Pixelmator (if you dont want to spend millions on Photoshop) - GIMP?
Im with Sam here. A text editor and FTP software are hardly great examples (TextPad is awesome in Windows btw). There are Windows equivalents for SVN Im sure.You cant tell me Photoshop is any better on a Mac than a PC for instance.
GIMP is the most godawful piece of crap I have ever seen. Usability wise.
Actually, they *are* great examples. People dont put effort into them on Windows, yet I spend eight hours a day inside my text editor, so it had better be freaking awesome.
Examples of "different for the sake of it"?The examples I used such as the cursor interface, the fonts, filesystem, etc. Theres no need for a lot of these things to be different (or at least to lack support for inter-platform compatibility). Microsoft manage it pretty well. Main Drive > Library > Fonts. Majority are in TTF format. Just because you dont know where something is does not make it hard. You could also have used the included Font Book app to find the ones you wanted.
That wasnt the main problem, it wasnt too hard to discover where the font library was. The main problem was getting it off the Mac - the font being Zapfino if youre interested - onto a PC and in a working format (converted to TTF), hence spending an hour reading guides. Then I had to use Yousendit to transfer the file as I couldnt simply copy it over the network.
What do you mean the cursor interface?
Fonts are fonts, nothing to do with Mac. I have Zapfino as a TTF, so I dont know what your issue was, nor why you couldnt transfer it across the network. That sounds like a user blaming the Mac because they dont know how to do something.
Whats wrong with the filesystem? Pretty standard UNIX derived layout.
My Magic Mouse and MBP trackpad have zero buttons, yet I can still left click, right click, middle click, scroll in any direction, use 2, 3 and 4 finger gestures, move back and forward in Finder and browsers, rotate images. Macs support as many buttons as your mouse has.
Well obviously its moved on now, but they could easily make those real buttons, so why not?
Because my parents get confused when theres more than one button.
Id rather have the time. I cant be arsed messing around with hardware these days.
Mesh, Dell, Alienware, etc? Speccing your own machine doesnt necessarily mean doing your own build. You can also lose the crap you dont want and save a bit of money over the Apple specs I would think?
I was specifically referring to upgrading, I cant be bothered anymore. Luckily with a Mac I dont need to because, even if I didnt buy a new machine every year, they dont feel dog slow four or five years later.
As for Mesh & Dell, their hardware is crap. And doesnt come with OSX.
Windows in a VM does the same. You, however, cannot test the same browsers as a Mac uses as they do have rendering differences to their Windows versions.
True enough, but then why would I want to spend the time configuring a virtual machine with Windows to render sites in the worlds most used browser, when I can cater to the 5% of Mac Safari users rendering issues with good CSS knowledge and browsershots.org? Seems like a step backwards in your time saving there
Maybe I just care a little more?