Things pc can do, macs can't?
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- PyroVesten
Perhaps it's specific software that's Windows-only, or a feature of the windows interface.
Reason for topic is I'm looking at switching to mac and getting rid of my PC soon and I just wanted to be reminded me of some of the stuff I'll be missing/have to get used to.
The one thing I'm thinking of at the moment that I use a lot is when browsing in explorer, I display 'track number', 'artist', 'title' , 'album', 'year', 'date modified' and a few others as I have heaps of music and like to see all the ID3 tag info when I'm browsing and also like to sort things with a simple click of a column title.
Anything like that that you do on windows that you miss on OSX?
I'm gonna proably grab Virtual PC when I switch anyway, I am currently running OSX 10.3.5 on a G4 I bought not too long ago, but I'm still not 100% farmiliar with each intricate detail yet.
If anyone knows of a solution/add-on to view additional details in finder, let me know.
Cheers!
- nessdog0
How about 'things macs can do that pc's can't?'
- lowimpakt0
you can't be metro with a pc
- ribit0
Wouldnt you just do all you music stuff in iTunes? Or is there a reason to want to do it in the Finder too?
- ribit0
Some useful stuff:
http://www.joshforman.com/osxsof…link for the CMM that's missing:
http://www.cdfinder.de/mp3info/
- agentfour0
pcs are great at getting screwed by spyware and worms
- PyroVesten0
Yeah I do most of that stuff in iTunes but there are times when it's a lot easier in explorer... thanks for the liks too. You're a legend.
- christoff0
guns dont kill people. pc's do.
- ribit0
discussion on doing this in the Finder vs using iTunes:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/ar…
- bomy_dick0
play 3D games with a resolution higher than 640x 480 ;)
- jpea0
little things mainly.. some IE specific websites (some banks, bad developers, etc... )
using flash is more of a pain on the mac... not sure if that matters or not.
view wmv's with propriatary codecs that VLC doesn't play
just little things
- gruntt0
pee standing up.
- SteveJobs0
pc's are really easy to configure under the hood, both in terms of OS and hardware. it's easy to make changes to your registry or create batch files to run scheduled jobs. it's like one of those advanced lego sets with motors and sensors. but maybe you're not into that..
- jpea0
if you're doing scripting, i've found a mac to be even easier than a pc (batch, scheduled tasks, etc..) hell, that's what one of the huge perks of *nix is.. cron jobs