Rotten Apples

10 Responses to Rotten Apples

1. Rivrdog says:

   May 16, 2010 at 6:30 am

   If you’re talking PC vs Mac, the PC is the standard of the business world, and the Mac is perpetuated by eggheads in the educational establishment.

   Linux and it’s lesser brethren have become less scary over the years, I have used Knoppix, but there is some strange architecture there, for example, in Knoppix, if you want to run it off a CD, you can, but if you want to “mount” it on your hard drive, that tiny little OS will put this huge turd of a file on there that will grow FROM 1.5 gig and only get bigger.

   Most versions of Linux are free, though, and that’s a very good price. Linux WILL stop your work to update itself when it feels it needs to, and THAT gets annoying.

   Nothing wrong with Mac’s architecture that I’ve ever found, it’s that annoying policy of Apple of controlling everything so tightly that you pay 2.5 times as much for their equipment than for an equally capable PC.

   Sorta like the gov’t vs private industry, no?
2. LibertyNews says:

   May 16, 2010 at 10:04 am

   I’d put Mac to the right of Windows (and yes, it is Windows you are taking about not PC). OSX is Unix under the hood, giving it more capabilities than Windows with a friendlier interface. I use both Linux and OSX daily and am quite happy with them.
3. Kirk says:

   May 16, 2010 at 3:36 pm

   David, Get the Mac. After spending 20+ years in the information technology world I have found that I want technology that works.

   I love linux, it works great on things like my Vyatta Firewall appliance that keeps my networks safer from the interwebs. It is also a great platform for my SIP server and various things that have one function in life, it does that function exceedingly well. As far as a day to day general use computer I find it clunky and limited, sure if you are a geek and love to play it is a fun time but hardly the end all workhorse for multiple tasks.

   Windows is everywhere and it is a constant battle to keep it running. I have to use Windows for a very few applications at work. I honestly spend more time fixing the pos OS than I do using it. If it is not IE needing tweaked or updated, or reinstalled, its another problem with exchange behaving poorly, or the old custom apps don’t like the new security patch, or the new virus that came via email.

   Frankly windows needs to do what Apple did in 2000, brand new OS from the ground up. Sorry, so sad a lot of the apps need to be rewritten, and your 10 year old application needs to be tossed. Its a fact of life that technology changes, building more kludges on top of an already shaky foundation just does not cut it any more.

   If I just had to run windows on a day to day basis I would rather be hanging off the back of one of Phil’s trucks, I am sure that picking up smelly waste would be a more pleasant experience.

   Apple does things differently when it comes to the OS and Hardware. Yes they control the Vertical and Horizontal. with that comes a far more tightly integrated hardware and OS experience that just runs.

   I will not say it is perfect because nothing made by man is without foibles. But I will say that it just runs. I spend very little time working on my computer and lots of time with my computer working for me.

   Yes it is more expensive than your bottom of the line Dell or HP. I won’t even go into the cost comparison because that has been done to death. When you load up a PC from a reputable vendor to the same specs as a Mac the price is comparable within a hundred bucks or so with the wintel often being more money. The average life span of a mac is usually double of a wintel machine before technology overtakes in on a performance basis.

   For your average user I would only recommend a Mac. For my business clients I also recommend them as they are easier to keep running and pretty much run everything that is needed.
4. Mollbot says:

   May 16, 2010 at 4:02 pm

   I’m curious about your numbers… I built my own PC, which is currently running Windows 7 (works just fine for me) or Linux, which I don’t bother with often, but had to have for my programming class last quarter.

   But pricing stuff, I was able to build this PC for less than a third the price of a Mac that just met the same specs (and didn’t exceed them).

   This was a couple years ago, have Macs gotten that much cheaper since?
5. Andrey says:

   May 16, 2010 at 5:07 pm

   Usual answer – it depends on specs. I was looking for high-end laptop (quickest CPU, most amount of RAM, highest resolution on 15″ screen while keeping weight/size to minimum, battery life to maximum). Surprise – price is pretty much the same across the board. I end up getting my fist Mac ever.
6. Old Soldier says:

   May 17, 2010 at 6:16 am

   The iMac is a deal IF you value a really big high-quality monitor. A comparable stand alone 30″ cinema display costs about the same as a 27″ imac system. Mind-blowing picture.

   Otherwise, go to http://www.anandtech.com, buy the components and build a PC.
7. Kristopher says:

   May 17, 2010 at 7:43 am

   Nice troll post … but your info is old, friend.

   The mac now uses the same OS that LINUX wolf uses.

   It has a nice Apple(tm) user interface, but it’s Mach Kernel UNIX under the gloss.

   Add a case of permanent mange to the mutt in the center, and you have a good Windows analogy. I use UNIX, LINUX, and Windows-flavored machines in my work … I put my wife on a Mac because I did not want to have to spend my time cleaning malware off her machine.
8. Rivrdog says:

   May 17, 2010 at 8:05 am

   I don’t think that you can blame malware and viruses, Trojans, etc on Windoze architecture. All that crap is there BECAUSE Windows is successful, not in spite of it.

   The mofo’s who write it do so ONLY because they’re too lazy to write that crap for all three OSs, so they went for the OS that is used the most, is most popular.
9. Davidwhitewolf says:

   May 17, 2010 at 11:11 am

   Thanks for the comments, all (except Phil, nyah nyah). I spent a brief time in a former life as a Unix sysadmin, so Linux would be the obvious choice — but with OSX being Unix, I’m happy with the stability there.

   I’ve played on my daughter’s Mac, and even though it’s been a couple decades since I owned a Mac, Apple’s system software still beats the pants off Windows for intuitive ease of use.

   Moreover, much as I’d love to pop the hood on my machine and fiddle around with the commands, that kind of time is part and parcel of a freedom that came with student life. I’m not likely to see that again until retirement. Frankly, I don’t even have time anymore to muck around with settings, installations, and crap like that. I have an IT department that I could send to my house if necessary, but they have a lot better things to do than fix my home machine. I want my computer to be like a toaster — I turn it on and it runs, with a user-friendly interface (and having worked with Windows 7 for a month now, that ain’t one) and no breakage.

   Put it this way — I get to see how often Windows software breaks in the office environment. It’s often. Why intentionally keep that kludginess in my home?

   Finally, if I can pay a few hundred dollars more for a Mac whose lack of “issues” will give us even a couple hours a year of frustration-free time we can spend having sex, well, I’ll pay that!
10. Kristopher says:

    May 17, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Rivrdog: That’s a standard excuse used by Windows fans.

    Windows was written with the assumption that the person running apps on it is the owner. UNIX assumes that the person is NOT the owner of the machine.

    It takes an expert to crack a UNIX box. Any retard can download free trojan making toolkits for windows.

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