Has anyone gone from a Windows 7 machine to an Apple and thought OMG...

[A Casual Fitz]

No, apple machines are terrible for the price... especially around this time of year when great laptops are on sale.

 

[LikeLinus]

windows doesn't natively support copying file paths either.... unless you're referring to folder paths in the explorer bar.

i use clickie. i can right-click on any file and "copy file path".

Yes, I mean the ability to copy the file path of a file. Like the explorer bar. I'm just saying Mac should really support that feature out of the box for the corporate environment.

Not to mention, how the heck do you rename a network drive on the Mac?? I'd like to have control over the naming scheme of my network drives. In a corporate environment, a lot of times the drives are named odd and I'd rather have a meaningful name to the actual information inside the folders!

Anyways, I do like the Mac for editing and graphics. It's a solid OS, but lacks in several areas. No OS is perfect though.

 

[Joemonkey]

I don't care that much for OSX, I think its ok. But the real star of the show is the laptop design. IMO, it is the most well thought out laptop I've ever seen. The unibody was released years ago and its still light years ahead of current notebooks.

Here are some of the features that makes a Macbook Pro superior to other notebooks design wise:
*snip*
Magsafe power adapter

O RLY?
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/magsafe-macbook-macbook-air,news-9156.html

 

[Ns1]

O RLY?
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/magsafe-macbook-macbook-air,news-9156.html

counterpoint:

http://www.google.com/search?q=trip...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[Anubis]

i did and went OMG THIS FUCKING SUCKS and went back

 

[Joemonkey]

counterpoint:

http://www.google.com/search?q=trip...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

i don't know, lots of things have cords though, and lots of people trip over them. If people are too idiotic to place the cord in a place where people don't walk, or are too dumb to watch where they're walking, well then maybe there are other issues...

The only device I have that has a magnetic power cord is my deep fryer, which makes sense.

 

[OutHouse]

counterpoint:

http://www.google.com/search?q=trip...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

tripping over a cord is a lot different than causing a fire hazard.

http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/magsafe-design-over-saftey/

 

[Rubycon]

Oh those magnetic cords are serious fail.
It's hilarious watching the mac users as we sail through the Bermuda Triangle and their cords keep falling out. Absolutely astounding reaction possibly only second to the boat launch ramps at marinas on busy Saturdays!

Why does this happen? Magnets lose their attraction in the Bermuda Triangle.

:biggrin:

 

[Joemonkey]

Oh those magnetic cords are serious fail.
It's hilarious watching the mac users as we sail through the Bermuda Triangle and their cords keep falling out. Absolutely astounding reaction possibly only second to the boat launch ramps at marinas on busy Saturdays!

Why does this happen? Magnets lose their attraction in the Bermuda Triangle.

:biggrin:

:awe::awe::awe:

 

[Ns1]

tripping over a cord is a lot different than causing a fire hazard.

http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/magsafe-design-over-saftey/

hey man, I'll take my chances of a fire hazard you take your chances tripping over power cord.

that said, now I know to get it replaced if it gets frayed.

 

[Rubycon]

Watt did the power cord say to the boot?

Fraid knot. D:

They also use these mag cords on deep fryers.

Does a mac get warm enough to cook quad waffle fries?

 

[evident]

Win7/Vista > OSX > XP

 

[metalmania]

I use Win7 laptop. I bought a Macbook Pro for my wife. The message is so clear: Macbook Pro is for woman. That's it.

 

[preslove]

I actually believe that my defective/frayed magsafe adapter ruined my white macbook. Before it became visibly frayed, my battery started losing charge abnormally early. Then it developed a screen flicker. Then it lost all wireless range.

What a fucking piece of shit. I enjoyed OSX, but their hardware is garbage.

 

[MrX8503]

O RLY?
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/magsafe-macbook-macbook-air,news-9156.html

I actually believe that my defective/frayed magsafe adapter ruined my white macbook. Before it became visibly frayed, my battery started losing charge abnormally early. Then it developed a screen flicker. Then it lost all wireless range.

What a fucking piece of shit. I enjoyed OSX, but their hardware is garbage.

Take care of your cords and it won't catch fire. I still think magsafe is superior to the regular power adapter.

 

[OutHouse]

Watt did the power cord say to the boot?

Fraid knot. D:

bad joke time?? ok ill play.

What did the circle said to the tangent line?
STOP TOUCHING ME!!!!

 

[preslove]

Take care of your cords and it won't catch fire. I still think magsafe is superior to the regular power adapter.

Uh... this is a known defect in these cords, asshole. It's apple's fault, not mine. The cord didn't visibly show damage until after it was too late.

 

[roguerower]

My girlfriend and both of my sisters have a Macs. I recommended them for my sisters because they don't know technology and I see Macs as being idiot proof because they are not designed for computer savvy individuals. Any time I use my GFs MB Pro I rush back to my Netbook w/ XP or my Desktop w/ W7 64-bit and hug it.

I will take the ability to upgrade, pick & choose my hardware, and a superior OS over being part of the "cool a.k.a. gullible" crowd.

I also strongly dislike Apple and the company's practices.

 

[halik]

Don't play games and OSX has much cleaner/efficient UI than anything windows (haven't seen the new windows phone yet). Plus you have things like vmware for the times you need excel or vba. Essentially you get all the upside of Linux, without having to deal with that stupid UI either.


Windows 7 is the same thing as Vista/XP usability wise. Bought a copy for my parents' PC, couldn't tell the difference. Stupid admin privilege pop up deals FTL; if all it takes is CLICK OK, you don't need to black out the screen and bug me for it.

Also Win7 back up is RETARDED, no built in feature to rotate logs. It will literally back up till you're out of space on the drive.

 

[Connoisseur]

I don't care that much for OSX, I think its ok. But the real star of the show is the laptop design. IMO, it is the most well thought out laptop I've ever seen. The unibody was released years ago and its still light years ahead of current notebooks.

Here are some of the features that makes a Macbook Pro superior to other notebooks design wise:

Magnetic Latch
Smooth LCD Hinge (One hand One finger to open lid)
Glass trackpad
Multi Touch trackpad with Inertia
CNC Machined Unibody Aluminum
Edge to Edge Glass display
Rubber Screen Gasket that doubles up as a bumper
Microscopic Drilled holes for the sleep/wake light
.95" Thin even with a disc drive
Magsafe power adapter

Agree wholeheartedly. I work in an e-discovery/computer forensics dept and several of my co-workers work with macs to test various forensic tools. When not being used for strictly forensic purposes, it's Win 7 or Linux bootcamp all the way. The display though is miles away from the rest of our Lenovo Thinkpads... I just don't understand why other manufacturers haven't caught on to the design cues. Sony is close but MacBooks just look... airtight. As if not even a grain of sand can get in between the seams. And the screen... oh lordie the screen.

I would gladly ditch my thinkpad (even if the hardware specs are better) for an aluminum body macbook pro with Win 7 bootcamp if my company offered it.

 

[Ns1]

Basically whenever I'm sitting down at my desk I'm on a PC doing 1 of 2 things: MS Office or SC2.

At any time except those, the MacBook offers a far better experience.

 

[QueBert]

My girlfriend and both of my sisters have a Macs. I recommended them for my sisters because they don't know technology and I see Macs as being idiot proof because they are not designed for computer savvy individuals. Any time I use my GFs MB Pro I rush back to my Netbook w/ XP or my Desktop w/ W7 64-bit and hug it.

I will take the ability to upgrade, pick & choose my hardware, and a superior OS over being part of the "cool a.k.a. gullible" crowd.

I also strongly dislike Apple and the company's practices.

The beautiful thing about OSX is a n00b can pick it up and use it without much thought, and somebody who's been on computers since TRS80's like myself can find depth in it. terminal > cmd, so I definitely have more power when I'm in OSX over Win 7. Windows 7 IS NOT a superior OS that's laughable, it all depends what you use your computer for. Windows has more software but for the tasks I do OSX cannot be beat period. Also I run it on my Hackintosh so all I paid for it was the price of the OS, which was actually cheaper than my copy of Windows.

 

[Kaido]

I don't get this... it's the same with the iPhone. Apple designs a sleek product, both the MacBook Pro and the iPhone... regardless of how it works, we are all attracted to the design, yet the first thing people do is add some stupid case to add weight and bulk so that it doesn't get scratched. Why pay even a portion of the premium if you plan on doing this, because IMO, you aren't truely enjoying it.

Well, not everyone pays a premium for the hardware - I like it for the OS. They do have some neat designs though, like the iMac and the Mac Mini. Also, you more or less have to get a case, unless you want a scratched-up shiny toy with dents and fingerprints all over it. Sad but that's the game you play if you want to keep your shiny toys shiny :\

I really wish they'd move into the corporate sector (software-wise) and also offer a Thinkpad-style laptop - nice, durable coating on the outside. But they just ditched the Xserve and now offer Mac Pros (tower cases) as the new servers, which take up to 12U's of space. Holy cow. My server room at work is hardly a room, so ain't no way that's gonna happen :awe:

 

[Rubycon]

bad joke time?? ok ill play.

What did the circle said to the tangent line?
STOP TOUCHING ME!!!!

That circle was a real jerk!

I'd rather stay asymptotic.

 

[halik]

The beautiful thing about OSX is a n00b can pick it up and use it without much thought, and somebody who's been on computers since TRS80's like myself can find depth in it. terminal > cmd, so I definitely have more power when I'm in OSX over Win 7. Windows 7 IS NOT a superior OS that's laughable, it all depends what you use your computer for. Windows has more software but for the tasks I do OSX cannot be beat period. Also I run it on my Hackintosh so all I paid for it was the price of the OS, which was actually cheaper than my copy of Windows.

Second completely. Terminal + bash + GCC + ports makes it a fully featured unix box with a non-80s front end.

Generally people making the arguments that you quoted consider themselves "windows power users" and couldn't find their way around *nix. To them, OSX is just bubbley UI for hipsters.