@Mac users.: What do you miss on WinXP
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- ********0
> windows
- scarabin0
windows 98se was the best OS microsoft ever made. kinda went downhill from there.
can't think of anything i miss though
- Utopianacht0
not a pc user but... completelly forgot about xp... I was like... win 3.1... mmm.. windows 2000... and vista.. it's that right? ( haha.. just kidding.. )
- that's cause i remember one of my performas had win3.1 and when finally sit in front of a pc I was like.. @@ what!! I can't put labels to the folders... all are orange..!!! ( on win 2000 ) and the other day that tested a touch screen from hp that had vistaUtopianacht
- decisionman0
I really, really miss Fruity Loops.
Seriously. Nothing on a Mac comes close.
Also, agree with invo: Finder sucks.
- ********0
I had a dos machine first. I never understood it. Then I got a mac IIci and that was okay. Then a compac which was a piece of crap. then a dell which was pretty good until I crapped it up with pirated software. the a couple dell laptops and now a mbp and a hp running vista (which isn't all that bad).
- erikjonsson0
resizing windows in all corners. and the stability. finder, mail, flash and illustrator crashes alot in 10.6 : (
- fbeauvais0
For my part, I am just hybrid at home. Mac for work, PC for Media Center and poker!
When working, I also mostly misses a couple of softwares I am used to on PC (Editplus and some other) and the existence of a real right click menu on the mac.
I also dislike the way you tile and switch trought running programs in OSX.. 5 years on a Mac and even with Exposé and "alt-tab", I always struggle when exploring files and when I try to hide windows.
- juhls0
People don't seem to understand my "you can't cut and paste" thing.
"Unlike Windows, Mac OS X doesn't permit you to cut and paste files in order to prevent data loss.
If something bad were to happen -- hard drive crash, power failure, coffee spill, meteor strike -- after the "cut" but before the file was actually pasted, it would simply be gone, and Apple's engineers believe it's too big a risk for typical users to make.
The Unix "mv" command works if you really, really want to move files without manually deleting the original."
There you have it. You can't cut and paste things in certain dialog boxes.
- foreverwhatever0
I miss Window's relentless advertising campaign, and having images of colorful splooges of young hip people dancing with trendy gadgets plastered in every possible corner of the city bombard me daily... oh wait...
- ********0
i miss being able to afford a machine with more than one gig of ram
- you must miss having brains tooephix
- I did get my bro a PC laptop for about $600, and it has more than my Macbook does (cost $1300)juhls
- I know the Mac software is probably better, it comes with other things, etc. It depends on what you need.juhls
- But he had 2GB RAM, 120GB HD, etc.juhls
- My Macbook had 1GB RAM and 80GB HD, when I first bought it last year.juhls
- extra ram costs peanuts.ephix
- Everywhere except from Apple, yeahjuhls
- everywhere else works with apple :Pephix
- Yeah! Mac means you have to pay 3000$ to have dual display :((fbeauvais
- wtf?ephix
- i have dual displays.... i did not pay $3000.refunktion
- ikarlroveu0
i can't believe nobody has mentioned MSPAINT!
- monospaced0
"the existence of a real right click menu on the mac"
Macs have had that for so long it's not even funny. What's missing?
- Maybe he means right-click on mouse? Not sure.juhls
- Right click on mouse has been supported for over 10 years...what's missing?monospaced
- A decent list of function in that actual menufbeauvais
- jimzyk0
mighty mouse has right click.
i dislocated my shoulder at the weekend and this right click stuff is working like a treat!
- Macs have supported right click for so long it's not even funny.monospaced
- jimzyk0
sorry dont / didnt use windows much...
i kind of miss paint™.
- ********0
Free bits of software to do whatever I want them to do.
A "finder" that actually sorts folders and files correctly.
Being able to uninstall stuff and generally keep things clean.
Remembering network drives.
CS with no bugs and less hangs
Installers with OPTIONS
Getting stuff done.
- ********0
Value for money.
- ********0
"after the "cut" but before the file was actually pasted, it would simply be gone"
Not true. It remains until pasted.
- Quoted from someone else. I would prefer having cut and paste on a Mac.juhls