Just curious - what are the benefits of installing Windows Vista on a Mac?
I have always been an under-the-hood type person who has to see why my machines work. As an example, my dock sits horizontally in the upper right of my screen; and when I turn on my machine, my purple boot-screen has an AMIGA "Boing Ball" underneath a semi-transparent Apple (see attachment).
I did not use a third party program for these fun things. To me, it is more fun to know the inner workings and tinker with them.
I am not prejudice, I am biased. Biased b/c I have a decent working knowledge of Windoze and OS X. I use both. Apple by choice - Windoze out of job related necessity (its the system our school has set up for the network - and part of my job was to troubleshoot it). Of course, there are always areas of an OS that I will need to learn more about. This is why I like this forum.
The power of the user has finally been restored to me in OS X. I waited almost 20 years - stuck with Microsoft - to get back the power I used to have in the late 80's.
Anyway, here are some of the main reasons why I think we need Windoze on our Mac's:
1. Because Windoze if more Geek-friendly.
OS X is easier to use; actually works; makes installing anything a snap; has so many more amazing (practical) options; is structured upon a solid base - UNIX; rarely needs drivers to install new hardware; can run Windoze as an application; etc., etc., etc.. This obviously makes Windoze more Geek-friendly as an awful lot of IT people would be out of work if people stopped using Windoze. Windoze, by making such a great system, has insured that job security is something our Geeks need not worry about.
2. For healthy lungs!
Because OS X users' lungs probably are not as strong as those of Windoze users' ... we need Windoze. You see, once I switched to OS X, I noticed the lack of exercise my lungs get from not yelling at my computer anymore. In fact, OS X probably will cause lung cancer (or something) in all of us b/c our lungs will atrophy. So so make sure Windoze is installed on your Mac.
3. Windoze gives a sense of security and belonging.
Not b/c people using it are actually happy with their machines (toleration would probably be a better term), but the fact that we can all cry on each other's shoulders over the ridiculously frustrating (and frequent) actions performed by Windoze will help us bond together into a tighter, more understanding community.
4. To show we are intelligent.
You see, the majority of people out there just go along with the crowd (something I call the Moo-mentality) and get a Windoze machine b/c... well... everybody else has one ... so ... so ... we just ... um ... KNOW any smart person owns one ... and ... we ... KNOW ... um ... um ... Windoze is best ... just ... because! Yeah, that's right ... BECAUSE! And, after all, Apple is just some ridiculous techno-music-box-making-company with a bunch of snooty followers. So we will install Windoze to show the crowd just how intelligent we are. Why use a well tuned machine like a Rolls Royce when you can use a car that is a demolition derby survivor?
Use Windoze - everyone will think you are as smart as they are!
5. To support your local physicians!
C'mon, you won't get high blood pressure if you are not always frustrated at the way your computer "works!" Only Windoze can, daily, supply us with this wonderful state of health!
6. Windoze supports recycling!
Apple users probably, a lot less frequently, end up tossing their machines out of a third story window. Windoze users, by beating up their machines out of frustration (hey, three stories is a long way to drop, even for a machine as awesome as a Wintel box), have to buy new ones more often and therefore more materials get recycled (see other concepts about supporting our economy).
7. To help out your hometown dentist!
Windoze addicts can end up with only nubs for teeth after grinding them in anger hour upon hour. Your dentist needs your money!
8. Install Windoze for a great diet plan!
Frowning, yelling, ranting, raving, kicking, screaming, swinging baseball bats, and smashing things takes much more energy (hence, burns more calories) than being calm, peaceful, and happy. Out of the two, Windoze definitely produces calorie-burning activities more frequently!
9. Windoze helps to develop your thinking skills.
You get to use/improve your memorization abilities by needing to remember the complete 112 (new and improved) EASY steps Windoze takes to do something as horrendously complex as shutting off the computer. More memorization implies more brain power used which, in turn, implies better mental health as a result.
10. Windoze encourages education.
How many times I have had the privilege of spending hours (and hours, and hours) reaading books, doing research online, etc. (and thereby educating myself) due to the wonderful, amazing, top of the line documentation always included with any Microsoft application. I am sure the people writing Microsoft manuals have engineered their works to be totally useless. They are concerned about us losing our ability to reason and think things through. Windoze makes you read more and therefore must be good - install it now!
11. Windoze encourages more creativity in young minds.
Viruses, malware, Trojan horses etc. are all the result of creative thinking by people who can program. Granted, these people are evil for what they do, but, hey, they ARE creative if nothing else. No one (yet) writes much of this for OS X - so what fun and creativity are we offering these people?
12. Windows is nostalgic in nature. Hey, most of us all remember the good old days when we had serious, hard work interrupted by those wonderful little messages such as, "Error! You have a fatal error 3245.67xa, yes, Microsoft knows you just spent 3 years writing this paper, but we don't care - it's gone - so ha ha ha! Press the "OK - I love Microsoft anyway" button to continue. Now we can have these messages on our Mac's!!
See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlAg4a-q5z8&feature=related
if you are too young to remember "Those Were the Days"
Those Were the Computer Days
lyrics by Lee Brewer
Sung to the tune of "Those Were The Days"
"grammar errors and Punctuation added to aid in pronunciation to keep in rhtyhm pattern)
Once upon a time, was a computer,
plagued by an O-S from Mr. Gates.
Remember ‘cause of him we used to suffer.
Stuck with a G-U-I we learned to hate
Those were the days, my friend.
I’m glad they’re at an end.
I’ll shout for O-SX is mine, Hooray!
(I-compute) the way I choose.
My time - no longer lose.
Windoze is gone! Oh joyous, happy day!
Days of Windoze crashing had enslaved us.
We lost our starry notions in that way.
O-S-X has loosed us from our shackles.
We smile at one another now and say,
Those angry days, my friend...
I’m glad they’re at an end.
Bill Gates-'s gar-bage has been thrown away!
No need to re-install,
He had me punching walls!
My angers gone ... and blood pressure’s OK!
Just tonight, I’m sitting at my iMac.
Windoze-weary mind now filled with glee!
In the screen I see a new reflection...
Is that smiling face there really me?
Those were the days, my friend.
I’m glad they’re at an end.
My O S works, and crashing’s not or me.
Procedures take one click,
Instead of five or six!
And programs work the first time ‘stead of three!
Through the door, there came familiar laughter.
Gates-s’ marionettes did scoff at me.
Oh my friend, they're bolder … but we’re wiser.
Their blinders should instill us with pity.
Those were the days, my friend.
Frustrations at an end.
My O S works, viruses are not for me.
No cryptic error clues.
No taking years to boot.
My G U I - now brings me ecstacy!
Enough fun,
Lee