“There is a reason why I’m always that guy using one of the few Macs stranded away from the sea of PCs in the library. It’s not because Apple’s OS X is superior to Windows in terms of stability and speed, but more along the lines that OS X lets me be extremely productive with several key features. I am adept in utilizing each system to its potential, having used both for years on end. Macs just let me do more,” Paul Stamatiou blogs for his eponymous blog. “Here’s why.”
Why Stamatiou is more productive on a Mac:
• Exposé
• Dashboard
• Spotlight
• QuickSilver
Full article – in which the four bullet points above are explained – here.
MacDailyNews Take: So, what makes you more productive on a Mac than you are on that Windows box that force on you at work?
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Thankfully I am in the minority – I never use Windows. I only can assume mine is better. I still do want to play some of those intriguing PC games, though…
No worry about crashes and superior window managment, basically.
First?
“It’s not because Apple’s OS X is superior to Windows in terms of stability and speed, but more along the lines that OS X lets me be extremely productive with several key features.”
Talk about understating the obvious. It’s just because OS X is stable and fast that lets you be productive in all aspects of computing.
Or am I being obtuse?
What about the changes in Vista?
Vista will make Windows more like OS X ( sad but true) and that will be enough to keep people from migrating to Apple…that and the cost of repurchasing applications for another platform.
Launchbar and Default folder in combination with Tigers built in features make for by far the most productive work invironment avaialbe on any platform. I own a large format quickprint shop, we handle dozens of projects a day and keep all client files archived on line for 24 months before removing them from our workstations. So effeciency in my world will make or break you, and nothing comes close to these systems runing DF and LB. IMHO of course. =)
Not to rant, but this is a big deal to me… but I can que up a dozen or more open apps on my dual G5, Web design, 2D, Ilife, all at the same time, and the machine never stops humming along. I cant even open Illustrator, Photohop and indesign on my XP boxes without all hell breaking loose. This just doesnt seem right. Long live OSX!
I am more productive on my PC because I have ?Autocad. Please Autodesk port to the Mac platform so that my transition will be complete…..
The real time dictionary and the wikipedia widget.
haven’t heard from Steve Jack in a while.
CC: Ummmmmm they don’t have to purchase new programs right away…. BootCamp or Parallel’s! Slow migrations
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CC, exactly the sort of thing Boot Camp was made for. In the end some won’t switch no matter what you say — I can point to many people I work with who are afraid of new technology, even when it has been demonstrated as better, faster, easier, etc. (And I’m talking about only computers here.) Then there are those tech-heads who actually know Windows and understand its faults, yet prefer it anyway. If we can win over a few Ellen Feisses at a time, all the better.
I would argue that Dashboard makes me LESS productive. I probably check my widgets every 3 minutes. It’s like an addiction. I’m sucking at the Dashboard teet constantly.
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unfortunately, I have to agree with mudflapper!
i have no idea how i coped on a computer without expose!
even now i start hammering f-keys on PC’s hoping thinking it’s just a no brainer standard…
expose is king…
Why am I more productive? For me, the OS provides a stable, speedy, intuitive foundation on which world-class apps are built.
1. My uptime is much higher on a Mac, by a factor of at least three. Less maintenance time means more productivity, hands down.
2. The OS and the apps don’t fight each other. They work together, which means that I don’t have to maintain twenty sets of internal data sets that overlap rarely. There’s less I have to remember so I can focus on doing what needs to be done.
3. My computing experience is not interrupted by steal-the-entire-CPU events common with Norton A/V.
There are many more reasons, but these are three most salient.
it just works
yeah
it FSCKING DOES !
macs have always had expose
in 7.0.1 we had a similar feature in apple works
also we had retrieve it! , a spotlight-alike in 1994
macs have always been ahead of their time
i love expose but almost never use spotlight and the dashboard. The other 2 things i really like are smart and burn folders which are really convenient. =)
Why is Windows less productive? I am running XP under Parallels. It runs very fast. But in the course of creating a document in Wordpad I accidentally hit some key combo that changed the input mode such that every time I typed the letter e Windows transferred me to My Computer. I had to copy and paste the letter e because I did not know how to switch out of the keyboard mode. This used to happen to me often at the office where I used to work (only some of the time, thank God) on a Windows NT box.
Do any of you know how to turn on the built in firewall in Windows XP? I think it’s supposed to have one.
QuickSilver, Remote Desktop (update all my macs at once), Spotlight, Dashboard, Smart Folders, Desktop Manager (with SmackBook hack), and ummm… iLife.
Aside from my PowerBook, I use a Windows machine (that I built myself) for gaming. Does it work? Sure. I don’t use it for web browsing, so i didn’t bother installing Norton, etc. Sure, it works, but I’ve never found a decent Windows counterpart for any of the utilities I just mentioned.
I use a PC at work, but could be more productive if I had the equivalent of AppleScript.
Anyone aware of a multi application scripting language available for XP?
Beryllium-
Start > Control Panel > Network Connections > Show All Connections
Right-click the connection you wish to firewall.
Click the Advanced Tab, and you’ll find the firewall options there.
here’s the key:
if you’re productive on a mac it’s because that’s what you’re used to. Honestly there are people out there that would be hindered by a mac because it’s not the same. I’m used to a Mac so that’s what I perform best with. In the end it’s just a tool.
What about the changes in Vista?
Vista will make Windows more like OS X ( sad but true) and that will be enough to keep people from migrating to Apple…that and the cost of repurchasing applications for another platform.
Vista is NOTHING like OS X. Vista is a poor, third-rate facsimile of what Microsoft thinks that OS X is.
Just remember this: when OS X 10.5 Leopard launches, Vista will now be 5 years behind. By the time that WIndows next OS (the one after Vista) launches, that one will have been almost ten years behind 10.5.
Apple: Quality over Quantity. Windows: Crap in – Crap out.
mdn is so desparate for news they are trolling personal (“who are these people?”) websites for things to fill their website….
This guy is 19 years old…
Paul Stamatiou is a 19 year old junior attending the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Paul resides in Houston, Texas when classes are not in session.
Paul Stamatiou’s Specialties:
Systems – Windows 95-2000, (x64) XP, Server 2003, Mac OS 8.3-9, OS X, Linux (Fedora Core , Gentoo , Mandrake, Suse, Ubuntu 5.10, Knoppix STD)
Languages – XHTML, CSS
General Understanding – PHP, MySQL, VoiceXML, C, MatLab, Java, Ruby on Rails
Adobe – PhotoShop (4-9)
Macromedia – Dreamweaver, Fireworks
Novell – Netware, Zenworks 6.5 Desktop Management Client
Symantec – Corporate Antivirus, Ghost, Ghost Multicast Server 8.0
Other – phpMyAdmin, WordPress