Not to sound trollish...

Fenster

But has anyone else here just switched over to using Windows/Linux entirely on their new macbooks/imacs? I got ticked off with OS X's slowness and bugginess compared to Windows and Linux (Suse 10.1 in this instance) and just switched over to entirely using the other two.

I'm curious if anyone else has made the same choice.

Dont be at yourself

I have Windows installed, just so I can use a decent webcam-enabled IM, and I absolutely loathe booting into it. Every time I do, something will crash, lock-up or otherwise go tits up to remind me why I chose to get my mac in the first place!

I've never came across any bugs in OSX either...

eth0_

OS X isn't slow at all! I think my macbook is really fast considering there's only 512MB ram in it. Pity it needs a new logic board.

ZENER

Fenster wrote:

But has anyone else here just switched over to using Windows/Linux entirely on their new macbooks/imacs? I got ticked off with OS X's slowness and bugginess compared to Windows and Linux (Suse 10.1 in this instance) and just switched over to entirely using the other two.

I'm curious if anyone else has made the same choice.

Troll !!:D

I have XP installed on my MBP and sometimes boot it just because I can, but 99% of the time it's running Tiger. I never thought I'd hear someone say Tiger was buggier than XP ! Tiger has never crashed on me on any Mac I've had except a Quicksilver 1.2GHz G4, this was the Powerlogix Upgrades fault though, that's 1 out of 9 or 10 ! Not bad.

ZEN

sturgo

One blue screen to many & countless other problems led me to buy a macmini over a year ago. I think it's crashed twice in it's lifetime & i'm pretty sure it was because i was trying to make it do something it wasn't designed to do.

I use xp in work & i absolutely hate it.

Hugh_C

Fenster wrote:

I got ticked off with OS X's slowness and bugginess compared to...

Huh? You living in a parallel and slightly inferior universe? Buggy it ain't in this universe.

Either that or cite an example...

Fenster: Oh, is that the one about the hooker with the dysentery?

tonyboy247

Ive been usin linux on mac for ages no problems I think osx is far more stable than windows..anyway you tried running mac through windows how many bugs you got there!! windows is on death row if you ask me.

Fenster

Photo work.

iPhoto is a wallowing hippo of a program, for all that its okay at organising and excellent at importing photos, it does things like create full-size jpg copies of every photo you import (which can really add up), be generally sluggish and so far crash twice.

In fairness to Photoshop, its running through Rosetta, so I'm not expecting the world, but it leaks memory like a sieve from the word go and makes my whole system freeze after about 40 minutes.

j26

Fenster wrote:

Photo work.

iPhoto is a wallowing hippo of a program, for all that its okay at organising and excellent at importing photos, it does things like create full-size jpg copies of every photo you import (which can really add up), be generally sluggish and so far crash twice.

In fairness to Photoshop, its running through Rosetta, so I'm not expecting the world, but it leaks memory like a sieve from the word go and makes my whole system freeze after about 40 minutes.

iPhoto Diet will clear up iPhoto. It's never crashed for me, but can get slow when you have thousands of photos in it. I use iPhoto Buddy to split my libraries, and iPhoto works fine.