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Originally Posted by DomnizkyDesign
Dear god, man. What the hell.
You know, if you're going to attempt to come to a computer manufacturers aid, at the very least, know how to type. Fingerback, you put Macintosh back a few spots with that post.
Anyway, I'll be perfectly honest. i use a Macintosh. It's not a particularly good machine, just an old iBook G3. Still runs Panther. But anyway, I'll get straight to the point, there are some things Macintosh machines run well, and other things that they cannot run to save their lives, I mean--
Just a second... Adobe? Why would you bring up Adobe? PS has been multiplatform for quite a while.
Okay, just had to address that.
How Mac's download and install applications has to be one of the most redundant and horrendously inefficient processes it has ever been my displeasure to encounter.
START:
Download a .sit (Stuffit) file from a webpage.
Decompress said .sit, where you get a .dmg (DiskImage)
Mount said .dmg, and go into Finder.
Find the Mounted disk as a Removable-Media-Type and open it.
Drag the .app contained within into your Applications folder.
Open your Applications folder, find the .app and run it.
If that wasn't bad enough, now you've got about three extra instances of that program that you need to go and clean up after the fact. First eject the Mounted Disk, then delete the .dmg, and .sit. THEN you can use your program.
Macintosh does do a few things correctly though. Like how an application is really an executable folder. So when you delete that application, it's DELETED. You don't have orphaned files and garbage like that laying around. The only other thing you'd need to do is delete your Preference file, if you want it completely gone. Which is simple enough. Go into Library>Preferences, find the application name (with a .plist attached) and delete it. DONE.
In terms of how there's a yearly OS, that just shows that Macintosh is a subscription, with a 129 USD yearly charge.
I have no idea what I'm doing here... Waiting for PlaneShift to finish downloading...
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i came upon this discussion by accident, just had to register...
I am a mac user, and I'm really sorry you don't know how to use yours.
The proceddure you just declared is equivalent to unpacking a winrar to a folder, executing a setup from there, and then finding the program you want through the windows icon, programs, etc...except! you can do that more efficiently on the mac:
you can configure stuffit to erase a rared or whatever directory after getting it's contents. You can then open the dmg with douple click and simply 'drag and drop' your new application into your mac. If it's a good installation file, you basically drop it into your mac and your ready to go, no need to mount or anything else.
Anyways, now about the yearly cost...have you noticed how much windows costs? More, how many good free applications does windows have? I'll bet most of you use winrar and whatnot, but lemme also guess: you didn't pay for it, although you're supposed to? as well as many other programs. So basically, if you didn't have pirated software, videos, etc on your pc...do the math
Further, the latest Mac operating system doesn't eat up your resources like vista (or even XP for that matter), so basically, with the same computer hardware, you get better performance out of a Mac (last year, among laptops, Macs had the best rates running windows - LOL).
The problem with macs is games, yes, although there are more and more with each passing year, and it runs wow, so I'm happy lol.
oh, btw, to the mac users: get and try Quicksilver or Buttler - it will change your lives and forever make your windows experience frustrating - seriously, I now find windows completely slow - i do, launch and basically do anything with a touch of a couple buttons, it's beautiful and effective
I do have a laptop at home, since I like to play games, but I work a lot with computers, just ending my computer sciences masters thesis, so yeah, i couldn't live without my macbook, makes work a lot easir and faster.
cheers guys, and don't flame it before you try it
(PS: even installing cracked games is easier on the mac lol)