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Mac OS X: What makes Mac OS X superior to Windows?
Funny Story....
by soupgfx - 7/30/09 10:53 AM In reply to: reinstall Windows by sturner--2008My PC just contracted a virus yesterday and now I can't do anything with it. Sweet....
I get to take it in and get it fixed.
Maybe they will reformat
by mrmacfixit
- 7/30/09 4:19 PM
In reply to: Funny Story.... by soupgfx
and have to reinstall Windows.
Oh, there's one reason why you would have to reinstall
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Other reasons to reinstall the OS
by sturner--2008 - 7/31/09 9:53 AM In reply to: Maybe they will reformat by mrmacfixit
Other reasons to reinstall the OS include if the system gets so terribly infected (the users fault for not following good security procedures) that it can't be recovered, severe corruption of program DLLs and no backup, an automatic update from Microsoft borking up your system with drivers that aren't compatible with your hardware and you have no backup. Anything that compromises your system to the point of intolerable slowness or unreliablity, and you don't have a backup.
If you play with the hardware components of your system, installing a new CPU or other major component. Self-install of a motherboard.
These all can require re-authorization of your OS.
With Mac OS X you don't face the re-authorization problem. Additionally, it's much easier to back out an update if you don't like what it does to your system operability. It's a pain, but it can be done by the average user without a lot of help.
The installation or re-installtion takes about 1/3 the time that is required by any Windows installation. Also installing programs on the Mac is simple. Many programs can be installed simply by drag-and-drop.
I use Adobe FrameMaker and though that isn't drag-and-drop, the installation is far quicker than the install of the same program on Windows.
Likewise removing a program is much simplier and quicker on the Mac than on Windows.
The distribution of DLLs by Windows programs is in itself problematic at times. That isn't a problem at all on the Mac. Registration problems can still plague Windows installations. You don't have registration on the Mac.
Re-installing the OS
by BobHG - 8/1/09 7:19 AM In reply to: Other reasons to reinstall the OS by sturner--2008On a Mac, this takes about 15 minutes. On Windows it takes forever, plus you have to re-install all your drivers, which you don't have to do on a Mac. If you keep a bootable, external back-up drive which you update every day, or you have Time Machine, you can be up and running immediately and save an OS re-install for later. Try doing that with Windows.
Drivers, we don't need no stinkin' drivers
by msgale - 8/1/09 8:29 AM In reply to: Re-installing the OS by BobHGOver the past few years I have done five installs, Windows Vista Ultimate (64 bit) on my Workstation, Windows Enterprise Server 2008 (32 bit) on my Server, Windows Vista Ultimate (32 bit), then Windows Vista Ultimate (64 bit) and finally Windows 7 RC1 (64 bit) on my notebook. All the drivers I required except for two are included on the Microsoft Retail install media. The only drivers I needed to install separately were for my HP 4370 scanner and Epson R260 printer. What I found interesting was that HP and Epson not only provide Windows drivers for their products, but Mac OSX drivers too.
Why would you find that interesting?
by mrmacfixit - 8/1/09 3:36 PM
In reply to: Drivers, we don't need no stinkin' drivers by msgale
Seems like a logical thing to do when your product uses a USB connection and you want to sell more of it.
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My point
by msgale - 8/1/09 4:01 PM In reply to: Why would you find that interesting? by mrmacfixit
The issue I was raising was that there is no Drivers Issues with Windows.
But really, what is your point?
by BeatleMegaFan - 8/1/09 7:58 PM In reply to: My point by msgaleOk, so you needed merely a couple of separate drivers that any user, PC or Mac, would have had to install should they have wanted to use the same product. Nothing wrong with that, but that also doesn't make either platform better than the other.
However, I've had several problems with printers and Vista Ultimate (64-Bit) on my quad-core tower. Every time I have unplugged my good ol' Laserjet 4000 to connect it to a laptop, the system reinstalls the printer as a separate printer while the original settings remain as the default. Then the whole system locks up because the admin (me) doesn't have the proper to authentication to correct the problem in the control panel. It refuses to delete the new printer, and so I play cat and mouse until I can bypass it, delete the additional printer that doesn't exist, and then reboot to make my printer work again. A pain. On my Mac, all of my printer drivers came from Software Update and the Leopard upgrade disk when I bought it almost two years ago. My Photosmart printer came with Mac and Windows "drivers", but those merely included a driver for Windows and HP's proprietary software, which for the most part, is useless compared to the built-in software of my Mac.
What is the point of making the claim that Windows is better than OS X? You don't have to use it, and you don't seem to, so why spend the time here in the Mac forums?
-BMF
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