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Author Topic: Apple Mac 30 years on.  (Read 20132 times)

tickmike

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Apple Mac 30 years on.
« on: January 27, 2014, 02:01:23 PM »
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2014, 06:01:09 PM »
Best OS there is on the market. 'Updates' ?? Took up most of my life, with Gates OS. Never mind the 'Jet-plane taking off' noise that is a bog-standard feature of their towers. Them that dismiss Apple products have either a) Not tried them, or b) Can't afford them.
Snobbery ?? Possibly, but that is how the world spins around.
You get what you pay for, and as  a 'Mr Average' in the PC world (IE: I wouldn't have a clue how to construct my own PC), I just purchase 'Off the shelf' like I did with Gates 'Vista cr5p', and I would not go back in a million years. Apple are a far superior product for what I use it for.
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2014, 07:56:15 PM »
Worth remembering that OS/X is Unix under the hood.  And Unix is literally the grandfather of all Linux distributions.   From sympathy and respect for the Forum's linux community I'll restrain myself from making more specific comparisons, but suffice it to say hat IMHO so many Linux users would be at home with OS/X; once you bring up a command-line window they have an awful lot in common.   :)

But how many know the correct pronounciation (used within Apple) is, as in Roman numeral 'X', 'OS Ten'?   :graduate:

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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2014, 08:28:37 PM »
As one whose early exploits were with Unix System III, the b*cat will just smile . . . enigmatically.  :)
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2014, 08:29:43 PM »
ha ha, never knew that, 7LM. May pay dividends at a pub quiz in years to come.  ;) ;D
Got to admit to 'Going fishing' with my post above, but no buggers biting tonight !!  :'(  :lol:
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2014, 09:18:52 PM »
Quote from: burakkucat on January 27, 2014, 08:28:37 PM
As one whose early exploits were with Unix System III, the b*cat will just smile . . . enigmatically.  :)

I'm impressed.   My own first intimate (but lasting, and influential) encounter was with SVR4  :)
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2014, 10:35:37 PM »
Quote from: Black Sheep on January 27, 2014, 08:29:43 PM
ha ha, never knew that, 7LM. May pay dividends at a pub quiz in years to come.  ;) ;D
Got to admit to 'Going fishing' with my post above, but no buggers biting tonight !!  :'(  :lol:

hahaha..  I'll bite.. 





give me a mo...  but dont expect it to be the best composition considering....

.... its been a long day as Ive been up since 5.30am
..... journeys which should take about 1hr 20mins, but atm are taking the best part of 3hrs...
.... Im on painkillers... 
.... and had a couple of glasses of wine which I havent been able to for the past few weeks due to being on metronidazole ,  and most likely wont be able to do again for another few,  as Im expecting to be re-issued with  more any day now....  so enjoying a glass bottle with my evening meal whilst I can....
....and you take it tongue in cheek.. not getting at anyone personally :)

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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2014, 11:05:11 PM »
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2014, 08:03:30 AM »
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2014, 08:08:00 AM »
I like it :lol:
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2014, 08:30:23 AM »
It looks like I will have to move to Win7 with the rapidly approaching demise of WinXP.

My Dell is not quite 10 years old and is struggling so it's probably time to replace it and change over OS - and by now win7 should have had all the bugs in it ironed out....Win8 has got several years more of customer testing (for which the customers seem willing to pay) before I'd touch it.

But I will say that in the 10 years of XP I have had just one Blue screen of Death.
I have had several 'hangs' where it simply stops responding to anything - traced to VLC player being used/open/minimised at the time.  Once I stopped using it and used Daum instead the computer stopped 'hanging'.
I did have a period in 2010 when for some reason on occasions a ccscvhst process took over the computer to near 100% cpu and required a reboot to stop it.  A Factory reset to day one conditions and re-install of updates and my software cured that.

Oh and I cleaned it inside once.

So the question will be will I hate Win7............
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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2014, 08:41:55 AM »
Well I have never owned a Mac but have some expeience of running older Mac OSes courtesy of an emulator I ran on my Amiga A4000 and even in those days I liked the Mac OS. However I still hold the Amiga in high regard, it was probably the best PS/OS combination of its time which was effectively killed off by incredibly bad management, without doubt it had an OS which was years ahead of all its rivals and probably still would be if the right people had been in charge of it.

As to PCs noise it is perfectly possible to build a home PC which is almost silent apart from hard drives which still tend to generate noise, as yet SSDs are not yet cost effective in large sizes. It is quite easy to obtain silent graphics cards for PCs (as long as you are not a gamer  ;) )

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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2014, 08:43:24 AM »
Quote from: c6em on January 28, 2014, 08:30:23 AM

So the question will be will I hate Win7............



I thought I would hate it, but as soon as I got used to the differences, I started to (& still do) love it.


Note:

It doesn't come with Outlook Express & a version isn't available for Win7.
I tried Outlook, but couldn't use newsgroups so I now use Thunderbird which was the best I could find after trying out other email programs (again, free of charge).


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Re: Apple Mac 30 years on.
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2014, 02:21:48 PM »
LOL, got myself a couple of fish there.  :lol: I knew you (Kitz) would be all over it like a rash, and that was why I cast the line.  ;) ;D ;D

I'll be honest with you, I have no knowledge at all with OS's. No deep desire or need to enhance what I know now, which is to do the very basic things with my PC. That may change in the future ??
So, I don't "Blame" Windows or any other OS on the market, as I'm not that 'Into it' to draw comparisons. With that in mind, my reasoning to opt for Apple i-Mac over MS products is purely down to the look and sound of the thing. It is first-class engineering without a doubt.

Like I say, after only having the Apple for a short while, the noticeable (nay, extremely noticeable) differences are the 'Loading up' times, the pretty much non-existant 'Upgrades', the picture clarity and the sound clarity. I spend an awful lot of time at my PC, too much my wife would say, so as I had the cash and my Vista cr5p was slowly killing me, I decided that it was justifiable to fork out on something I use nearly every day of my life. My 'User experience' has gone up to the better ten-fold, from MS/Windows type systems.

Paul (BE) ....... I also take my JDSU to bed with me. It's like one of the family.  :lol: :lol:
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