I have joined the dark side - Page 2

Ghoulish Delight · 10-31-2007, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

I'm curious what buggy you're having with Vista. I've been running it for quite a while now and haven't run into a single one and at one point had the machine running for 48 days before a software install required a reboot.

The biggest issue we've had is with the photo gallery, especially as to how it deals with networked served image files. It's more performance inefficiencies than bugs, per se, with extreme lag despite no network congestion. However the keyword tagging through Windows photo gallery does seem to be buggy, but that may again be related to the general network/sync problems it seems to have. The OS is overall sluggish and tends to hang up on context switching between users. A 3 year newer, significantly more powerful machine is performing like (or worse than) our old laptop. It's frustrating.

We're also running Vista on the server machine, which doesn't see much day-to-day use from us users, and with that I've been very satisfied. It has never crashed and, as you said, requires reboots only for updates.

Brigitte · 10-31-2007, 09:28 AM

Welcome to the dark side, I've been a Macaddict for life, never use a PC unless I'm at my in-laws house.

CoasterMatt · 10-31-2007, 10:31 AM

Screw you all, Linux pwns!!

Ghoulish Delight · 10-31-2007, 10:33 AM

Having worked with Macs, Windows, several flavors of Linux, AIX, Solaris, and several Unix implementations...whatever. They all suck.

Alex · 10-31-2007, 10:36 AM

My experience is:

If you don't know how to use the system, they all suck.

Once you are adept with a certain system, then all the others suck.

Perfection was abandoned when they moved away from punch cards.

Disneyphile · 10-31-2007, 10:37 AM

I used to live by, "Don't compute with fruit.", until I started editing.

Now, I have a Mac G4 laptop and the ultimate Apple geekware - an 8-core Pro.

And, I'll never allow Microsoft products to taint my fruit. I run that stuff on the PC. I love my PC for office stuff, but Mac owns the graphical world.

Welcome to the dark side - I'm sure you're going to enjoy it.

Cadaverous Pallor · 10-31-2007, 11:57 AM

Is the current Mac OS super searchable like Vista is? As slow as our laptop is (and it is. slow. very. slow.) I'm already getting used to the neat capabilities.

Moonliner · 10-31-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Perfection was abandoned when they moved away from punch cards.

Did you ever drop your deck while rushing to get them in the queue?

Talk about a blue screen of death.....

Ghoulish Delight · 10-31-2007, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

Once you are adept with a certain system, then all the others suck.

Except Netware. Netware sucks. Period.

Kevy Baby · 10-31-2007, 12:36 PM

I have been a lifelong Mac user starting with my SE Pro back in 89. I have been forced onto a PC at work (which I spend a lot of time on) and will say that there are advantages and disadvantages to each platform. For what I do, I would not want a Mac at work. And I will never have a PC at home. I am not interested in PC gaming.

One of the areas where a PC kills the Mac is in file management abilities in dialog boxes. At work, I am CONSTANTLY moving, copying, renaming, etc. files in dialog boxes. Also, I am constantly moving between open documents in the same program - something I can do on the keyboard on a PC (Alt-Tab) but I have not figured out to do this on a Mac (you can use the keyboard to move between PROGRAMS, but not files).

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Originally Posted by Alex

I'm curious what buggy you're having with Vista. I've been running it for quite a while now and haven't run into a single one and at one point had the machine running for 48 days before a software install required a reboot.

I have been using Vista for a few months now and do not like it. It is, in my experience, less stable than XP (and I keep it up-to-date). While I do not do anything fancy on my 'puter (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Act remain open constantly and Acrobat Pro is used quite a bit), I am on it constantly throughout the day. RAM management is buggy, forcing me to reboot at least once a day.

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Is the current Mac OS super searchable like Vista is? As slow as our laptop is (and it is. slow. very. slow.) I'm already getting used to the neat capabilities.

I do not have the very latest Mac OS (Leopard, which came out Friday), but the search functions are fairly similar in robustness and speed.

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