Mac/PC commercial

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Originally Posted by MrDigital

For the actual user who cares about PC games? What's that, 0.1% of Mac users? I think they'll get beyond the mind blowing part.



Sounds like bullsh*t dude. Macs don't run a million things in the background the way Windows does. So why would installing a lot of crap onto a Mac slow it down?

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I guess I could give you a few scenerios, it isn't hard to imagine. Too many login items. I've seen preference files become corrupted over time and I had to clean them out. I've seen people with a **** ton of widgets going that begin upon startup. Conflicts with permissions has been a solution for me before. I even found one that had a ridiculous amount of firefox extensions that caused the computer to lock up upon getting on the net.

Some of these are software related but I am stating them to say that there isn't an idiot proof OS. People will always find a way to bog their system down or infect themselves.

I think I've said all I am going to say. We can agree to disagree. I've stated my opinions on the matter for the casual user, and you have too. We have both made valid points and in the real world for the common user it probably doesn't matter at all as long as they can surf the web.

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Originally Posted by ua549

(WFW) Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was a business staple for years running on Intel 80386 and 80486 machines in a domain environment. Windows 95 was more of a consumer OS than a business one. Most of my clients went directly from WFW 3.11 to NT Workstation 3.5 or 3.51 when they first deployed the Intel Pentium processor.

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Wow, I completely disagree. I hated Windows for Workgroups - really all the Win 3.X versions. I was running Novell at the time and found Windows to be completely non-secure. I was OS/2 all the way at that time.

Windows 95 was a real operating system rather than just a shell. Windows NT 4.0 was vastly superior and I jumped on it as soon as it was released - I also switched my network to TCP/IP and Windows servers about that time. But 95 was a good client on the Novell LAN.

Perhaps you dealt with smaller networks than I did. Most of my clients had 10K to 25k PC's on their networks. They did not use Novell at all though they did have some Sun boxes running whatever. Most used software that emulated IBM 3180/3270 terminals and/or Burroughs TD830 terminals to access mainframe applications.

My largest client had both Unisys (Burroughs) and IBM mainframes running applications that were driven by transactions from 25k WFW 3.11 and earlier PC's distributed throughout Florida. They tested OS/2 PC's but they didn't pass qualification testing. I helped convert them from SNA/SDLC and Poll/Select protocols to tcp/ip. They had hundreds of T1 and T3 circuits on their network along with some fiber ATM circuits.

My that was soooo long ago (~17 yrs).

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Originally Posted by Geforce255

Windows 95 was a real operating system rather than just a shell.

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Not to pick nits, but Windows 95 was still just a shell. You could make a single change in the.... win.ini file? Hell it's been a long time. Some .ini file, the command being gui=0 I think, and it would boot straight to DOS 7.0, the last version of MS-DOS.

Hell at one point I was running just DOS 7 without Windows 95. Someone stripped it.

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Originally Posted by ua549

Perhaps you dealt with smaller networks than I did.

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WAYYYYY smaller. 3-500 nodes is the extent of my network. It grows and shrinks, but I've never exceeded 500. In the Novell days it was a single server, now it's 17 servers.

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Originally Posted by Timman_24

We have both made valid points and in the real world for the common user it probably doesn't matter at all as long as they can surf the web.

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Too bad you need a high powered Mac with a lot of RAM just to watch porn on the web smoothly. Flash is such a piece of trash on OS X it's embarrassing. Rendering 480p video on a 1280x800 display requires a Core 2 Duo processor 2GHz+ and 2GB of RAM.

Macs have a lot of really great features for watching porn that you've downloaded to disk though. QuickView and Space are two great examples. You can have a space just for porn, and you can use QuickView to quickly look through all your videos and pictures without ever leaving the finder.

In conclusion:
If you want to watch streaming porn, get a PC.
If you want to watch downloaded porn, get a Mac.
If you want to read erotica, use Linux I guess. I duhno.

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Originally Posted by ImaNihilist

If you want to read erotica, use Linux I guess. I duhno.

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Oh, I think that you DO know and are just not letting us know where the goods are... ;)

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Originally Posted by ImaNihilist

If you want to read erotica, use Linux I guess. I duhno.

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Ubuntu is teh bomb for watching porn....


Well, not exactly porn - it can just show those old National Geographic videos of topless African women...