Anyway, sometimes I find it hard to believe you’re not on Apple’s payroll. :P

Hey, I’ve written non-flattering things about Apple before. There are many Apple-isms that drive me nucking futs. Apple, themselves, are a very unapproachable company and despite Steve Jobs’ declaration that “the era of competition” ended 11 years ago, they seem to take every chance they can get to show up Microsoft. That whole comparison skit for Vista in WWDC last year was nothing but a fanboy circle-jerk, and it highlights one of the biggest things about the “Mac community” as a whole that I strongly detest. Apple, on the other hand, just love to feed those wankers with that kind of shit. The Mac fanboy community is what kept me away from the Mac for so damn long (that and OS 7.5/8/9’s general shittiness).

What this posting is, is not a Windows XP/Vista versus Mac OS X rant. It’s not an “OMG U FAGOTS BUY A MAC LULZ” fanboy rant. It’s basically my own selfish posting, that explains why I’m going all Mac, because it’s better suited towards my needs nowadays. Not everyone needs to run 64-bit right now, or a truckload of VMs. If anything, if I hadn’t already been using OS X for the past 3 to 4 years now, then switching from Windows to OS X would be far more difficult than dealing with the migration from XP to Vista.

Just because I’m going all Mac on the desktop, doesn’t mean I take back my disparaging comments about the immaturity and fanboyism of the Mac community as a whole, nor does it mean I’m going back on my “every OS sucks balls” theorem. It just suits me better as a platform of choice for me now, and it doesn’t feel like I’m at work when I use it.

But, if it makes people feel better, I could probably write several paragraphs about how Vista SP1’s been very handy at work, and how I’m actually using UAC and fast user switching for domains to increase productivity.

Anyway, sometimes I find it hard to believe you’re not on Apple’s payroll. :P

And personally the only problem I’ve ever had with a 64-bit version of Windows is the drivers. Not so much the things like the video card or motherboard drivers, but more with programs that try to install their own kernel mode stuff. You know, things like Daemon Tools, and the copy protection everybody loves to hate, Starforce.

I assume your virtualization software installs some drivers for network/usb/sound access as well. Any virtualization program worth its salt should have 64-bit versions of these by now though, since Windows XP x64 has been around for a few years now. I wouldn’t even touch Vista for something as intensive as virtualization.

If anything, you could say I’m switching to OS X to run Windows more, as my next planned purchase is mostly for VM related stuff in order to do up mock XP/Vista based domains. Hell, the Home Server isn’t going anywhere, either.