That is doubley impressive as I'm sure you moved from a PPC to CoreDuo.

Mount the HD of a Mac workstation or server from down the hall on your Desktop. Find various applications on it that you don't have installed on your local machine. Run them.

Yes, you can do that with a small handful of Windows apps, and, true, there are definitely some Mac apps that won't function properly until you install them. But it's still pretty impressive to lots of PC users who just don't even think in those terms.

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I can look at the GUI of OSX, and in fact any Apple software, and feel like I’m living in the 21st century -- as opposed to getting a 1980s déjà vu from Windows.

To me that’s the difference between satisfaction and a real downer.


-- ArcticStones

Many many thanks for the input. I think I just won this arguement, FINALLY!!!

Does Windows do IP over FireWire, or FireWire Target Disk Mode? I just used IP over FireWire the other day between my PowerBook and a friend's machine that doesn't have Gigabit Ethernet. We needed to transfer some very large files but didn't want to have to shut down either machine. IP over FireWire worked like a dream, transferring gigabytes of data very quickly while both of us continued to work.

IP over FireWire is one of those things where every time I am using it I look at the Apple logo, nod my head slowly saying "Yeah, baby."

Oh yeah, didn't even think about that part.

Another great point. As an admin, I really appreciate being able to clone machines in FW target mode. A lot easier than dealing with Norton Ghost to clone a Windows box. Today I installed software onto an old machine with a broken CD drive by putting my machine into FW target and mounting the CD there.

Windows does do IP over FW, and I think USB also (with a USB crossover cable). Target mode is a hardware function, and I don't know of any non-Mac hardware that can do this.

networking is better in mac.

updates do not get under your skin (IE having to install a new version of the windows
genuine advantage tool , just to get a security update).

More stable operating system.

cons:

the red button does not close programs, annoying

there is not equivalent of notepad, inherent where you can edit code, the mac equivalent hexedit is more annoying.

Front page from Microsoft is a breeze to use with its GUI, you cannot even hand edit code in bloody iweb.

Retain your sanity.

Use a wonderful trackpad to save the day..

Have many keyboard layouts switchable at the press of Control and Space..

Yes, Windows supports Firewire networking. Hardly ever used though.

Target disk mode would not be a Windows thing, it would have to be implemented by the hardware mfg at the BIOS level. And I don't know of anyone that does it besides Apple. Bloody excellent idea too.

With the new mac laptops, you can trip over the power adapter cord and not worry about it breaking inside the machine since it's magnetic. -Simply genius.

I'm on vacation and I tried to make a short movie of it so far so I can maybe post it on facebook or on my tumblr or whatever..I only brought my PC laptop with me on vacation, since my Mac is a desktop and all; my laptop runs Windows 7 Ultimate, which is supposedly the best version of Windows out there..and I tried using Windows Live Movie Maker..I just thought I was gonna strangle a kitty.........
<rant>My 2004 PowerPC Mac (obviously not the newest) running Leopard (not the newest) and iLife 06 (not the newest again) makes better movies, faster..! I don't get how Microsoft can even release that program to the public!..it looks like the baby of Microsoft Office 2007 and a big black box, where MS Office drank and sniffed coke while it was pregnant.....</rant>
there's a huge difference between the quality of software Apple provides and that of Microsoft's..
need to get me a macbook..

I'm disappointed that nobody has mentioned Spring Loaded Folders.
That's the one I always show Windows users.
Neither do the yellow or green ones.

In Windows, the close button does not quit the program if the program has multiple windows open.

Some Mac programs that only ever have one window DO quit when the red button is clicked.

Consistency of keyboard shortcuts also. I can hit Cmd-, knowing it'll open the preferences dialog box. I can hit a lot of keys with confidence. How about that?

It's already been mentioned, but I was surprised when I dragged the PS CS and acrobat Pro 8.0 apps over my wireless network from a MacBook to my iMac, and they run great! Same for Toast 8, OO, etc.

MacBook was running 10.4.11.

Macs don't have a Registry. 'nuf said.

or DLLs (usually - I found a video adapter once whose open source driver was full of files ending in .dll).

Now, dll's in and of themselves aren't a bad idea. A single shared file that contains functionality that can be accessed by many programs, avoiding the need for each of those programs to duplicate this code or functionality internally. OS X does this too with it's own library files (as does about every *nix based OS). The problem was Window's implementation of this, and vendors overwriting system dll's with their own versions, creating that special place we like to call dll hell--where we no longer know what version of each dll we have, or which one our application expects us to have.

Agreed. It may be convenient in some ways to have all your system settings stored in a single spot, but it's also a recipe for disaster if that one file gets corrupted. I've long wished that MS would dump the registry concept and move towards more individual conf files for each service or application, but stored in a single place, like the *nix /etc folder.