Apple Vista killed the windows geek

Ever since I can remember I have been a huge windows fan. I was very verry anti apple. "Apples are full of worms" etc

Thanks to Vista that all has changed.

I just installed OS X 10.4.8 on my AMD machine; having tried vista for 3 weeks. I hated vista, I could not get used it even after 3 weeks of hard use. It felt so bulky, aero was extremely annoying, and so was the side bar. It took my 2 GB's of memory, chewed it up and spit it out. Lets not forget the **** windows security alerts. So since I was switching back to XP I figured I might as well see what all the fuss was about over vista being like os X.

I have been using os x for about 10 hours now and I LOVE IT! It only took me about 10 minutes to figure that out though. It was so easy to get used to the GUI. SO easy! You'd think that it would take some time to get used to the different OS but it's so intuitive that I already feel like a pro at moving round in the OS.

Vista compared to os x feels... flat. I can't really think of a better word then that.

Now I'm still going to keep vista so i can get to her hotter sister directX10, but from now on my main machine will be a Mac.

10 years of hating macs destroyed by 10 minutes on OS X that i installed because I hated vista so much.
I never ever thought this day would come. I feel so Free

Now before you point out the fact that its not politically correct to be running OS X on a PC I am going to order a macbook pro.

So I guess Microsoft was right. The "WOW" does start now!

Now if only those macs weren't so expensive.

 

Welcome to the club!

 

I'm way ahead of you.. cough..
But yeah, i feel the exact same way, i don't think much of vista. I have always been a windows fan.

 

while OS X is nice, all this 'omg vista eats memory' stuff is rather unfounded.

vista DOES use all your memory, but that's cause it was designed to! it's superFetch in action - read into it - it's some seriously cool tech that honestly speeds things up.

basically, in lay terms, it looks at your computing habits on an hour by hour, day bu day, week by week basis, and looks at what applications/documents you load into memory at that time of day. so say every friday night you load supreme commander up for a blast at 8pm. at 7:50 vista goes 'oh, he's about to play supreme commander. 'l just preempt that and load it into memory'. so, when you go to launch that app, it's already in mem. bam, speedboost.
the great thing about superfetch is it actually works really, really well, which is a huge surprise tbh.

 

Well im a Windows Fan in a mac forum, however, i would say, give Windows another chance, i couldnt get used to it when i beta tested it, and now i love it, its super fast, XP is just blown away, yes, it does look really pretty, but it does all work, and when drivers are released slowly, all will be merry. but, i will admit, the new Mac Book pro's look special, but i cant afford one.

Sam

 

Am I being dense here , you installed osx on a pc with an amd processor? how ?

 

Really? Maybe I didn't give it enough chance, but I found Vista to be consistently slower than XP, and it felt slow in general. I agree with regards to memory - my MBP with 2 Gigs often reports 25MB free or less (1% of total) so free RAM means very little to me, but Vista's use just feels ineffective compared to OS X to me.

I still have Vista on a Thinkpad (well, I did until last night, where I tried to get OSX86 on it, but I'll probably put it back because a laptop without wireless support and a power remaining indicator is fairly useless). It's an improvement over XP for sure, but there are still a whole lot of UI issues that OS X doesn't have (like a severe lack of consistency) that would keep me from even considering using it full-time now. Not having something equivalent to QuickSilver, too... that's the final nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned.

 

oh yeah, vista is a little clunky in places. i won't migrate my XP machine to it until sp1 comes out for sure (although i have two licenses for business edition sitting on my hard drive).

btw, i have a mac too

 

Linux is where it is at!

 

umm not talking about illegally installing mac os x onto an AMD based machine is where it's at

 

Try checking you memory usage in OS X, you might find it's eating memory too. But using memory is not a bad thing, memory is the best place to put stuff, it'd be silly to keep it empty.

 

ok I see what your doing , I somehow thought Id missed the bit where Apple had released a pc version

 

I always buy what I like, and I never said it was illegal, I just said it wasn't politically correct.

Think of it as test driving a car... I have no intention of keeping osx on my amd machine, and the point of this thread isn't about how I did it, but the fact that I am 100% converted to Apple.

 

Why are people allways bitching about eating RAM? You payed for it, better use it, no? I'd rather have my RAM filled 95% all the time then have it 10% all the time...

*looks at RAM usage* 344MB used / 11MB buffer / 105 MB cache from 470MB *hug Gentoo*

 

heh ironically i never really had anything against Macs til i had to use OS X as a main machine at work for a couple weeks
pissed me right off tbh was very glad to get back to XP

 

installing OS X on anything but apple hardware violates the user agreement of OS X...

so having put it on an AMD based machine, means it's an illegal use of their software..

and if you wanted a test drive, it's simple enough to go to local computer store (be it apple, best buy, pcworld etc) and try it out for a while

 

OK we know it's not legal, but in reality a ten minute play around in a store isn't going to tell you much.
So in this case it looks like piracy has actually increased sales