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There is a never-ending debate as to whether Macs are “better” than PC’s. “Better” is of course a subjective term; for instance, while Macs are generally acknowledged to be easier to use, if you’re a long-time Windows user the first time you sit in front of a Mac, it certainly won’t seem that way.

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In any case, here follows a list of differentiators… if nothing else, these are reasonable arguments as to why you should consider buying a Mac.

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  2. Which Mac operating system is the best is a topic of numerous debates among Apple fans. Since the mission of this blog is to refute myths and legends around Macs, it’s time for me to provide my 2 cents about the issue on hand. While everything below is just my opinion, as a long-time Mac user and v.
  3. Differences Between Linux vs Mac. Though both Linux and Mac are the operating systems for computer devices, Linux is an open-source operating system that can be used on any device, and Mac is an operating system that can be used only on Mac devices. Linux acts as an operating system, a platform to run other system applications and a server unit.

1. Macs are actually cheaper in the long run

Sure, you can buy a Windows PC for fewer up-front dollars. But the true cost of ownership should be calculated based on not only the acquisition cost, but the residual value after you sell it or trade it in. It’s the difference between those two numbers that really tells you what your computer costs to own. When you calculate the cost of ownership in that way, Macs win easily. All you have to do is compare the value of a Windows PC from, say, three years ago (which is often close to zero), and compare that to what you can get for your 3-year-old Mac. It’s virtually always no contest.

2. Macs are much easier to buy

We tried shopping for a PC just to compare, and after about 15 minutes our eyes glazed over. When you have so many choices, not only of manufacturers, but bells and whistles and speeds and sizes, it’s almost impossible to know whether you’re getting the right, or best, deal. With the Mac, it’s much easier to narrow down your search quickly, PLUS, be assured you’re getting a well-made and well-respected product, included being loaded with a whole bunch of great software you’d have to buy extra on a PC. On top of all that, there’s no equivalent to PowerMax in the PC world. Our friendly and expert staff is happy to help you through the entire process.

You can adjust color settings in the Custom Settings dialog box of the Windows printer driver, or in the Effect dialog of the Mac OS X CUPS printer driver. Please note that this feature is available in the Windows printer driver and the Mac OS X CUPS printer driver, not available in the BR-Script3 printer drivers of Windows and Mac OS X. If you're using a video adapter, unplug the video adapter from your Mac, then plug it back in to reseat the connection. If you're using more than one video adapter to connect your display (the adapters are 'chained' together), try connecting the display using only one adapter if possible. Some video adapters can't be connected together.

Note: We received a message from someone who took umbrage at the above, saying he thought it was “incredibly ignorant.” We responded with the following, which may or may not appease those of you who share that opinion, but it is our opinion and we’re sticking by it:

Simplicity isn’t for everyone, of course, and many IT professionals and computer geeks will look at the plethora of options available in the Windows world and not only not be fazed by them, but delight in the choices. Those same people often get frustrated that if you want to run the Mac OS, your choices are essentially limited to Apple, and then the limited choices they give you within that. But it sure makes it easier “for the rest of us” to make a decision, which is why we entitled that paragraph: “Macs are much easier to buy.” Obviously, with either, you can just see one and click “buy,” but with a PC, you’ll never be sure whether Samsung or Dell or HP or Acer or Toshiba or who knows how many other brands to choose from was the “best” one, all with their different video cards and storage options and screen sizes, not to mention the presumed or expected quality. That’s a lot of choices, and that makes it harder. That’s all we’re saying.

3. In general, when Apple makes assumptions with its software, it gets it right, Microsoft often gets it wrong

Surely this is subjective, but when you run Microsoft’s software, even on a Mac, it loves to run interference, making assumptions as to what you’re doing and trying to stay a step ahead. Most often, however, it just gets annoying. For instance, by default, if you type a “1)” in Entourage or Word, suddenly the next paragraph automatically starts with a “2)” even if you don’t want it. Most people spend more time undoing the presumptions than benefitting by them… Microsoft is just horrible at getting in the way.

4. Viruses

While this has changed just a little as Apple has gained ground on Microsoft, Mac users are still living in relative bliss with the lack of viruses, spyware and malware. We’re not saying they can’t get them, but it’s just far less of a problem for Mac users than it is for Windows users.

5. Time Machine and the Cloud

Not nearly enough people back up their hard drives (because it should be everyone), but Apple’s Time Machine makes it so elegant and simple that all you really need to do is hook up a drive and turn Time Machine on. And it’s not just a back-up, but you can go back in time to find a document you deleted. Apple is further assisting with backing up with the utilization of iCloud, something especially appreciated in this age of people using multiple devices, such as the iPhone and iPad.

6. When something goes wrong…

Microsoft makes the software. Dell, or Sony, or HP, or seemingly a million other manufacturers, make the Windows PC. Then you have third-party drivers and whatever else for all the peripherals. When you have a problem, everyone points a finger at everyone else. With the Mac, the issue rests more often just with Apple. Of course, any customer of PowerMax who has ever had a question or problem can attest to the friendly expertise we also provide to help sort it all out for them as well.

7. Apple makes upgrading its OS simple, Microsoft still keeps it complicated

Apple smoothly transitions its customers to its latest OS for free. Windows can’t even use a consistent naming scheme: the versions include: 7, 8, XP, Vista, CE, NT, 98, 2000. The best we can say about that is that their scattered approach to naming matches their scattered approach to their OS.

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8. Microsoft is for people who love tinkering with computers, Apple is for people who just want to get their work done

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What’s pretty much true is that the back-end, server-infrastructure kinds of things is well-handled by Microsoft, because it’s in the “land of the geeks,” who love to dig into the machinery and tinker with all the settings and understand all the acronyms. Those kind of people like Windows on the front end as well because they understand all the crazy intricacies and complications of the computer system. Apple isn’t nearly as big in the IT world, and that’s okay, because its front end user interface for “the rest of us” doesn’t require us to be computer whizzes to get things done.

9. Let’s face it, Apple understands style

While there are a zillion different styles of PC out there, pretty much everyone agrees that the style, elegance, and just plain “hipness” of the Mac has yet to be beat. They just look cool. Most importantly, because they can stay out of the “I can make it cheaper” fray in the PC world, Apple’s quality is second-to-none.

10. You can run Windows on a Mac anyway, so why not get the best of both worlds?

Apple allows Windows to be installed via its own Boot Camp, or you can use a third-party virtualization program, such as Parallels, VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox. So why not both save money in the long run and have access to virtually any desktop software you want?

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Introduction

When we last left Mac OS X, it had reached the second developer preview release. The core technologies and APIs were all present, but the GUI remained troublingly unfinished. At the recent MacWorld Expo in San Francisco (MWSF), Steve Jobs revealed in his keynote address that the Mac OS X DP2 GUI is not so much 'unfinished' as it is wholly unrelated to the GUI that will ship with the OS--a place-holder, if you will. The actual Mac OS X GUI was briefly demonstrated during the keynote, and it is a radical departure from traditional Mac OS.

This article will review Jobs's Mac OS X GUI demonstration and explain the underlying technology that makes it possible, emphasizing what is so new and different about it, and what it means for Mac users and PC users alike. Before we start, let's briefly review Apple's latest marketing angle on the Mac OS X core.

Core OS: The Latest Picture

Before demonstrating the GUI, Jobs reviewed the Mac OS X architecture. The culmination of this review was yet another high-level block diagram of the OS:


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Nothing has really changed since Mac OS X was first announced over a year ago, but the naming, emphasis, and ordering of the blocks has been altered to suit Apple's marketing goals. For example, the bottom-level block is now labeled 'Darwin.' Darwin is Apple's name for the open source distribution of the Mac OS X kernel. In previous diagrams, the bottom-level block was simply labeled 'Mach.' It's still Mach, of course, but the Darwin project also encompasses the BSD API layer--something that was previously shown as a separate block above Mach and alongside the other APIs like Carbon and Cocoa.

These cosmetic changes say a few things. First, they emphasizes the fact that Darwin is to be synchronized with Mac OS X. The current Darwin release available at Apple's web site is somewhat behind Mac OS X's internal development, but Darwin will be updated when Mac OS X ships to be exactly identical to the kernel in the commercial release. This was announced long ago at an Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC), but it was not emphasized to the general public. Consequently, many developers have looked at the Darwin project as a sort of academic exercise, or as open source political posturing by Apple. Now it's clear that it's in developers' best interests to pay attention to Darwin. Even if they don't make direct contributions to the source code, just having the code on hand as a reference is a great aid to development (especially when contrasted with the classic Mac OS development experience, where many OS features were obscure 'black boxes' with spotty documentation).

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Second, since the BSD APIs are part of Darwin (and therefore lose their own block in the diagram), this new view of Mac OS X de-emphasizes the BSD APIs. They're still there, and developers can still write to them, but the other APIs are more applicable to traditional Mac OS development. Similarly, Java lost its API block and was merely mentioned as an alternate language for Cocoa development. Again, this is more of a marketing change than a technological one.

The (green) graphics layer of the diagram has also been changed. Open GL, QuickTime, and Quartz are listed alongside each other despite their significant differences. OpenGL is the 3D API everyone knows and loves. QuickTime is Apple's media architecture which encompasses everything from audio and video playback to a 3D API of its own (QuickDraw 3D) which exists at a level of abstraction far above OpenGL. Indeed, QD3D could conceivably be implemented on top of OpenGL. (Apple's RAVE API is used instead, but it's a moot point since QD3D is now defunct.) And Quartz, which will be detailed in the next section, is the lowest-level of Mac OS X's display system. Why are they side-by-side in the block diagram? Perhaps it makes for a less confusing overview for non-technical people.

As mentioned earlier, the (purple) API layer now contains only the three C's: Classic, Carbon, and Cocoa. They're listed in the order that Apple expects developers to use them: Classic for existing Mac OS apps, Carbon for revised Classic apps that take advantage of Mac OS X's modern features, and Cocoa for developers interested in the latest revision of the object-oriented NeXT/OpenStep APIs.

But it's the top layer that is entirely new. Previously, this block was evasively labeled 'Advanced Mac OS Look and Feel.' Exactly what that meant, no one knew. Knowledge of that block's existence led to significant hedging about the GUI present in Mac OS X DP2, but I don't think anyone expected something as radical as Aqua. Before we get to that, let's review what is really the most significant part of the Mac OS X GUI--that box that's been in the diagram for over a year and that not many people took notice of until Aqua showed what it could do: Quartz.