Talk to me about software for Macs

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

That would be shocking news to me. Granted, if they're choice is a Mac or a crappy Dell businessware crapbox, I'd understand, but that just seems really weird to me.

Dell shouldn't be considered a computer. It should be considered a punishment from a hateful jerk of a God.

Sure, sure, and Windows has been just wonderful over the years -- no issues or problems, no BSODs, just a joy!

I'm assuming that's why you use iOS?

 

[Ovinomancer]

Dell shouldn't be considered a computer. It should be considered a punishment from a hateful jerk of a God.

Well, God's presumably also provided Rachael Nichols, so He can't be all bad. Still, that's a pretty damning point.

I'm assuming that's why you use iOS?

Nope. I've got no excuse for sticking with Windows. Stockholm syndrome, maybe?

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Well, God's presumably also provided Rachael Nichols, so He can't be all bad. Still, that's a pretty damning point.

She's alright. She isn't enough to make up for Dell.

Nope. I've got no excuse for sticking with Windows. Stockholm syndrome, maybe?

Quite probable. You should run a statistical analysis to test that hypothesis.

 

[Ovinomancer]

She's alright. She isn't enough to make up for Dell.

I'm afraid we're going to have to agree to you being completely wrong about that. Dell << Rachel.

Quite probable. You should run a statistical analysis to test that hypothesis.

Hmmm. Interesting. What baseline would you suggest?

 

[Morrus]

Well, I went for it. I now own an iMac.

I have typed in my Apple password about a thousand times today. With all its required upper case, lower case, numbers, cartwheels, and limericks.

 

[Ryujin]

Well, I went for it. I now own an iMac.

I have typed in my Apple password about a thousand times today. With all its required upper case, lower case, numbers, cartwheels, and limericks.

One of the most annoying things that Apple did, from my point of view as a desktop/network support tech, was to eliminate the ability to disable the constant password nags while doing initial installation.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Happy iMacing!

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Well, I went for it. I now own an iMac.

I have typed in my Apple password about a thousand times today. With all its required upper case, lower case, numbers, cartwheels, and limericks.

I think you'll enjoy it. It's not as bad as some make it seem. I mean, you'll probably hate the no Backspace key thing. It took me a while to get used to it, but it's not too bad.

 

[Morrus]

One of the most annoying things that Apple did, from my point of view as a desktop/network support tech, was to eliminate the ability to disable the constant password nags while doing initial installation.

It's getting a bit much. Turns out I can't even turn the computer off without the password. I need my Apple password just to go to bed!

 

[Ryujin]

It's getting a bit much. Turns out I can't even turn the computer off without the password. I need my Apple password just to go to bed!

That should only happen if you have multiple users logged in. With a single user it's not an issue. Make sure that you uncheck the option to relaunch all open programmes when you log back in, at shutdown. Otherwise you'll eventually be eating a lot of memory in open apps, right from startup.