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imitchellg5 · May 20, 2011, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by freudling

I think consumers' purchases of electronics are well researched, even though they still buy what we take to be junk. Go figure.

So why did you buy a Galaxy Tab?

Eug · 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Ridiculous comparison, IMO.

OK then.

Windows 2000 > OS X 10.1

…and 10.1 came out 1.5 years later. I only picked 10.0 because it came out only 1 year later than Win 2000.

Originally Posted by Shaddim

Well, just because they may be better doesn't mean they're adequate. It's like saying spit is better lube than sand, but neither really gets the job done.

At least it's not a car analogy…

I thought XP was "adequate". It got the job done, at least for a few years. However, by the time 2005 rolled around, XP seemed pretty long in the tooth.

2005 was when 10.4 came out. However, I think OS X really came into its own with 10.5 (2007). Mature OS and very sleek. Its competition, Windows Vista, sucked donkeys' balls.

freudling · 06:39 AM

Originally Posted by imitchellg5

So why did you buy a Galaxy Tab?

None of your gosh darned business.

Shaddim · May 20, 2011, 10:57 PM

XP... Grrr...
*crash*
*crash*
*swear*
[reboot]
[reinstall video drivers]
*crash*
[hardware diagnostics check okay]
[reinstall OS]
*crash*
*swear*
[find out that new ATA driver doesn't work with nvidia GPU driver, and ATA driver was automatically updated without your knowledge]
[roll back ATA driver]
[realize you just wasted 8 hours]
[swear at Bill and Co and pray for their painful deaths]

Shaddim · May 20, 2011, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by freudling

None of your fu**ing business.

How sweet.

turtle777 · May 20, 2011, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by imitchellg5

So why did you buy a Galaxy Tab?

Stop pissing in that wound.

-t

Waragainstsleep · May 21, 2011, 06:02 AM

I chose 8.6 over Win 3.1, 95, 98 and NT4 all of which I was forced to use occasionally at the time. Hands down better. OS 9 was better again. All those versions of Windows were ugly and annoying, more so when under the authority of a sysadmin.

Comparing Win2K to 10.0 is silly since 2K was built on everything previous and 10.0 was a completely new beast with a whole lot of issues. They both sucked balls for stability but 10.0 still made 2K look out of date.
XP now with all the service packs is probably a more robust OS than 10.1 but at the time it wasn't. XP is still the favourite OS of most business users because its old enough to have had the kinks ironed out. Its still very irritating to use due to all the warning balloons, security panics and genuine advantage crap you have to put up with and it still breaks more often than any Mac OS going back to Tiger, possibly Panther and maybe even Jaguar (with all the updates).

Vista is torture. It should be against some kind of law. Or the Geneva Convention.

Win 7 is more stable but still has most of the annoyances of Vista and even more of that genuine advantage pain in the ass. And while its interface has had a much more recent overhaul, its still not as pleasant to look at as a Mac. It also has a million different versions with no discernible differences between them for most users. Like I say, it may be adequate, but I don't want adequate. I want good. I want something I can use all day without wanting to throw it across a room. At Bill Gates' head. Windows will never be that because Microsoft doesn't even aim for good. It aims for adequate. By its own admission.

I also don't see why my last post was closed minded. I said 95% of users, not 100%. Still leaves room for plenty of people who don't fit into my categories. I also didn't apply those categories to full blown operating systems. I think they'd be a bit different for computers than they are for phones.

Waragainstsleep · May 21, 2011, 06:05 AM

I'm going to keep ranting a bit more:

There was a time when hooking up XP to broadband would get it infected within 5 minutes. I saw it happen a few times. I actually think that people have forgotten how bad XP was in the light of the Vista debacle. XP has been fixed now but early versions were quite dreadful.

Eug · May 21, 2011, 07:42 AM

Heh. You're actually arguing that OS 9 was a good OS... Hmmm...

He's dead Jim · May 21, 2011, 10:30 AM

Well, this is the weekend I was going to finally buy a iPad 2.
I can't find one to buy. Apple online store (1 to 2 weeks), Bestbuy and Walmart (both, out of stock).

I hope it wasn't because of the end of days, today ?
(Still here and I want an iPad 2 dammit)

Waragainstsleep · May 21, 2011, 12:07 PM

OS 9 was fine at the time. Better than Windows.

Shaddim · May 21, 2011, 10:17 PM

I went from 8.6 to 9.1, it was awesome.

Big Mac · May 22, 2011, 06:23 AM

I don't understand how this thread went from discussing Apple's retail anniversary, to Android tablets and why they should arguably be of concern to Apple, to classic Windows and classic Mac OS experiences. I'm thoroughly confused by the whole thing.

ajprice · May 22, 2011, 10:04 AM

^^^ same here. The new stores are open in Australia http://iphone.appleinsider.com/artic...australia.html

iPad price and info displays that can call over a member of staff to you.

turtle777 · May 22, 2011, 12:06 PM

That's it ? Ok, I guess I refrain from the pilgrimage then...

-t

Waragainstsleep · May 22, 2011, 04:06 PM

Have a long conversation with a group of your friends. Note your starting topic and see where you end up an hour or two later. I recall one such discussion that went from bra sizes to a theory of tectonic plate movement.

Spheric Harlot · May 22, 2011, 04:36 PM

Bra size to moving the foundations of the earth is two very short steps. One sentence, if properly done.

MacinTommy · May 23, 2011, 08:36 AM

So have we all come to the same conclusion that the Apple store 2.0 update was a little "meh".

ajprice · May 23, 2011, 08:50 AM

Well another thing I've picked up today is that the previously USA only iPhone Apple Store app is now available here and presumably across Europe. Had a quick look at it this morning and I like it, the reviews and Q&As are in there with the product pages for each thing. I know this app is old news to America, but I like it.

freudling · May 23, 2011, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by MacinTommy

So have we all come to the same conclusion that the Apple store 2.0 update was a little "meh".

It was just another excuse for nerd Bloggers to make wild, grandiose speculations and obtain hits to their sites.

ort888 · May 23, 2011, 12:44 PM

Yup... it was never Apple who made a huge deal out of this. It was all the rumor sites and tech blogs.

Shaddim · May 23, 2011, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by MacinTommy

So have we all come to the same conclusion that the Apple store 2.0 update was a little "meh".

Still waiting for the native iPad version...

freudling · May 23, 2011, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by ajprice

Well another thing I've picked up today is that the previously USA only iPhone Apple Store app is now available here and presumably across Europe. Had a quick look at it this morning and I like it, the reviews and Q&As are in there with the product pages for each thing. I know this app is old news to America, but I like it.

Strange. Can't get that App in the Canada iTunes Store. Says you must be in the US Store. Anyone else?

Spheric Harlot · May 23, 2011, 05:23 PM

I don't think it's available for Android.

::runslikethedeviltohidebehindthesofa::