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<blockquote data-quote="Kyomii" data-source="post: 282527" data-attributes="member: 7328"><p>The five things I prefer/do not miss when comparing Mac OSX to Windows are:</p><p></p><p>1. Fast boot up times, I can cold boot my Mac and be surfing online within 12 seconds flat that it is never a chore to turn it on if I want to check something out quickly.</p><p></p><p>2. If I am in a rush, I can close the lid on my Powerbook and I know when I open the lid again, the screen is immediately there waiting, just as it was when I left it.</p><p></p><p>3. Not having to install so many third party programs for upkeep such as an anti-virus, a seperate firewall, an adware checker, a spyware checker, a registry cleaner etc - on the Mac I just use OnyX and it does everything I want.</p><p></p><p>4. Not having to spend valuable computing time (and it is valuable to me as I have to spend 95 per cent of my life in bed) running such third party programs, along with waiting forever for scandisc and defragment to finish.</p><p></p><p>5. If I need to do a fresh install (only ever done one once), it is not time consuming adding drivers, then hundreds of updates, then program updates then installing those third party programs you need etc.....Just a fresh install from the discs and software update does the trick nicely, and takes only an hour or two instead of a day or two!</p><p></p><p>Just to balance things out, I will list five things I miss in OSX that is available in Windows:</p><p></p><p>1. Printer settings and similar, there are so many more options in Windows - such as when printing a photo out, I can configure many more settings than I can in OSX.</p><p></p><p>2. Limited upgradability - can't change the graphics card in many systems, nor the processor/motherboard etc.</p><p></p><p>3. Lack of a powered amp for microphone's requiring me to purchase either a USB microphone or iMic when I have just spent the best part of £1500 on a Powerbook which I think is totally unfair.</p><p></p><p>4. Lack of standard USB webcam support for such programs as MSN/ichat. I do not want to spend £100 on isight, and to get a standard webcam working is difficult, then to get it working in ichat or MSN requires more messing around/more programs.</p><p></p><p>5. For some reason, I am not sure why, the Internet it slightly more responsive and faster on the Windows machine - only slightly though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kyomii, post: 282527, member: 7328"] The five things I prefer/do not miss when comparing Mac OSX to Windows are: 1. Fast boot up times, I can cold boot my Mac and be surfing online within 12 seconds flat that it is never a chore to turn it on if I want to check something out quickly. 2. If I am in a rush, I can close the lid on my Powerbook and I know when I open the lid again, the screen is immediately there waiting, just as it was when I left it. 3. Not having to install so many third party programs for upkeep such as an anti-virus, a seperate firewall, an adware checker, a spyware checker, a registry cleaner etc - on the Mac I just use OnyX and it does everything I want. 4. Not having to spend valuable computing time (and it is valuable to me as I have to spend 95 per cent of my life in bed) running such third party programs, along with waiting forever for scandisc and defragment to finish. 5. If I need to do a fresh install (only ever done one once), it is not time consuming adding drivers, then hundreds of updates, then program updates then installing those third party programs you need etc.....Just a fresh install from the discs and software update does the trick nicely, and takes only an hour or two instead of a day or two! Just to balance things out, I will list five things I miss in OSX that is available in Windows: 1. Printer settings and similar, there are so many more options in Windows - such as when printing a photo out, I can configure many more settings than I can in OSX. 2. Limited upgradability - can't change the graphics card in many systems, nor the processor/motherboard etc. 3. Lack of a powered amp for microphone's requiring me to purchase either a USB microphone or iMic when I have just spent the best part of £1500 on a Powerbook which I think is totally unfair. 4. Lack of standard USB webcam support for such programs as MSN/ichat. I do not want to spend £100 on isight, and to get a standard webcam working is difficult, then to get it working in ichat or MSN requires more messing around/more programs. 5. For some reason, I am not sure why, the Internet it slightly more responsive and faster on the Windows machine - only slightly though. [/QUOTE]
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