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Itt: Smug mac fanboys and angry custom pc owners argue to the death.
Can my GM stop me from buying stock from the store??
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Still spectacuarly wastefull, it's quite a expensive/energy intesive process, to melt/refine aluminium.
And the lightest laptop (macbook air or some thing like that) is made out of pressed and folded aluminium, if they couldn;t make it out of pressed/folding they just didn't want to. (the old ones may well have been made from cheap steel)
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Never happen. Apple users are too smug and Custom PC owners are too busy trying to outdo each other in 3DMark.
Never happen. Apple users are too smug and Custom PC owners are too busy trying to outdo each other in 3DMark.
hey, i don't have 3dmark
I just like my fps to be equal to me refresh rate
That would be be, but the OP didn't listen.
Well I finally got my new macbook!
And it wasnt that I didnt listen - it was because I wanted it asap, and also, I went on finance with it , plus the convinience of if it ever does go wrong, I only have to pop into work to get it looked at and fixed or whatever.
Plus a lot of my uni friends have actually got macs and apparently the HE discount is for one mac / macbook per year, so I couldnt get it anyway.
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Well I finally got my new macbook!
And it wasnt that I didnt listen - it was because I wanted it asap, and also, I went on finance with it , plus the convinience of if it ever does go wrong, I only have to pop into work to get it looked at and fixed or whatever.
Plus a lot of my uni friends have actually got macs and apparently the HE discount is for one mac / macbook per year, so I couldnt get it anyway.
*opens popcorn waits for the flames*
Man of Honour
Man of Honour
Well I finally got my new macbook!
And it wasnt that I didnt listen - it was because I wanted it asap, and also, I went on finance with it , plus the convinience of if it ever does go wrong, I only have to pop into work to get it looked at and fixed or whatever.
Plus a lot of my uni friends have actually got macs and apparently the HE discount is for one mac / macbook per year, so I couldnt get it anyway.
Good for you
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conMACulations 
WOW your mac boots up quicker?? DAMN i guess my 3.6 quad with 4870x2 will have to make way for a mac so i can edit some videos..or something.
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Wow, my phone boots up quicker than 18seconds, and its ready to run what I want, thinking about it its not more powerful than my pc or a mac, maybe I should just buy more phones even though they cant run what I want.
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Please tell me you didn't go with some horrible PC World or similar 29.9% APR horrible finance.
Macs are nice but not so nice as to get locked in a horrible finance deal.
lol, I sell the finance I took out everyday for customers.
Its the buy now pay 6 month later one I did, and your right - If I miss the 6 month deadline, I get locked into a 43 month contract with 29.9% APR!!
Going to pay it off after xmas anyway - so its not a biggie
Wasteful yes but not especially energy intensive, making Aluminium uses 5% of the original energy input if obtained via recycling.
Plus a lot of my uni friends have actually got macs and apparently the HE discount is for one mac / macbook per year, so I couldnt get it anyway.
Wait.. so you already have a mac / macbook?
Wait.. so you already have a mac / macbook?
I think you think Im at uni, but Im not - full time purple shirt land!
lol, I sell the finance I took out everyday for customers.
Its the buy now pay 6 month later one I did, and your right - If I miss the 6 month deadline, I get locked into a 43 month contract with 29.9% APR!!
Going to pay it off after xmas anyway - so its not a biggie
Just as long as you aren't charged an admin fee upon payment like almost all interest free deals have...
I found their support dire, I got a bsod where my windows had become corrupted due to a hdd failure, all I got was a textbook of obvious things to do, try turning it on and off. Then I got "click on start", umm mate i've got a bsod on startup, how is that possible, "it's in the bottom left hand corner" yeah, as I say, blue screen of death.
Maybe i got a particular moron but they seemed totally useless.
Yea , I have to pay £25 admin charge - which is basically a £25 cost for the loan. Plus its not interest free, its buy now pay later
I have a Dell XPS 1330. It cost me £630, the battery lasts up to 7 hours, usually around 5 with general word/internet/PS. It makes hardly any noise, unless it's being used to play games. It Hibernates when I ask it to and sleeps (and instantly starts up again) when it is left for a while (I chose that). Build quality wise it is better than a macbook (I did spend some time looking at macbooks before getting the XPS).
What I am trying to get at is if you get a good windows laptop they will easily compete with the macs, the bonus of mine being the HDD is far bigger (and 7200RPM), it has more ram, a faster processor and a slot loading DVD-RW drive. The only thing I would really like on the mac is the OS and the touchpad, unortunately neither of these can be found on a windows laptop at the moment, but that wasn't enough to sway me to a mac. Half of your post seems to indicate you almost can't cope with a windows machine, because there are too many options, having said that I assume there are almost as many for a mac so... Yes the mac is good, but don't start tarring all windows computers with the same brush, which you seem to have done nicely.
And a large proportion of people say the same about windows laptops. What get's me when people start talking about Apple products is the aura they try and project about them. It is just a machine in the end, and now not much different to a windows machine, again the only real differece is the OS and the case (which is IMO ugly, except the black one, I would have got that if the spec was better
). A lot of people (and this is a general observation, not aimed at anyone specific) who have macs seem to see themselves as above mere windowers, as their machine is the pinacle of excellence, never has problems, never catches viruses, machinery far better (even though it is the same) etc. which is not the case. I know this thread was about a mac in the first place, and some windows users are as bad, but IMO it is usually apple users that start the real **** throwing. We are all just PC users at the end of the day, the only difference is one uses a different OS! CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?!?!
Lets not even start about the iphone...
OP:I want a nice phone, an suggestions?
U1: N95
U2: iPhone!!!
OP: N95 doesn't look bad, but the iPhone doesn't do what I need
U2: iPhone!!!!!!!!
OP: Anything other than the iPhone?
U2: IPHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was that aimed at me? If so I would like to know just where the usual immature comments were in my post.