Linux scares me :SUberaDpmn said:To be honest Windows Vista was a trainwreck, but Windows 7, in comparison, get's 'put down' a lot more than it should be. It's actually quite good. There's a few small things that are mildly annoying - but nothing 'game-breaking'.Bobbity said:I'm tempted to, definitely. The problem is that I HATE Vista, XP won't be getting support much longer, and I haven't exactly been hearing good things about Windows 7. I know that macs have a lot of things going against them - the OS needing an update every two years, a lack of games, cost, etc. - but the alternative...UberaDpmn said:TBH, you can do all of that on Windows quite easily, just finding a couple of free programs would have made it seem infinitely faster. For example Defraggler and CCleaner are probably the best out there.
Computer maintenance is the thing most people don't do and is what leads to the slow-creeping-death of your computer. If your make isn't slowing down then it sounds like you have kept on top of it
But that wouldn't solve the hardware issue
In my opinion when your Mac gets too old I would advise getting a PC, purely from the economic point of view it's a lot cheaper, in the short term and long. And if you are willing to learn there is a massive amount more it can offer you in comparison
An alternative, if you're feeling adventurous, is Linux - which is like a free version of Windows along with a whole set of free programs. If you went that route you'd almost certainly want Ubuntu which is probably the most user friendly and 'familiar' of the Linux OS's
Windows 7 works great, even Linux would be fine!Bobbity said:Linux scares me :SUberaDpmn said:To be honest Windows Vista was a trainwreck, but Windows 7, in comparison, get's 'put down' a lot more than it should be. It's actually quite good. There's a few small things that are mildly annoying - but nothing 'game-breaking'.Bobbity said:I'm tempted to, definitely. The problem is that I HATE Vista, XP won't be getting support much longer, and I haven't exactly been hearing good things about Windows 7. I know that macs have a lot of things going against them - the OS needing an update every two years, a lack of games, cost, etc. - but the alternative...UberaDpmn said:TBH, you can do all of that on Windows quite easily, just finding a couple of free programs would have made it seem infinitely faster. For example Defraggler and CCleaner are probably the best out there.
Computer maintenance is the thing most people don't do and is what leads to the slow-creeping-death of your computer. If your make isn't slowing down then it sounds like you have kept on top of it
But that wouldn't solve the hardware issue
In my opinion when your Mac gets too old I would advise getting a PC, purely from the economic point of view it's a lot cheaper, in the short term and long. And if you are willing to learn there is a massive amount more it can offer you in comparison
An alternative, if you're feeling adventurous, is Linux - which is like a free version of Windows along with a whole set of free programs. If you went that route you'd almost certainly want Ubuntu which is probably the most user friendly and 'familiar' of the Linux OS's
If Windows 7 has managed to pick up the pieces after Vista smashed them to bits,[footnote]Then tied them up and put them in the back of a car, then drove to a set of train tracks, then put them on the train tracks, then filled them with bullets, then let the train run over them, then put them in a bad sit-com, then... etc.[/footnote] then I'll probably consider it. It'd be nice to have a proper gaming PC again, although Steam looks like it may very well get its act together for macs anyway.
