Why I Am Not Using OSX Anymore.. much
Posted on November 1st, 2008 by John Hasson
Ok, I tried. Really I did. I’ve been on OSX for about over a year. Things that bothered me…
- Firefox sucks on a Mac.
- When the HFS+ file system decides to go screwy you can waste a day or two fixing it
- I was spending lots of my time inside VMWare on my bootcamp partition.
- I already have photoshop 6 for windows and don’t feel like spending a ton on CS3 for the Mac
- Excel for the Mac blows compared to Excel on Windows. (Try having really complex charts, and it slows to a crawl on the mac where the exact same spreadsheet does geat in Excel 2003)
- Games. Seriously. Games. (Not that I play that much, I don’t, but every now and then when you want to test something, rebooting into bootcamp just to try a game (or run photoshop w/o terrible slowness) is just a big pain)
- I’ve tried Parallels and VMware Fusion. Neither one is awesome. But they both get the job done, and you can use Visual Studio inside either just fine.
- That STUPID suspend to crash bug that will NOT go away.
I am sure there is more. So at this point I had 2 choices. Sell the macbook pro and buy another laptop or just convert it to mostly XP. I chose the latter. So now I have a macbook pro running windows XP as my primary system. The hardware is still awesome. And now if I ever have a very rare instance where I need OSX I can just reboot into it… that is probably what I should have done in the first place.
Don’t blame OSX for the bloated cadaver that is Microsoft office. That slowness is a direct result of all the “updates” that have been added to the programs since 2004 came out. I know this because I finally got sick to death of waiting for Word to find a file, open the folder and load said file, then hang for five or ten seconds every time I did a save. I decided to try Apple’s iWork and have only opened any Office product under vile duress since.
I definitely agree with you on firefox and excel. Firefox crashes on a Mac way too much (not to mention the fact that I can’t download any large files) and excel 2008 in my opinion is very weak on the pivot table design templates.
I do like the web development tools that are built in, however – terminal, apache, rails stack
hey dude debian rocks!!!!
So far XP has been good to me. At least when it goes all weird, I know how to fix
I switch and have not looked back
but
i do agree with you on excel not being up to par on the mac
and there are a few programs that i really miss … like Snagit for windows..nothing on the mac like it ..
I had to buy a new computer and it was either mac or vista .. althought i never considered running the mac as an xp machine