I have joined the dark side

[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.

[Kevy Baby]

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).

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.

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.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

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.

Yeah, I've noticed the occasional memory leak (though to be fair, that's more likely the fault of some software vendor who incorrectly uses Vista's memory management interface than Vista's fault itself).

I'm hoping that SP1 (currently in beta) will address the performance issues I've seen.

[NirvanaMan]

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.

From the reviews I have read on Cnet,the search capability in Leopard is supposed to be far superior to Vista. FWIW.

I may dual boot with Vista/Leopard, though I have been hearing some not so great things about Vista lately. Ah if only Windows 2000 was still supported. Or even better, NT 4.0.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by NirvanaMan

I may dual boot with Vista/Leopard, though I have been hearing some not so great things about Vista lately.

Also, try a program called Parallels. A co-worker has it installed on his Intel Mac here at the office and it seems to work well.