Mac vs. PC costs

[Jarod Wilson]

On 06/20/2009 08:43 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>     From: Richard Pieri<richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>     Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:17:12 -0400
>
>     On Jun 20, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
>     >  Obviously the important question is whether any of these Mac-specific
>     >  features matter to you. If they do, then that says you need a Mac,
>     >  otherwise you go for the functionality that is relevant to your
>     >  practical needs.
>
>     I did push OS X as the best desktop Unix out there.  There's a
>     reason for that.
>
> A matter of taste.  Personally, I can't stand the Mac interface for
> the following reasons:
>
> 1) It's "click to raise and type" -- you have to take action more than
> just moving the pointer over the window to activate it, and then it
> brings it to the top.

There are extensions that will add that exact functionality to Mac OS X 
for you.

> 2) I find the menu bar separate from the application window
> disconcerting.

I was a loooong-time Mac user (first family computer was a Mac SE in 
'88, and I never had anything *but* Macs all the way up to college. 
Still had multiple Macs, but also got my first PC, built out of spare 
junk parts at the computer shop I was working at... Cyrix 166MHz 
clunker, iirc...), but have used almost nothing but Linux for the better 
part of the last 4 or 5 years. I still use a Mac periodically (I have 
four of them in the house), but there was a point just last week where I 
was very confused for a moment about where the hell the menu for the 
window I was working in had gone off to... :)

--jarod