XP is good because it plays games, the file manager also is probably better than the Finder, oh and you can play all .wmv's
OS X is better overall though.
OS X is better overall though.
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Is there anything positive in Windows XP?
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I like the fact that I can have a different theme every month, and that the themes are the same across all programs. deviantart has some especailly good ones. OSX does get a bit boring in that respect
Nothing, been using XP for 10 months now at work, matter of fact XP Home and XP Pro. If I didn't have to use the PCs, they would never be turned on. So far in my little exposure, nada, nil ,nothing, zero. How MS ever got to be the 800 lb. gorilla, I never know. I dread working on a PC and my days suck when I have to.
I had a look at the first page (Finder) and noticed you refer to the shelf as being on the rightddekker said:
A bit more depth in those articles (and I would mention editing if it weren't for a recent heated thread
) and they would be a good reference. 
That's still on Windows? Minesweeper too?Silentwave said:
The last time I had a Windows machine was ME (yeah, I know... ) and it was past dead then.Before OSX I was using OS8.6. I can't recall if that had any games on it, but if it did Nanosaur was a massive leap up.
If your an engineer and need AudoCad there is no choice but to use Windows. Please don't try to tell me that there are alternative CAD packages on the Mac that can do the same job as AudoCad. I have tried them all and they don't for Civil/Environmental/Mechanical engineering.
I just recently came back to the Mac after 11 years. I moved to the PC in 1995 after AudoDesk discontinued support for AudoCad on the Mac.
Now that I can run AutoCad 2000 in Parallels Desktop on a Mac just as well as on a PC, I can back to the Mac because I was sick and tired of MS as a company, their crappy OS, viruses, trojans, worms and all the rest.
When I left that Mac it was pre-OSX days. I really love OSX and am not surprised to find so many new converts moving to it from Windows. The impending Vista nightmare is also responsible for many existing Windows uses checking out OSX...and making the switch after they do.
Dave
I just recently came back to the Mac after 11 years. I moved to the PC in 1995 after AudoDesk discontinued support for AudoCad on the Mac.
Now that I can run AutoCad 2000 in Parallels Desktop on a Mac just as well as on a PC, I can back to the Mac because I was sick and tired of MS as a company, their crappy OS, viruses, trojans, worms and all the rest.
When I left that Mac it was pre-OSX days. I really love OSX and am not surprised to find so many new converts moving to it from Windows. The impending Vista nightmare is also responsible for many existing Windows uses checking out OSX...and making the switch after they do.
Dave
Windows Calculator is quite possibly the only thing I miss when using OSX...working in Hexidecimal on OSX's calculator is painful....that being said, OSX's calculator for all the inbuilt conversions (Especially updatable currency conversion) is class. That's about the only thing I miss. Or possibly Solitare or Paint occasionally.
-video and image thumbnails (god damn the speed)
-start menu (I dont even understand how anyone cant like this...you install an app and it puts a shortcut for you in a common area without you having to dig it from the file system and place it somewhere yourself)
-alt tab that works
-calculating folder sizes....not sure but in OSX how can you get a total disk usage of say 7 folders out of say 11 without having to pull out a calculator? Can you select the folders and say get info? That will just give you seperate bits of info which you then have to add together.....
-not having to repair permissions all the time
-resizing a window from more than just one corner (like any corner or any side)
-maximize button on a window (seriously..how many websites have the same amount of data so why 'maximize' to the data size only to have it be incorrect for the next site ). There should be a real maxmize button.
-huge HUGE number of games available for XP
-huge HUGE number of add-on hardware available for XP
-start menu (I dont even understand how anyone cant like this...you install an app and it puts a shortcut for you in a common area without you having to dig it from the file system and place it somewhere yourself)
-alt tab that works
-calculating folder sizes....not sure but in OSX how can you get a total disk usage of say 7 folders out of say 11 without having to pull out a calculator? Can you select the folders and say get info? That will just give you seperate bits of info which you then have to add together.....
-not having to repair permissions all the time
-resizing a window from more than just one corner (like any corner or any side)
-maximize button on a window (seriously..how many websites have the same amount of data so why 'maximize' to the data size only to have it be incorrect for the next site ). There should be a real maxmize button.
-huge HUGE number of games available for XP
-huge HUGE number of add-on hardware available for XP
MrSmith said:
Good to know. But it is really a wierd way to access this information. To hit a modifier key to change an entry in a Menu. Is that kind of behaviour used in any other place and is it recommended to be done in the interface guidelines by Apple?
Well, whether it's weird or not I can't say, but in its defence I would say that the default would be to just select Get Info and, by doing so, open an Info window for each item. But by using Control you are getting a special or extra function. In other words, for the default (individual Info windows) you don't need a modifier key. Only for the special function. That seems reasonable to me. Sorry, in a rush. Hope that makes sense.2ndPath said:
Choice of hardware from the processor, to the mainboard, to the video card and to the casing. (The Antec Nine Hundred is very sweet)
Media Center
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Media Center
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Gaming
MrSmith said:
Yes, it makes more sense this way than the other way around. I was rather refering to the way of accessing the function by changing the menu by pressing a modifier key. But then I realised that this behaviour at least in the Finder is not unique. I just never happened to press a modifier key before while on a menu.
Well so thanks for the hint. I learned somthing new about the Mac.
Windows XP is quite better than Win98 in terms of reliability, performance and overall ease of use. The downside is that these improvements are stated as features of each Windows release since 1992 and are the same features being promised to Windows Vista users now.
After 6 months of using Macs, the only thing that I miss (which is not related to market share, lock-in and such) is the file/disk manager. Explorer is quite better than Finder.
Since Gnome Nautilus is better than both, I hope that at some point a OS X port will be useable.
After 6 months of using Macs, the only thing that I miss (which is not related to market share, lock-in and such) is the file/disk manager. Explorer is quite better than Finder.
Since Gnome Nautilus is better than both, I hope that at some point a OS X port will be useable.