Essential Mac Apps

[lightman]

Apple's market share has increased dramatically over the last five years.

Some people is stuck at the Mac OS 9 era, I don't even think they got the memo about OS X being out there... I don't think there is anything that can be done about them ;)

That said, to each its own, if someone prefers Windows over OS X, good for him/her. I still find OS X much more polished and "right" for what I do most. Windows is still better for games, though (although I hope this will change in the future, as Apple keeps gaining market share)...

[Sazar]

Apple's market share has increased dramatically over the last five years.

Yes it has... and more people can now see that all the claims of "quality" are bogus :)

As the magical allure of "perfection" and "holier than thou products" fades from Apple equipment, they will start working towards having items that function CORRECTLY, will be forced to reduce their mini-monopoly and will actually have to release patches that fix things, especially security loop-holes rather than releasing asinine comments like "this affects fewer than 0.00001% of our products".

[Bman212121]

I owned 2 Macs (PowerBook G4 and iBook G3). I wanted to be different. Well, nothing worked on them, SW selection was extremely limited, Safari sucked big time, and they were slow.

Was extremely happy to sell them and get XP SP2 machines, and later Vista x64 machines.

Also owned an iPod (5G, 60GB), and it sucked as well. Had to use horrible iTunes to sync my music collection, which was painfully slow and consumed about quadrillion MB of RAM.

So I got Zune 80GB and am happy now :-) Vista + Zune + XBox 360 + Office 2007 + Visual Studio + Live.com + Exchange + Windows Mobile work so well together :) I can clearly see why about 95% of people (worldwide) prefer it over Mac.

Heh, both of your macs had IBM processors in them so that might make a difference. I don't like Itunes either so we'll see how long it is before I try to find quicktime and itunes replacements.

Btw, just got my mac today. Did a little looking through the menus and immediately installed USB overdrive cause I can't stand the default mouse movements. Right now I'm using boot camp to install vista. I'll go back to the mac side in a minute to throw on VMware fusion. See if I can break it before the night is over. :p

[Rakeesh]

I really do consider a Windows XP partition to be essential to the Mac experience

That.