Windows vs Mac

Amiga FTW!

“Best” is subjective in so many ways that YOU have to decide whats “best” for you and your needs

Most manufacturers certainly would like you to have that experience
Few deliver on it very well though
Apples made strides recently and the announcements about hand off home automation etc at WWDC should improve their offerings
MS new strategy “One MS” is certainly a step thats intended to move that way with phone xbox etc
And even google announced more measures to do something more unifying

We’ll see

Mac’s support Windows very well…

Seriously though, I’ve been using Computers since the days of the Timex Sinclair ZX81. I am and always will be a Windows user, but it will be running on my Mac Book Pro, Mac Mini and Mac Pro under VMWare Fusion taking advantage of the great things the Mac’s have to offer - one of which is Xojo!

made me think of another Apple product that finally found some use…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZcIa_lGCZg

They’d not beat the guy
They’d just ignore him sitting in the corner by himself :stuck_out_tongue:

I meant ‘not overly interested’. I was already aware that it is subjective but thanks anyway.

Typos and misspellings (unbios as opposed to unbiased) don’t help old guys like me trying to figure out what you meant.
I sometimes have a hard time trying to sort out what you’ve written.

Best habit I ever learned - write. stop. reread. stop. reread it again.
Even then I still make typos but a lot fewer than if I just typed & posted it straight away.

[quote=109835:@Norman Palardy]Typos and misspellings (unbios as opposed to unbiased) don’t help old guys like me trying to figure out what you meant.
I sometimes have a hard time trying to sort out what you’ve written.

Best habit I ever learned - write. stop. reread. stop. reread it again.
Even then I still make typos but a lot fewer than if I just typed & posted it straight away.[/quote]
I can remember making them typo. I was going to change it but cannot remember what stopped me. But sorry and thanks.

There’s a Mac feature that helps (as someone who failed English 3 times at GCSE level), that’s a system wide spelling and grammar checker, it still misses some weird mistakes I make (especially missing out words), however it works in (almost) everything Cocoa, including Xojo made applications :slight_smile:

The Apple eco-system is also a huge benefit to investing in Apple. Last night I was going to watch a movie on my Mac, but my wife said she’d like to watch it as well (instead of her soap opera), I’d already rented the movie on my Mac, but went into the other room, and used my iPhone to control the Apple TV, to pull the movie across and then we both watched on the bigger screen TV.

Hey folks, why not just use each tool for the purpose it was created or it fits in best?

Sure, i can open my bottle of beer with almost any tool available (lighter, screwdriver, even my teeth would do the job :wink: ) , but most of the time there’s a bottle opener nearby (I’m Austrian, Bavaria is nearby, so is the Czech Republic, so we get raised with beer, not milk, you must know :stuck_out_tongue: ).

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Same with Windows, Mac OS and Linux. I prefer my servers to run with Linux, most of the computers my customers use, run with Windows, some use iPhones, some still use Blackberry phones, most use Android phones. Maybe it’s my lack of fundamentalism, but I want to keep it there. Even if it’s more work for me, more stuff to learn to keep customers satisfied. Check all the tools out there and choose wisely. There are things even a Mac can’t do properly. But we’re working on it.

phew Feeling better now. Time for a beer, i guess. Oh, wait. Maybe breakfast first … hmmmm or beer for breakfast. That’s it!

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I just watch a video on youtube where an 18-year-old mac (that was found at the recycling center) was turned on. It ran OS9… and it still worked.
Kinda proves that these old guys really never get old :wink:

Video: Trash-picked Apple Power Macintosh G3 blue & white

I’ve got a Windows NT server running that has been part of our development environment since 1997.

Awesome! It kinda looks like we need another offtopic… er… topic…
It just would be fun to have an entire computer setup to work with, on old technology… haha!

In Dutch we call it Ambachtelijk… I think the English translation would be “Crafts” or “Artisanal” :wink: