Canteen Worker link said:
Firefox 3 works great on my Mac! I am so sick of Vista on my work PCs and yet I can have an easy to use PC that is smooth, easy and has little if no problems. Even my kids have returned to Macs having had other PCs over the past few years.
Spoken like a true "market to me" gen xer.
Mac is no easier to use, in fact some parts are far more difficult to use. It just has a different work flow methodology in SOME parts. It is a Unix based system, kind of like Linux. Where Mac goes wrong is they spend far too much time trying make everything look good and are forgetting about strong and core functionality.
The last 2 versions of the Mac OS have been on par bug wise with such classics as Windows ME!
Vista is no better, in my opinion, but the major problems with Vista, is the ideal that they are attempting to make everything *nix like or in other words, walking down a similar path to Mac.
The reason for this, is not because Mac has things the right way around or that they are better. It is just this simple marketing push that Mac have had, MS are aiming to captiolise on this and give the people what they want.
MS Office 2007 was a clear indicator of this, and we all know how ridiculous it was to make the changes they did.
Everyones, inistance that mac is the be all end all and ducks nuts of everything makes me quietly chuckle to myself, in particular because the people who say it most often, are the ones who mainly use their computers for 3 major functions
1 - The internet
2 - General office and email (Word processing, Spreadsheets etc [they use an MS product for this - Chortle)
3 - Listening to music.
Then others look at the included apps and go "Look how easy it is to do x" the most oft one I hear is from matas who uses it to make "websites" no realising this is simple technology that was available in Office 95 with frontpage and is still available with MS Office and other free apps.
I still think the power of Linux distributions like Ubuntu with the sanaptec package manager and ability to install software from the internet with terminal commands like
Sudo apt-get install <appname>
Or if you are not confident with that you can use the GUI to search for thousands upon thousands of 100% free software packages to do anything you can imagine. If you cant find what you want, head to the net and they will give you step by step instructionson installing it.
Barring that, you can install new software repositories straight from the GUI increasing your pool of software products by still more thousands.
If Mac is so great, it is because it uses many of the original feature of its base OS. Linux ****s over it for the ability to customize every aspect and teh massive amount of resources out there.
Zep. I am installing IE8 on my test box under my desk to check it out.
Dan
