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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...
Remove the Gay-Bar® (aka Dock) and put the trashcan back on the desktop
Find a Finder replacement more like Explorer
Put the minimize button on the side side as the scroll bar (and make it larger)
Make the scroll bar not look like a smear of toothpaste with aliasing artifacts
Provide a calculator and calendar that stays on top, but does not steal focus or gray every other application, nor disappear the moment I click something else
and blunt weapon with the address of whomever designed the Dashboard behavior
Since I'm asking for the sky...
Add a second mouse button to the laptops
Fix the headphone jack to work with standard headphones
Fix the backlight bleeding around the edges of the LCD
Fix the horrible viewing angles of the LCD
Accept the return of new laptops that come with dead pixels
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.
it's a pleonasm.
Trust me, I work for the government.
If you've only got $900 saved, just wait longer. Why waste that kind of money on something you don't really want (i.e. a PC)?
Maybe you're magical?
crap.
Are you seriously telling me you do not have any spare screens, keyboards and mice? And you're visiting /.? And even if you add all those things, you're still under the US$ 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?
For sure this place doesn't take kindly to deniers of evident and proven fact. Mac is the better OS. Period. Viruses, clutter, bloatware, second-rate copy, "good enough for the ($&%^&$%^) consumer" development. anyone? A windows user's definition of "euphoria" must be that "it finally works" feeling that is all the same above his habitual sense of constant dismay.