Nick thanks for the picaxe calc, sure I will find it useful. It should be part of the programming editor, in stead of the normal windows calc, which is there at present.
This is under Rev-Ed's control as they don't release the source code.
The truth is I hate windows with a passion!! (Especially 7, use XP)
And now for every action there must be a reaction!....
But you don't pay for service packs (Apple charges for Mac OS equivalent). In addition, most people don't buy new computers more often than new versions of Windows come out and they can buy the OEM version of Windows which is far cheaper than retail Windows. (The OEM version can't be used with another computer once activated on one computer but the retail one can)
Yeah...
ADDED: Funny quote:
I think statements about the security of mac are akin to quoting the crime rate in Antarctica.
it's a load of various coding glued together
All right then - use drivers made by the OS maker rather than the hardware makers themselves because everybody knows that third parties are better at writing drivers than the hardware makers themselves(!) (sarcasm)
In what way? (Use FilterKeys to prevent accidental double spacing)
In what way? Have you actually installed all the drivers, and used Windows Update? Just an example - ATI graphics cards perform very poorly until you install the drivers for them but in the case of an iMac you won't be able to have
any dedicated graphics cards of any sort.
So I have it dual booted on my iMac
Perhaps 'Bootcamp' or whatever it is deliberately slows down Windows to convice Mac users that their next computer should be a Mac. But that's unlikely. If Windows is slow on the Mac then it's probably because it isn't set up properly. On that topic, Mac OS wouldn't 'just work' if you attempted to install it on a Pentium III computer.
yes the mac is a bit pricey
Great. That at least makes up for the price of Windows.
(in 5 years' time) Now let's add some high performance low latency DDR3 RAM with massive heatsinks and a watercooling system for everything and overclock it to extend its useful life Can't do that. That's one more point for non-Mac PCs (not necessarily Windows ones). Link:
Mac Upgrade
...per minor version update.
you don't even have to activate it or register it.
If that's such a great thing then does that mean that you
encourage piracy?
As it's based on Unix/Linux
So why not just use Linux and then it really is completely free!
it just gets on with the job
It allows Apple to claim that it's
open source. Which it is to some limited extent.
tells you what updates are available and give you the option to do as you wish.
Just like Windows and Linux.
I will not get of my soapbox and return to normal
I will get off mine when you get off yours.
P.S. My Mac-bashing post looks a lot longer than your Windows bashing post mostly because of the extra room your quotes take up, but my post is longer anyway. But I was going to use code tags to stick it in a small scrollable subpage but the forum then ruins the formatting of the quotes.