Mac FAQ - potentially...
Hegelian:
Quote from: resin on 2007 February 22, 09:10:39
It seems like the trend is moving more and more towards Mac gaming.
This would be a misconception.
What you get:
*A closed system of proprietary hardware and software, with the price premium one would expect from that circumstance.
*A limited selection of software. Much of what is available is ports of software developed for other platforms.
*A programming team that eventually ended up with an OS programming manual that filled 24 binders, before the company finally bailed and licensed FreeBSD Unix in order to be able to ship a working product.
*A warm and fuzzy feeling from being part of a community snookered by very clever marketing by a company as red in tooth and claw as any in either Silicon Valley or Redmond, one that treats its customers as the enemy.
*A big dose of Smug.
Quote from: Ayslhyn on 2007 February 22, 09:34:19
All I can really say here is that macs crash very rarely. . . .
Sorry, but this is a myth. Your own Mac may not crash, but many Macs do crash, and often. Does Apple still refuse to put a reset button on their machines? I grew mighty weary of crawling under my desk to unplug a locked-up Mac in order to reset it, back when I was forced to use one. Of course, once back in my chair I had the pleasure of reading Apple's snotty message about the machine not being shut down properly. Well, duh—it crashed!
For a little perspective, read this, by someone with many years of Mac programming experience. It's a little old now, but still pertinent:
In the Beginning was the Command Line
BTW, my WinXP machine virtually never crashes, and it's been more than three years since I installed the OS. :P
Think Belligerent
the Month of Apple Bugs
dizzy:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 February 22, 10:32:57
*A closed system of proprietary hardware and software, with the price premium one would expect from that circumstance.
And it Just Works (tm). ;D
Hegelian:
Quote from: dizzy on 2007 February 22, 10:37:03
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 February 22, 10:32:57
*A closed system of proprietary hardware and software, with the price premium one would expect from that circumstance.
And it Just Works (tm). ;D
For Steve Jobs, anyway. 8)
Ayslhyn:
There is no manner of need for that hostility. All I could, and honestly DID say was that I had never known my mac (or any of the three others in da house) to crash.
None of them ever have. I do beleive that the UNIX-based OS IS inherently more stable than any DOS-based OS.
It is true that the mac OS IS a closed system. No-one would argue that. But it is a fine OS.
What point in arguing? Both platforms have their advantages and disadvantages. Be tolerant and let a mac FAQ develop.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 February 22, 10:32:57
*A closed system of proprietary hardware and software, with the price premium one would expect from that circumstance.
Macs apparently run on standard Intel platforms now and OSX is supposedly open source.
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 February 22, 10:32:57
*A warm and fuzzy feeling from being part of a community snookered by very clever marketing by a company as red in tooth and claw as any in either Silicon Valley or Redmond, one that treats its customers as the enemy.
I dunno, Microsoft's treatment of its customers as its enemy has hit an all new high. Apple is certainly not good, but at the moment it increasingly looks like the lesser of two evils, and frankly if they were smart, they'd play on that.
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