At 9/26/08 06:16 AM, Pasty-Flawss wrote:
Well in my opinion mac is honestly not really good for anything, windows is a lot more stable and better. I see your point in disliking vista so you could do what i did and download a windows XP torrent free of charge, however this is sort of illegal, but microsoft won't really care unless you're some really big business, and if you bought a PC windows vista was included in the price so they still are making money out of you so it's not that bad :).
Can you elaborate on that? What makes Windows more stable or better? As far as I know, the Mac operating system is far more stable than the Windows operating system (I heard Windows Vista, yes, is even worse). Windows, however, does have its advantages over Mac as well though. Its not too hard to find software for a Mac.
However, some programs simply have had more development on Windows than Mac, and are much better on Windows. MSN messenger, for example, is like a very old Windows version of MSN on the Mac, with refined graphics (No one really cares about graphics on a messenger right?).
There are some very specific things you can't find, and games. I would say its quite hard to find games on a Mac, but the games you actually can get are generally big title, like Command and Conquer, Spore, The Sims. There are some games which are Mac games only, which are pretty good, but they generally are not action games. If you have had an iPod Touch, or iPhone, you might have played Enigmo? That's one of those Mac games.
Ok, and the things other than games that you might want. You are a Flash user, so I assume these are thing you might have used before on Windows that you'll have a very small selection of. It is very hard to find Flash decompilers on the Mac. There is Flasm, which only decompiles code, and only into a simplified form (which won't help you too much :P), and Trillix, which you have to pay for (However, you could get a trial version that only decompiles in black and white). Trillix is a great decompiler, just that I would prefer freeware. So you might want to make backup copies of your game, on a USB drive, or external HD (I assure you will not want to go through the trouble of decompiling). Adobe stuff, as pointed out earlier, is all compatible if not better on Mac. If you want a screen capture program (you know, on-screen video recorder), it will be hard to find one. However, I have found two that I think are excellent, and actually, both much better than the beloved Hypercam. They are called iShowU and Snapz Pro X. You can Google them if you want. They both cost money though, but they are worth it. I bought iShowU, its a great program. Both of these programs leave a huge fullscreen watermark though on the trial version. So, as opposed to the Hypercam's unregistered mark, it will be much more annoying. So, it might be kind of difficult to show your work, and make sure you are secure at the same time. Screenshots, I guess would work too, but I prefer for people to be able to see the physics and animation too in games and such (screenshotting is much easier on a Mac).
And don't listen to the Mac advertisements. iLife isn't as good as they say it is. It is very limiting, because of the fact it is pretty much completely automatic. I believe they added the ability to put HTML into iWeb JUST now. Before, you could not even make tables in iWeb. iWeb also is meant to be used with .Mac (now its called MobileMe I believe), which I am not a fan of.
In conclusion, the Macs are better than Windows. But I would have to say, prepare to spend some cash, unless you are going to try taking risks. I would not suggest illegal downloading.
