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"The best of any OS" may be going a bit far here, when you have to use beta drivers to run Windows.
Still, the thrust of my argument, as it were, was to give reasons why I should switch back to Windows; running a Mac for that purpose seems obtuse.
It seems to be taken for granted that- of course!- I would wish to run OS X whenever possible.
A large part of my original post was devoted to that very thing.
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I wouldn't run 'mission critical' stuff on any Mac; not with Apple's compatibility habits. But that's not Apple's market; they target consumers...
... is handling, you mean. :D
But it is one of the things I *don't like* about Apple.
snip- app launch time restmatch!
On a 1.67 GHz Core Duo running Windows XP Media Center Edition. 2 GB RAM.
I never got Office for the Mac, but I had the trial demoware pre-installed; I don't recall how fast it launched though.
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Yeah, that's what I tought. It's still a slow launch even when empty, but there's slow and then there's glacial.
Same again.
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My experience has been that Mac OS X and Windows are pretty similar in this respect; launching an app 'cold' is substantially slower.
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It wastes resources. Remember that even an idle application has a message pump-event loop-NSApplication instance, and is using some working set and a bit of CPU now and again.
You: Little is available, and what is there are ports of older PC games, and they still do not play real well on...
It's an easy mistake to make.
Good!
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Actually, I kinda liked Pages. Ok, it's rather feeble in terms of features and a bit lame in terms of performance, but it has a nice clean UI which appeals to me.
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Same as above.
(As I said, it's hard for me to isolate how much of my experience was due to running a G4, and how much due to the implementation of the software.)
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There's a comparative dearth of native software.
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I say stuck because the only thing in iLife I have any use for is iTunes, which is free anyway.
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I agree. PC vendors often pave the desktop with crap. Not exactly a welcoming sight for your first login.
But that was a topic for my other, now defuct, thread, about what was wrong with this new Toshiba.
I notice that you guys were a lot more friendly and sympathetic in *that* thread! :D
Steven de Mena Perhaps if we were on the 'majority' platform, it would be cheaper. It's hard...
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