toosepin said:
Well done, have a cookie. What's wrong with taking pride in your machine? For a lot of people, especially on these forums, their computers are like their cars - a hobby, a project - why do people wash their cars? A lot of people take pride in their machines, just look at how many people have their specs etc in their signatures.
Absolutely nothing, a lot of people over in General Hardware will agree and that's cool.
toosepin said:
People have a choice, people choose to buy Macs for numerous reasons - just because you "don't like it" that people buy a Mac to primarily run another operating system; that's not going to sway me from my next Mac purchase.
I wasn't trying to influence anyone's future purchase plans, unlike the OP. I don't like OS X, that's what I was referring to not the fact people will buy a Mac and re-format. Yes I have tried it, and yes it does have some killer apps but it is too Fisher Price for my liking.. just doesn't float my boat.
toosepin said:
Grow up. Many professionals use Macs for some great reasons. Macs have so many suites of brilliant applications for audio editing, film making, graphic designing. My haircut cost £5 from the local barbers, my clothes are from god knows where and I ride the bus - but I use Macs because they make what I do fun and stress free.
I am a fully-grown thirty-four year old man thanks, I have a fiancee and 4yr old son.. oh, and a house and decent career as a developer. The key part of my statement was "
To a lot of people".
toosepin said:
We'll be seeing you in the motors forum next will we? Slinging abuse at people for driving an Audi which coincidentally is an obvious fashion statement
why would you ever buy one for anything else /sarcasm.
My comparison was indicating that certain social stereotypes
do drive certain cars, I wasn't bashing anyone. People will, however, base a certain portion of their decision-making on looks/appeal of the car in question when it comes to a prospective purchase.
toosepin said:
So you're obviously one of those people who don't think before they post. Why would you rant out a big list of our apparent faults and then finish it off with the equivalent of a 'no offence mate'.
I thought about it long and hard, as I have done about this subject for weeks. If the OP is brash enough to proclaim "everyone should switch to a Mac", why can't I tell him why I don't want to?
toosepin said:
You are pretty pathetic. Stereotyping is not big and its not clever.
Neither is name-calling.
toosepin said:
Because OS X and Apple hardware come hand in hand, It's only fair that posts relating to both are allowed. But maybe you should take all the Mac related posts as a sign that maybe OcUK will eventually create a completely Mac centered forum section. Apple's marketshare is growing so its completely understandable that more posts are popping up in what seems like the only place that seems reasonable.
Linux and Intel/AMD/Sun/Apple/etc hardware also come hand in hand. There are, however, other forums for discussing the latest Maxtor hard drive, or memory upgrades for my server.. why should Apple/Mac stuff be exempt from that and be discussed in a non-relative forum?
toosepin said:
Well if you do I'm sure you'll get what pretty much most people get from this forum. Polite, friendly and helpful advice. Unlike you, we're not all out here to criticise things and kick up a childish fuss.
My posts on this board are pretty much
always exemplary, you are missing my point. This is the wrong forum to discuss Apple hardware, MBP cleaning techniques etc? This forum is under the sub-heading of "Software", not Apple housekeeping and it hacks me off when I come in here only to find an entire page of "which colour Apple carry bag should I get" style threads. My Thinkpad's screen is real dirty, I do need to clean it but I would never post in here and ask for advice? Why should I, and why should a MBP user? Search General Hardware for "laptop" and you will get >20 pages of results, why should MBP hardware queries be any different from a Dell/IBM/Advent hardware query?
It's nothing personal, I also blatantly dislike KDE (<shudder>) so my OS X bashing isn't unique.. don't think you are singled out for special love
