Jason McMinn “Even the web work doesn’t work so well on a Mac.”

I know this post was a while back but I just found it and I want to comment. The above comment is just plain FUD. If anything the web works hundreds of thousands of times better on a Mac than it does on windows. Well, now that there are hundreds of thousands of viruses on ‘doze. Also Safari was the first browser to fully pass the Acid 2 test. Opera followed a close second. Next this fool will say that IE is the best browser. Even though it’s the worst. It still fails tons of tests and has loads of bugs in version 7. Also my last coment is that Tim Berners Lee invented the WWW on the daddy of Mac OS X (NextStep OS) and his choice of computer now is a Mac. He is still chairman of W3C so take back your stoopid comment Jason because it just made you look like an ignorant Windows troll fanboy. Post truths and things you can prove not pathetic opinions brought to you by the real reality distortion field FUD engine from Redmond.

I know this post was a while back but I just found it and I want to comment. The above comment is just plain FUD. If anything the web works hunreds of thousands of times better on a Mac than it does on windows. Well not that there are hundreds of thousands of viruses on ‘doze. Also Safari was the first browser to fully pass the Acid 2 test. Opera followed a close second. Next this fool will say that IE is the best browser. Even though it’s the worst. It still fails tons of tests and has loads of buts in version 7. Also my last coment is that Tim Berners Lee invented the WWW on the daddy of Mac OS X (NextStep OS) and his choice of computer now is a Mac. He is still chairman of W3C so take back your stoopid comment Jason because it just made you look like an ignorant Windows troll fanboy. Post truths and things you can prove not pathetic opinions brought to you by the real reality distortion field FUD engine from Redmond.

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• I’ve resisted switching in part because of the reason that if you’re not on the majority market share OS, you risk losing touch with regular users.

• I think this is offset first by the fact that regular users are mostly using interesting new software through their web browsers, and Firefox runs fine on the Mac…

• …and the fact that you can now run Windows and OS X at the same time on the Mac.

Mac people already know this, but sitting here in front of my new Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro, it’s really magical to be running OS X + Parallels + Windows XP all at the same time. Parallels’ Coherence mode puts the XP toolbar right there on my Mac desktop, and puts XP applications right in a window on my Mac desktop.

Of course in reality you get to run all three key OS’s at once: OS X, Windows XP, and Unix (underneath OS X — not exactly the same as Linux, but close!).

And… no more blue screens of death. No more Windows rot (if you don’t install many apps in your Windows VM). Actually, better than that — easily clone a Windows XP VM to install new Windows software, and then blow the whole VM away if you don’t like it.

Nirvana.

It’s a reasonable point that developers should run the same OS that users do, but at the same time, people should run the OS that allows them to be the most productive. Since those are rather obviously different OS’s, the answer (IMO) is to run both, which you can do on Mac’s.

At Pando, our code is extremely portable, so we have developers running any OS that they choose – Windows, Mac, and Linux. My favorite setup is used by the guy writing the core networking code, who runs the Mac and Windows clients on the same computer at the same time (using Parallels) so that he can most easily use debuggers to walk through network interactions (Mac in Xcode, Windows in MS’ tools). It’s pretty funny watching him bang away in two debuggers on the same computer at once.

End users like this, people who are not ‘developers’ (people actually code for the largest market share: Windows) SHOULD use Mac..

And even people who can afford to who ARE developers (using parallels or boot camp) should use Mac.. Its way better hardware!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MgNKptWW5k8

My wife uses a Mac and always has. I use WinPCs, having migrated there from mainframes of the 70’s. They are both just computers, of course, but the overwhelming distinction of the Mac is the tight integration of hardware/software, the second being quality/style/human factors. These guys understand design.

As to whether anyone switches or not, this is not like switching sexual preference… it’s more like deciding to try something else. Even if it is not ‘better’, it’s sure as hell different. I don’t know about you, but I greeted my liberation from punched cards and teletypes rather enthusiastically. I am about ready to follow both my wife and Andresson into Mac land, just for the thrill of innovation. 99% of what I really do with my home machine I’ll be able to do on a Mac with minor adjustments.

I DO look forward to a new, better set of problems and don’t ever expect my interactions with a computer to be without hiccups. So what? What makes me smart is my ability to confront and resolve them.

I think folks would be well served by getting away from this dichotomy of divisiveness about platforms. There is a ‘faith’ element here that’s resistant to reason, but it should be accepted as a personal preference issue and left at that.

evangelizing is a tad too strong. i nudge people in the direction of the mac. not a joke…