redcolours
05-13-2008, 12:43 AM
...is such a great project, and is bringing me closer to owning a mac.:hehehmm:
although technically, iim already running a mac, only on a home brew.
(running Leopard on a custom PC from last year - 4GB RAM, OC'd quadcore intel chip, 2 8600GT running 4 LCDs).
im just now realizing that however fast and powerful i build a rig to be, the bottleneck is THE DAMN OS!
x64? sure, use an OS which is really still a BETA, whose apps are not optimized, and are themselves not as stable as their 32bit counterparts (if there is one to begin with, knowing the dearth of apps written for it).
Leopard is an eye-opener - here is an OS thats been around for ages, and has been 64bit from the start, stable, and is just... elegant.
The facts have been there all this time, and in my myopic, cheapass, dismissive nature in the past, i just failed to see it.
Everything is so simple and ready to use out of the box that i find myself LOOKING for things to tweak, like i always do with a windows OS. Bad habits die hard.
Now i can just go to work and play at the same time, without fiddling around for stupid time-consuming tweaks and adjustments to apps that half-ass worked before. Here im ready to do the things i want to do NOW. FOr a person with an undiagnosed attention-deficit syndrome, this is very good!
all 4GB of RAM is recognized! now im ready to max out my mobo to 8GB of RAM! with the prices dropped so low, this is gonna be SWEET!
and i can now use quicktime, and (lawdalmightee!) itunes! i hated using those 2 on a PC, since they slow down and kill the PC, but being Mac apps natively, they run without hiccups here.
maybe now i'll buy an ipod.... or not. we;ll see.
all the things that vista got bloated about and still does a pisspoor job at it, OSX already have implemented to work smoothly for a while now. vista is a stiff mannequin with a dress on, while leopard is like a runway model wearing the same dress.
another analogy - windows is like eating bread with powdered sugar. it fills you up, its sweet. its peasant bread. the mac is like a 3-layer cake, with all the icing, toppings, and sprinkles on it. Its a joy to slice.
i will keep my XP machine (to view webpages in IE), but it will soon be relegated to secondary duties. Some things i still like about XP, and oddly enough its the small apps. CDEx, Irfanview, 7zip, dbpoweramp, to name a few. There are equivalent apps on the mac (which is whats great about it). i just have to start looking for them.
granted, the Mac is not for hardcore gamers, or for those who want to endlessly tweak their system.
but for those who just want to simply work and create and actually get something done, and have fun doing them, the mac
is there for them.
or for me. ;D
when ive saved enough, i'll get a real mac. XP? sure! i'll just use bootcamp. for now im doing the reverse. :)
that is all.
and hello to all! how are my G|A brothers and sisters from another mother?
although technically, iim already running a mac, only on a home brew.
(running Leopard on a custom PC from last year - 4GB RAM, OC'd quadcore intel chip, 2 8600GT running 4 LCDs).
im just now realizing that however fast and powerful i build a rig to be, the bottleneck is THE DAMN OS!
x64? sure, use an OS which is really still a BETA, whose apps are not optimized, and are themselves not as stable as their 32bit counterparts (if there is one to begin with, knowing the dearth of apps written for it).
Leopard is an eye-opener - here is an OS thats been around for ages, and has been 64bit from the start, stable, and is just... elegant.
The facts have been there all this time, and in my myopic, cheapass, dismissive nature in the past, i just failed to see it.
Everything is so simple and ready to use out of the box that i find myself LOOKING for things to tweak, like i always do with a windows OS. Bad habits die hard.
Now i can just go to work and play at the same time, without fiddling around for stupid time-consuming tweaks and adjustments to apps that half-ass worked before. Here im ready to do the things i want to do NOW. FOr a person with an undiagnosed attention-deficit syndrome, this is very good!
all 4GB of RAM is recognized! now im ready to max out my mobo to 8GB of RAM! with the prices dropped so low, this is gonna be SWEET!
and i can now use quicktime, and (lawdalmightee!) itunes! i hated using those 2 on a PC, since they slow down and kill the PC, but being Mac apps natively, they run without hiccups here.
maybe now i'll buy an ipod.... or not. we;ll see.
all the things that vista got bloated about and still does a pisspoor job at it, OSX already have implemented to work smoothly for a while now. vista is a stiff mannequin with a dress on, while leopard is like a runway model wearing the same dress.
another analogy - windows is like eating bread with powdered sugar. it fills you up, its sweet. its peasant bread. the mac is like a 3-layer cake, with all the icing, toppings, and sprinkles on it. Its a joy to slice.
i will keep my XP machine (to view webpages in IE), but it will soon be relegated to secondary duties. Some things i still like about XP, and oddly enough its the small apps. CDEx, Irfanview, 7zip, dbpoweramp, to name a few. There are equivalent apps on the mac (which is whats great about it). i just have to start looking for them.
granted, the Mac is not for hardcore gamers, or for those who want to endlessly tweak their system.
but for those who just want to simply work and create and actually get something done, and have fun doing them, the mac
is there for them.
or for me. ;D
when ive saved enough, i'll get a real mac. XP? sure! i'll just use bootcamp. for now im doing the reverse. :)
that is all.
and hello to all! how are my G|A brothers and sisters from another mother?