Windows and me.
I've been using a Windows machine for over a month now in my current contract job. It takes forever for it to boot up.
Evidently it's checking for updates, because occasionally I get a message that says it's done that. Without my consent or even knowing until it's done. The machine also goes through some kind of spyware shield check every day. How tedious.
The user interface for all the Office software is atrocious. Things like "New" and "Reply" are hidden in an incomprehensible maze of buttons featuring dozens of things I will never, ever want to do. I can never find "Delete."
Copying a file is not just click and drag. Sometimes I have to click the "Copy this file" button provided in a way too big panel on the left side. What the fuck?
The Ctrl key is further away from the keyboard than the Command key on my Apple, which annoys me no end. Perhaps that's just a matter of what I'm used to. I'll never get used to this.
If I get a Windows machine to play WoW, that's all I'm going to use it for. Boot up, play WoW, shutdown. I can't imagine how much productivity is lost every day by computer users worldwide to this antiquated user interface.
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I had to buy a new power cable for the Mac. Those things don't last me more than like 3-4 months.
nfitpk
not fairly intensive, the people kneel.
I find that in Windows I need to leave tool tips on all the time because the icons are too obscure (and too many) to figure out which one I need.
And I've spent more than enough time looking for "Delete", too; what's wrong with just selecting something and hitting backspace? Or at least Cmd-Backspace?
A little tip for you guys from someone who went from Mac to PC: if you're trying to interact with some file or something and you can't figure out how to delete it or copy it or whatever, just right click on it. That context menu will let you do just about anything.
And, at least in WinNT forward, you should be able to drag and drop files into new folders to move or copy them, S. You can on my computer with WinXP.
I'm not saying it is or isn't a sucky OS (Windows) but hopefully those two pieces of info will make it less painful for the Mac exiles.
jqlydbj
July quests liquidize your darn big jowls.
As for moving files, you can treat it like a block of text, cut, copy, paste. Works identical.
And, you know, your keyboard comes with a delete key...
Anyway, a large part of the graphical "issues" you have with gaming comes from OS X. Sure you have a zippy load time on just about everything. That's because OS X doesn't preload stuff. Which can be taken one of two ways: Either it's not loading the stuff you will never use (most of which you can turn off in Windows), or, it's going to take you a while to do just about anything beyond typing and browsing for porn.
For the most part, it's mostly just a familiarity issue. You're more familiar with OS X's interface than Windows. I don't have a problem with it.
And there are at least 20 games that I can play (and have wanted to play) that you can't. Not to mention other silly little things like Kazaa. And if I want to upgrade my graphics card, I don't have to buy a new computer, I can just buy the graphics card.
If I were rich, I'd own one Mac for all my normal activities, and a mess of PC's for gaming.
agvgbli
A G V G B L I
"And there are at least 20 games that I can play (and have wanted to play) that you can't."
Ding ding ding...we have a winner.
hykeczgq
The fox walks at midnight
"And there are at least 20 games that I can play (and have wanted to play) that you can't."
And he can afford to buy them.
pystmj
Punt your socks? Toes, meet jam.
I don't want to play any of those games, so that doesn't matter. I bought a PS2 to play games.
I want WoW to work better than it does now on my Mac, and I think I may have to buy a Windows machine to make that happen.
I have never seen any machine run WoW the way I want it to be, so I still don't know what kind of machine to get. Maybe it's not possible.
This whole bout of soul searching is brought about by The Original B saying, simply, "No lag in Ironforge." That's what I want.
"Not to mention other silly little things like Kazaa. And if I want to upgrade my graphics card, I don't have to buy a new computer, I can just buy the graphics card."
Eh? There are Kazaa and all other sorts of P2P clients for the Mac.
Also, for the desktops you can upgrade the graphics card just by buying a new one and installing it (the higher end ones, anyway - that may not be true for the iMacs)
zgiol
Zoos give icelandic owls lice.
Yes, my Mac desktop at home has had a memory upgrade, disk drive upgrade, and video card upgrade. This was also Brian's idea, he said don't get an iMac, you can't upgrade it.
Oh yeah, and I have a three button mouse too. Never used that shitty one-button thing.
How can Brian and I argue so much and yet I take his advice? Go figger.
Also, many of the icons you don't use can be shut off (and others turned on) to customise things to how you work.
I had a terrible time going from a Mac to PC but now I actually prefer the PC (of course, I'm running a state-of-the-art system). Since running Windows XP, I have never expereinced a crash or freeze (running on 6 years now).
As for the start-up time, the new Windows Vista coming out later this year (hopefully followed by a quick service pack one) will feature "Instant-On"(TM). Now your PC will function much like your DVD player in terms of start-up time. What this will do to your power bill and possible crashes we will have to wait and see (since the system never really shuts down, it just sleeps).
Underneath Quietly Demons Rise Utterly Destroying
"I don't want to play any of those games, so that doesn't matter. I bought a PS2 to play games."
Gaming on a console and gaming on a computer are not the same. It's to the point where I differentiate the two ("video games" and "computer games.")
For the most part, video games are twitch games, even though the ultimate twitch games don't really translate well to the console platform (FPS). Computer games, as a whole, have much, much more depth and complexity than console games, not to mention that, graphically, there's no comparison.
And while I'm sure you don't care that much about FPS's, Half-Life 2 is enough to convince just about anyone of the difference. While I wouldn't call HL2 difficult or even challenging, there were so many times playing through that game where I just sat and stared in wonder at what my computer was showing me. A console won't give that same experience.
As for upgrades, the point behind the example remains, PC's are easier to upgrade than Macs, by far.
Kazaa for the Mac came out after I got my PC, so I didn't necessarily know about that, though I had Limewire and the like on my iMac. Heck, I think I was still using Napster back then.
If I wanted to give Blizzard more money, I'd record a movie via FRAPS to send to you, but I have very little doubt that I play the game at higher resolution than you keep your desktop, so I'm not entirely sure how well that would work...
As for system stability, companies are getting better about that. Generally speaking, it's only older programs which give me troubles on my PC (DAoC), whereas WoW never crashes, as an example. OS X is a much nicer OS, I have no qualms admitting that, but XP does have some advantages (such as lower overhead). I can't say I like running Windows any more than I can't say I like one pencil over the other. It's just a tool.
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