no back/forward button support? that’s typical, the "Mighty Mouse" doesn’t even have back or forward, let alone a right click, aint so mighty to me, especially for $70USD MSRP (what a rip off) right click too hard for users to understand? What about the friggin Expose button? that’s even more convoluted to beginners,
no scroll? ok thats just wasting my time now,
Plug-in’s? even ie has plug ins
Configurable? With opera i can configure all my hotkeys and short keys,
Mouse gestures? Opera has these built in and all the gestures mapped already, its so handy for browsing to switch between tabs, open new tabs, close tabs, go back and forward without the back and forward buttons (some crappy mice don’t have them for some reason)
Voice command? Only opera has this as far as I know
Bittorrent? Opera has this built in
Quick dial? I can see thumbnails of all the most popular websites I go to right on my start screen as well as a google search field, no other browser has that
Tab trash? Ive accidentally closed some tabs I REALLY didn’t want too, with opera I can just get it out of the trash
Auto reload previously opened tabs? In the rare event something causes opera or my computer to crash, opera automatically remembers your previous tabs that were opened, you can tell opera to either start from exactly where you left off or just open a page of your choice
Widgets? Opera has widgets built in (the install package is less than 10MB)
A REAL full screen mode? When I say full screen I really mean it, I don’t want to see back and forward buttons, I don’t want to see a address bar, I just want the page to fill my screen.
Fastest browser? Only opera has that title since opera is faster than mozilla on linux and mozilla is faster than firefox. Firefox 2 has gotten so damn slow and bloated, I don’t even want to use it anymore, IE even starts faster and renders things slightly quicker than FF. not to mention im tired of updating FF every 2 weeks because of bug fixes. IE is just a joke and no one will ever use that POS again. With opera its not as annoying with the updates since it has the fewest number of holes in security
Auto block spam images (advertisements)? Opera has this built in, just right click the page, his blocked content, get RID of the stupid ads and crap you don’t want to see, click ok and done, and you never have to see them again, so handy and its already built in, no need to screw around with FF extensions
Mask your browser ID? Opera has it built in if you need to change what your browser shows up as
All the shortcut keys in opera on the keyboard are also pre programmed, close tab, open tab, close all tabs, close all tabs but active, back, forward, so much more handy than any other browser. With FF you have to map them, im not going to map those damn keys every time I install a new browser on a computer I have to use, that is just annoying.
jersey_emt said:
The new Macs are priced quite close to an equivalent PC. And the G5's are no more, every new Mac has at minimum a single Intel Core 2 Duo processor, except for the low-end Mac Mini with a Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo).
Another added bonus is with Parallels software, you can run XP or Vista alongside OS X (not dual-booting where you have to restart to change operating systems; they both run at the same time, and as long as you have enough memory, both run smoothly and quickly at the same time). So you can continue to use your PC workflows until you are comfortable doing everything in OS X. That is what I do -- I only use Windows for testing purposes (I am a web programmer and developer, and need to test any work I do with Internet Explorer on a PC), and for the rare handful of apps with no OS X equivalent.
no, no apple product is equiv price to anything, they are all just a rip off, you name any apple product and ill find somethign to slaughter it (on the pc end)
theres no point in dual booting, you still cant run everything properly, apple hardware is NOT 100% compatible with PC stuff, booting into vista with out full HW acceleration does not count. besides anything for mac theres a pc equiv for cheaper or free that runs faster
osx is not more stable, i have to use a bad mac mini at work and it dies every second day, pin wheel of death or freezes on a gray screen. OSX wont bluescreen, but it wont tell you anything when it dies, at least windows will tell you what module or what address is ram had a problem so a REAL user will troubleshoot the problem
