WINNT is probably the most stable of them all. Then there was Windows 2000 (DON"T ASK they made it for the heck of it) They said it was based of of NT technology.........it was just a nicer looking or newer looking NT, also fairly stable. Then they came out with the USER FRIEDNLY windows XP and XP pro. AHHHHHH....... how sad. First of all its eye candy which of course you can disable....WOW.....second of all it has its own built in trojans the windows trojan weren't they proud of their remote desktop......again sad. Overall XP was the eisiest OS ofthem all to Network and set up shares etc....well besides NT that was pretty good (for a windows os). But overall windows xp is buggy and that stupid error reporting thing gets annoying as hell.....(but ah yes you can disable that too!!!!!!!!) The CTRL-ALT-DEL brings up the NT screen with a task manager (nice) but what the heck are all of those processes running for? Windows 98 had to run one process to work (basically) explorer.exe and a few network commands if you had a network, rundll32 and kernel but not a huge list. Overall XP sucks your processing power.
But OSs aren't the best part of PCs.....the nice thing about PCs is that they are upgradeable to and almost unlimited extent....you can put in a new motherboard a new everthing from the power box on up (easily). After you buy your system you can keep sticking stuff into it to make it better more RAM more HD space more drives better or two MONITORS.....
Tell my if I'm wrong but its not that easy to take apart a MAC and add stuff upgraded etc....or at least not as easy as it is on a PC.
And I just have to throw this in there............
WHAT IS WITH THE ONE BUTTON excuse for a MOUSE that MACs have?
As PC users we have our options....Trackball, lasermouse, ball mice....but the least amount of buttons present is two, (unless your little brother rips one off). I saw a mouse with like 12 buttons on it plus the scroll bar. Personally if I didn't have my scroll bar I would be in a constant state of strife. (YES I DID OPERATE COMPUTERS BEFORE THE SCROLL BAR WAS INVENTED, IN THIS CASE I SIMPLY USED THE KEYBOARD ARROWS OR PAGE BUTTONS)
Anyhow the point of these past two posts was just to point out how technally stupid the people are that make the apple swith commercials.
I am a PC user I love PCs for what they can do. MACs, well I'd get one if I was doing graphic design. (I'd have to make a new mouse for them though)
If you read all of this, I thank you for your patience and I hope that I made my point very clear.
Now that I've told the world my issues with apple.com I'm going to browse the web using MOZILLA (IE is bad it is the devil). Thank you Slashdot for this great service to the tech/geek community.
Forgive me if this is a tad off the topic, but this is the closest thread i could find to the topic i wanted to address.
I'm not quite sure how many people have gone to the apple.com sight or seen the many apple commercials advertising the SWITCH program. These are designed to get PC users to start using MACs. Actually they are trying to get (stupid) PC users to convert to MAC. Personally I have no objection to MACs for what they are or should I say, what they are useful for. MACs are good for Graphics Design and massive rendering programs. The OS is stable because it is based off of UNIX.
But you probably already know all of this, so I'll get to my real issue. In most of these apple movies the people keep talking about how their computers documents get lost and their (WINDOWS OS) fails or locks up or whatever. They make a direct assosiation between PCs and Windows. People can't be that narrow minded, (well maybe they can), but there are other OS's besided WINDOWS. Thats the beauty of Personal Computers. Sun, UNIX, Linux etc...... Most programs including game programs are written to run on PCs mostly for windows. Windows 3.1.1 wasn't that bad, but then again it was just a suped up DOS. I'm not even getting into Win95. Windows 98 wasn't that bad although it goes corrupt after a while and it need constant rebooting because of the STACK overflows.
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WINNT is probably the most stable of them all. Then there was Windows 2000 (DON"T ASK they made it for the heck of it) They said it was based of of NT technology.........it was just a nicer looking or newer looking NT, also fairly stable. Then they came out with the USER FRIEDNLY windows XP and XP pro. AHHHHHH....... how sad. First of all its eye candy which of course you can disable....WOW.....second of all it has its own built in trojans the windows trojan weren't they proud of their remote desktop......again sad. Overall XP was the eisiest OS ofthem all to Network and set up shares etc....well besides NT that was pretty good (for a windows os). But overall windows xp is buggy and that stupid error reporting thing gets annoying as hell.....(but ah yes you can disable that too!!!!!!!!) The CTRL-ALT-DEL brings up the NT screen with a task manager (nice) but what the heck are all of those processes running for? Windows 98 had to run one process to work (basically) explorer.exe and a few
network commands if you had a network, rundll32 and kernel but not a huge list. Overall XP sucks your processing power.
But OSs aren't the best part of PCs.....the nice thing about PCs is that they are upgradeable to and almost unlimited extent....you can put in a new motherboard a new everthing from the power box on up (easily). After you buy your system you can keep sticking stuff into it to make it better more
RAM more HD space more drives better or two MONITORS.....
Tell my if I'm wrong but its not that easy to take apart a MAC and add stuff upgraded etc....or at least not as easy as it is on a PC.
And I just have to throw this in there............
WHAT IS WITH THE ONE BUTTON excuse for a MOUSE that MACs have?
As PC users we have our options....Trackball, lasermouse, ball mice....but the least amount of buttons present is two, (unless your little brother rips one off). I saw a mouse with like 12 buttons on it plus the scroll bar. Personally if I didn't have my scroll bar I would be in a constant
state of strife. (YES I DID OPERATE COMPUTERS BEFORE THE SCROLL BAR WAS INVENTED, IN THIS CASE I SIMPLY USED THE KEYBOARD ARROWS OR PAGE BUTTONS)
Anyhow the point of these past two posts was just to point out how technally stupid the people are that make the apple swith commercials.
I am a PC user I love PCs for what they can do.
MACs, well I'd get one if I was doing graphic design. (I'd have to make a new mouse for them though)
If you read all of this, I thank you for your patience and I hope that I made my point very clear.
Now that I've told the world my issues with apple.com I'm going to browse the web using MOZILLA (IE is bad it is the devil). Thank you Slashdot for this great service to the tech/geek community.
Forgive me if this is a tad off the topic, but this is the closest thread i could find to the topic i wanted to address.
I'm not quite sure how many people have gone to the apple.com sight or seen the many apple commercials advertising the SWITCH program. These are designed to get PC users to start using MACs. Actually they are trying to get (stupid) PC users to convert to MAC. Personally I have no objection to MACs for what they are or should I say, what they are useful for. MACs are good for Graphics Design and massive rendering programs. The OS is stable because it is based off of UNIX.
But you probably already know all of this, so I'll get to my real issue. In most of these apple movies the people keep talking about how their computers documents get lost and their (WINDOWS OS) fails or locks up or whatever. They make a direct assosiation between PCs and Windows. People can't be that narrow minded, (well maybe they can), but there are other OS's besided WINDOWS. Thats the beauty of Personal Computers. Sun, UNIX, Linux etc...... Most programs including game programs are written to run on PCs mostly for windows. Windows 3.1.1 wasn't that bad, but then again it was just a suped up DOS. I'm not even getting into Win95. Windows 98 wasn't that bad although it goes corrupt after a while and it need constant rebooting because of the STACK overflows.