Tiger is Just Too Cool

[Cylor]

Why?

Lots of programs tailor to Windows, in my opinion. This may not be as true anymore, but I still think it's mostly true.

[dchao]

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[Sarien]

Is there stuff that you can't do with a Mac, since most of the world uses Windows? For example: not being able to use certain applications, or not being able to use certain functions on some websites?

The short answer is literally "It depends"
There are lots of apps that will have native mac versions. However, a lot of mac users also use Virtual PC. Now you can't use VPC for gaming really, but for functionality it's hard to beat being able to have it all. Certain features on websites, yes, there are some things (like some streaming .wmv) that you're not going to be able to do. The question on why is a little bit bigger than you might think though. It's a battle of mostly principles.

I've wanted to get a lappytop so I can take notes in class much quicker than by writing them down and converting them to a txt doc when I get home (for study sheets), and school is the biggest reason I need a new comp. If I do a paper for school on a powerbook, or if I take my book to school and take notes in class with it, is it going to be a problem when I get home and want to switch PC's, and upload my notes to my regular win-based comp?

Wadi is right, breaking out and setting up a laptop to take notes, is more cumbersome than jotting down then writing it out later. If you get the notebook for schoolwork though, it'll probably to do your schoolwork on, and not have to deal with much of the junk you'd have to with windows, spyware, virus junk, etc. There are lots of compatible ways to move files, and you can take a mac now, straight line ethernet cable to a PC, turn on sharing, and just move it over, or just burn it to a CD or what not. There is also MS Office for X. If your professor requires files to be in a .doc or something rather than a pdf or anything.
If your heart is absolutely set on a laptop and if price is a factor, there is always the iBook vs the Powerbook.
If not, you can always try a Mac Mini. The price is cheap (especially for a mac), you can get your introduction and familiarity with a new Mac, without throwing down completely $1200-2000.

Yellow Pages is an international thing?

As far as I know, yes. It works by putting in your postal code and a distance radius to search from it. I can't imagine an English version of it, that wouldn't work there. If I had a british postal code I could check the one I have.

Lots of programs tailor to Windows, in my opinion. This may not be as true anymore, but I still think it's mostly true.

Like what? Outside of games, which is definitely true, what is it that you think you would be missing out on? It's a serious question, I'm interested.

[PZN]

jee, widgets are also available for windows.

Plus, if you right click a highlighted word in windows, you can search web too.

[Sarien]

When did somebody let you out of your box, Peesian?
Amuses me when you throw up your anti-mac sentiment.
Let's see some of your screenshots, genius.

Anyway, I'm bored, Here's a pic of spotlight working, and Automator in the background:


The neat thing about how spotlight works is, when you install Tiger, rather than just grinding your computer to a halt, while it indexes the contents of your drive, it does it smart. It will index in the background, and if it finds nontext data it'll read the metadata tags and skip the rest, because it knows there's no point in trying to read the whole file. Hmm, a metadata rich file system. That's kinda neat, too bad Longhorn has already scrapped its ability to do that, eh Peesian? Maybe in a year and a half they'll figure it out. :fear:

[Edify]

ie for mac runs slower than ie for my pc. safari for mac is the equivalent of ie on my pc. safari is good.

bill gates > steve jobs

[Benno]

why would you use mac IE anyways?

[DoTheFandango]

ie for mac runs slower than ie for my pc. safari for mac is the equivalent of ie on my pc. safari is good.

bill gates > steve jobs

That's cool and all, but Firefox ownz IE, Safari, or anything you can through out there.

Trust, 10.4 wins.

[PZN]

holy crap its like apple invented the search for the computer!!! like they did with the mouse right? :rolleyeso

I have nothing against macs, but its usually just eye candy.

[Subjugation]

Speaking as someone who just went through four years of school, at a school where 2 out of 3 students had a lap top, I would ask you to reassess the "taking notes in class" line of reasoning. I think I saw one person use their laptop for notes, because most people don't take outline form notes. We write comments in the margins, doodle, draw diagrams, make bulet points in columns, and you can't be bothered with formating a word document while your prof yammers on eight light years ahead of what you just wrote. I'm not saying don't get one, but considering the economy of a desktop vs a laptop system, make sure you can _actually_ justify the purchase with use.

On a sidenote, it's also my personal belief that laptops are on the way out. You might look in to buying a notebook PC.

Wadi is right, breaking out and setting up a laptop to take notes, is more cumbersome than jotting down then writing it out later. If you get the notebook for schoolwork though, it'll probably to do your schoolwork on, and not have to deal with much of the junk you'd have to with windows, spyware, virus junk, etc. There are lots of compatible ways to move files, and you can take a mac now, straight line ethernet cable to a PC, turn on sharing, and just move it over, or just burn it to a CD or what not. There is also MS Office for X. If your professor requires files to be in a .doc or something rather than a pdf or anything.
If your heart is absolutely set on a laptop and if price is a factor, there is always the iBook vs the Powerbook.
If not, you can always try a Mac Mini. The price is cheap (especially for a mac), you can get your introduction and familiarity with a new Mac, without throwing down completely $1200-2000.

I think you're right about the notebook idea. I really wasn't aware of the difference between the two until you pointed that out.

But the reason I wanted it for notes is that most of my professors lecture in outline format anyway, and with the ability of cutting and pasting, I figured it might save me a lot of effort and time. However, the more I think about it, I don't see how I can justify spending $1200-$1500 on a notebook, when I could just put that into so many other things I need instead.

Thanks for the feedback. At this point, it's probably more of a "want" than a "need". After all, that OS looks pretty sexy. GG Sarien, you lucky mofo.

[DoTheFandango]

I have it too!

[geekbot]

Paper vs computer:
It depends on what your needs are. If your lectures are more math/science intensive that would suck to try and get equations and weird stuff entered into a computer. Diagrams and pictures might be hard too if you're bio or chem or something.

But if your lectures are mostly outline or straight speaking, it might be useful. If you are only typing words and sentences, you should be able to type faster than you can write.

If you're other notes, etc are already on the computer or you study with a computer, again, it might be handy.

PZN:
Yes, widgets are available on windows but Konfabulator was an app that was first developed on Mac OS. They only started developing for Windows only when dashboard was annouced for Tiger. No, they weren't the first ones to do it but they (and Apple) made it popular.

No, Apple didn't invent the mouse, the 3.5" floppy, or the GUI either, but there was nothing like it in households when the Macintosh came out. Commodore 64 and IBM PC jr weren't the ones pushing the envelope. Pointing devices were thought of in the 1950's....why do you think they weren't popular until after 1984?

[Sarien]

I gotta tell you guys, the OpenGL improvements in Tiger alone make it worth using over Panther. The whole OS is just snappier (as long as you're capable of Quartz Extreme). Multiple memory leaks have been plugged, so all in all it's more tight, easier on memory, faster, and with more features than Panther. Comparing it to Jaguar or Puma is just next to impossible.

holy crap its like apple invented the search for the computer!!! like they did with the mouse right? :rolleyeso

I have nothing against macs, but its usually just eye candy.

No, genius. It's more like Apple invented the metadata rich filesystem.
You really just have next to no clue what you're even talking about, do you?
"Usually Just Eye Candy". Jeez.

[DoTheFandango]

Wow, I just utilizied my AUTOMATOR to do what I usually do at startup, and it does it so smoothly. Oh dear, I may never go back to my laptop now that I have VPC:XPpro

[Sarien]

What'd you set it to do? I haven't messed with Automator a whole lot, but that's probably admittedly because I'm not completely clueless with Applescript.