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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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I've used windows 7 since the beta, it's on the work machine I use every day and while it's a ton better than XP, it's nowhere near OS X in large areas. I certainly wouldn't hand it to someone who wasn't 'techliterate' in favour of OS X, for example. Jon
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big_D
What's a life?
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Location: Bramsche
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Using it on a daily basis, I can't really see any big differences between the two, apart from the menu bar in OS X being at the top of the screen, not the window and the search top right, not bottom left... In general use, there isn't much between them AFAICS
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EddArmitage
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Although I've not used 7, one issue I have with Windows compared to OS-X is the non-Bash terminal. I know the windows command prompt is not necessarily inferior, it's just different to what I use on OS-X and *nix, so is a bit of a pain when scripts run on the other OSs I use.
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm
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Location: Belfast
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It's on the work PC. It's been there since not long after it was released. Your point? Mark
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big_D
What's a life?
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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Win 7 is lovely. OSX seems nice, but I don't know it as well. It is however, more expensive with equivalent hardware. So for that reason alone, I'm unlikely to get to know it better. Of course a pffffft is always great 
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timark_uk
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I'm not trolling, Dave. Mark
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HeatherKay
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: IoW
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm
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As long as I could have SLED 11 (or, failing that, RHEL) on it I wouldn't care. _________________Jim
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
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Location: behind the sofa
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I absolutely hated SLED. It's what my netbook came with out of the box. I'm assuming it's better on supported hardware or maybe HP shipped a partial build, but I just gave up after a solid week of trying to resolve dependency errors and wrap drivers. It now runs XP, and everything "just works". If only everything was like that; I may be posting a Win7 question soon  _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
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why do we have 2 moderators partaking in a flame war? seriously guys, the Mac vs PC debate is a subject defined by personal experience. we all have different opinions, different reasons for using what we use, and i honestly thought we were past all that. its been established that the first post was a likely troll attempt, cant we just leave it? this thread should have been locked on the first page. 
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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This is friendly banter. You've clearly never seen a real war _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: Manchester
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12 core PCs? Great Odins Raven! Tehy must be 12 times quicker than singlecore PCs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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'36Ghz of power', I can see it on ebay now... 
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