even is.

Try building up a PC to hardcore anything. Adding high end video cards, sound cards, dedicated encoding cards etc, is all a pain in the ass. IF you can ever get the machine to run correctly, god forbid you make one hardware change. When you not fucking around trying to get all the hardware working then your fucking around cleaning your computer from all the crap out there trying to destroy it.

I finally had enough about 5 years ago and went out and picked up my first MB Pro. I have not looked back. All my macs are rock solid, in fact right now, on that 5 year old mac pro, I'm batch encoding H.264 video from DV raws, running 2 monitors, have 15 browser windows open both safari and firefox. am running adobe cs 4 doing some picture editing. Adimum and skype, a half dozen other programs and it rock solid. The machine stays one and has for the last 5 years, chunking away.. I've had a system cooling fan fail recently, but it's a 25 buck fix. Other than that... peaches. For ROI nothing, and I mean NOTHING has even come close to what the macs have provided. Not only in reliability of the hardware but for the countless hours I have saved not fighting with the damn computer everyday.

You Windows fanboys are really kidding yourselves and look retard to those of us that have a clue. Go back to beating up newbies on your Xboxs....

I do regular checkups and maintenance on my Macs too. I just don't have to do it for 6 hours a day like with Windows. :)

I think I love you. :)

for some "magical" reason i'm at peace with Win OS which I use 12-15hr each and single day

but i do recommend Macs to people who have to ask which OS to use.. so they won't have problems like AMP, no pun AMP

i don't know what you're talking about :) windows don't give me headaches and don't take much of my time either :)

How exactly did you tweak it?

Good for you. Then keep using it. I could really give 2 shits if you or anyone else "switches" But coming in and telling someone a dung pile of lies about something you know nothing about and forming those lies from the also uneducated opinions of others is retarded.

If you had a clue about how OS X actually works, and I'm not talking about the eye candy... Then you wouldn't be in a thread like this making the classic winboy comments.

I started with all this over 30 years ago... I've been around the block a few times. Take it for what its worth.

where do you see me telling pie of lies? i talk from my own expirience about particular OS and EVEN recommend other route for people who don't know better. wtf is your issue?

Was doing it since 1994. Furthermore, I'm using a high end computer assembled by myself. Had not problems with building it. Those old times of IRQ conflicts are so 90s, because now every piece as plug'n'play feature. You must have IQ=0 to be unable to assemble a custom high end computer in 21th century.

BTW, my custom computer runs both Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard whitouts any problem. So I don't understand what your post was about... :disgust

It was a generalization much like the ones I see the winboys constantly spewing. You should be use to that.

jesus, just use what you like, i don't understand the endless debate that comes up about once a week on gfy. it's true though, the windows fan bois are worse than the mac guys.

Same as any other system.... you know, fucking with the internal system settings until it works and flows the way you want it to, remapping keyboard functions, app functions, backup schemes, graphical tweaks, networking, etc... there's nothing I can add to it physically, it's already top of the line.

Something tells me you are not sincere. You said you know how Mac OS X which as Free BSD-based core works. Ok, then tell me please where the OS X analog of Windows registry is located? But try to do this without googling a whole day :winkwink:

Wow, "94" Well here's a cookie for you.

ok heres my generalization.. half of certified people don't know shit about their own subjects went to 2-3month courses and then scream they know everything there is to know about stuff they have no clue about. enjoy your brainless mac os it suits you well ))

Do you know where they are located? Look at my question to Gerco above/ Dare to answer it? :)

P.S. As I said already I have no problems with both Windows and Mac OS X that run on my custom-made desktop personal computer (PC).

PC all the way :)

In 80s I had some Russian 8080-based 8bit computer. After that I was leaning Z80 assembly programming on ZX-Spectrum, till I have assembled my first IBM-compatible PC in 1994.

BTW, so what about my question, professor? You are googling too long :1orglaugh

LOL!

Seriously? I could give a shit. One of the nice things about the OS is I DON'T have to be some sort of super geek to use it. Why would I have any interest in know that information. But if you feel that that's some magical nugget of goodness please do share.

No, I can instead focus on what matters, which is using the tools to make me money and not worrying about what the fucks going to lockup or crash next.

Like I said... If your content with your system then kudos to you. You have to be in the 1% of windows users that seem to have found some magical unicorn that granted you freedom from the BSD. But, don't coming in here trying to make it out to be the norm.

Yeah, I know where most stuff is. App graphics and other app relevant materials are contained in packages within the app. MacPilot (and some others) collects most other functions in a single interface to tweak everything else easily. System Library, System System, User Library, etc... it's not complicated. That's the point, it's not complicated. And there's no fucking registry..... the Windows registry is a piece of shit, and was a bad idea from the beginning.

However, I shouldn't have to know what the inside of a computer's asshole looks like, I'm not an engineer and don't want to spend my day poring over the excruciating minutia of computer tech. I have other things to do. That's why I use Macs.

I see :1orglaugh

So having a BASIC knowledge about Mac OS X is an equivalent of "being a geek"? :winkwink: As far as I remember you were the first one who has started talking about Unix, and that all the Windows users in this thread even have no idea what is it (gentle hint to say that you know it better). Isn't it? :winkwink:

For some reason I knew that :pimp

Can you tell me a path to these settings? I mean the OS X analogues of HKCU and HKLM in Windows - a place what gives you almost a full power over your OS.

Ya, I had a heath Kit. Built it myself. Then a ti 994a, an atari 800, a northstar advantage, numerous IBM PC then the list just becomes to long.

I was fixing the original compaq suitcase laptops for Schwan Wholesale in "82".

My father was an engineer for the Air force with western electric working on there computers in the early 70's and I had this shit crammed in me sine I learned to read. Hell, when I was 5 my day would sit and do flowcharting with me and taught me to program my first language. I got into computers not for the love of them, but because it was something I could do and do well. It was a happy day for me ten years ago when I was finally able to kiss all that shit goodbye and just run my site.

I know all I need to do is log in as root and I am God over these systems.
I know I set up Apache and modded my hosts file in about 5 minutes.
I know I set up php5 and created an internal dev server all by myself.
I know I created mysql databases without any trouble.
I know I networked all my systems together without a single hiccup, something near impossible in Windows.

I know what I need to know. I'm not a computer expert, I'm a design expert.

totally untrue as i've done the same on Win setup locally with no hiccups either

Yeah, after fucking around with "workgroups" and all that shit, and you can't tell me it's "easy" on Windows, because it's not. It takes about 1 second to add another system to my net.

You lier! 1 second... You must be slow. :winkwink:

No, you aren't. Root gives you an ability to be god over the system but it doesn't make you god automatically :) To be a real god over the system, you have to know the way to it's "control centers".

Ok, even a Mac OS X users have to learn their system (at least the basic things), so here is the answer to my question.

~/Library/Preferences - MAC OS X analog of Windows registry HKCU
/Library/Preferences - MAC OS X analog of Windows registry HKLM

Every key is located in it's own file. These files can be easily altered by means the OS commands (e.g. plutil can convert them into XML files and back to binaries). You can also use a special software (e.g. resource knife) to do it without converting.

Also type "defaults" in the Darwin's terminal.

dude what workgroups? i get networking done during initial install of OS my workgroups in check from get go.

I admit there were problems setting up local web server on XP not due to XP but rather poor and at times misleading install instructions from apache/php/mysql especially if you wanted latest releases, it was few years ago. now it takes minutes to download and setup apache/php/mysql on windows don't even have to read install instructions :2 cents:

Don't you just love that you bring home a new system, turn it on and it just works. It sees your other systems, it talks to your printers, etc. I bought a new Imac for my mom last year after dealing with her lack of computer knowledge for the last 15+ years. every-time she would go to use one of her PC resulted in a phone call that would tie me up for hours walking her though something. she brought home the Imac, Over the phone I had her setup an Ichat account. Took control of her system and walked her though it for about an hour... She's called me twice since, (in a year) with questions which I just hopped back on Ichat and took care of in minutes.

Oh the sweet bliss

Yeah, that's useless to me. I know how to ditch old prefs, that's about all I can think of that applies to what you just said.

So now tell me, can you take a bunch of random musical instruments like, Cello, Violin, Flute, Drums, Bass, and maybe a little Guitar and a handful of vocals & sound effects, and compose an original kick ass soundtrack from scratch in two days that's worthy of money? Because I can. :)

The people I've managed to switch, have never called me once for help. A nice reprieve from the constant calls I used to get when they were on Windows. :thumbsup

I'm not a musician so I can't compose ever a simple 3-note melody. But my son can. He is playing guitar in a heavy metal band and of course he composes the music (almost all music their band plays) and lots of instrumental computer music. Actually he composes the music for their band mostly on computer. I'm a total layman in his software but the only thing I know for sure, he uses Windows XP 32bit. Also I know what sound card he is using (it was a present from me and my wife). It's Infrasonic Quartet Pro.

Macs:
Not expensive.
Run fast, quiet, cool
Look Great
Quality hardware, compatible, talks to entire system.
Never crash
Uses ever-longer .ini and other config files. Machine gets slower every time you install a new program.
Sexy & Solid.

PC's:
Expensive considering the extras you need, the time configuring, the time wasted. No resale value.
Run slow, Noisy, hot.
Look like shit. Old design, millions of cables
Multiple hardware makers of multiple products all trying to communicate via shitty drivers
Crash daily
No .ini files! No slow down with new programs. Fast yesterday, fast today.
Fat, bloated

I love my Macs. We're replacing all of our PC's with Macs in the next 4 months. Will never buy a pc again.

So Mac is not a PC anymore? LOL

I build my own Windows 7 rigs -- they're super fast, they render thousands of frames of animation on a weekly basis(sometimes around the clock) and while I can't say it's a 100% flawless operation, I can't complain about too much.

All of my builds boot up the first time and run great on the same day. You're talking about years ago problems, not today's problems.

This really is a bunch of misinformation(or just outright lies). About the only true thing you wrote about Macs is that they look better, but that's a matter of opinion.

all OS have there ups and downs, I always use windows and linux on all my desktop and laptop computers but like most I only linux on servers. I had a mac once but couldnt stand it. at the end of the day if everyone used linux the world would be a better place. there are some amazing apps and all free. windows/mac are so slow compared to linux but windows/mac are a bit more shiny, if you like shiny then its fine.

I see people here claim to be experts yet they can't even custom build a PC that is stable?

Oh boy.. how did you manage to put together so much bullshit in such little space.