Maconfyckion - My Review of Mac Vs Windows

and this had to be the post to trigger the start of blogging again. About time : )

I wished I had written this post and I could read my own post so I'd never explore with macshit.

and I never, ever want to run or see another Mac OS platform again. Sure, it might be great for some, but in the 1 week trial of it... sigh, was nothing more than frustrating.

Or perhaps, I wasn't as adaptive as I thought, I sure am experimental, often to much, much regret I hadn't started in the first place.

Today was really the limit, then I realised it was also how Girl actually named her files that cannot be read of a Windows platform, namely why the fyck she had to name folders with a * or a /.

So, maconfyckion, a new term I coined.

Perhaps trying to figure out, back up and install Windows on a Macbook mid 2009 model and trading on the Fujitsu isn't a great idea.

The Mac is designed for simplicity, things to be dumped into a Main folder and let the PC do the work, for organisers, people who likes their shit in a certain way in a certain format, I wouldn't recommend the Mac

First, the 'explorer'.

On the iMac, every fycking screen you click on is tinsy weensy on the 27'' iMac, and I remember editing every folder to the format that I'm used to. EVERY FOLDER. There is a set default view, but it does not work that well in my experience.then, you got to change the size, say if you choose the thumbnail icon view for most folders, but the settings keep running away from the other, say, picture files. So I had to change the size for a folder with 10 pics, and the folder with 100 pics. Not to mention if I were to add or delete files from that folder.

Pictures

Pictures! the default program is iphuuutoo. What does it do? Show you one picture at a time (unless you highlight or Ctrl-A). Else, it duplicates the files that you already have in your HD. Whatever the fyck for? I sure missed a simply preview and the right click button to see the next picture. Arrr.... the simplicities now.

So for a guy that loves and has to organise his shit... tsk tsk. In organising, I am very used to, and need to see the master folders clearly, Mac has that but it differs greatly from Windows. Talk about that, copy and paste

Copy and Paste

Is not a function that Mac is versed to, though it can. What happens is that you have to copy the file, find the destination folder again (most times, Idky now), paste, then go back (find the original folder again, cause it switched from destination, most times unlike Windows) and get rid of the file you want moved. and imagine... oh wait, iTunes

iTunes

Well this got nothing to do with Mac, but for people are want to group their own folders and singers, uncheck the let iTunes organise music. What it does it put another copy into the default music folder located in iTunes, sorts itself according to the artist, and album name. So if I had originally one folder as... forget it, waste of time. Uncheck that if you want to organise and don't want duplicates all over the place, not to mention on iTunes and the ! marks popping up on songs.

The Desktop

Everytime you move your mouse, the fycking screen disappears and the whole bunch of your applications are splat all over the screen like bird shit. It looks cool, mactechny and all, but omg, for a trader, it means having to look for that one application pop off window, in the middle of all your other applications, and it is always in different places. Shudder.

Videos

There's VLC, but it is laggy on Mac, and there is always a loss of sound in most movie files. Not to mention out of so many formats, there are many the Mac does not handle that well.

Utorrent

Function to select files and folders to be DL are gone, so basically you have to DL all the shity txt files and Idkwhatnfo are for files.


Documents

There's the transfer of files with other users, (like WINDOWS users), work, and Mac and Windows are different OS running on different file systems, namely the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and NTFS respectively. One can read the other, one can copy from the other, but cannot edit, one can edit and copy... Spent whole morning and afternoon and night.. Whole day trying to figure that out.

Plug and Play

and I miss this function so much, plug, play, drivers locate, install, voila, done. With Mac, was finding the right program, clicking on it, finding it through the Installer, running it, looking for application folder, than looking for the relevant icon you just installed.

Conclusion: if you are Windows based for more than 10 years, better to stick to it.