Please excuse my using of you lifeless, mindless hamsters members of EXEW for this, but I was wondering...


Is it reasonable to make a switch from Microsoft to Apple? I mean, I AM ordering an IPhone soon and I also will be purchasing a Macbook Air for my upcoming video group.

I'm just wondering what Apple and Microsoft users think about the whole Mac VS Windows battle. Personally, I will be using the HP laptop I am currently using for school related things and I will use the Mac for personal work. Why? Because I don't want my Mac to be stolen/beaten up/murdered and raped by upperclassmen. Simple as that.
Just a little off topic thing: I think Apple is better at naming things by their logo. I mean, Safari? Leopard? Come on. Nature? Windows calls things based on office standards. Office? Word? Everything has "Windows" stapled to its right arm like a leech on YOUR right arm, sucking away at the blood until your arm is nothing but a limp club which you pick up with your left arm and begin beating the sh*t out of the leech with.

I do find some strong and weak points to both Apple and Microsoft products, the faults of the latter outweighing the faults of the former. For one, Microsoft has multiple viruses while Apple doesn't really have that many. For two, Microsoft freezes and glitches many times. I have not had that experience with a Mac Pro that much (I borrowed one from my friend)... A Mac does get sort of confusing to new users (like me), but you get used to it. Apple products do run pretty well without many problems and can even run Windows even better than computers Windows was intended for, which I find... Kind of sad. Did I mention I'm using Safari on my HP because BOTH IE and Fx are having troubles with the HTTP 400: Bad Request Error.

By the way, I am not a rich f*cker. I actually work for my stuff... And my birthday is coming up. So more money to me.

Argue away.

Well that honestly depends. Macs tend to be better at things oriented towards all things media (ie: video editing) and basic simplistic computer use. Macs also, like you mentioned, tend to stay free of any harmful software. Mac however, does not tend to compute well with gaming, as they don’t seem to work with each other (ie: Starcraft, you have to hold the stupid Apple sign button to click stuff).

Windows however, in my opinion, is much more user friendly. It’s a lot easier to get the hang of using Windows comfortably then it is to use a Mac. Also, where a Mac tends to lean towards laidback creative use, Windows is more suited for the office work type of things, as it is easily compatible with many different types of programs. Windows also is the preferred system for easygoing gamers, and by easygoing I mean you’re not searching to get an Alienware or a VoodooPC.

I’m sure there’s a lot more I could add, but I’m somewhat busy at the moment. I’ll most likely continue adding in random thoughts so; yeah.

What no Linux? (It's free. =D)

The thing is that people have this perception of difficulty that has already been molded by Microsoft. People think that Windows is the 'easiest' and most 'user-friendly' system there is because they're already used to it. If you suddenly switch to a different OS, you're going to have to learn the quirks about it.

Just my talk about OS differences in "easiness."

Oh, I heard Macbook Air isn't that great. It's for those people who don't really want any power from their laptop.

As for viruses, it all really depends on the computer user. A user could just download a Mac virsus and run it without knowing it with no protection just like a Windows user. It's all in how in how smart the user is about his internet roaming.

Off topicish: There's a browser called Opera that works pretty well for me; don't know if you want to check it out.

Opera errors like a bitch for me.

@ Aker: I'll be using the Mac strictly for fanfiction and video. Basically, personal works. Gaming and school will continue to be concentrated on this computer.

Also, I haven't tried Linux yet. Even though it is free, how does it works?

Eh, Opera works fine for me. Oh well. Quite strange.

(Lol marketing)

Unfortunately or fortunately, it doesn't have a single OS that defines it like OSX for Mac or Windows XP or Vista for Microsoft.

There are several distributions that both have similarities and differences.
First is the Desktop Managing. There are two major ones for higher end equipment and one for low end equipment as I know of. The two are Gnome and KDE and the one is Xfce. Gnome is for a Mac look while KDE is more for a Windows look. And Xfce is just simple and fast I presume.

The next thing is base OS. There are practically two or three branches of Linux which each use their own installing method, Debian, Red Hat, and Suse. The Debian branch use .deb and apt-get to install. The Red Hat uses .rpm and rpm to install. The Suse branch uses .yum and yum to install. They really aren't that different so it really doesn't matter.

Here are a list of some of the more notable Linux distros, Linux distributions:
1. Ubuntu with Gnome along with Kubuntu with KDE and Xubuntu with Xfce These are Debian base so you get the .deb install method

2. Mandriva with KDE This uses Yum I think.

3. Open Suse with KDE This uses Yum I think.

4. PC Linux with Gnome and PC Linux KDE These are Red Hat base so you use .rpm

5. gOS with Gnome for an OS that integrates with Google. :slowpoke: This is Debian based, actually Ubuntu based but W/E.

6. Fedora that has Gnome and KDE No clue. XD

7. Gentoo with no clue.

Personally, I choose Kubuntu, because it's one of the first Linux distros I saw and have some experience with, though I could probably learn the others, they never really appealed to me when I used Virtualbox to run them.

I will say that each OS has it's own quirks and none of them are perfect. Ubuntu has been stated to be the jack of all trades OS and is kind of the 'standard' Linux OS at the moment.

Let's face it guys, we were raised on Microsoft.

But if we were to put that aside, from what I hear, Apple is pretty sweet. Yeah, but it's also pretty confuzzlating.

I was actually introduced to computer electronics via Apple. I just gradually went to Windows.