I'm not a fan of WindowBlinds and the like (I use StyleXP) but I have to admit that's a pretty good knock-off.

Thanks everyone for responding ;-). kc0arf, I really want to write a nice length response to you, but I don't have enough time this weekend, so hang tight.. btw.. awesome post ;-).

Puckdropper, thank you for your offer, but I'll have to pass. I don't think I could stand having that, when I know what Mac I *really* want ;-).

And, drummerboy, skinning Windows to look like OS X, and *actually* having OS X, are two hugely different things. If I just skin myself, I'll know that I still have the same darn PC. That isn't the goal.

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Of course mate, i was just offering you a quick fix while you save your pennys

I find the Mac to be a convenient way to separate home and work. Yes I may not be able to do everything with programming .NET on my Mac, but that's ok. I don't need to do work on my personal machine; I want a system that I love to use at home.

And also I have to say that when I'm working on open sourced applications that hail from the Linux/*nix world or anything not .NET or tied Windows, there's no contest---OS X is better equipped than Windows.


Ed

This PC guy, has purchased a Mac! YAY.

Spec's are in the signature .

Soo...when you selling your PC's?

Never...

My primary development platform is on Windows .

:p Ha,
well i am happy with my Imac G4 now.
Last year i tried Windows 98 on A Celeron 850Mhz;
Xp on a new intel P4 2.6 Ghz and they all crashed severely!!!
Giving me headaches and a stiff neck, having to replace the whole sytem every now and them using bootfloppy, typing the legendary FORMAT C:
By looking into pc's, i've become a system administrator, LOL !
People ask me to help them with their crashy pc's.
I've seen all versions now; 3.11, 95 98 98SE ME 2000 and XP(service pack 1and2)
But after helping people i can nicely go back to my mac and enjoy it.
Xp servicepack 2 seemed far more stable than before that; but mmmm, still too unstable for me.

There was already a sign to switch to mac and that was when i replaced the whole shell32.dll by a tweaked mac one.
In " my computer" it then said: About this mac
But Windows replaced the systemfiles back every update, so i finally used windows blinds.
Ahh, and finally sold everything and bought me an Imac for 600€

Funny, still i got those windows fear spasms when an application freezes or crashes. But with a Mac,... no worries, in worst case scenario, just shut down, restart and everything is still there, phew.

O, yeah, if u really like a sexy computer, u should also buy an imac G4!!!
This space age designed contrivance that u can talk to and let it talk back in all kind of funny voices is the fanciest and sweetest i've ever seen. And of course together with the GUI and the sound of those apple speakers which is also awesome.

:lol: , Sanne

talk about dragging up the dead,


Its near impossible to crash windows xp unless you are doing somthing stupid (like replacing system files :rolleyes: thats never smart) Considering we run a huge network of 2000 and XP computers along with 2000 server and 2003 server, along with a UNIX SCO box and a few RH boxes, and a few macs as well. They are all rock solid. The only time windows really crashes anymore is if you tell it to do somthing that you should not be doing, like replacing system files.

I guess the pc's in your network are configured in a more professional kind of way, you are programmers too i guess, which is different from being a layman having a pc with xp home edition. Okay, when u would have a pc and not use the internet, then xp might be quite ok, well with service pack 2 i must say.
But tell me, many people like to browse the internet (with all the vulnerability issues, spyware, that we didn't know and wasn't picked up by our expensive virusscanners!)
Ok, when you have a fresh install and only use the wordpad, the paint, just type some text and not using the internet, it might work fine for a while.
But is it strange for people to want to download and burn mp3's, dvd's (s) vcd's, e-mailing etc.? I thought those fast pc's were designed for that. And i first had a fresh install, (far before i did any tweaking or whatsoever), but despite that it already gave problems and systemerrors.
I know friends who only type some letters, and rarely use the internet, only sometimes for chatting via MSN, but their pc's are also producing stalls and system errors and they really don't know what to do about it and just don't use it then till someone pops by to help them out.
I thought pc's today were designed for being intuitively used by laymen, by just clicking and burning stuff.

I meant i just noticed that the mac os x is getting really close to that just intuitively clicking and burning without problems.
The only problem with macs is still compatibility with games, software, hardware (can't use my 'Labtec' webcam that came with my dsl router ) and the price $$

Sanne