mac mini

megaman8x · Post by **megaman8x** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:18 am

MrSiggler wrote:
BlackAura wrote:
Not just games, but applications. Think of all those that they just don't have on the mac.
Name five that are useful to non-geeks that have no equivalent on a Mac. If there are that many, you shouldn't have a problem.
Yes, please. Let's see a list.

kazaa
open canvis
bit tornado
rambooster
regcleaner
mevis becon typing
snag it
printmaster
cleancache

thats just off the top of my head.

It kinda unfair to compare windows to apple since windows has the problem of trying to be compatible with millions of companys hardware while apple makes there own..very unfair.

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:33 am

He said programs that have no equivalent. Let's see...

kazaa== acquisition/poisoned/xFactor
Open Canvas... no idea what this is, but I assume some kind of painting program which could be done in illustrator or photoshop
Bit Tornado== Bittorrent, Azureus, Tomato Torrent
Rambooster... again no clue... but go to http://www.versiontracker.com and type what it does.
Regcleaner-- There is no registry on Mac since I assumed this has to do with Registry
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.... any other type teaching program... besides who really uses these now? But for all fairness, Mario Teaches Typing.
Snag It.... what does this do that a Mac cannot?
Printmaster and CleanCache, again one sounds like a horrible program like Print Shop Pro, and the other sounds like some form of utility which is probably built right into OS X.

Again, he said not just programs-- but program equivalencies.... so name a program that has no equivalent on a Mac-- something you can do on WinXP that you can't on OS X. I'll give you Regcleaner or anything to do with the registry... but a few more?

PS: sorry if i came across as a jackass, just trying to take part in a friendly argument.

megaman8x · Post by **megaman8x** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:45 am

it depends but i can name a lot it has to do with game making(not 3d) for non programmers and
and clean cache:www.butuglysoftware.com
and open canvas is pretty much for making comics but makes it real simple
and as for kazaa it cant be an equivilant if they connect to different p2p servers.
rescoure tuner
soft ice
rescoure hacker
screen booty
flash mx
download accelerator
systran translator *japanese*
Learn Japanese
director studio
razor lame
fruity loops

go ahead and critizie ?D

megaman8x · Post by **megaman8x** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:52 am

heres some more:

RPG Maker series
fighter maker series
shooter maker series
sim dating series
most good dos programs *too many to name*

want some more?

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 3:47 am

most good dos programs *too many to name*

Well, why didn't you just say "most good windows apps that aren't on Mac" if you're going to be that informative

spaghetti · Post by **spaghetti** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:07 am

Anybody who denies the elegance and beauty of OS X is blind. That said Windows has come a long way in recent years and isn't the crash-prone piece of crap from 1996 that everyone seems to think it is. Millions of configurations and devices supported, that's something Windows has over OS X, and that really should count for something.

The iPod Shuffle is retarded, but I'm this close to plunking down on a Mac Mini. The only thing holding me back is my entirely unfounded hatred of Mac lovers/cultists. They like have a silent orgasm everytime they touch something with a shiny blue Apple logo on it...

$~\/~$

Completely and entirely unfounded and unfair hatred, but at least I'm honest about it. I don't need to make up lies about OS X or PowerPC or Steve Jobs or Jesus to justify how I feel. I JUST HATE THEM!!! THEM AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO WATCH CHARMED!!!

*cough*

P.S. Obviously I just re-discovered the smileys popup...

Post by **|darc|** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:22 am

megaman8x wrote: and as for kazaa it cant be an equivilant if they connect to different p2p servers.

Poisoned is a giFT frontend. giFT is a daemon that will connect to FastTrack.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:44 am

nymus wrote:... people will continue to waste money on a ps2/ps3/xbox/xbox2 no matter how good I think this mac mini is.

What the hell do those gaming consoles have to do with Macs?

Post by **pixel** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 6:45 am

megaman8x wrote:it depends but i can name a lot it has to do with game making(not 3d) for non programmers and
and clean cache:www.butuglysoftware.com
and open canvas is pretty much for making comics but makes it real simple
and as for kazaa it cant be an equivilant if they connect to different p2p servers.
rescoure tuner
soft ice
rescoure hacker
screen booty
flash mx
download accelerator
systran translator *japanese*
Learn Japanese
director studio
razor lame
fruity loops

go ahead and critizie ?D

Kazaa IS FastTrack. We have Macromedia Studio, download accelerators. Also, you keep listing programs that have to deal with Windows OS-specific functions. Obviously no one is going to port reg hack software to OS X. I think I see some mentioned about LAME.. which is a mp3 codec, which of course we have. Everything else would make you a prime canidate for not getting a mac. You're also an otaku.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:44 am

and clean cache

Built-in. The system will happily clean all traces of your online activity for you.

and open canvas is pretty much for making comics but makes it real simple

Oddball specialist application. You can name a few hundered thousand of those for virtually any OS. But really, how many people actually use them?

and as for kazaa it cant be an equivilant if they connect to different p2p servers.

Actually, it can. But there are Kazaa clients available anyway.

rescoure tuner
soft ice
rescoure hacker

Err... "Resource tuners" are universally rubbish. None of them actually do anything. SoftICE is a debugger, and there are plenty of debuggers available. It's also a development tool - not really very useful to most people, is it? Resource hacking programs are irrelevant on non-Windows systems - you just don't need them.

screen booty

Never heard of it. Sounds like garbage / spyware.

flash mx
director studio

Present. As are pretty much all of Macromedia's other applications.

download accelerator

There are plenty of these. They don't really work unless the server's overloaded anyway, and in that case you shouldn't be using one...

systran translator *japanese*
Learn Japanese

Dunno. Again, oddball.

razor lame

Lame the MP3 encoder? Available for nearly anything. MP3 encoders in general are available on nearly anything too.

fruity loops

Garage Band? Never used either of them, but I think they're supposed to do the same thing.

RPG Maker series
fighter maker series
shooter maker series
sim dating series

Let's abbreviate this one... Games. We already mentioned games

SuperMegatron · Post by **SuperMegatron** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:10 am

spaghetti wrote: They like have a silent orgasm everytime they touch something with a shiny blue Apple logo on it...

I touched my ibook this morning and creamed my pants. I might go back and touch it again

SuperMegatron · Post by **SuperMegatron** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:14 am

systran translator *japanese*
Learn Japanese

We have learn Japanese its 29.99 the mac also has a built in translator so you can translate japanese into english with a click of the button

The Alchemist · Post by **The Alchemist** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:20 am

Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition. Two progs that make my PC something special.

Sanchez · Post by **Sanchez** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:10 am

Ask most of the industry to choose between Final Cut HD and Premiere Pro. See who wins.

Or for that matter, Shake, Motion, Logic Pro, etc. Trying to attack the Mac for a lack of media oriented applications is like trying to say that Sega never makes unique games.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:37 pm

I still haven't seen anything on here without a mac equivalent...

as for fruity loops, has anyone still not heard of reason?

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:08 pm

DVDShrink
DVDx
Daemon Tools
Winamp
Gmail Notifiier
Nero Vision (retrofitting)

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:45 pm

The Alchemist wrote:Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition. Two progs that make my PC something special.

...you're using adobe apps as a reason to get a PC over a Mac?

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:52 pm

megaman8x wrote: kazaa

if anything a lack of kazaa is an argument FOR buying a mac, that is one useless POS programm, the whole network is full of shit and to top if off, kazaa is a shit client which cant be trusted for its tendency to get spyware into your system, a friend of mine tried to download "troy" al three tries were german gay porn, other dude wanted daredevil, wound up with swedish porn (i dont have a problem with DLing porn, but if i want porn, ill look for porn, not any random movie)

honestly, i had kazaa installed once, but i used it for 2 downloads after which the paranoia got to me, and i went back to DC++

Post by **I.M. Weasel** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:54 pm

EvilN wrote:DVDShrink
DVDx
Daemon Tools
Winamp
Gmail Notifiier
Nero Vision (retrofitting)

To all of you; stop naming programs and go search for an equivalent. Mac may not have 'Program X' but it'll have a program that will do exact same function.

search her dammit http://www.macupdate.com &
http://www.versiontracker.com.

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:59 pm

EvilN wrote:DVDShrink
DVDx
Daemon Tools
Winamp
Gmail Notifiier
Nero Vision (retrofitting)

DVDShrink, DVDx == DVD2OneX, Roxio Popcorn, Fast DVD Copy, MacTheRipper
Winamp == Audion, iTunes, QCD, any other mp3 player really. Although I will give you the fact that we do not have Internet TV through any of these mp3 players
Gmain Notifier == Gcount, a few of them are on versiontracker
Nero Vision == Toast/Popcorn/Jam/another CD burning/compression app