Agreed.

Both Mac and PC have their uses.
The stability, reliability, and long life of Mac compys is undeniable. If you're comparing specs with price, I would rather pay the perceived "extra" and get a higher quality product made by Apple.
I love my 4 year old iBook G4. It's still goin' strong.

I feel that the Pokémon world would use Macs. More streamlined, less bugs, more efficient. According to screens on anime computers, the anime uses PCs, though. Unless they have a totally different, custom OS.
I don't recall anything from either manga.

I would never, ever want my pokes to be transferring across the region, and suddenly a blue screen of death kills them halfway through.

>>3

Red booted up the PC.

Linux > All.

>>3
Actually, based on watching the desktops (at least in Kanto) I came to the personal conclusion that the normal system is Linux based.
Also, think demographics. The Pokemon transfer system was made by a guy called "Akihabara" who had the free time to mess around with holograms and built Porygon from scratch. There's no way he didn't program it with Linux.

>>11
Wait, what? Akihabara? Where the heck did you get that info?

The porygon episode of the show.

no anime is going to have generic mac or windows pc, if you look at just about ANY tv show the OS will be UNIX based(most likely linux), I think part of this is due to the simple fact that you only need to put in a cd and reboot to use it and avoid being sued

>>35
I've seen lots of anime that uses a pear or other generic fruit in place of an apple, and that Digimon movie that I've forgotten about blatantly uses a full blown Japanese Windows 98 desktop, no doubt.

You're right though, they would be sued to hell if a character shouted "Fucking Vista" for... Whatever reason ;).

Linux.

'Nuff said.

Arguing about OSs/browsers is like arguing about condoms. You can put hours of thought into picking the perfect color and flavor and texture, but in the end whatever you pick is still going to be unpleasurable to use, and then it's going to fucking break and make your life harder than it needs to be.

>>82
That is a beautiful analogy.

Windows does things well, but Macs are more stable and do graphics better. However, the main reason for the low number of viruses and such on Macs is that less people use them than PCs, so less viruses are written that affect Macs. As for crashing, I've had Macs crash on me more often the PCs.

As for what they use in the Pokemon world, I can't say for sure, but the original transfer system was created by a man named "Bill".

>>93
>created by a man named "Bill"

That's clever; I didn't realize the parallel there, although I'd bet the localizers did that on purpose.

>>93
What a megabump.

>Windows does things well
Like application errors, forgetting to patch decade old bugs, forcing standards like ActiveX, .NET and D3D and instability on every fullscreen application ever made.

>but Macs are more stable
>I've had Macs crash on me more often the PCs.
What? In my experience, they've been very unstable. I can't even count how many times "Safari has closed unexpectedly" when I've been using it.

>and do graphics better.
Other way around, less support for hardware and software. Unless you actually buy into their marketing campaign that Macs were made for hip, trendy artists.

>However, the main reason for the low number of viruses and such on Macs is that less people use them than PCs
Actually, no. It's because of Unix file permissions, namely the ones that don't allow downloaded files to be run without chnod +x and all system files being innacessable to anybody who isn't root. Microsoft have filed a patent for a `sudo` command called "Rights Elevator", which didn't go down too well. I don't know why they've started caring about security now, Windows has more holes than a block of Swiss cheese being shot by Tommy gun, it relies on third party security companies to keep the OS safe.
tl;dr This isn't an upside to Mac, it's just a reminder of how terrible Windows' security measures are.

>so less viruses are written that affect Macs.
There's plenty. See: http://gizmodo.com/5139116/os-x-iwork-trojan-revamped-repackaged-rereleased-in-photoshop . The only reason people say "Macs don't get viruses" is because they need root priveleges do to anything really destructive, and let's be honest, most Mac users wont even know what a "root privelege" is, never mind set it using the big scary terminal.

>As for what they use in the Pokemon world, I can't say for sure, but the original transfer system was created by a man named "Bill".
Best bit of your post by far.

>>95
>Safari
Ha - nobody uses Safari.

>>96
Hey at least it's not IE.

Linux is for faggots. AT&T SVR4 was here.

Seriously. People ask me why I use OSX and Solaris. How's that full screen flash and flash video working; how's your adobe support, linux? How's your process control and filesystem? That's what I thought.

The pokemon storage system is clearly BSD based. Commercial UNIX works... unlike linux. And before you linux fags get all up in a rage. Sun and Novell have done more for you guys with open source than you can imagine (the hardcore GNU guys hate to admit this and get all red in the face whenever it's mentioned).

>>95
You use safari? Haha! Fag. I have yet to see my finder crash on my G4, and I did some nasty things with that machine. Software running on the OS is not an indicator of OS stability. Find a better browser.

>>100
>You use safari? Haha! Fag. I have yet to see my finder crash on my G4, and I did some nasty things with that machine. Software running on the OS is not an indicator of OS stability. Find a better browser.

Sure is intolerance around here.

Actually, no, I hate it, as well as Apple's philosophy on everything. I was forced to use Safari on Macs as part of my Higher Computing course, as well as my Cisco IT Essentials course. Both the OS and the browser were a slow, clumsy pain in the ass to use and I'm glad I'm finally getting the chance to go to a college where this sort of thing doesn't exist.

To answer your post, >How's that full screen flash and flash video working
Working as intended, thank you. To reply to that question, how much do you actually need fullscreen Flash support, apart from watching Youtube videos with a resolution so low you can count the pixels? I can't remember using it more than twice.

>how's your adobe support
Considering Linux gets test versions and betas before all other operating systems, I'd say rather well. I was using Flash Player 10 months before Windows users could even install it. Adobe have asked big names in open source about the demand in their products before and the neckbeard warriors have proudly responded with "If it's not free, we don't want it", which is true for the majority of Linux users I think.

>How's your process control
Pretty damn good, in my own opinion. If one application crashes, I can just quit that without bringing the whole OS down with it. Killing processes on Macs are a hassle though, last time I tried `killall` wasn't a recognized command. Couldn't even find anything resembling a task manager, then again, there was no software repositories to look through :P.

>filesystem
Ext4 is a joy to use. Zero fragmentation, file and volume sizes bigger than I get my head around and nanosecond timestamps are a 1-up over pretty much every other FS, despite not having much practical use. ReiserFS is blisteringly fast, but not something I would make a new partition for.

>The pokemon storage system is clearly BSD based. Commercial UNIX works... unlike linux.
[This statement needs additional citations for verification.]

>And before you linux fags get all up in a rage.
My blood is already boiling.

>Sun and Novell have done more for you guys with open source than you can imagine (the hardcore GNU guys hate to admit this and get all red in the face whenever it's mentioned).
Guess I'm not a "hardcore GNU guy" then. The open source dream is just that, a dream. I respect what these companies do and hope they continue developing and sponsoring open source projects.

I'd like to know why you're such a fanboy to the point of insulting me because of my choice in software. I've read your posts, you clearly know what you're talking about, but why do you hate Linux so much? You remind me of Garry Newman, average dev, knows his stuff, Linux killed his family so he refuses to look at it with anything but pure hatred.

But I have to admit, you said "fag" 3 times in your post while ignoring the fact that Macs are stereotypically made for gay technophobes/"artists", that's pretty impressive ;).

>>103

I'm fine with linux. In fact, I used it a lot as a kid. Just, it's almost like the '80s UNIX wars: so many distros with different incompatible shit. Now it's nowhere near as bad as it was back then... maybe it's not even directly comparable if at all. But all the different distros running off of the same damn kernal base are still a bit annoying to me. Just a personal eccentricity, I guess.

Also, OSX's task manager is Meta+Opt+Shift+Escape. It's been this for a while. Apple doesn't like advertising this, however.

Heh, killall isn't the only thing that doesn't work. At least there is a major similarity on the OS. The OpenPROM on Apple's PPC computers is unlike every other OpenPROM device out there. I was trying to change the output and input devices on one of my macs so I could use it headlessly (who the fuck still uses dumb-terminals?!), and that turned into the biggest pain imaginable. None of the commands I used on my Sun machines worked. None. And Apple kept horrible documentation on them and buried even that under a huge pile of rubble. At least setenv still worked. T_T

I probably sound really stupid right now.

>>104
>I probably sound really stupid right now.
Not at all, don't think I created this board without realising there'd be some OS arguments.

I agree with you on the but about too many distros, there must be about 3 dozen forks of Ubuntu right now, each with it's own little aesthetic modification or custom repository and I can't imagine how tough it is to test software on all of them.

Oh, and thanks for the task manager command, noted next to `rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone` for when I ever need an admin account.

>>105

>I can't imagine how tough it is to test software on all of them.

Simple: you don't.