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Hack Jandy writes "Anandtech - the PC hardware site - took the Apple challenge and tried a Mac out for a month. The result was the most indepth Macdate I have even seen. As quoted by Anand, 'In the end, Apple has developed a very strong platform.'"
He keeps mentioning things like iCalendar, Office 2004 for the PC and Outlook 2004 for the PC. But I can't seem to find these anywhere? Am i going insane?
Have McDonalds started selling girlfirends?
Um...RTFA...he was talking about his Windows experience...and yeah, he is a Windows user that used MacOSX for a month...hence the name of this article and the whole fricken point...
RTFA
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
I'd think up a better reply to your post than this, but my head is still swimming from the irony.
"You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older."
They're not using an Xserve.
You mean like this?
The owls are not what they seem
20 IE Windows??? Man, this guy has got to get a copy of Firefox and learn the joy of tabbed browsing.
Or just stop going to the porn site that spawned them.
-- If god wanted me to have a sig, he'd have given me a sense of humor.
We've /.'ed his Windows servers. I've always found the Anandtech site to be rather sluggish. Must be a Windows thing.
Bad day?
Happy people make bad consumers.
You've /.ed my favourite hardware review site.
What else am I supposed to read when I'm supposed to be working??!
I am the maverick of Slashdot
I just wish the mac had a start menu so I could find the shutdown option.
A recent switcher... :)
disclaimer: apple employee
You are an Apple employee and you "just switched"?????
That's it. Upon order of the field of distorting forces of reality, you are hereby commanded to turn yourself in to ye Supreme Ruler of the Universe and Master of All to receive your severance package.
Is that Mac finally put out a good OS. How am I supposed to sneer at crapintoshes now?
Oh well... I can still badmouth windows.
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
Until about half a year ago, I had never even thought about buying a Mac. Then I broke a bezel on my laptop. Ultimately, that forced me to evaluate every laptop I could get my hands on for durability. A couple months and about $3K later I was a happy 17'' Powerbook owner. The only downside to that was that another couple months later my lady decided she can't live without a Powerbook either...
And then it occurred to me:
My only problem with Microsoft is the severity of bugs in their software.
The "Desktop Sucks Ass" feature is definitely missing from OS X. You'll have to stick with Linux if that is a deal-breaker.
No, Macs aren't overpriced against other name-brand manufacturers. (I'll grant you that if you build your own and zealously look for bargains you can build a slightly cheaper PC.)
You really need to stop buying your PC's and PC equipment at Tiffany's.
If you did use OSX, however, you'd have automatic spell-checking in your web browser, so you wouldn't look like such a moron... That aside, the new interface features in OSX more than make up for the ones lost from OS9.
After all, when was the last time you installed your OS and everything worked as expected on first boot?
Every time. Maybe you just need to lower your expectations for Windows.
Here's what a Mac date looks like.