Ha.. but they're so well thought out.. so nice.. I like those ones that look like briefcases... with handles and all. .. ha
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Ha.. but they're so well thought out.. so nice.. I like those ones that look like briefcases... with handles and all. .. ha
I've never "switched". I've been with the platform since late '84. What keeps me going on it is fairly simple: It just works. Apple produces the operating system, and the hardware it runs on. I like to tell people that this makes logical sense, in a DaVinci sort of way.
I still use windows because I haven't got the opportunity of buy a Mac, but my friends call me the "Mac Defender Without One", and some people say that I'm the Windows user that loves more Mac OS X.
I have to say that never worked in Mac OS but I'm tired of reinstall my system 6 months or less after had reinstalled it. Tired of having to have always 10 gigs of non partitioned for install Ubuntu in emergences (for backup all my thing that are in Windows). Tired of viruses that affect the speed of my machine and tired of spyware that emerges in my screen. I'm tired of doing nothing with my photos or movies because I haven't the tools to make anything beautiful.
I can't say I'm tired of blue screens because in 2 years I haven't got one (lucky windows user that I am)
I'm waiting for the perfect opportunity of buy a Mac. I'mtired of Window$ and Linux in not an alternative for people like me that are constantly on Web and doing things with they're "digital life".
I use iTunes for 2 years and iPod for 1 days and I love them. If everything on the Macs are like them, it will be an very soft change, just a graphical change and a drastic improvement to my productivity.
I have to say that never worked in Mac OS but I'm tired of reinstall my system 6 months or less after had reinstalled it. Tired of having to have always 10 gigs of non partitioned for install Ubuntu in emergences (for backup all my thing that are in Windows). Tired of viruses that affect the speed of my machine and tired of spyware that emerges in my screen. I'm tired of doing nothing with my photos or movies because I haven't the tools to make anything beautiful.
I can't say I'm tired of blue screens because in 2 years I haven't got one (lucky windows user that I am)
I'm waiting for the perfect opportunity of buy a Mac. I'mtired of Window$ and Linux in not an alternative for people like me that are constantly on Web and doing things with they're "digital life".
I use iTunes for 2 years and iPod for 1 days and I love them. If everything on the Macs are like them, it will be an very soft change, just a graphical change and a drastic improvement to my productivity.
My worst Windows experience involved a Registry-cleaning utility. I ran the thing several times until it had cleaned out all the rogue, broken registry entries. Alas, it cleaned something it shouldn't have - Norton AntiVirus and many of my other programs stopped working.
That convinced me to use Windows only when absolutely necessary, which is what I do now.
That convinced me to use Windows only when absolutely necessary, which is what I do now.
Definitely the random box that would pop up telling me the computer needs to be reset due to a Registry Fault. I'm not sure how I ended up fixing it, I just had to reset the computer about fifty times - really annoying!
And upgrades never went smoothly - Windows 3.1 to 95 destroyed my computer, and 98 to XP made a lot of programs useless, especially my DVD encoder.
I remember back in the day when Windows 3.1 used to blue screen daily, and for some reason create 50 duplicate PIF Editor application icons. I had no idea what PIF Editor was.
And certain spyware that was impossible to clean out - that eGator bull*&%$, and the infamous End Program box that would appear before shutdown, trying to close a program called "Shouldn't See Me", which really freaked me out. Windows is useless to me when it can be compromised like that. I'm super-safe online, too... EZArmor, spyware defender, Firefox, etc.
And upgrades never went smoothly - Windows 3.1 to 95 destroyed my computer, and 98 to XP made a lot of programs useless, especially my DVD encoder.
I remember back in the day when Windows 3.1 used to blue screen daily, and for some reason create 50 duplicate PIF Editor application icons. I had no idea what PIF Editor was.
And certain spyware that was impossible to clean out - that eGator bull*&%$, and the infamous End Program box that would appear before shutdown, trying to close a program called "Shouldn't See Me", which really freaked me out. Windows is useless to me when it can be compromised like that. I'm super-safe online, too... EZArmor, spyware defender, Firefox, etc.
I've never had a real bad experience using Win2k. I was running a shuttle box, virus free and very little impact from the scanner, the worst was corrupt/aka dying HD that was fixed using a spare machine at work.
I think the reason i made the switch was I was fed up with PC gaming, too many driver updates and tweeks plus latest GPU card required for XYZ, at that point I decided to go solely with my DS and xbox. Once I stopped playing I then switched back to a passive Ti4200 graphics card, and underclocked the box to be slient running - this way torrents etc could do there stuff overnight without impacting me.
My jump to the Mac was made as i wanted a laptop; a small good looking laptop that could run windows. The Macbook give me that option, the thinking been that if I didn't like OSx I can always drop XP or Debian etc on it. I had infact already builtup and upgraded a Classic Bondi Imac to 667Mhz board, dropped in a 120GB drive loads of ram and OSx 10.2 (iirc) - however this was a gift to my girlfriend, chosen due to mac's lack of virus/spyware.
I now like my mac, but still use the PC for my triathlon training software and various pieces of xbox related utils. Exposé, global keyboard shortcuts and the dual finger trackpad make the Macbook fun to use. I just hope my folks fine it as easy as there are having a two week play, before buying a new laptop.
I think the reason i made the switch was I was fed up with PC gaming, too many driver updates and tweeks plus latest GPU card required for XYZ, at that point I decided to go solely with my DS and xbox. Once I stopped playing I then switched back to a passive Ti4200 graphics card, and underclocked the box to be slient running - this way torrents etc could do there stuff overnight without impacting me.
My jump to the Mac was made as i wanted a laptop; a small good looking laptop that could run windows. The Macbook give me that option, the thinking been that if I didn't like OSx I can always drop XP or Debian etc on it. I had infact already builtup and upgraded a Classic Bondi Imac to 667Mhz board, dropped in a 120GB drive loads of ram and OSx 10.2 (iirc) - however this was a gift to my girlfriend, chosen due to mac's lack of virus/spyware.
I now like my mac, but still use the PC for my triathlon training software and various pieces of xbox related utils. Exposé, global keyboard shortcuts and the dual finger trackpad make the Macbook fun to use. I just hope my folks fine it as easy as there are having a two week play, before buying a new laptop.
Aloha everyone,
I've had my issues with Windows ever since I bought my first PC back 1994. I had to spend hours on the phone with various manufacturer's tech support personnel, in what turned out sometimes to be a vain attempt to get some third party hardware/software working with Windows 3.1.1/95/98/Me/2000 and XP. I tried to install OS2 Warp, but it didn't recognize my CD drive. Bummed, I continued using Windows until I read about Redhat Linux 5.3, which took me two days to load (I had to search for a lot of drivers, then get help with XFree86 configuration - while using a 33.3kbps modem). I really like the fact that it was 1.) NOT Windows and 2.) free.
That being said, Windows OSs got progessively better as time went on. I personally think that, with the exception of not supporting hyperthreading, Windows 2000 was probably the best client OS Microsoft has produced yet - Windows Server 2003 is most likely the best server OS they've produced, but I never worked with Windows Server 2000. Windows ME was, IMHO, a thinly-disguised virus foisted on Windows user, including myself, as it was pre-installed on the first laptop I purchased.
I stayed with Redhat Linux, off and on, all the way through Fedora Core 5, but it didn't quite do everything I wanted to do, in the manner I chose. I wanted a Windows-free alternative, but one more mainstream than Linux. The biggest issue I have with Linux, however, is not that it isn't a very nice OS (which it is), but that with over 175 different flavors (and it's probably way more than that), you get too much of a good thing. For example, directory structure is inconsistent between the various distros, the packaging progs are different, and some just work better than others with specific hardware sets.
I was also one who took in the Microsoft FUD - hook, line, and sinker. It was easy to believe that Apple made overpriced, inferior computers - I didn't know many people who had Macs, and also thought that the quality of an OS was evidenced by the amount of available software. I also thought that since Apple insisted on designing and creating both the hardware and software, they were forced to overcharge their customers. Furthermore, I was unaware of any possible interoperability between the two OSs, so why bother? After all, I was still using Linux, right?!?
Here's what finally put me over the edge. I had a computer custom-built for me in December 2003, with all the latestt and greatest cutting-edge components. I later upgraded my DVD burner with a dual-layer one, purchased the lattest version of Nero, and ensured that it was fully updated and patched. I normally record the Tour de France on my HDD, edit out the commercials, then record it to DVD. Up until this year, I was precluded from using dual-layer discs, but after upgrading, I felt sure that everything would work fine. Much to my chagrin, out of 7 discs, I was only able to successfully burn 2! The dual-layer discs were $25 for 10, so I wasted $12.50 total. That was with the latest updates from Microsoft, the latest updates from Nero, a brand-new DVD dual-layer burner, and good-quality DL DVDs. On a computer, if you have the same input and perform the same operations, you should get the same results.
I just wanted a computer that worked. That's all I wanted - a computer that works. My sister-in-law asked me to put some music on her iPod,a dn I was amazed at the quality workmanship and ease of use of that iPod, not to mention the audio quality of the ear buds. I thought that if Apple put that much insistence on quality into an iPod, they would probably put that much more into their productioin of computers. That's why I began researching the Macintosh platform. I admit that I was leery at first, but the more I played with them, the more I realized that I had been blinded by Microsoft's FUD machine. I finally made the switch in August of this year, when I bought my 20" iMac, then followed that up in October when I bought my 15" MacBook Pro. I am so extremely pleased with my purchases, I began wondering what took me so long to wake up and see the light. I'm so happy, I'll never go back to a PC, except at work, where we have nothing but
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted put a slightly different spin on the pro-Apple, anti-Microsoft debate. Other than Windows 2000, I've had to spend too much time getting the computer ready to use. I really liked Windows 2000, however, but it's not supported any longer. One thing I noticed is the paradigm shift between Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft lets the user use their computer the way Microsoft wants, but Apple simply allows the user the freedom to use their computer. I have a feeling of freedom when using a Macintosh, something I never quite felt while using a PC.
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I've had my issues with Windows ever since I bought my first PC back 1994. I had to spend hours on the phone with various manufacturer's tech support personnel, in what turned out sometimes to be a vain attempt to get some third party hardware/software working with Windows 3.1.1/95/98/Me/2000 and XP. I tried to install OS2 Warp, but it didn't recognize my CD drive. Bummed, I continued using Windows until I read about Redhat Linux 5.3, which took me two days to load (I had to search for a lot of drivers, then get help with XFree86 configuration - while using a 33.3kbps modem). I really like the fact that it was 1.) NOT Windows and 2.) free.
That being said, Windows OSs got progessively better as time went on. I personally think that, with the exception of not supporting hyperthreading, Windows 2000 was probably the best client OS Microsoft has produced yet - Windows Server 2003 is most likely the best server OS they've produced, but I never worked with Windows Server 2000. Windows ME was, IMHO, a thinly-disguised virus foisted on Windows user, including myself, as it was pre-installed on the first laptop I purchased.
I stayed with Redhat Linux, off and on, all the way through Fedora Core 5, but it didn't quite do everything I wanted to do, in the manner I chose. I wanted a Windows-free alternative, but one more mainstream than Linux. The biggest issue I have with Linux, however, is not that it isn't a very nice OS (which it is), but that with over 175 different flavors (and it's probably way more than that), you get too much of a good thing. For example, directory structure is inconsistent between the various distros, the packaging progs are different, and some just work better than others with specific hardware sets.
I was also one who took in the Microsoft FUD - hook, line, and sinker. It was easy to believe that Apple made overpriced, inferior computers - I didn't know many people who had Macs, and also thought that the quality of an OS was evidenced by the amount of available software. I also thought that since Apple insisted on designing and creating both the hardware and software, they were forced to overcharge their customers. Furthermore, I was unaware of any possible interoperability between the two OSs, so why bother? After all, I was still using Linux, right?!?
Here's what finally put me over the edge. I had a computer custom-built for me in December 2003, with all the latestt and greatest cutting-edge components. I later upgraded my DVD burner with a dual-layer one, purchased the lattest version of Nero, and ensured that it was fully updated and patched. I normally record the Tour de France on my HDD, edit out the commercials, then record it to DVD. Up until this year, I was precluded from using dual-layer discs, but after upgrading, I felt sure that everything would work fine. Much to my chagrin, out of 7 discs, I was only able to successfully burn 2! The dual-layer discs were $25 for 10, so I wasted $12.50 total. That was with the latest updates from Microsoft, the latest updates from Nero, a brand-new DVD dual-layer burner, and good-quality DL DVDs. On a computer, if you have the same input and perform the same operations, you should get the same results.
I just wanted a computer that worked. That's all I wanted - a computer that works. My sister-in-law asked me to put some music on her iPod,a dn I was amazed at the quality workmanship and ease of use of that iPod, not to mention the audio quality of the ear buds. I thought that if Apple put that much insistence on quality into an iPod, they would probably put that much more into their productioin of computers. That's why I began researching the Macintosh platform. I admit that I was leery at first, but the more I played with them, the more I realized that I had been blinded by Microsoft's FUD machine. I finally made the switch in August of this year, when I bought my 20" iMac, then followed that up in October when I bought my 15" MacBook Pro. I am so extremely pleased with my purchases, I began wondering what took me so long to wake up and see the light. I'm so happy, I'll never go back to a PC, except at work, where we have nothing but
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted put a slightly different spin on the pro-Apple, anti-Microsoft debate. Other than Windows 2000, I've had to spend too much time getting the computer ready to use. I really liked Windows 2000, however, but it's not supported any longer. One thing I noticed is the paradigm shift between Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft lets the user use their computer the way Microsoft wants, but Apple simply allows the user the freedom to use their computer. I have a feeling of freedom when using a Macintosh, something I never quite felt while using a PC.
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When I was a sophomore in High School I got into a Graphics Design program, and there were only Macintoshes in the classroom. I used one, found out some nifty features and was impressed. I had always wanted to look at a Mac, but was embarrassed to in compUSA. Well, our whole house had PC's in it and I'd always fix them upgrade them and troubleshoot them. I was using my PC the one day and I had to go download 4 separate programs just to fix and speed up my computer - the programs were Spybot S&D, Avast! Anti-Virus, Ad-aware, and TweakUI. After using all these tools + defragmenting and check-disk I started to look at all the Linux OSes out there.
I always liked to toy around with a different GUI and what not. So I partitioned my Windows computer and put Linux on a partition and used it. I wasn't satisfied with the installation of software one bit (till I finally played around with it more in my Junior, senior, and now years of school), so I went back to PC's. I started to learn more about macs and finally decided to get one because Exposé had me hooked and PC's were starting to really frustrate me with all you had to do to keep them even running. Don't get me wrong, I love doing it, I like IT stuff so yeah, but still it gets frustrating when every 5 minutes - "Shawn my computer doesn't work, shawn there's a virus, shawn I can't connect to the internet, shawn, shawn, shawn!!!" ouch yeah. This was just from my family, + I had my own issues I had to resolve with Windows (and we're talking XP as well! We all had XP in the house (2 computers) so yeah). When I got my first Mac - a Powerbook Wallstreet, from the forums it had Mac OS 9.2.2 on it.
Now I didn't care for OS 9.2.2 so I looked up what version of OS X I could install - Jaguar. I ordered Jaguar from... uh... what's it called oh heck, i can't remember. When I installed Jaguar, the OS was still fast for it being so advanced on 233MHz machine. OS 9.2.2 didn't run that well (of course it didn't have True-Multitasking). My teacher had some extra licenses on software so he let me install it - he bought 30 licenses of Adobe Suite and Macromedia suite, but only had 25 computers in his lab. I was in love with OS X cause it ran fast even on a slow machine!
Anyways, the main windows event was being called to help fix household computers every 5 minutes - here at home. I'll shorten the story. You guys know the rest, I got an iMac G3, sold the PB, bought an iBook G3, then my dad bought me this iBook G4.
I always liked to toy around with a different GUI and what not. So I partitioned my Windows computer and put Linux on a partition and used it. I wasn't satisfied with the installation of software one bit (till I finally played around with it more in my Junior, senior, and now years of school), so I went back to PC's. I started to learn more about macs and finally decided to get one because Exposé had me hooked and PC's were starting to really frustrate me with all you had to do to keep them even running. Don't get me wrong, I love doing it, I like IT stuff so yeah, but still it gets frustrating when every 5 minutes - "Shawn my computer doesn't work, shawn there's a virus, shawn I can't connect to the internet, shawn, shawn, shawn!!!" ouch yeah. This was just from my family, + I had my own issues I had to resolve with Windows (and we're talking XP as well! We all had XP in the house (2 computers) so yeah). When I got my first Mac - a Powerbook Wallstreet, from the forums it had Mac OS 9.2.2 on it.
Now I didn't care for OS 9.2.2 so I looked up what version of OS X I could install - Jaguar. I ordered Jaguar from... uh... what's it called oh heck, i can't remember. When I installed Jaguar, the OS was still fast for it being so advanced on 233MHz machine. OS 9.2.2 didn't run that well (of course it didn't have True-Multitasking). My teacher had some extra licenses on software so he let me install it - he bought 30 licenses of Adobe Suite and Macromedia suite, but only had 25 computers in his lab. I was in love with OS X cause it ran fast even on a slow machine!
Anyways, the main windows event was being called to help fix household computers every 5 minutes - here at home. I'll shorten the story. You guys know the rest, I got an iMac G3, sold the PB, bought an iBook G3, then my dad bought me this iBook G4.
My first computers were the Mac Classic and then a Powerbook 140.
I used to laugh at my brother who was using Win3.1
It seemed so clunky in comparison with System 7.
However, at the time the exchange rate was ridiculous, and Apple didn't have much of a presence in SA. In other words, Apple was hellishly expensive and there was little to no support, and no way to get software.
I switched to Windows with the release of Win95.
But I never forgot my mac experiences - and for 10 years wanted one.
I finally had the opportunity and money to get a G4 Powerbook.
I have never been happier.
I will never go back.
I used to laugh at my brother who was using Win3.1
It seemed so clunky in comparison with System 7.
However, at the time the exchange rate was ridiculous, and Apple didn't have much of a presence in SA. In other words, Apple was hellishly expensive and there was little to no support, and no way to get software.
I switched to Windows with the release of Win95.
But I never forgot my mac experiences - and for 10 years wanted one.
I finally had the opportunity and money to get a G4 Powerbook.
I have never been happier.
I will never go back.
Okay...so here are problems that I had with my Windows P.C:
My graphics card was dying on me, it took 30 mins to start up, I was sick of getting terified of getting a virus every time I downloaded something and there is alot more after that.
My new iMac is great, it just works! No viruses, theres drivers preloaded, it's much better than my old Windows P.C!
My graphics card was dying on me, it took 30 mins to start up, I was sick of getting terified of getting a virus every time I downloaded something and there is alot more after that.
My new iMac is great, it just works! No viruses, theres drivers preloaded, it's much better than my old Windows P.C!
I know I said I've always had Macs, but I did have a PC once (while I had a Mac )
My first thoughts were "wow this is really fast". Of course this was judged on opening IE before I knew it was always running. But then after no more than 10 mins of being connected to the internet (didn't set up the firewall yet) I got slammed with the SASER (if that's how you spell it) virus. So I contacted the manufacture and the sent me full restore discs (not the crap XP one the comes that needs you to reinstall all the drivers on your own, this reinstalls everything to how it was when the PC was shipped). So I re installed everything, setup the firewall before connecting to the internet, and buy the time I got everything I needed loaded on it (Programs) it was almost as slow as my Mac (old PowerMac running OS 9) so I just though sod it and bought the G5.
) My first thoughts were "wow this is really fast". Of course this was judged on opening IE before I knew it was always running. But then after no more than 10 mins of being connected to the internet (didn't set up the firewall yet) I got slammed with the SASER (if that's how you spell it) virus. So I contacted the manufacture and the sent me full restore discs (not the crap XP one the comes that needs you to reinstall all the drivers on your own, this reinstalls everything to how it was when the PC was shipped). So I re installed everything, setup the firewall before connecting to the internet, and buy the time I got everything I needed loaded on it (Programs) it was almost as slow as my Mac (old PowerMac running OS 9) so I just though sod it and bought the G5.
Windows sucks and OSX doesn't. That's why I switched.
Seriously though, I'm starting college soon (in about 10 days actually) and I'm going into graphic design and my college uses Macs so I kinda needed one. Also, I just got sick of Windows
Seriously though, I'm starting college soon (in about 10 days actually) and I'm going into graphic design and my college uses Macs so I kinda needed one. Also, I just got sick of Windows
slow. viruses. blue screen of death. couldn't keep the computer on for more that 2 hours before it crashed.
I'm not a switcher, (Macs since the 90's), but I had to do some maintenance on my mother in law's Dell (Windows 98) a few week's back. Shes' 77. I ran Ad-Aware and got 228 files which needed to be quarantined. One showed a keystoke logger, another, an attempt at taking over her System. Just for kicks, I run MacScan2 on three of our Apple boxes from time to time. I've yet to have one spyware listing on any of them.
Really an accumulation of things. Mainly, trying to teach Windows to others and providing informal tech support to family and friends. (How many times can you answer the same question?). Also, time lost due to upgrading, updates, contacting tech support, blah, blah, blah.
Ironically, I haven't truly abandoned XP (have it installed via Bootcamp), but I use it maybe 10% of the time (maybe 5%).
Ironically, I haven't truly abandoned XP (have it installed via Bootcamp), but I use it maybe 10% of the time (maybe 5%).
So, so true. My wife's XP box (which she hates) is exactly like that. My PowerBook does. Slap the lid closed when I'm done and open it when I want to use it. The best part? I can start using it as soon I get my fingers on the keyboard or mouse. OS X's modular UNIX design is a thing of beauty.
And that's when you HAVE to reboot. But seriously, who does unless they have to.
"Glorified Tamagotchi." Hahaha, nice touch.
And that, my friends, that is exactly why I won't go back to a Windows (or Linux) machine. Perfectly put.
I basically switched because XP's built in search. I was just so tired of maintaining and tweaking the system that I was looking elsewhere (Linux, etc.). When Jobs previewed Tiger, Spotlight single-handedly blew me away ... and I was hooked.
Side note: My old roommate and good friend was once so agitated and aggravated at XP that he literally threw his computer off the second story dorm balcony and his keyboard onto the wall right above me hitting me with key shrapnel. I've never seen someone do that to a Mac (and yes, I was actually pelted with keyboard keys as the keyboard exploded). I burst out laughing and fell out of my seat. That was one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed.
My last post made me remember this video a friend Linked me from tne NY times:
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=d14603c1e23e6ce37920a8134a2e27b1405a4991&rf=bm
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=d14603c1e23e6ce37920a8134a2e27b1405a4991&rf=bm
I officialy wish that every link going to either that video or the "Hi, I'm a Wii, Hi, I'm a PS3" video be banned, and the person who posted it should have their index fingers chopped off!
Incase you didn't get it, that video has been posted literally hundereds of times.
I lost 3 windows pcs to lightening strikes/power surges. After the third, I thought someone was trying to tell me something. No power problems after switching.
Ahhh, divine providence.
Ahhh, divine providence.
Wow, great thread. Took me 2 days reading off and on at work to get through it all, and yes, I read every post. Some people have has some serious issues, while some people's Windows horror stories really are either hardware failure, user inexperience, or just plain exaggeration. I'm going to touch on a few before I get to my story:
Let me preface this by saying I am NOT a MS/Windows defender. I used Windows for a long time, had 4 of 5 boxes I built myself, didn't get the whole Mac is better attitude. But I currently have 3 Macs, all bought with the last 7 months.
1) Hardware failure is not MS' fault. Look around the forums, there are plenty of hardware problems with Macs at this site alone. I like the "my hard drive failed and I lost everything. That was it for me" posts. Apple uses the same manufacturers for their hhds as are found in many Windows machines. A) you should have backups B) I'll repeat, hdd failure isn't MS' fault
2) I've seen a lot of people claiming they had to format daily, or several times a week, or every other month. I'm sorry, but this is either gross exaggeration of you are going to questionable sites that may give you a trojan or worm, or are d'ling and installing every "free" app under the sun without knowing what is actually in the install pack. There is absolutely no reason to format, at most, more than once a year with XP. With Win98, every 6 months. I did that myself. But on my very last install of XP it was still going "fairly" strong 3.5yrs later.
3) Don't use IE. How many times do you have to hear how vunerable it is to security issues before you listen?? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Don't use it, period. Firefox is a far superior and safer choice.
4) People claiming Windows deleted all their files or some of their files. I suppose this could possibly happen in rare instances. But most likely its a virus that did this. In all the years I've used Windows I've never had 1 file deleted that I didn't do myself
5) Virus scanning, defragging, adware scanning daily. First, you shouldn't have to do all of this daily. I defragged maybe once a month tops, scanned virus maybe once a week, and adware scan once every few weeks if that. If you feel compelled to do all of these with more regularity, schedule it do it at night while you are asleep.
6) There was 1 person that posted a comment I found incredibly stupid. I'm sorry to call you out like this but they said "I was downloading something on Limewire and got a virus." That is YOUR fault, no one elses.
There were a few other thing I saw I could have commented on but those really stuck out.
Well, I didn't want this to get long winded but it already is. I'll post my story in the next post. I personally hate reading a post that is miles and miles long.
Let me preface this by saying I am NOT a MS/Windows defender. I used Windows for a long time, had 4 of 5 boxes I built myself, didn't get the whole Mac is better attitude. But I currently have 3 Macs, all bought with the last 7 months.
1) Hardware failure is not MS' fault. Look around the forums, there are plenty of hardware problems with Macs at this site alone. I like the "my hard drive failed and I lost everything. That was it for me" posts. Apple uses the same manufacturers for their hhds as are found in many Windows machines. A) you should have backups B) I'll repeat, hdd failure isn't MS' fault
2) I've seen a lot of people claiming they had to format daily, or several times a week, or every other month. I'm sorry, but this is either gross exaggeration of you are going to questionable sites that may give you a trojan or worm, or are d'ling and installing every "free" app under the sun without knowing what is actually in the install pack. There is absolutely no reason to format, at most, more than once a year with XP. With Win98, every 6 months. I did that myself. But on my very last install of XP it was still going "fairly" strong 3.5yrs later.
3) Don't use IE. How many times do you have to hear how vunerable it is to security issues before you listen?? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Don't use it, period. Firefox is a far superior and safer choice.
4) People claiming Windows deleted all their files or some of their files. I suppose this could possibly happen in rare instances. But most likely its a virus that did this. In all the years I've used Windows I've never had 1 file deleted that I didn't do myself
5) Virus scanning, defragging, adware scanning daily. First, you shouldn't have to do all of this daily. I defragged maybe once a month tops, scanned virus maybe once a week, and adware scan once every few weeks if that. If you feel compelled to do all of these with more regularity, schedule it do it at night while you are asleep.
6) There was 1 person that posted a comment I found incredibly stupid. I'm sorry to call you out like this but they said "I was downloading something on Limewire and got a virus." That is YOUR fault, no one elses.
There were a few other thing I saw I could have commented on but those really stuck out.
Well, I didn't want this to get long winded but it already is. I'll post my story in the next post. I personally hate reading a post that is miles and miles long.