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So help me God, if this starts one of those stupid “my-browser/computer/firewall-is-the-best” arguments I’m going to recommend my own thread for Jihad. Most people start with one system, then without really knowing the others decide theirs is the best.
That being sad, I learned PC’s back in the DOS days. I don’t care if you use Macs or PCs. But recently I had to buy my son a G4 PowerBook for school and used it exclusively for a few days out of curiosity. Here’s what I think after a few days….just a few…of living on a Mac.
Jobs and Gates have made some choices, and each choice always has a flip side...good or bad. Jobs keeps much tighter control over his Op System. It makes for a cleaner, more predictable system. That coupled with his market share has kept him off the radar screen of hackers. Gates' system is more customizable....from across the internet in the case of Domain Controllers and Group Policy. There are more ways to get in and out, more ways to customize things...even more keys. That's a huge advantage to enterprises that network his machines, but obviously leaves his system more open to exploitation. More people write software for WinTel, and that has huge advantages, but also means the user has to be careful what he chooses to download and hook into his op sys.
It drives me nuts that I quit an application on a Mac and its process is still running in the background. Fool with a Mac for a while and you can grind it to a halt with all the running processes eating your RAM. But in the Windows system, if you don't know what you're doing half the applications you install (esp. the "free" crap) will set the op sys to start some of their code and keep a running process at every reboot even if you don’t use the associated application for months. Even Microsoft leaves that small but worthless ctfmon running on all their machines.
It seems both systems have come a long way in terms of recovering from crashes. I don't think that's nearly the issue for either platform...but esp. WinTel, as it used to be.
Again I am not a Mac expert and realize that living with it for a few months would help me step over some hurdles I see right now. I gave up trying to get msn.com videos to play for me. However, if I was new to computing and didn’t think I’d ever network, a Mac might be tempting. They’re simpler in some ways.
My bottom line, with Windows you fight to keep the crap out, with Mac you fight to make it compatible.
If anyone out there knows both systems I’d like to know what you think. If you’re lived with one all your life: don’t tell me yours is the best.
That being sad, I learned PC’s back in the DOS days. I don’t care if you use Macs or PCs. But recently I had to buy my son a G4 PowerBook for school and used it exclusively for a few days out of curiosity. Here’s what I think after a few days….just a few…of living on a Mac.
Jobs and Gates have made some choices, and each choice always has a flip side...good or bad. Jobs keeps much tighter control over his Op System. It makes for a cleaner, more predictable system. That coupled with his market share has kept him off the radar screen of hackers. Gates' system is more customizable....from across the internet in the case of Domain Controllers and Group Policy. There are more ways to get in and out, more ways to customize things...even more keys. That's a huge advantage to enterprises that network his machines, but obviously leaves his system more open to exploitation. More people write software for WinTel, and that has huge advantages, but also means the user has to be careful what he chooses to download and hook into his op sys.
It drives me nuts that I quit an application on a Mac and its process is still running in the background. Fool with a Mac for a while and you can grind it to a halt with all the running processes eating your RAM. But in the Windows system, if you don't know what you're doing half the applications you install (esp. the "free" crap) will set the op sys to start some of their code and keep a running process at every reboot even if you don’t use the associated application for months. Even Microsoft leaves that small but worthless ctfmon running on all their machines.
It seems both systems have come a long way in terms of recovering from crashes. I don't think that's nearly the issue for either platform...but esp. WinTel, as it used to be.
Again I am not a Mac expert and realize that living with it for a few months would help me step over some hurdles I see right now. I gave up trying to get msn.com videos to play for me. However, if I was new to computing and didn’t think I’d ever network, a Mac might be tempting. They’re simpler in some ways.
My bottom line, with Windows you fight to keep the crap out, with Mac you fight to make it compatible.
If anyone out there knows both systems I’d like to know what you think. If you’re lived with one all your life: don’t tell me yours is the best.