so long windows..

[Eagle eye]

I have finally come to my senses and traded in my shoddy old xp for a Mac OS X with an hopelessly huge moniter(and as it turns out just before the release of the new 'Leopard'.)
After solving the mystery as to how one turns it on or off, being a frequent Windows user, I find that it's taking me quite a while to get my head around. Yes it my sound stupid, but I find the whole thing utterly confusing..
one question - once you dowload applications and are prompted as to whether you wish to complete the download, does that lead to installation, or is that separate? (I want to download everything I need before I install it, just to make things a bit easier.)
Thanks

[Felix The Assassin]

Originally Posted by Eagle eye I have finally come to my senses and traded in my shoddy old xp for a Mac OS X with an hopelessly huge moniter(and as it turns out just before the release of the new 'Leopard'.) After solving the mystery as to how one turns it on or off, being a frequent Windows user, I find that it's taking me quite a while to get my head around. Yes it my sound stupid, but I find the whole thing utterly confusing.. one question - once you dowload applications and are prompted as to whether you wish to complete the download, does that lead to installation, or is that separate? (I want to download everything I need before I install it, just to make things a bit easier.) Thanks

Mac OS is based from (x)nux, which means yes, you can download then install at your leisure.

First things first; Mac nor Linux is MS, don't attempt to 'make' it do MS style tricks. Prepare for the long haul and plan to 'learn' the system. You may be power commander 6612 on MS, but you are a nOOb on the new OS. learn it, understand it, master it, and soon you will have forgotten that other OS from Redmond!

Before you get flustered and throw it out the window, just give me a call, I'll send the Fed-ex truck to pick it up.

[aleph_null1]

Yay! Welcome to the rebel fold.

Have used Slackware Linux since '98, and have never regretted it. The windows computer is reserved for video games -- which is about the most serious thing the OS can handle

[Firestormalpha]

Meh, I just use windows cuz I'm too lazy and impatient to 'learn' any system.

[Trogdor]

Yeah, have fun with that Pffft...

Oh wait, you can't because most cool things don't work on it!

[Firestormalpha]

Sorry not that your message sounds offensive but it's unclear to whom that is directed, myself or those on the Mac rigs?

If on the Mac rigs, yes and no. I mean Macs are CRAP for gaming, but say 3d design they're not too bad. Are they more stable and sometimes seem more powerful? Yeah, but they're also pretty much uni-taskers.
Which is why they're so stable. Windows is unstable mostly because you can put all kinds of conflicting crap into it without even realizing it. The reason Windows is more succeptible to viruses being that the OS is so widespread. If Mac ever becomes the new majority in business and home computers you will see a new wave of viruses crawling out at you, most of them Mac oriented.

[aleph_null1]

Originally Posted by Firestormalpha The reason Windows is more succeptible to viruses being that the OS is so widespread.

The argument rears its ugly head again: Bad by design or bad by popularity?

I don't know; I've been out of IT for too long now -- migrated to CS and then to discrete math and now I'm so deep in theoretical weeds that I don't even use computers anymore

I suspect that the truth is part both -- I'm sure XP and Vista have improved over their predecessors, security-wise ... but I can't imagine that the basic design philosophy has changed much.

[Firestormalpha]

But you still have to consider, security could be crap on a system but if only two or three thousand people have it, why write viruses for it.

[SpiritWarrior]

Yes. If the Mac had as many users as Windows do, trust me, there'd be "security holes" exploited they never even thought of. If they only paid a bunch of programmers to write viruses for the Mac for a week or so, this argument would quickly be dispelled. If you build it they will come.

[Felix The Assassin]

Originally Posted by Trogdor Yeah, have fun with that Pffft... Oh wait, you can't because most cool things don't work on it!

Cool things, like 3d Toaster, which would turn that fake MS rendered signature file of yours into a true to life file? Or, do you mean like having three or four different programs operating without a delay?

Or, do you just mean the top 10 video games?

Ever wondered why Hollywood renders without PCs and MS OS?