(For example, when i need to research virtual world technologies such as … often come in crippled version and late.Īll Instant Messaging chat clients on Windows such as MSN, AOL, Yahoo, support voice or video chat, while most of these company's Mac versions still don't. Latest Java version comes 0.5 or 1 year later than Windows, similar for Google Chrome, I'm tired of Mac being the second rate citizen for everything. , DenebaDraw, Fractal Design's Painter, FrameMaker, QuarkXpress …). Windows as their main platform in the past decade (For example, Mathematica, Photoshop, Macromedia

Software that started life on the Mac in the early 1990s have moved to And, almost all of the best so-called Desktop Publishing With Windows NT in the 1990s and its descendants 2000, XP, Microsoft's software tech, in scale and quality, is quite ahead of Apple, witness theĮtc, and the operating system itself is no worse than Mac's, starting The classic Mac OS with its revolutionary graphical user interface, Photoshop, Freehand and Illustrator, PageMaker, laser printer, Hypercard, Mathematica, etc. Software quality have always been a major part of Mac's selling point, especially in the early 1990s. Apple is too busy becomingĪ fashion and multimedia company with its iPod and iTune successes. Slowness fiasco and hence the Apple Intel transition, the gap of price/raw-powerīetween Mac and PCs is getting wider and wider. The Mac had a good time from about 1999 to 2003. Or, for the same hardware muscle, the PC is about half the price. Looking in the store, you find that a PC for the same price has about 3 times the hardware power. I went to local shop Fry's Electronics and was just gonna get the new The machine is great, but is 3.5 years old. It is the last iMac using the PowerPC chip. IMac G5 (iSight model 2005 October MA063L/A). I bought a PC with Windows today, and am switching to Windows from my 19 years of Mac experience with 10 years of professional unix computing.

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