Re: Laptop advice
you got one meg of ram on your mac????and half a meg running xp?
LOL jk
Ubuntu > xp
Originally posted by Rodster
As I stated before I own a mac and I like Apple products but i'm objective as in i'm not a kool-aid drinker. Running a XP machine is the best bang for the buck, software and hardware wise. Remember there's more competition on both the hardware and software side.
Software is usually a lot cheaper for games and business apps. I've been using XP Pro since 2001 and it's a very stable platform. I find it just as easy to use and navigate in it's UI as I do OSX. Both companies have different ways of writing their software.
Your saying the Registry is inefficient, I find there's a trade off because once you know your way around the Registry you can change and manipulate system settings to your liking. It's no different than knowing your way with Unix root. Again both OS's do things differently and there's always a trade off.
I find XP is a much faster OS than OSX. We, as in most Mac users have heard the word snappy. I find OSX is less snappy than Classic and Windows XP. I have 1 meg of ram on my mac and it takes longer to load a program than on XP with half the memory. Safari still crashes on my system with 1 meg. Anandtech confirmed this in one of his reviews of a G5 PM until the kool-aid drinkers called him an idiot.
Everyone has there perferences I think both machines bring some good to the table and not all is perfect with XP or OSX.
Again to the original poster my comment would be, buy a Mac if you intend on using OSX and not treating it as a play toy so you can run XP apps. If that's the case buy a Dell because it's the much better value.
Software is usually a lot cheaper for games and business apps. I've been using XP Pro since 2001 and it's a very stable platform. I find it just as easy to use and navigate in it's UI as I do OSX. Both companies have different ways of writing their software.
Your saying the Registry is inefficient, I find there's a trade off because once you know your way around the Registry you can change and manipulate system settings to your liking. It's no different than knowing your way with Unix root. Again both OS's do things differently and there's always a trade off.
I find XP is a much faster OS than OSX. We, as in most Mac users have heard the word snappy. I find OSX is less snappy than Classic and Windows XP. I have 1 meg of ram on my mac and it takes longer to load a program than on XP with half the memory. Safari still crashes on my system with 1 meg. Anandtech confirmed this in one of his reviews of a G5 PM until the kool-aid drinkers called him an idiot.
Everyone has there perferences I think both machines bring some good to the table and not all is perfect with XP or OSX.
Again to the original poster my comment would be, buy a Mac if you intend on using OSX and not treating it as a play toy so you can run XP apps. If that's the case buy a Dell because it's the much better value.
LOL jk
Ubuntu > xp
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