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02 Jul 2012, 12:37 pm

MyFutureSelfnMe wrote:
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Hate the things. Their operating system is horrible, and they are obsolete so fast. I also hate the fanboy's who say that macs don't get malware (virus, spyware etc) which is complete bull.

Build a decent specced system, install Windows 7, shove on Microsoft Security Essentials, and you're good to go. Of course i've tweaked a lot more and edited my hosts file, and various registry tweaks, but my system is stable, and is a great Windows machine.

All the crap Microsoft get's is due to the old Windows 9x days, which were prone to crash easily. I've got 98 on an old laptop I set up for old dos games, and it's so easy to crash windows 98, it's not funny.

Windows XP, although good in it's time is now the "windows 2000" or "windows 98" to me. Windows 7 has become the new XP, with great stability, and performance.


Mostly agreed, but I'll point out that MS gets crap about Vista as well, which was relatively recent.


MS largely gets crap about vista because UAC was very intrusive to the user experience and the minimum system requirements listed were much too low. Vista ran great on good hardware.



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02 Jul 2012, 1:04 pm

noname_ever wrote:
MyFutureSelfnMe wrote:
goodiesguy wrote:
Hate the things. Their operating system is horrible, and they are obsolete so fast. I also hate the fanboy's who say that macs don't get malware (virus, spyware etc) which is complete bull.

Build a decent specced system, install Windows 7, shove on Microsoft Security Essentials, and you're good to go. Of course i've tweaked a lot more and edited my hosts file, and various registry tweaks, but my system is stable, and is a great Windows machine.

All the crap Microsoft get's is due to the old Windows 9x days, which were prone to crash easily. I've got 98 on an old laptop I set up for old dos games, and it's so easy to crash windows 98, it's not funny.

Windows XP, although good in it's time is now the "windows 2000" or "windows 98" to me. Windows 7 has become the new XP, with great stability, and performance.


Mostly agreed, but I'll point out that MS gets crap about Vista as well, which was relatively recent.


MS largely gets crap about vista because UAC was very intrusive to the user experience and the minimum system requirements listed were much too low. Vista ran great on good hardware.


Vista was slow, and it had a reputation for being slow in addition to the UAC issues. You are the only person I've ever seen claim that Vista ran great on any hardware, I assume relative to any other OSes in the world.



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02 Jul 2012, 1:18 pm

for one it had some severe memory leaks at launch, to the point where it could crash a pc if it had less than 4 gigabytes and you started certain games.

for an OS with DX10 as one of its main features over the previous version, that is a major faux pas.


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07 Jul 2012, 10:33 am

Personally, I am a PC person and have been for many years - I prefer the flexibility of being able to choose my hardware and having a bit more control over my system. If a Mac works out better for you than that's just fine - I won't try and convince you to switch

Both platforms had their weaknesses back in the day. Windows 9x would throw a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) regularly and MacOS 8.x would simply lock up for no apparent reason. The BSOD is still around, but usually it's because of a bad piece of hardware or faulty driver - the same goes for a kernel panic on the Mac.


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07 Jul 2012, 11:25 am

WillMcC wrote:
Windows 9x would throw a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) regularly and MacOS 8.x would simply lock up for no apparent reason. The BSOD is still around, but usually it's because of a bad piece of hardware or faulty driver...


Or for that matter, a telltale sign that your computer is infected with malware, as the malware will interfere with legitimate applications/processes, and cause them to crash, thereby causing a bluescreen.


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