If it weren't the fastest, something would be wrong.

Post #401,131 by Another Scott 4/24/15 7:21:44 AM Reply	If it weren't the fastest, something would be wrong. They write the OS, and have access to the underlying APIs, and can write new APIs, after all - of course a new browser they write should be the fastest. The fact that IE wasn't for so long was another indication of the brokenness at Redmond. Here's hoping that Win10 isn't a broken pile of crap. Too many people have to keep using Winders - it would be nice if they could be forced to use something that actually works. ;-) Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #401,137 by pwhysall 4/24/15 9:46:17 AM Reply	Eh, whev. Fuck platform advocacy in the ear. It's boring. Windows works, just like OS X works, just like Linux works. Desktop OSes are literally just a matter of taste these days. Apple converts have a habit of assuming that OS X is The One True Way, and let's be clear: it's really, really not. It's very nice and pretty and all that, but it's also expensive (Apple laptop computers start at £749*), circumscribed and comes with a very, very bad mouse on computers that are, with the exception of the hilariously expensive bin, modestly-performing laptops. The value proposition of a Mac is in the design, the build, the end-to-end integration (including with the phone), the OS and UX itself**. This stuff is clearly worth a lot to a lot of people, but there's a whole lot more* people who make a different set of value choices; they have a limited budget, or they want performance, or they want a small form factor, or they want to Linux, or they want to play games. A Windows PC can meet all of those requirements (obv not the same PC, that'd be silly) whereas Apple go "Here's your Mac. It is what it is. Buy it. Sell it in three years when the AppleCare runs out, because it's not user-serviceable and it's going to cost you lots to get it fixed." This is absolutely fine, and it's what I did for three Macs. But it's not the only or best model for personal computing. Oh, man. Apple haven't made a mouse worth the steam off my piss in 25 years. Not counting the Mini, as in the previous iteration Apple made it clear they hate it and want it to die. Expect it to be discontinued RSN. **Although it's increasingly obvious (iTunes, Photos, Safari, etc) that Apple regards the HIG (which once underpinned the enviable UI consistency of the OS X experience) as strictly optional. This sucks and should stop.
Post #401,159 by Another Scott 4/24/15 1:44:20 PM Reply	I'm not arguing against Winders. We know that it's going to be around, and people will have to use it, whether something else is "better" or not. It's just the way it is. Up until a few weeks ago, we still had a Vista Ultimate machine in the lab. It was horrible (it had some sort of memory leak in the networking stack somewhere that would slowly gobble up 1+ GB of RAM and slow the machine to a crawl via constant swapping. It had 4GB of RAM). 7 is pretty good. I hope 10 is pretty good because I know I'll eventually have to use it. That is all. :-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #418,054 by CRConrad 5/8/17 1:36:55 PM 5/8/17 1:36:55 PM Reply	"Desktop OSes are literally just a matter of taste these days." Yeah, and Windows >7 is the butt-ugliest thing there ever was. HTH! -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)

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