Macs VS Windows

Windows OS <3

 

Here's an article I wrote for my uni's newsletter that I expressed my opinion about macs.

 

 

 

Okay what I am about to write may hurt Mac lovers but seeing I hold enough of a grudge against them this is my thorough-enough analysis why Mac at CSU (especially Macs in general as well) really do suck.

Point 1. They are a product of none other but the not-very well organised company, Apple. If you are wondering if the thought has ever occurred to me, that Windows is a rip off Macs, yes it has occurred to me, several fucking times (thanks to the morons on the net who indeed do not have a life offline) and I’m glad that Bill Gates did a better job on the creation of the Windows OS’s. Apple in itself is only popular because of how sucky their brand “iPod” was and still is. I personally did own an iPod, and guess what? It broke. Along with millions of other people’s iPods that broke with the correct usage (correct usage doesn’t include throwing it in a pool of water because it won’t play the preferred playlist or somehow damaging it in other forms of destructive and unintelligent ways). iPod’s reputation to start with, declined with the first line of iPod originals product line that, in my own opinion the feasibility tests were done with a bunch of monkeys picking lice off each other. Then came the mini’s. How unintelligent can a company be when the mini’s were pulled off the market completely within a couple of months? The nanos just completely sucked anyway one can look at it and they continue to live up to this reputation by the new flashy mini-based range they’ve got out now. The movie iPod....sucks and I know this for a fact. Number of friends have complained to me about the awkwardness of having a Windows OS operating with this range, as it only accepts Apple based products, such as Quicktime to even get near to having a movie on the iPod range. Sure, they can range up to even 80 Gbs, a lot songs right? But is it really worth stashing out that amount for something that’s gonna break in the long run? We are uni students come on! We have better things to do rather than stash out $500. We can even use that money to hold a massive party that the cops will eventually be called out to investigate. History has proven that iPod suck! Their software, iTunes, suck even worse. Today, in the Mac labs in the Jack Cross Centre scanning some things in, happily listening to Nightwish, and LOOK…. a message tells me that iTunes has to terminate. OMG THE APPLE IS ROTTEN…am I meant to be surprised? Noooooo. And unless readers can prove me otherwise, I will stand by this conclusion.

Point 2. Why use an operating system that continually makes life difficult? A fine example of this question that I pose, is in every application installed in Apple. Why do I have different shortcuts that don’t end up doing what I want it to do in the long run? If they are going to make an Apple keyboard with the Apple key instead of the Windows key, wouldn’t it be BASIC SENSE to familiarise the users with the different shortcuts with tutorials? Well. It’s basic sense to me, especially when you’re a graphic design student or any other student that has to be constantly around the stupid machines because the lecturers said for you to use the stupid Neanderthal things. Well. As for Windows Vista, it’s at least better then Macs (even boring lectures are better than Macs). Anything is. Is it just me or is Macs aim is to do the opposite thing that operating systems aren’t meant to do....confuse the user? Confusing the user consists of NO RIGHT CLICKS. Oh no, the Apple must suck because you have to hold down control to get the equaliviant of a right hand click drop down menu. If Apple was so unique, why are there still Microsoft based programs installed? I pose this question on the evilest machine possible to the humane race while in the Mac labs and I look to Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, thinking of how hypocritical Apple is. CSU Macs are the individual machines that test my patience (and I thought their printing process was a nutter!). If CSU has “top of the range” Macs with plasma-like screens, why can’t the software handle the most simplest action of printing? I’ve come to a conclusion about this question, no need to fear, super-Sarah is here! It’s not the university’s fault that Macs are so bad in their OS construction (and now I’m wondering why this line is flashing…to annoy me more??). Windows can and they do perform the same function as Macs can, but the difference is between the two OS’s, is that Windows doesn’t make the user to want to pull all their hair out and most girls like me, appreciate the dollars spent in poorly dying their hair. Just because I chuck the shits at Macs and drop the “C Bomb” every time I use the Macs where ever and whenever I do not hesitate to drop the C Bomb in front of the monitors loud and clear (currently the record for me is 50 times in a day) does not make this argument invalid.

Point 3. Why does Apple have such a high reputation as being “technological advanced”? They are not. Just because a company brings out another product (in this case Mac Air) does not for heaven’s sake make it smart. It goes along with the saying “same shit different bucket”. Apple has a reputation for breaking down, and if you think the opposite, you must ask yourself wither if you have Down Syndrome or not. As an argument against Windows would arise around about in this section, I stand by that Windows think about their users not the amount of the annual income they make, as Apple has done, because Windows is more simplistic and if a reader wants to take their opinion further and reply to me, GO AHEAD AND PROVE ME WRONG. Windows doesn’t have annoying shortcuts that end you up in Timbuktu, Windows is more highly successful because they are more technological advanced, they are more successful because they are user-friendly and for heaven’s sake, anything that Apple hasn’t touched it’s worth buying.

So in conclusion, don’t touch anything that’s Apple-branded, because in the long run, it’s going to break and come on, we are uni students, we rather drink ourselves stupid then to buy something of this nature, unless, you like having your dollar coins fall into the drain, by all means go nuts. “Well anything that you buy is going to break!” you say with a not-so confident tone as a retort to this article you read. Yeah, sure everything breaks in the long run, but would you rather buy a MP3 player that has the same features and does the same thing at a much cheaper cost or would you rather buy something that eventually is not your wallet’s worth in coins and notes? Would you rather tear your hair out over some stupid Neanderthal machine that in the long run, is not your time and effort? The only real thing Apple is good at is glamourising itself and promoting itself through ads that only made me suffer from motion sickness.

apples suck,general

 

sure their operating system could shit over windows....if onyl we mere mortals knew how to use them....

 

that sayingl...windows isnt exactly mr easy...

 

it should really be macs v PCs right? or linux Vs windows cause macs can use windows now, or even both

I don't know about linux haven't used it. But how the hell can Windows work on Macs now? Macs = Apple = shithouse. Windows = Gates = shits over Apple big time.

This is a very poorly written argument, you have told me Apple sucks but you havent exactly told me why.

 

When I record music is Use Macs... when I edit films I use macs.... when I just want to surf I use macs. Windows fell behind in terms of features ages ago and have only recenlty turned this around with Vista, Macbook air is very technologicly advanced, it can show what laptops will probably be like in 3 or 4 years time much like the flatscreen tft monitors did back in the 90s... people were liek WHY WOULD I PAY THAT MUCH FOR SOMETHING THINNER?

 

I use Vista at home just cause it has higher compatibility then Macs but what OS do I perfer to use... well Macs... its more responsive, less vulnarable to outside attacks & is more stable. I have never had problems with a Mac in terms of long run ruse but with Windows based Operating systems they always end up bogging down.

 

The iPod issue is kind of true but can you also say that about MICROSOFT Xbox 360? Of course you can, my iPod broke down last year but I typed my serial number ino their site and the next day they sent a delivery man and they picked up iPod and it was back to me within 4 days, all for free. Excelent customer service that is... I didnt have to pay a penny.

 

Macs aren't hard to use at all it's just when your in school your basically forced to use windows... so you get used to the interface and shortcuts. Apples is no more difficult if not slightly more simple to use but because you grew up with it you feel familiar to it. This is why Microsoft are so succesful in the market and current market leaders... they litterd all schools and companies with Microsoft based products do people grow up with them and become so used to them that they dare try anything different.

 

My arguement may not reflect your opinion but it's certainly a lot stronger then your string of swears, at the end of the day it's horses for courses and as I write this I use a windows based laptop but when I have to do something that requires a more responsive, stable and efficent machine such as producing or film editing I use Macs.... & that is the case with most music studios and student film studios & the is a reasson for that.

 

iTunes Vs WMP

 

Windows Media Player is very clunky, chunky and awkward to use, iTunes is possibly the easisest and most efficent media sorting application I have ever used. I found it so easy to use that I was used to it within half n hour compared to WMP which I still struggle with despite using it since I was 7 years old!!!! iTunes video playback does have a lot to be desired though and Quicktime is pretty much terrible.

One of the arguments of why Apple sucks is because Macs aren't user friendly. We are forced to use both and I wrote that argument on two OS's today and trust me, writing it in the Mac lab was more difficult to use then using Vista, right across from the Mac Labs.

 

Macbook Air can't be that great because I can connect it to the saying "same shit different bucket". There's no superior laptop. They all do the same job in the long run. I have a chunky laptop, so fucking what? I don't need to go out and buy myself a fancy new laptop just so I can show it off to my friends. My laptop does what it needs.

 

Windows = product of microsoft..so fucking what? Same Bill Gates person in charge.

 

iTunes. It's only overmarketed. There are a zillion other media players that do the exact same thing. In fact, I've got two stored on my computer right now, and that's excluding WMP.

 

I know what you mean when you say about the getting music on and off your computer, I'm a graphics/photography student. I am forced to work with Macs. But I go a couple of rooms down in the computer centre and I do the same exact thing on Illustrator or Photoshop using Windows and I get the same result, but I get rid of the hassle of working with a non-friendly computer that I end up shutting down anyway.

Your an idiot if u think Windows came before microsoft... I mean literally

 

I remember MICROSOFT DOS which pre dated the first Windows by almost 10 years

 

Macs arent any harder to use then macs, u probably just used Windows way before Macs, photo editing is a DEMANDING proccess... Film Editing and Music production is and I have lost lots of work using windows based OS's from 98 to XP due to that. I havent used vista for music though... I dare not try.

 

Your argument is so fundementaly flawed, you sound like your Bill Gateses bitch and until you give me a justified argument that doenst involve SUCK SUCK SUCK BILL GATES I will disregard any arguement you give.

^windows-made by microsoft if im correct

 

linux is the operating system of macs

 

macs can now use windows because all laptops now use intel technologies or something, you can chosoe to have windows on ur snappy looking mac air book

 

the mac book air is superior purely because its lighter and slimmer, laptops are built for portability, and carrying around a masive chunk of laptop just aint up there on priorities in life for most tech savvy people, the air is built smaller so people can carry it around and not feel the strain

 

and i gotta agree with sten, using media with mac is unbelievably good, editing vids,itunes...makig music, its unbelievable, the programs are easy to use the quality is beautiful, of course the long running debate is just that macs are crap due to linux's complex structure, and the fact it can lag quite easily

 

i quite enjoyed this vid:

its amazingly funny, but a tad old

Your an idiot if u think Windows came before microsoft... I mean literally

 

I remember MICROSOFT DOS which pre dated the first Windows by almost 10 years

 

Macs arent any harder to use then macs, u probably just used Windows way before Macs, photo editing is a DEMANDING proccess... Film Editing and Music production is and I have lost lots of work using windows based OS's from 98 to XP due to that. I havent used vista for music though... I dare not try.

 

Your argument is so fundementaly flawed, you sound like your Bill Gateses bitch and until you give me a justified argument that doenst involve SUCK SUCK SUCK BILL GATES I will disregard any arguement you give.

 

 

SORRY. Got them confused for a sec.

Lol @ this.

 

Some things I've noticed.

 

1.) Macs are infuriatingly difficult to use. The learning curve on these machines is cruel and unusual.

 

2.) Macs are not more secure. This is a simple logic problem. If there are more PCs used in the world than Macs (and this is the truth), then of course Macs will appear safer. Why hack the minority? Linux is the only OS on the market that can claim to be tightly secure.

 

3.) A one button mouse. This is the reason the Mac failed to overcome PCs so many years ago. One button mouses are dumb. They reduce functionality, something that should be paramount in the computer industry.

 

4.) They overcharge consumers on everything - Macs, laptops, iPods, operating systems. You can build your own computer that is more powerful than $2,000 dollar Mac for a third of that cost.

 

5.) Macs are only being bought right now because they are seen as stylish and chic. They are, without a doubt, a total fad brought on by the cultural revolution of the iPod. It seems that the mob logic has dictated, "Since iPods are gold, that means everything they touch is gold." News flash: It isn't.

 

6.) iTunes is infuriating. It badgers me daily to register my iPod, which means divulging my credit card number, and my phone number. It is incredibly time-consuming, and it doesn't have any sort of online component that doesn't cost money or personal information. (IMO - MusicMatch Jukebox 6.0 was the best media player made.)

yeah and on a windows note, XP > vista ANYDAY

Mac is far harder to program for thats why hackers and viruses for it are made less frequently

 

XP is terrible nowa days, the is just too much risk involved with the OS

 

Macs have been used in for multimedia for years

 

there u go guys

Yeah about this question, I've only used a PC and I don't know too much about Macs (except for a couple of times at school). Why do people say that Macs are better than PC when dealing with graphic design/music editing/film etc? And is it really that much worth it to get a Mac for that much more money?

Mac is far harder to program for thats why hackers and viruses for it are made less frequently

 

XP is terrible nowa days, the is just too much risk involved with the OS

 

Macs have been used in for multimedia for years

 

there u go guys

 

I disagree, during the PWN TO OWN competition in California, a Macbook Air was successfully hacked on day two, and was the first to be hacked.

Windows Vista Home Premium (the best Vista, IMO) fell the next day.

i dont care if people hack my xp i still love it and will never change to vista

Yeah about this question, I've only used a PC and I don't know too much about Macs (except for a couple of times at school). Why do people say that Macs are better than PC when dealing with graphic design/music editing/film etc? And is it really that much worth it to get a Mac for that much more money?

 

 

Yes it is, u have no idea

Mac's ARE OK. PC's are way better. Being a graphics/multimedia/IT/film student we use both. I would never spend any kind of money on a Mac, or Apple product. Macs look nice for people who like shiny things, including me, but I just don't like them, I mean tunes for example, one massive slow lame program just for putting music onto your IPod, not thanks.

 

Pros of Mac:

 

Shiny, pretty, sleek.

Has one of the best web browsers, Safari, passes the ACID2 Test like a dream, compared to the epic fail of IE7 and FF2.

Nice small keyboard.

Nice big screens.

They DO have less viruses than PC systems, but they are not virus/error/hax proof, I know that 1st hand.

 

Mac Cons:

 

They are expensive, gutless, and hardly customizable hardware-wise.

 

PC's are far more better to use for grunty rendering and hardout graphics, mainly because they are easy to build/customize etc etc and are not as expensive. I could really go on and on, but I just find PC overall better, but Macs are not like OMG dont go thar!1

I'd just sooner spend my $ on a PC, windows or linux.

 

 

EDIT: Finally a topic on LPF they I actually want to discuss.