User blog:Molokaicreeper/I switched: Not missing OS X a bit... I still miss OS 9 however.

In February of 2011 I made a decision I would have never done in my computer history life. I switched from Macintosh to Windows. Is that right?... Yes. It was about time.

After 20 years of devotion to Apple products, I came to a state of realization. The reason that I originally fell in love with Macintosh computers was gone forever.

It had been gone since 2001, really, but I could still deal with the "flaw" by means of work-arounds (with the help of a buggy Classic, restarting into OS 9, support from Apple, etc). Retracing my steps, the new Mac OS X 10.0 was a disaster, at least in my Beige Tower 433Mhz. 10.1 wasn't much of an improvement (in my blue/white and translucent grey tower). In 10.1, I still found myself stuck with Finder windows that I couldn't scroll (a common complaint that followed OSX users until 10.2). It was a bitter start, a rough start. If I had bought an OS X native Mac, I bet it would have been easier to deal with. BUT here comes the honest and sad truth: Macs ARE expensive.

Mac OS 10.2: No hard feelings right?
Yes, that's the title. Here comes someone who is still bitter about this. Holding a grudge aren't ya? anyways...

Apple finally released a stable, workable version of OS X when they released 10.2. What? Let me get this straight, this WAS the company who criticized Microsoft for not getting Windows right until their 3.1 release... A bit cocky aren't we? They said Microsoft rushed it, hmm well what in the world was the rush from Apple? As far as I remember, Apple had never had such an influential success since 1984. In 2000 after the success of Y2K (mostly in Macintosh environments), due to some older PC servers not completely immune to it; finally Apple was a "strong" and competitive computer company!

Apple Computer: the cell phone company
Hey, it was a fact. People were angry and didn't like the switch to OS X. Those who "were not", were those who suck-it-up to Apple. Or those who were rich and got OS X native Macs. Plain and simple.

Nowadays people have to own an iPhone and an iPod. They may, or may not, own a Macintosh computer.

--*cough* *cough* sorry, I said that too fast--

Go to Apple website. You get 3 models of Mac computers in each category to choose from. Wow.

Hey! In the early days (in the OS 9 era) Apple was selling a good solid 6 models for each processor speed, some were even low-cost (LC): laptops (Powerbooks), desktops, duos, heck they even sold printers (remember those days)?

Now they sell, handheld pads, and cell phones. If you're rich, you may add a Mac on the side. Not that you really need it.

What is all this Windows nonsense?
Mac OS 10.4.9 was getting old, really old... I remember being close to grabbing my hair a couple of times. I was sick of the way the Mac OS was cleaning up my system. No FREE geek software on the web to help with that though. My IDE hard-drive was failing and OS X claimed it had a tip-top shape S.M.A.R.T analysis. OnyX said the same thing.

Since OS X introduction, it was my third failing drive, but I didn't know that yet. What a coincidence however, SCSI was not supported, due to being "too expensive" to maintain; and obsolete. *cough* *cough* I must be getting the flu.

I remember reformatting a good number of those and getting 1 year of work done with them. Try to reformat an IDE drive, if it DOES survive, give it a month or two... then be really for a HARD crash.

I don't get it. My brother's Windows computer's hard disk has 5 or 6 bad sectors, it says so in the De-fragmenting application that came with Windows. And still he's not crashing as much as my Mac is.

Oh I remember those endless spinning beach-balls, wow they'd never end. All of a sudden my clock was unresponsive. If I was lucky I could continue to work, with a frozen clock. You see, every time I'd plug a USB mouse, or Firewire external hard disk, then would unplug it (ejecting it of course), I'd end up with a frozen clock!

Guys, guys... this is not complete (nowhere close) give me some time to include references...