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Housey said:
To me OSX and my MacBook Pro are where I spend my personal browsing and general 'stuff' time, gaming, business and trying stuff are where I spend my PC time. Both have merits but once I became familiar with the OSX way of doing things, the feel of the MacBook (screen, mousepad, keyboard, pure sex of its build) I really feel my laptops pale in comparison. I still have to reboot an application on my PC's most weeks, I never have to on my MacBook, not so far.

I don't do fanboy, I'm an adult older enough to most of your dads but to me the Mac after millions of years using tech (ok, that's is an exaggeration) is nicer and I don't give a flying **** which is the most secure, best for running stuff I never use, best to write for, best because, well it's so clever because.....I simply want to open the lid and do stuff and for that the MacBook craps on my PC's......well unless I want to game then it loses, BIG. ;)
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For what is essentially a rant that's a good post. Ultimately who cares about which is "better"? All that matters is which works best for the user and their own purposes. I love Mac hardware and OSX as an operating system, but for my own personal use - web browsing, Word and Excel, and gaming, cannot really justify the price. Others, either with more money than me at the moment (such as you Housey, based on the "show your stuff off" thread in GD ;) ), or with different needs to me, would go out and buy a Mac. That's fine. For myself and many others Windows 7 currently does the job. I'm not really sure why it even matters which is objectively better.
 
What does make me laugh is today's 'younger' generation who cannot see why people would want to move away from windows. The 'XP' generation as I call them, who know sod all about anything other than windows. I had one of my cousins ask me why are macs everywhere now, they can't run games. I had to educate the sod into what a console is and why gaming is more focused on them now and that not everyone buys a computer to play games.

One trend I see with those purchasing Macs is that buyers are a lot older than the windows gamers out there, who are busy counting their fps and oc'd cpu speeds. I was one of those, but at the age of 35 now I'm slowly moving away from cluttered ancient windows because I don't game as much and balls to OC'ing as I've done that for years. Most mac owners I know have long given up gaming for consoles.

I run a Coolermaster Stacker, which houses an oc'd 3.7ghz E6600, attached to that are 14 hard disks giving me a total of just over 15TB of data storage. There are bloomin cables all over the place. I want to reduce the stacker's immense footprint in my room, I want less cables. An iMac is really what I want, and then I'll look at building a small home server.

I've used Win and Dos all my life. Since Vista onwards however I've grown sick of the OS. I'm tired of returning home and seeing updates which require me to reboot, hell this is probably my biggest pet hate right now, that I get pestered by an OS to repeatedly reboot.

Getting my first OSX experience in 2009 was a breath of fresh air - drag and drop installs and simple self contained apps that don't scatter files everywhere was what I was in love with immediately.
 
To make a snobbish sounding point not directed at anyone in this thread, places like OcUK are full of people who seem to consider themselves top of the computing food chain just because they can snap together a 'rig' and are power-users of Windows. Their opinion has little weight compared to developers and people who more about hardware than how to overclock it.
 
Spyhop said:
To make a snobbish sounding point not directed at anyone in this thread, places like OcUK are full of people who seem to consider themselves top of the computing food chain just because they can snap together a 'rig' and are power-users of Windows. Their opinion has little weight compared to developers and people who more about hardware than how to overclock it.
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But they are all just opinions, with these debates there is rarely a wrong and right, you are debating subjectives little more...
 
But it's down to how forcefully they're put across. I bite my lip in, say, politics, because although I have opinions, I realise that I know sod all in the grand scheme of things.
 
Spyhop said:
But it's down to how forcefully they're put across. I bite my lip in, say, politics, because although I have opinions, I realise that I know sod all in the grand scheme of things.
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When they are not in here they are on YouTube posting comments about which tank is best or which jet plane kicks another's ass ;)
 
Kainz said:
It's because this forum is often visited by bored apple bashers like yourself. Most likely upset by the fact that apple's general prescence is increasing at a somewhat rapid pace in the computer world. Your arguments and 'complaints' are tired and old.
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Are you being serious? :confused: :(
 
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