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not your usual windows vs. osx

I don't think OS X looks girly. It looks sleek and sexy!

Honestly, if he wants a pc, go with a linux distro. XP looks like a fischer-price toy, but that doesn't stop me from using it over awful Windows ME at work, which has a classic interface but sucks big time. Doesn't he know that he can change XP to have a classic look and feel?

Why does he hate the dock? It is a lot like the taskbar, except it doesn't display individual windows. He can make the dock smaller, and add an alias to the apps folder next to his trash can. Then he can hold-down a click on it, and all the apps will display in glorious winblows format.

Teach him how far more sophisticated an OS with a unix base is. I use OS X for stability and intuitive design, regardless of what it looks like.

Haha... he reminds me of Grandpa Simpson commenting on Johnny Unitis' haircut compared to Joe Nameth: "Now that's a haircut! You can land an airplane on it!" Your brother would love Ubuntu, it looks like a rectangular turd. But it is far better than Windows, that's for sure.
 
thewhitehart said:
I don't think OS X looks girly. It looks sleek and sexy!

Honestly, if he wants a pc, go with a linux distro. XP looks like a fischer-price toy, but that doesn't stop me from using it over awful Windows ME at work, which has a classic interface but sucks big time. Doesn't he know that he can change XP to have a classic look and feel?

Why does he hate the dock? It is a lot like the taskbar, except it doesn't display individual windows. He can make the dock smaller, and add an alias to the apps folder next to his trash can. Then he can hold-down a click on it, and all the apps will display in glorious winblows format.
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I don't blame him for thinking that osx looks like a toy. The reason why I dropped my windows laptop and bought a powerbook is because I saw it at school and thought that it was really really pretty. I didn't know anything about Apples.

Yes he does know that he can cahnge the XP to classic. That's what he uses, for the same reasons he has mentioned for the OSX. Now we know that we can change the look of OSX as well (for a price :p )

I don't know why he doesn't like the dock. He seems to really like the whole "start" thing on windows. Why? I don't know.

But ever since we got back from the Apple store he seems to be 50/50 in considering a macbook or the ibm t60. A major change from 0/100. He likes the size and design of the macbook and he is worried about the lenovo customer service and shipping problems. He is going to college in a month about 500 miles away from home. It'll be a pain in the butt if the ibm is late.
 
FFTT said:
The Dock icons are a cleaner set of shortcuts, that's all.
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The Dock does a LOT more than that. Applications can alert you by bouncing their icon. They can also display live-updating status in their Dock icons, like Toast when you're burning a CD, Mail when you have new messages, or Adium when you're status changes. Additionally they can have special commands in their right/control-click menus (iTunes is a prime example). You can even have real 3d objects in the Dock (remember that app that came out years ago demonstrating this? "3d cube" or something).

And that's just on the left side of the divider. The other side is useful too.

But I digress. It sounds like this guy is resistant to change and isn't willing to find out why people prefer OS X over Windows. If he converts, great.

Can't blame him for disliking XP's Luna. However, I'd rather use that than the Classic Windows appearance, yuck.

thewhitehart said:
Your brother would love Ubuntu, it looks like a rectangular turd.
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:D :D :D :D Haha!
 
Why don't you just let your brother use IBM/windows XP ?
You can't expect everyone to like the same things as you.
They're just operating systems.
 
I could sell your brother my older IBM. Its a CX755 with a 75 intel and 12mb of ram and a massive 540mb hardrive. It has windows 95 installed. It also has a docking station with it.
 
stunna said:
Why don't you just let your brother use IBM/windows XP ?
You can't expect everyone to like the same things as you.
They're just operating systems.
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Did you at least read the original if not the whole thread?
 
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