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How to Turn Your PC into a Mac
An anonymous reader writes "CNet is running a Mac fanboy's idea of a nightmare feature entitled 'Mock OS X: Five ways to make your PC more like a Mac'. While the idea of turning my PC into a Mac-like machine does get my juices flowing, I'm not sure the user experience would be exactly the same but I'm going to spend this afternoon trying it out anyway. "To borrow a metaphor from Spartacus, some people like oysters and some people like snails. Except what if there was a way to make your snail do some of the cool things oysters can do, like make pearls? And what if you could make your PC do some of the cool stuff that Macs do so well?"" Seems to me that this would be a lot easier if step one was install linux...
Oh, yes. The pain. The pain. ... I'm sorry, but I'm not experiencing any discomfort at all. Maybe in your smugness, you fail to see that there is no problem.
Every experiment which ends in a big bang is a good experiment.
The selective delusion of you people continues to astound me. The laptops do not come with a second button. The "right-click" functionality is replaced by a "hold down a meta key and click" functionality. Hell, I just now figured out how to empty the trash by holding down the mouse button for X number of seconds. Oh, that was intuitive. That action doesn't do squat for folders or other objects.
If you've only got $900 saved, just wait longer. Why waste that kind of money on something you don't really want (i.e. a PC)?
Are you seriously telling me you do not have any spare screens, keyboards and mice? And you're visiting /.? And even if you add all those things, you're still under the US$ 900 GP has suggested aren't enough for a Mac.
Also, I couldn't possibly care less about how much an Inspirion costs. GP claimed you could not buy a Mac for 900 bucks, and I replied to him. How does Dell even enter the equation here? Has Dell started selling them with Mac OS X or something? Are they paying you to pimp their crappy hardware?