Macintosh Computers suck

[stevejobs]

Something called Quartz Extreme is built into osX, which is a transparancy layer that can use an idle video card to make truer, more realistic colors. Look at a presentation in Keynote, then look at one in PowerPoint.

IE for Mac is shit because it's made by Microsoft. It's the only program on osX that ever froze on me. Look at benchmarks for Safari, Apple's browser. Nothing is faster, and it's only v1.0.

Macs are faster. Look at any of the recent benchmarks, SPEC or otherwise. Clock speed does not equal performance, and it doesn't take much speed for a dual 64-bit G5 to beat any P4. On the laptop side, the G4 runs more coolly and thus can be set faster than x86s in a small enclosure.

Not only is the software more user-friendly, it's seamless. Ever used Word with IE? They work together pretty well, editing Word text in IE text fields and writing HTML in Word. This is how it is with every application Apple makes for osX and with most third-party vendors. That's the point of osX - seamlessness. No programs are "hard" to run, and nothing is extensively slow, except maybe MS Office v.X.

A USB mouse is a USB mouse. Apple uses USB mice. Apple mice can have one button, two buttons, eight buttons, whatever.

You installed osX in high school? So I assume that was at least a year ago. osX was in beta from 97 to 2000. Functional issues were resolved with 10.1, and speed was optimized with 10.2, which came out about six months ago. 10.3 is to be released before the end of the year, which is reported by beta testers to be much snappier. You're judging a OS that wasn't finished yet, but if you use Windows, I guess that's what you're used to.

osX is not Unix. osX is built on Unix, like a few other OSs, with Darwin, Aqua, Cocoa, Carbon, etc. developed by Apple on top. osX is thorough, and that's the premium you pay with Apple, along with only the highest quality parts. Dell is cheaper because Dell is Wal-Mart. For most people, Apple is a luxury computer.

Uninformed opinions piss me off.