Gadget Lust Thread

[JussiKala]

@prettiness: It was just a counter point against the usual argument that mac is prettier By multitasking, I mean multitasking. That is not the same as keeping multiple windows open. @software: Better ones such as? Just give me a few examples of programs that beat any program with the same function in windows, that is not available for windows. @compatability: Know how to use windows and it will be a million times more compatible. For hardware, mac doesn't support hardware changes, nor can you buy any combination of hardware you might want in a mac computers. By software, sure, there are enough programs for mac. But when you are looking for someting extremely specific, mac just won't do. Those are only available for windows.

[tommo]

By multitasking, I mean multitasking. That is not the same as keeping multiple windows open. Whaaaa? Multitasking means being able to do more than one thing at a time. i.e having more than one program open at a time.

[JussiKala]

Whaaaa? Multitasking means being able to do more than one thing at a time. i.e having more than one program open at a time. Yes, but it depends on what you are doing with those programs. Having internet radio in the background and rendering a video edit at the same time while browsing dreamviews.org is NOT multitasking. Opening lots of windows and viewing them at once and really utilizing them all is multitasking.

[tommo]

Having internet radio in the background and rendering a video edit at the same time while browsing dreamviews.org is NOT multitasking. LOL yes it is. You can't set a level of CPU usage or something for it to be accepted as multitasking lol Anyway, it's besides the point. I have had Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop all open before and on other occasions, iMovie importing video from a camcorder while converting movie files and burning DVD's. Macs are known for multitasking, (on of the reasons designers etc. use them) I don't know how you could even make the assertion that they're not good at it.

[JussiKala]

LOL yes it is. You can't set a level of CPU usage or something for it to be accepted as multitasking lol Anyway, it's besides the point. I have had Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop all open before and on other occasions, iMovie importing video from a camcorder while converting movie files and burning DVD's. Macs are known for multitasking, (on of the reasons designers etc. use them) I don't know how you could even make the assertion that they're not good at it. Macs RARELY even support 4 or more monitors. They are not fit for heavy multitaskers. My monitors are one reason for me not moving to linux or something. And when they do, the window management with multiple monitors is inferior to the windows one, if you have a couple of helpful programs installed in windows. Let me just say it: Unless your screen has more than 2048 horizontal pixels, you really can't multitask properly. You'd need more screens. I currently have a youtube video in my 3rd monitor, a bunch of browser windows open each with 20 tabs for basic browsing on my 1st monitor, my essay and the sources open on my 2nd monitor and if I had a 4th monitor active ATM, I'd have some temperature monitor programs as well as chats on it. Those are currently running in the background. This is light multitasking. Not heavy.

[tommo]

This is light multitasking. Not heavy. I love how people subtly change their argument when they realise they're wrong. Problem is, you still have the eternal question to answer, how long is a piece of rope? (How heavy is heavy [It is a rhetorical question {It cannot be answered}]).

[JussiKala]

Two of these will be mine in a month or two when I build my next computer.