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Originally Posted by JBotAlan
Yeah, I knew about the game animation being rendered by Macs, and I got a PM from Dave asking me why I posted like I did...I'm not going to counter this because I don't want a Mac vs. PC war thread. I'm sure there are many of those already.
Just out of curiosity (and maybe I'm contradicting myself here by starting a Mac/PC war...) what do you see in a Mac over a PC?
(puts earplugs in to cover up sound of negative rep whooshing in)
JBot
EDIT: Here's my stance. I like feeling in control. With a Windows machine, I can control every little bit of my system, from what happens when I pop a CD in, to which drivers load on startup. From what I've seen (I have only used a Mac for maybe an hour) the Mac OS covers up the little details that I like controlling. Also, I love freeware. It is just plain hard to find freeware for the Mac, whereas I have at least 4GB of freeware apps on my computer now.
EDIT AGAIN: Do Macs have serial ports? I somehow doubt it. And I *hate* USB to Serial adapters...
Sheesh, I steer away from 100% neutral posts for one minute to joke a bit, and everyone wants to smack me...sorry to those whose nerves I struck--I didn't mean it like that.
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Just to answer your questions on the edits:
1. Mac OS X is very customizable, partly because of its UNIX under prints. Look at
http://www.macosxhints.com/ and
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ for examples. There are many more websites out there that might focus on a particular subject. Lots of customization stuff is done at the CLI level with the terminal, but there are some apps that do some of that stuff. Two in particular are
onyx and
Shape Shifter. One thing I also do is to put my mac into verbose mode. Verbose mode tells everything that is being done at startup, and gives you a good indicator if there is a problem. There is also a lot of freeware for mac os x, they might be different software from windows but there is most likely an equivalent available.
Fink and
Darwin Ports provide lots of UNIX packages (source/binaries). Also there is a large developer base that provides decent software for free/low price. Sites like
http://www.macupdate.com and
http://www.versiontracker.com have a good collection.
Macs never came with built in serial ports. Before USB they had their own proprietary "printer & modem ports" Serial is an old and obsolete port. Only a few embedded devices still use it. I have only used one usb to serial cable with my cell phone, and it was a bit of a pain to work with.