OT - OK... I gotta come clean and admit it out loud...

...After years and years of badmouthing it.

...After engaging in many debates against it.

...After saying I would never do it.

*bows head meekly*

... i like Macintosh. OSX Panther...

Been getting introduced into the Mac world in my new job, and I have both a windows XP box and a G5 with Panther OSX. I do more work on the Mac, as it has all the Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver stuff on it.

...and I like it. There. God, how humbling.

Granted, I'm still a PC guy in history and pride, and I built my PC at home (where I am typing this right now) with my own two hands... but I do dig the OSX a lot. Many cool features I'm wishing I could do on my PC right now.

HOWEVER... they REALLY need to embrace the times and add a damn scroll wheel and a right mouse button on those damn clear mice on the Macs.

[img]wink.gif[/img]

Ok, I'm done now. Just had to get that off my chest. Go on with your business.

Blasphemy!

Someone get a rope!! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Well, admission is the first step to recovery!

Get started on the other 11 steps [img]wink.gif[/img]

there's absolutely nothing wrong with Macs... Few exploits, viruses, and bugs... No software, no compatability, no masculinity...

oh, nevermind [img]wink.gif[/img]

seriously, there's nothing wrong with them except for the compatability issues, but i'm still gonna give you tons of crap for it [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Yeah, I figured as much - especially from you, Jor.

Believe me, I've fought many a battle against the Mac. I knew it would come back to bite me in the ass one day.

But yeah, as far as software goes... I can get just about anything my heart desires for free on the PC. And not to mention gaming... almost non-existent on Macs.

But since the company I work for had no qualms about dishing out big money for licenses and multimedia software for the Macs, I'm stocked and happy work-wise. And it is incredibly stable comapred to XP.

IF an app crashes, you just relaunch it. It does not require a system reboot. WOW. [img]wink.gif[/img]

It's very computer-like. And Panther beats the pants off the older Mac OSes... I've used earlier versions in video labs back when I was in college, and it's come a loooooong way. And, with the UNIX shell, you can do a lot of PC-like command stuff.

It'll still be a long day away if I ever see one inside my house though... [img]wink.gif[/img]

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ February 04, 2005 10:09 PM: Message edited by: pairadocs ]</font>

yes!....another one converted!

btw...you can buy one of them fancy shmancy 10 button scroll mouse things [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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It'll still be a long day away if I ever see one inside my house though... [img]wink.gif[/img]

<font color="#cd6600"><font size="1">[ February 04, 2005 09:02 PM: Message edited by: pairadocs ]</font></font>

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">we'll just see about that! [img]wink.gif[/img]

The thing i absolutely hate is how the previous OS's handled IP... the fuckers trigger every IDS alarm imaginable... that needed work, but i've heard the IP stack on Panther is a little more normal...

yeah I just started using mac's in three of my new classes this semester, my cheap-ass school went sweet-ass!

And damn they're good! (for E-Macs [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

except, the mouse only has one click option [img]confused.gif[/img] that takes some gettign used to

as for all the techno mumbo jumbo and goble-dee-goop, Im still finding stuff out, I just started using it today! [img]tongue.gif[/img]