Mac users' elitism

kitten_caboodle · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:47

dirtydog said:
? The cheapest Mac laptop is £749, which is around $1500 US. For that you get a 13" screen, 512MB of RAM and not even a DVD writer.

sorry, I was logged into the UK site so with my discount it came in at just under £500. My mistake

I'd just order it from the States anyway

Mr_White · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:48

PhilthyPhil said:
Macs don't protect you from viruses, it's just that no one has bothered to write a virus for macs.

I can't be bothered to type the same old crap out.

But the simple fact is that it's a whole lot more than "hackers can't be bothered"

Raikiri · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:48

kitten_caboodle said:
No they can't. Can they protect against viruses without expensive software? Didn't think so

Avast, AVG... Oh and here is a classic for you, there are practically no viruses for Macs because theres no point in targetting so few people

Damn, beaten but my point still stands. If OSX had the popularity of Windows it would have the same problems.

Mr_White said:
I can't be bothered to type the same old crap out.

But the simple fact is that it's a whole lot more than "hackers can't be bothered"

Would this be encryption etc. which people always find a way around...

kitten_caboodle · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:49

PhilthyPhil said:
Macs don't protect you from viruses, it's just that no one has bothered to write a virus for macs.

ok, semantics again. You can't get a virus on a Mac and you don't need expensive software to stop it. Same principle, different wording. And $loth - depends where you buy them and what you buy.

Can't you people just agree to disagree?

kitten_caboodle · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:49

Raikiri said:
Avast, AVG... Oh and here is a classic for you, there are practically no viruses for Macs because theres no point in targetting so few people

Damn, beaten but my point still stands. If OSX had the popularity of Windows it would have the same problems.

He said PC's can do everything a Mac can. Clearly they can't

The reasons behind it are largely irrelevant.

Mr Joshua · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:49

Can macs play games? Someone on another message board who owns a mac said they would but not as good as a pc could, is that true?

Edited because I'm not having a good day

dirtydog · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:50

Mr_White said:
I can't be bothered to type the same old crap out.

You don't normally let it stop you *giggles*

But the simple fact is that it's a whole lot more than "hackers can't be bothered"

That is a large part of it though, wouldn't you say? Why target 10% of users when you can target 90%?

alexakasloth · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:50

kitten_caboodle said:
Can't people just agree to disagree?

Mr_White · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:50

kitten_caboodle said:
ok, semantics again. You can't get a virus on a Mac and you don't need expensive software to stop it. Same principle, different wording. And $loth - depends where you buy them and what you buy.

Can't you people just agree to disagree?

The ignorance of some people in this thread is just astounding. (Omg an up him self mac user!!!on2e2on2e FFS A WINDOWS USER WOULDN'T SAY THAT)

They're basically slagging something off for the sake of it, without any real knowledge, or experience.

PhilthyPhil · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:51

kitten_caboodle said:
Can't you people just agree to disagree?

Threads would be rather short and boring if we all just said "I disagree with you but I respect your opinion", a slagging match is far more fun

kitten_caboodle · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:52

Mr_White said:
The ignorance of some people in this thread is just astounding. (Omg an up him self mac user!!!on2e2on2e FFS A WINDOWS USER WOULDN'T SAY THAT)

They're basically slagging something off for the sake of it, without any real knowledge, or experience.

that's ok, we know we're right

/mac elitism

PhilthyPhil said:
Threads would be rather short and boring if we all just said "I disagree with you but I respect your opinion", a slagging match is far more fun

Very true. Please continue

alexakasloth · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:52

Mr_White said:
They're basically slagging something off for the sake of it, without any real knowledge, or experience.

And you know that the OP and other members have no real experiance how?

dirtydog · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:52

Mr_White said:
The ignorance of some people in this thread is just astounding.

I can't argue with that

kitten_caboodle · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:53

$loth said:
And you know that the OP and other members have no real experiance how?

because they're still using Windows

/more mac elitism

Mr_White · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:53

PhilthyPhil said:
Threads would be rather short and boring if we all just said "I disagree with you but I respect your opinion", a slagging match is far more fun

I don't mind slagging matches, just as long as people have real experience (read: have owned one for a reasonable amount of time) or knowledge of the subject in question.

Jet · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:56

dirtydog said:
You don't normally let it stop you *giggles*

That is a large part of it though, wouldn't you say? Why target 10% of users when you can target 90%?

People create viruses for more than just monetary gain and the kudos you would get in the virus community for bringing OSX to its knees would be motivation enough.

Also, it's known that 99% of Mac users don't have anti-virus, therefore the success rate would be nearly 100%. Not so on Windows computers.

alexakasloth · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:56

kitten_caboodle said:
because they're still using Windows

/more mac elitism

You are terrible

kitten_caboodle · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:57

$loth said:
You are terrible

Good though wasn't it!!

Mr_White · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:58

$loth said:
And you know that the OP and other members have no real experiance how?

You can spot it a mile off by their attitudes.

dirtydog said:
I can't argue with that

Oh goody, another veiled personal attack, bit of a **** aren't you.

I wonder if I'll get away with my personal attack like you do with all of yours, if only I was as great as you.

Jet · 14 Jan 2007 at 15:58

Mr Joshua said:
Can macs play games? Someone on another message board who owns a mac said they would but not as good as a pc could, is that true?

Edited because I'm not having a good day

There are quite a few games for Mac and now, because Macs have Intel chips, you can install Windows on them as well as OSX. Therefore you can do absoluely everything on a Mac that you can do in Windows. You just have to boot into Windows. That includes games.

Having said that, the choice of graphics cards is lower so if you want to play at max settings you should probably choose Windows.