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Monday, January 10, 2005

Putting The Mac Aside In 2005

WebProNews:

Though I got my nice new Mac and switched to using it has my main personal desktop/laptop machine, it's been a frustrating experience at times ... KDE is actually quite more usable in many respects than Mac OS X ... I've recently started using the Compaq nc6000 laptop that I got at work. It runs Windows XP Professional and is a very nice little machine ... The Mac felt slow and awkward for daily "office" use. So I decided to begin using the Windows box for my work related activities in 2005. Instead of hauling the Powerbook to Yahoo each day, I now take the Compaq.

Here's the funny thing. I've found that nearly every one of the Open Source applications I've installed seems to work better and significanly faster on this machine than on my nearly new Powerbook.

In other words, open source applications feel better on Windows than on the Mac. This was quite a surprise at first.

Microsoft wins this round.

So this poor bastard will get flamed for writing this, but Mac fanatics might be shocked to learn that this guy's experience is far closer to that of most users than they realize. I, too, had thought that I would use the Mac far more than I would, but with both my iMac and PowerBook, that hasn't been the case at all. Windows just works.

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