The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

--- In AN1x-list@egroups.com, angelphkt@a... wrote:
> *suppressing the urge to punch someone*

Hey, weren't you the one who called himself a nazi? People don't 
change, really.

If you're so keen on punching someone, just come to Malta and look 
for the tallest person around.

> im sick of the Mac Vs PC discussion.....everything you've heard is 
bullshit 
> about which is better-it comes down to how much money you have and 
what you 
> like.....you can have a better mac thats better than most PC's if 
you have 
> $5000 and visa versa......the only time i ever had problems with 
windows is 
> when *i* didnt know how to use it properly (with the exception of 
crashing 
> once in a while, which happens the same amount of the time with Mac-
trust me, 
> i work in a studio with about 50 of G3's and G4's)

No, I don't trust you, no offense meant.

My personal experience with Macs is that they crash at random 
actions, like browsing the internet. Now both MacOS and Netscape 
aren't commonly known to be cleanly written, so that's not very 
surprising.

And hardly anyone spends USD 5000 on a computer. Most people have a 
budget, and a PC generally offers more bang for the buck than a Mac. 
This means, however, that you have a system of a lower overall 
quality, simply because it's constructed out of cheaper components. 
This has a direct effect on stability.

Take, for instance, some soundcards that don't work properly with an 
AMD Athlon, because they work outside of the PCI spec; something they 
can get away with on an Intel platform. And those soundcards aren't 
even cheap.

But that was not what my mail was about, was it? The fact was that 
someone was interested in a Mac, and that the immediate reply is "buy 
a PC 'cause it's cheaper and faster, just look at that very high 
number with Mhz behind it".

The Mac is more user friendly, and the GUI is definitely better 
thought out. Some features I recognise from the Amiga (they were 
called AppIcons there), but I've yet to see them on Windows.

> and your little comment about drivers-wahhhh, so i gotta go 
download a 500k 
> file, woopdie do!  at least i dont have to upgrade my OS ever 10 
minutes 
> (so....how is OSX anyways? AHHAHAHHAHAHHA)

Downloading a driver for your non-working network component is no fun.

At least MacOS the same OS, with a minimum version required for some 
specific kind of software. It upgrades in a linear fashion.

If you're talking about Windows, do you mean 3.1, NT 3.51, 95, NT 
4.0, 95 OSR2, 98, 98SE, 2000 or ME? With or without the desktop 
upgrade, if applicable? Which service pack? Which version of IE? 
Seven different OS's in about as many years is quite impressive.

Indeed the Mac vs. PC debate is silly, but so is agressively replying
without properly reading or understanding a mail.

- Peter