xp 64 bit and ram

[Elvio Neto]

jesus this thread is scaring! (sorry guys)

mac file system is "HFS+ journaled" its like windows NTFS but is faster and dont get fragmentations or slowdows when the disk is full or half full

you can format drives in fat32 if you want (for pen drives for example to share files with windows users) but thats optional

there is no comparison with MAC and PC , MAC was made for work everything you need is there and doenst require maintence (antivirus , firewalls , disc defrags , formats, etc)

you can realy focus in your work and you dont realy need to know how to use a computer

one example you want to install a software: drag the icon of the aplication to your desktop and he is installed :) , want uninstall a software? simple drag the icon to trash can and thats it

i was a hardcore user of windows and ms-dos since the version 3.1 version in 1990 (and im still a windows user too) but since i made my MAC all the hard works and troubles gone away in a simple mouse click or a button key pressed (thats what a MAC is)

in this days since the arquitedture of the MAC´s are INTEL too you can build a PC with the same specs of one MAC and install OSX there , you will have a MAC PRO for a few euros...

i made my MAC PRO 3.1 in 2008 for 800 euros (monitor + keybord + mouse etc included! i buy all parts on a Portuguese website and mount in home)

i have one internal drive of 500GB for windows 7 x64 (trouble free and faster then XP doing heavy tasks , no bluescreens or hangs garantee in moust cases (i ever saw one even in the beta versions, i was beta testar for microsoft since the first day, ohh i have a blue screen once but was becouse of bad ram problem , i changed the bad ram was never saw a bluescreen again)

then i have one 1000GB internal drive too for the last MAC OSX 10.6.6 64BIT , its faster then XP and doens all you can imagine one windows do, my MAC OSX boot in 6 seconds

this is my 2008 MAC PRO 3.1 build check my screenshot:



with 3 years old this PC still run perfect the last MAC OSX Snow Leopad 64bits + all MAC audio and video applications you can imagine

[rhythmtech]

everything you've just said is precisely the reason i wouldnt touch one.

bland, non customisable, off the shelf, over priced consumer crap. sorry.

only time i'd get a mac was if someone forced me to choose between it and a dell.. even then i'd have to think about it

[Elvio Neto]

bland, non customisable, off the shelf

with all the respect rhythmtech thats not true

everything you see in OSX can be changed by hand and not by third party softwares like in windows

you even have script creators in OSX to do what ever you need with a simple click , if you are not a advanced programer you can put the software watching what you are doing (for example deleting specific files , open programs , changing settings , audio volumes , empty the trashs, moving files etc) and then record that to a simple file... now everytime you click that file he will make all the actions you have done automatically (you can even preset that to be done everytime you boot OSX)

another example:

windows use .exe executable files format , its impossible to personalize or change the code inside becouse is packed and over packed to hide everything

in osx if you click expand in the icon of one aplication you can see a bunch of text files inside (thats the code of the aplication) you are free to change everything if you have skills for that

finally if you install third party applications to customise osx you cant imagine the things you can do

im sounding like a MAC fanboy but im not i love windows too (i use ms-windows and ms-dos since my 6 years old)

lets face the facts the professionals use MAC they dont have time to find patches to broken stuff they pay for , they need to work and not troubles or security problems and privacy invasions , nobody knows what you do on a MAC but in windows everything you install use or navigate on internet is monitored (that why all the spam in microsoft emails) this system files can be deleted by third party softwares in some cases

many Microsoft Windows stuff is based on Unix ideas (Linux and OSX) and they ask big amounts of money for that (its the price of one computer to be true)

on the other side OSX doenst have copy protections and the last versions always cost 20 euros (you already paid for your computer you dont need to pay much more to start using him or to update the OS to a new version)

i enter in mac world becouse of Logic pro there is nothing like him to make music in my opinion , but since i start exploring and knowing more about OSX im really thinking in one day to buy a real mac just to support the work of this people

the only limitations i found in OSX is gaming but that is changing every day , the big releases now are starting to have a mac version too

[rhythmtech]

i was talking about the hardware. i agree its software is most definitly ahead of windows xp.