Quote from: Bacon on July 27, 2012, 08:19:02 AM
I know of people already talking about upgrading, the masses won't actually know whats in store for them, its just another case of keeping up with the Joneses for most that are not knowledgable enough to make their own decision.

Surely anyone like that is more likely going to be the sort that buy a new computer and happen to have Windows 8 preinstalled (or buy one on the premise of getting the newest Windows)? No one of even the remotest technical knowledge to do an upgrade themselves or that keeps tabs on this sort of thing would upgrade out of choice.

QuoteMojang's Markus "Notch" Persson is the latest industry heavyweight to speak out against Windows 8, stating in a Reddit AMA that Microsoft's new OS will be a hindrance to freedom of development.

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I'd be tempted by a mac next, however... I'm not a raving homosexual.

Quote from: soopahfly on August 03, 2012, 08:46:12 AM
I'd be tempted by a mac next, however... I'm not a raving homosexual.

Hahahaha. Mac just wouldn't work for me, I use my M$ work laptop for 'productive' stuff, Tablet for media consumption, so the only thing left for my PC to do is play games via steam. Now I know things are getting better for Mac with steamplay but still not everything.

Value pushing their linux team after making the win8 is crap annoucment - Would only be for source games though

Oh and 1 day after Microsoft make an annoucment that Windows 8 dev cycle has finished a final copy of windows 8 N appears online - Gota love it when these things happen so fast every time... its almost as if they do it on purpose

Windows 7 will still be supported until Windows 9 comes out tbh, there is absolutely no point in anyone rushing out to grab the new OS as it offers nothing drastically new even in terms of hardware support. Other than touch. Anyone that uses a desktop PC for productivity will not be interested in touch anyway. Games and everything else will have a long life on Windows 7. I think MS made a boo-boo rushing this out, they should have released their next OS in 2015 and made it really sing.

I can understand them wanting to get a touch based OS out ASAP with tablets becoming a big thing however they should of seperated them imo. Ah well its done, I'm not interested in having Win 8 on my home PC, I can't have it on my work PC, it has no use on my media server but if I can get it working 100% on my Transformer (waiting on XDA to get it working on the Tegra 2 chipset) then I will happily have a play

Quote from: soopahfly on August 03, 2012, 08:46:12 AM
I'd be tempted by a mac next, however... I'm not a raving homosexual.

Come on... 5 years ago called, it wants it's argument back....

I used to be the most anti apple person in the world, but I went mac after playing with a hackintosh for kicks and just being blown away by it. I haven't looked back. I've got win7 on boot camp on my MacBook Pro for the odd game but rarely use it and I wouldn't think of booting it for anything else. Each OSX release just keeps getting better and better and it costs me like £20 to upgrade. I'd never say never to MS because I'm not a 'fanboy' and if they pull something out of the bag I'll go with what's best, but I can't see it happening anytime soon as they just can't compete at the minute for a home user OS. We're actually getting hammered at work by the enterprise tech teams to support mac and despite resistance from management it is slowly happening. It's not just a flashy image and good marketing that's causing that....

*shudder* I remember having to intergrate 60 Macs into a windows network. AD & DFS being in the biggest hurdles due to 10.0 and 10.1 not knowing what either of them were so not playing nice. Stupid bodges of having to manual point to OU's over LDAP and all that crap.

These days its meant to be much better if you do have to go that route

I've ran Windows, Linux and Mac OS X in parallel for over 10 years now.... if not more.

Windows, as much as people want to slate it is OK.

It's functional. But for me, nothing more.

It works with every peripheral and piece of software you want, because of it's market share, which what makes it what it is, but i've always find it to anaemic - it has SO MUCH bloat and pap in there you don't need; it also feels really flakey and lacks the polish and slickness of Mac OS X and Linux and despite it's size and all the development that goes in to it, it still lacks the key ingredients and features which make Linux and definitely Mac OS X so good.

I learned my lesson after Vista and 7 - i won't be bothering with Windows again.... FWIW i thought XP was and still is a brilliant OS - it ran like clockwork back in the day, when i was using a seriously under-powered piece of kit.

Meh.

Quote from: Badabing on August 03, 2012, 11:32:10 AM
I've ran Windows, Linux and Mac OS X in parallel for over 10 years now.... if not more.

Windows, as much as people want to slate it is OK.

It's functional. But for me, nothing more.

It works with every peripheral and piece of software you want, because of it's market share, which what makes it what it is, but i've always find it to anaemic - it has SO MUCH bloat and pap in there you don't need; it also feels really flakey and lacks the polish and slickness of Mac OS X and Linux and despite it's size and all the development that goes in to it, it still lacks the key ingredients and features which make Linux and definitely Mac OS X so good.

I learned my lesson after Vista and 7 - i won't be bothering with Windows again.... FWIW i thought XP was and still is a brilliant OS - it ran like clockwork back in the day, when i was using a seriously under-powered piece of kit.

Meh.

Apple is the new Microsoft, OSX is the new windows.

That said, apple products are extremely well polished. (typed on an ipad3

If I had the means I pobably by an mac lap I like my brothers new one thin, magnetic powercord etc. it is idiot proof but Ubuntu linux works great is free, has fast updates and does all I need and k3b burner is the best I tried

Quote from: bear on August 03, 2012, 23:06:55 PM
If I had the means I pobably by an mac lap I like my brothers new one thin, magnetic powercord etc. it is idiot proof but Ubuntu linux works great is free, has fast updates and does all I need and k3b burner is the best I tried

you could build a very nice PC, with analogous spec' to a Mac' [desktop] and stick Ubuntu on it, even play around with the aesthetic properties of the desktop and it would be very close to a Mac in terms of experience and performance.... the only thing is, i really love my Mac laptop, but there are ways to replicate what the Mac provides in some situations.

Quote from: Badabing on August 04, 2012, 17:49:03 PM

Quote from: bear on August 03, 2012, 23:06:55 PM
If I had the means I pobably by an mac lap I like my brothers new one thin, magnetic powercord etc. it is idiot proof but Ubuntu linux works great is free, has fast updates and does all I need and k3b burner is the best I tried

you could build a very nice PC, with analogous spec' to a Mac' [desktop] and stick Ubuntu on it, even play around with the aesthetic properties of the desktop and it would be very close to a Mac in terms of experience and performance.... the only thing is, i really love my Mac laptop, but there are ways to replicate what the Mac provides in some situations.

Yes, the 12.04 Ubuntu is quite maclike and there is macbuntu

Quote from: bear on August 04, 2012, 19:18:21 PM

Quote from: Badabing on August 04, 2012, 17:49:03 PM

Quote from: bear on August 03, 2012, 23:06:55 PM
If I had the means I pobably by an mac lap I like my brothers new one thin, magnetic powercord etc. it is idiot proof but Ubuntu linux works great is free, has fast updates and does all I need and k3b burner is the best I tried

you could build a very nice PC, with analogous spec' to a Mac' [desktop] and stick Ubuntu on it, even play around with the aesthetic properties of the desktop and it would be very close to a Mac in terms of experience and performance.... the only thing is, i really love my Mac laptop, but there are ways to replicate what the Mac provides in some situations.

Yes, the 12.04 Ubuntu is quite maclike and there is macbuntu

Macbuntu looks good, but with Linux you could create something as good looking with your own style.....KDE/Gnome has some nice effects and styles....