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2012-11-12 02:18 29004408 Anonymous (nigger nigger nigger nigger.jpg 357x369 18kB)
>oh but anon! apple products are so much faster and streamlined than clunky micro$oft products! >itouch is a sluggish piece of shit >ipad's safari constantly dies when it tries to load a webpage with more than a few things happening on it >itunes has no idea what its doing half the time >3 year old laptop is flagging a bit but on the whole still speedy Am I just having a shitty experience with apple products or are people having a shitty time with microsoft or is the fanboyism and faggotry from all sides just all permeating?

0 min later 29004428 Anonymous
You should post a picture of your itouch

1 min later 29004435 Anonymous
>>29004408 software is software. nothing's perfect

1 min later 29004445 Anonymous
>the fanboyism and faggotry from all sides just all permeating? ya

4 min later 29004515 Anonymous
>>29004408 Apple products feel faster when they are first released. Each update released is designed for the latest hardware version at the time. My original ipad ran great, but with each subsequent update it just got slower and more unstable, now its an unusable piece of shit, apps crash all the time, even browsing the web can be awful. Same with my sister's 3gs its painfully slow now.

7 min later 29004567 Anonymous
>>29004515 I noticed this with an iPhone 3GS at work. It was unbelievably slow. I was wondering how a smartphone could be as bad as a 8-year old piece of shit PC owned by an old lady who installed every extraneous piece of software offered to her. He eventually got an iPhone 4S but it was still startling to see a smartphone struggling to even bring up its Mail app.

10 min later 29004624 Anonymous
it's the fanboyism and faggotry from both sides. Microsoft is like using an old car, it's pretty easy to fix. Can get you anywhere, you can buy components to make it better, it's price range is from everyday people's averages to super expensive, it can go off from where it was originally designed without large problems if you know what your doing, but they break down if you work it too much or don't know what your doing. Mac is the high Maintenance girlfriend you've always wondered about. She does only what she wants, won't change anything about herself, flips her shit at the nearest inconvenience, claims she's better than everyone else, tries to compete in everything, adds on layers of unneeded shit to make herself feel even prettier, can do a few things well but fucks up everything that she wasn't designed for and has all the boys over her because of their rarity, expensiveness and artificial inflation. some people can live with the girlfriend, she does a few things well and makes you feel special, but I;

11 min later 29004643 Anonymous
>>29004624 fuck I forgot to cut it off. I can't really live with it, I prefer the customization and broader array of experinces, there are some things mac does well that Microsoft can't, but I haven't encountered enough experiences as to where it would sway my choice of purchase.

12 min later 29004676 Anonymous
>>29004408 Welcome to the world of Apple. Enjoy your stay! P.S.: Well done breaking the reality distortion field! Few who visit ever even become aware of it!

13 min later 29004681 Anonymous
>>29004643 I have a Hackintosh and a Windows 8 PC and between them, I question what the hell the Mac is doing for me. I'm chomping at the bit to find a good use for it but I'm clueless on what software is worth owning.

13 min later 29004702 Anonymous
>>29004681 how is windows 8? is it true that you can't edit folder locations or access your hard-drive's file folders outside of designated app zones?

15 min later 29004739 Anonymous
>>29004702 The Metro interface feels locked down (though I've heard it's still at the whim of registry entries but I've yet to mess with any that can affect it) but the normal Windows interface is as flexible as ever.

15 min later 29004744 Anonymous
FUCK GOOGLE

16 min later 29004758 Anonymous
>>29004739 alright, how about the "windows store" can you actually download shit outside of the that or is it like the only way to get any software legally?

16 min later 29004763 Anonymous
>>29004739 >the normal Windows interface is as flexible as ever So, requires several registry hacks and installed programs that have to run constantly just to change how your windows look?

16 min later 29004765 Anonymous
>>29004702 wut windows 8 is almost identical to 7 just with new menus

18 min later 29004791 Anonymous
>>29004758 It's the only way to get apps that use the Metro interface. But as long as you aren't running a Windows RT device (like the recently released Surface RT) you can install legacy Windows software without any issues (I had Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 running on a Windows 8 PC awhile back). The Windows Store will also supposedly carry non-Metro software as well.

18 min later 29004794 Anonymous
>>29004515 I know that feel. I bought a 2nd gen iPod touch. Everything was snappy and smooth and games were wonderful. iOS 3 was still fast and added some cool new features. iOS 4 added nothing and made everything crash about 10 times as often. Never again.

18 min later 29004795 Anonymous
>>29004758 I've never uses the windows store just run the damn exe files there is no magic to stop you from doing so

19 min later 29004815 Anonymous
>>29004765 aw shit nigga! shills found da thread, let's bounce!

20 min later 29004835 Anonymous
>>29004758 WinRT programs may only be installed through the store. Non-winRT programs can't even be put up in the store iirc.

21 min later 29004872 Anonymous
>>29004835 you can always sideload apps, its super easy (not as easy as flipping a switch like in android though)

22 min later 29004875 Anonymous
>>29004835 I've heard this but I find it difficult to believe because if it is, Windows RT's purpose is completely fucked and anyone who bought it is screwed.

23 min later 29004912 Anonymous
>>29004835 well that's gay as fuck.

24 min later 29004941 Anonymous
Windows Explorer and the desktop environment as a whole is reduced to a shiny file manager at best if Windows RT can't obtain desktop-based software from the Windows Store because it can't run x86/"Win32" native software.

24 min later 29004946 Anonymous
holy fuck a sensible thread about OSes on /g/. Am I dreaming?

25 min later 29004956 Anonymous
>>29004875 The point is that every program in the store is available to every winRT enabled platform without any extra work available whatsoever.

26 min later 29004978 Anonymous
>>29004941 Isn't Windows RT specifically designed for ARM processors though? If that's the case, it doesn't even matter when talking about the desktop version.

26 min later 29004979 Anonymous
Anybody that thinks there is such thing as an objective user experience is objectively retarded.

26 min later 29004989 Anonymous
>>29004979 will you shut the fuck up.

26 min later 29004991 Anonymous
>>29004978 >Isn't Windows RT specifically designed for ARM processors though? No. It's designed specifically to be cross-platform and compatible with any architecture.

28 min later 29005014 Anonymous
>>29004989 Truth hurts, doesn't it?

29 min later 29005041 Anonymous
>>29004978 I'm just referring to Windows RT. Windows 8 has the opposite problem: normal PC users will find Metro-interface apps useless because normal programs already do what those apps do for them and in a more keyboard/mouse-ergonomic way. So the Windows RT and Windows 8 markets end up completely segregated when MS had intended for it to be one big happy ecosystem of software.

31 min later 29005066 Anonymous (1350968461367.gif 120x120 302kB)
>>29005014 I don't even have an idea what you're talking about, we're talking about the usability and flexibility of the windows 8 OS on hardware and it's compatibility with software. I was telling you to shut up because we're having a decent thread

33 min later 29005114 Anonymous
The only place where Windows 8 will exist in the way MS had intended is in tablet-convertible laptop PCs. Those have the option of a standard keyboard interface and a touch screen to take advantage of legacy Windows programs (which can't run on RT devices) and Metro-interface apps for at-a-glance information feeds (which is not useful to a desktop user).

37 min later 29005207 Anonymous
>>29005114 This. People (i.e. shills) love to pretend that win8 is perfectly fine on desktop with touch enabled screens, but that's just wrong. One has to stand too close to the monitor to use the touch interface, and then you have to extend your arm forward unlike on convertible laptops and tablets where the arms can kind of rest down toward the touching surface, and where the person is close to the screen all the time.

42 min later 29005314 Anonymous
>>29005207 this your touching of the screen will just be awkward and you'll look retarded as fuck, not to mention standing up every time you want to do something would be incredibly annoying. mouses man, they were invented for a motherfucking reason.

42 min later 29005323 Anonymous
>>29005207 They should make a touch based pad. Like a laptop mouse pad but way bigger and glass.

1 hours later 29006054 Anonymous
>>29005323 that would be a terrible idea, that's basically the WiiU interface for computer.

1 hours later 29006233 Anonymous
>>29004815 I think any shill that tells you their companies new OS is just the same as it's old one is doing a pretty bad job.

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