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cesium133:

--- Quote from: mtmerrick on 13 Aug 2013, 14:05 ---I am not judging the QUALITY of apple products here. It's some pretty decent stuff, hardware and software. But you're deluding yourself if you think they "innovated" anything.

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As the owner of a first-generation Intel Macbook, I'm going to have to disagree on the quality of Apple hardware...

FuryoftheStars:
I really like Windows 7.  I disliked Vista and am absolutely hating 8 so far.

I've never been a fan of Apple.  Right now, I have an iPhone 5 (work issued) and am really wanting my BlackBerry back (I'd much prefer Android, but my work will not issue those... and work requires that my contact number be one they control).  There have been several things that I have tried to do with this iPhone so far that the BlackBerry (and my previous dead Droid) could support natively, that I've discovered you either need to download an App for (sometimes multiple) or simply cannot be done.  Has really turned me off to Apple so hard these past few months....

Someone did once demonstrate Linux for me, but it really does nothing for me.  Nothing against it or bad to say about it.  It just doesn't interest me enough to switch over.  Course, that was what?  12? 13 years ago?  Who knows... considering the direction MS has been going lately, and if they keep it up, I just might give it another look.  I'm an avid gamer in which most of my games don't support Linux, but I'm sure I could find an emulator of some sort.

snalin:
Wine is the emulator you're looking for in that case (Wine Is Not an Emulator), but programs has a tendency to run slower there than on native windows. There's huge communities built around making windows-only games work on Linux.

ankhtahr:
Not necessarily. There are some programs which run faster on Wine. But there are some which run much slower as well. The reason for that is that Wine is really what the name is trying to tell you, Wine is not an Emulator, Wine is a piece of software which offers dll implementations and system calls to software and directs them to the appropriate Linux system call/library. And all these implementations of the Windows API are reverse engineered black box implementations (they ran the routines with various input values, looked at the output values and tried to find out what exactly it does and then replicated it).

Problems usually occur with DirectX programs. All the DirectX calls need to be rewritten to OpenGL calls, and that doesn't work too well. AFAIK the support for DirectX 9 is quite well nowadays, but DirectX 10 or 11 are big trouble.

Masterpiece:
I've been using a Win8 tablet for over three weeks now and I keep being reminded that I really enjoy the decisions that Microsoft made concerning mobile operating systems (or let's say Windows 8). I still like it with keyboard+mouse, but with touch it's just so enjoyable to use.

Having said that, I'm getting frustrated with Microsoft. Feels like when you use their products it's always a matter of "just wait a little while longer". I'm still waiting on the notification center they promised sometime before WP8. Speaking of WP8, they took way too long with their update cycle, and I distinctly remember Microsoft saying that they would try to iterate with quicker updates with WP8 (and updates for WP7 have been more frequent than for WP8).

It's just hella frustrating, because what's there is so promising of things that might come later.

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