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Originally Posted by Dr. Computer  Its been awhile why? |
Because back when it was like mac OS 4 - maybe like - let's see, I was in like 9th or 10th grade when we had to use macs for computer graphics, so that's like 4 or 5 years ago, maybe.
Yeah, that thing was pathetic, you wanted to shoot yourself just because you had to use one. Mac completely pulled a 180 out of their ass and I have no idea how they did it. Their new OS (Tiger/Leopard) uses a Unix base and is VERY stable and VERY easy to use. The only thing I don't like it is like the problem has always been with macs, they're VERY greedy when it comes to what kinds of stuff to use. The things that you can't do or file extensions that you can't view on a mac due to them being greedy kinda pisses me off.
I know from personal experience in using programs related to my major in mechanical engineering that having JUST a mac simply WON'T cut it, a lot of the programs only have coding for Windows, which puts linux and mac users shit outta luck. Getting a mac is fine, if you have a program like VMWare to emulate windows so you can still run some needed exectuables.
What it comes down to is mac has to stop being so greedy about "only mac applications for mac hardware" and get with the program. The only reason macs aren't more popular is because in my opinion - they're not up to par with society, regardless of how "good" they are. They're simply not up there.
Ie. doc and docx are industry standard for text, without word:mac you're shit outta luck if you need to open one of those.
Also, as I mentioned before, a lot of software on the market is produced only for windows, which creates problems for mac/linux users. At least they semi-fixed this problem with making vmware - which used to be a redhat product, work with OS X to run Windows.
I like macs a lot, but I think due to their greed, running JUST a mac is near impossible in this society unless all you do on a computer is use the web and chat and such.