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Thursday, December 13, 2012

10 stupid n00bs (noob) myths about Mac OS (iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook)

Myth #1. Mac App Store is not the App Store. Its the myth that you install all the apps from Mac App Store the same easy way as you do it on iOS App Store. Many users still believe that Mac App Store the same way rich of software as App Store for iOS devices - but its currently not (at least in January 2013). For today Mac App Store has only 10,000 applications which can't be compared to the number of applications which you have in the App Store's (750,000) which can't be accessed on Mac since PC architecture and Mobile architecture are different and porting apps without emulation or creating code from scratch isn't possible. And of course one thing Mac users don't have on their Macs -- is convenience of apps moderation. Even though Mac well known to its users by its secure OS architecture (no viruses on the Mac) - you can't completely have trust to the app you're installing outside Mac App Store since programmer can make your mac whatever he wants to do, once you entered your master user account password per app request.
Myth #2. There's no app crushes, and Mac OS is stable system. Yes, Mac OS foundation is very firm - its UNIX with its wonderful architecture. But there's one problem with UNIX - graphic systems on UNIX aren't the same 100% stable as command line processes of UNIX which of UNIX so proud of. My Mac OS graphical system on Mac Mini were completely frozen few times. I already had similar problem on my Linux machines - there I at least could press Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart graphical system without rebooting computer or at least I could Ctrl + Alt + 2,3,4,5 to switch to other terminal screens to fix everything through command line, but there's no such thing on a Mac OS systems. And many apps on Mac OS runs significantly slower (such as GarageBand, iPhoto, Final Cut Pro).

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