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Is OSX better than XP?

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NJDevils:
I am beginning to think that perhaps it is because I have become so used to the OSX interface now, that I find it more browsable than windows (but I must admit, I use to be a PC booster and an MS slave).

While the underpinnings between the two operating system are different, I cant come up with too many  things that one OS can do that the other is without capability.

My list is short: multitasking in OSX blows away windows, the stability is probably better (I havent crashed the XP box yet, but it has been infected with a few viruses), open-source apps can be compiled and used, and applescript studio (unbelieveable job there).

Windows XP you have to admit has backwards compatibility if nothing else. Ancient peripherals still work on it. I cant even use the OSX dvd player because my apple HW decoder kit for my PBG3 is unsupported.

psyjax:
Thats the thing tho. OS X is constantly being worked on, and Apple is doinga bang up job squashing bugs left and right. I mean look at OS X 10.0 and now look at 10.1.4 ( a year later ) and tell me that this operating system hasn't been growing and developing dramatically?

How long did it take M$ to fix all the windows 95 bugs??? I'll tell you, when 98 came out nearly 4 years later! And the system stull had bugs.

I say OS X is going to be incredible after 10.2 when all of the missing OS 9 functions are brought back.

[ April 21, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]

Zombie9920:
There is something I don't get. Some people claim that Aqua is such a great looking GUI, blah, blah. Well, I decided to try an Aqua Visual Style on XP today and personally I think Aqua is way too bright. It hurts my eyes..and I also think that the buttons look as cartoony as Luna(I do not like Luna one bit). My question is, what is so great about Aqua? I don't see anything special about it.

I'll give credit where credit is due. I do like the OSX icons. I like them so much that I'm actually going to use them with a more professional looking Visual Style(like Blackcomb Pro v.1.1)

A screenshot of the Aqua XP Visual Style.

[ April 23, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

psyjax:
Well first off, if it looks anything like that screen I can see where you get your impresion  :D

But seriously, that looks nothing like Aqua, it's an aproximation, not the real thing.

Furthermore it's everything combined, not just the buttons or the way windows look (which to be honest I could do without the red yellow green buttons and some of the other goofier things) but the ebb and flow of the interface.

Once you get used to it, it realy does seem to live up to it's name. It feels like your swimming thrugh it. I don't know how to describe it, but it's real cool, imersive, fun, and fast!

If you ever get a newer Mac down the line, or get a chance to give one a serious go, you will see what I'm talking about.

There are free programms that change the look of the interface, notably there is Duality 3. It has this one theme calld Aluminum that rocks, I would post an image, but I have no server.

Also, the interface is real hackable if you know what you are doing. I mean you can make it do realy wierd stuff. If you checkout http://www.resexcellence.com/

you'll see what I mean.

Zombie9920:

quote:Originally posted by Billy Gates:
Hell burning 16x on my Windows Machine slowed it to a crawl because it took most of my CPU
Good Luck
--- End quote ---


You must have a slow CPU or you didn't have Multi-Word DMA/UDMA IDE capable drivers installed on your system.

When I have my burner in PIO mode 4 it uses alot of my CPU cycles and it slows the system down quite a bit, but when I put my burner in Multi-Word DMA Mode 2 it barley uses any of my CPU cycles and it does not slow my system down at all when I burn(even at max speed...24x). If my burner supported ATA-33 or ATA-66 it would use even less CPU cycles.

If your CD-ROM doesn't support UDMA it will support MW DMA. Right now I'm willing to bet your drive is running in PIO mode, you really should check into that and get it set properly.  You can't blame Windows for a users lack of hardware configuration knowledge.

[ April 24, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

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