DISQUS

Stay N' Alive: Five Real Reasons Vista Beats Mac OS X

  • Andyed · 1 year ago
    Sorry, #5 is not an advantage. The real question is can you do set it up without using the mouse?


    Running your Screensaver as Background Image
    Type /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/ Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background & and your screensaver will be your background image.

    From http://www-clmc.usc.edu/~jrpeters/pmwiki.php/Co.... There's also a GUI app to do this.
  • Chris · 1 year ago
    I almost took you seriously. To bad you didn't look to see if it was easy or not to get the animated background.

    Have you ever heard of Quartz Composer? You can make some pretty wicked things there and save them as your background.

    Enough already though.
  • Jesse Stay · 1 year ago
    Andyed, Chris, awesome! (and Chris, thanks for visiting!) I still need alternatives to the first 4 though.
  • Chris · 1 year ago
    Nice unbiased evaluation.
  • Greg Meece · 1 year ago
    FWIW, I have a Mac mini (1.4 GHz G4) running Tiger, 3 Windows machines (XP Home, Vista Basic, & Vista Home Premium), and a Linux machine (Ubuntu Feisty Fawn).
    My responses:
    1) Absolutely. I've looked at MythTV (very flexible, but setup is often difficult and driver support is very hit-and-miss), FrontRow (clean, simple interface - but not much flexibility), and Apple TV (I have one - it is what it is). Microsoft definitely has this covered much better than Apple or the OSS community. I'm specing a BIY media center setup right now and have decided on Vista Home Premium.
    2) This really depends on what the company does, what it requires, etc. Purchase cost and COO are two different things. As an IT person, Windows is what I would specify if I wanted job security. >;->
    3) Mostly true, but the days of Apple using proprietary video connectors went out with the 90's. Seriously, all their DVI connectors ship with standard VGA adapters, so that's a red herring.
    4) Mostly true. I always advise anyone who needs vertical market software (and the research has proven none exists for a Mac) to consider a PC first. Now, if all the rest of their needs can be met better with a Mac, and the vertical market or other Windows-only software is only used a small portion of their day, then a Mac still might be the best recommendation.
    5) Ummm...yeah. Others have already caught this one - Macs have been able to do this in OS X for awhile now.
  • Jesse Stay · 1 year ago
    Greg all great points. Thanks for sharing. Truthfully, it was quite hard other than the Media Center and corporate financial market, to come up with good reasons. Most of my other reasons were more personal than anything. One additional advantage PCs have over Macs though is the Tablet market. I have yet to see a tablet competitor on the Mac, and there are some really cool uses for those! Perhaps the demand just isn't there yet, but it's something I'd love to have.
  • Giddyup · 11 months ago
    I just wanted to let you know i can do everything in your first post using my macpro and 360, with a piece of software from Nullriver called Connect360. And really it is quite cool, although i don't have the extender option.
  • . · 4 months ago
    Yes Mac can run animated wallpapers.
    Actually all your screensavers and Quartz files (screensavers, iTunes visulizers, animations, etc.)