Mac Users
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Thanks for your highly educated and enlightened view.
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some people prefer macs some people prefer pcs, people should just use whats best for them and not worry about what other people use, the only thing i dont like is the "mac extremists" who assume every windows pc gets hundreds of viruses, blue screens every 5 minutes and all the other stuff which apple say in the ads which they saw after they threw their pc away because they phoned dell or whoever asking where the any key is and got told to go away. most mac users arent like that though, only a small amount.
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I don't really like the Mac OS much it's alright but I do prefer Vista, it does not justify the cost of the damn things, for about £1600 you get a iMac with a X1650 card and something like 2GB Ram + a 1.8 Ghz Core2Duo. (I've been using Macs at college for a while)
Only Mac I'd consider is possibly one of the Laptops since I don't really have any interest in gaming on a Laptop anyway.
I'm not silly, my PC is always clean, it's not hassle, it runs snappy and it never crashes, sure some apps and games have their niggles but I can live with that as there's a workaround 90% of the time, it's semi-expected since I'm using a new-ish OS anyway.
The way I see it is it's more effort to keep a PC running clean than it is a Mac, that's about it for me.
Only Mac I'd consider is possibly one of the Laptops since I don't really have any interest in gaming on a Laptop anyway.
I'm not silly, my PC is always clean, it's not hassle, it runs snappy and it never crashes, sure some apps and games have their niggles but I can live with that as there's a workaround 90% of the time, it's semi-expected since I'm using a new-ish OS anyway.
The way I see it is it's more effort to keep a PC running clean than it is a Mac, that's about it for me.
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I have a high end gaming PC and a macbook pro
I love both of them, I have to say I probably use the macbook pro more as it's nice to sit in bed browsing the forums, reading emails, checking schedules, listening to music etc. etc.
However when I want to play games I go to my PC, I use XP and OS X abd benefit the best of both worlds, the ease of use and general comfort of the laptop + OS X as well as not having to bother with anything on my games machine except games.
Neither is better than the other imo, they perform different roles for me and they both perform their roles amazingly!
I love both of them, I have to say I probably use the macbook pro more as it's nice to sit in bed browsing the forums, reading emails, checking schedules, listening to music etc. etc.
However when I want to play games I go to my PC, I use XP and OS X abd benefit the best of both worlds, the ease of use and general comfort of the laptop + OS X as well as not having to bother with anything on my games machine except games.
Neither is better than the other imo, they perform different roles for me and they both perform their roles amazingly!
Mac vs PC
KDE vs Gnome
Notepad vs Wordpad
IE vs Firefox
Spring Clothes Pegs vs the other kind
Theres five good troll subjects for any forum
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That command is so old its almost second nature to most. It made perfect sense when there used to be no eject button on the drives (floppy and early CD drives).
Also made perfect sense as the drives were mounted on the desktop next to the trash can, not in a "my computer" style secondary window.
It's just a brand, and like any brand it gets associated with a distinct group of consumers. Add to that the rather strong vocal minority who worship Apple, hate M$ and want to tell everyone just how good their Mac and OS is. Unfortunately that lot are oblivious to the true facts in any argument
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KDE vs Gnome
Notepad vs Wordpad
IE vs Firefox
Spring Clothes Pegs vs the other kind
Theres five good troll subjects for any forum
.[TW]Fox;10119969 said:
That command is so old its almost second nature to most. It made perfect sense when there used to be no eject button on the drives (floppy and early CD drives).
Also made perfect sense as the drives were mounted on the desktop next to the trash can, not in a "my computer" style secondary window.
[TW]Fox;10119969 said:
It's just a brand, and like any brand it gets associated with a distinct group of consumers. Add to that the rather strong vocal minority who worship Apple, hate M$ and want to tell everyone just how good their Mac and OS is. Unfortunately that lot are oblivious to the true facts in any argument
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lol so true.
Your prices are wrong dude...You must be talking about the mac pro surely.
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I can do that just fine, but what the purpose would be I don't now.
Besied which, I know several bts of software which will crash a MAC just running them together- and this is design software, supposedly what Macs are best at.
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Pointless, plus as there are infinitely more apps made for Windows, by poor programmers, they are bound to crash once or twice. I would love to try that on my laptop, but with at least 200 apps installed, I can't really be bothered
I have a Macbook Pro but I must admit I hate being associated with the "typical Apple user". Why Apple users feel the need to worship Jobs I have no idea, OSX is decent and Apple stuff looks nice - but it's hardly life-changing stuff unless you lead a very sheltered and depressing life to begin with.
The biggest frustration about it is how the fanboys will quite happily justify being disadvantaged somehow as "a feature" or something. The iPhone for example ships with no 3rd party app support, no MMS or 3G, woeful SMS support, limited bluetooth support and a hefty price tag - yet everyone lauds it as a "revolutionary device" and/or tries to justify why features that everyone else has come to expect as standard are missing, etc. It's not just the iPhone either - newest iPod comes with encrypted firmware and people are jumping to Apples defence by claiming the users are better off for it, etc.
Apple, in my opinion, are no better or worse than Microsoft - both of them are only ultimately out to make huge profits, both are no stranger to selling upgrades (OS, hardware, etc) at a big premium and both have been known to alienate customers as and when they see fit. The only real difference between the two is that Apple somehow manage to do all of this traditionally capitalist stuff whilst maintaining a customer fanbase one would normally associate with a much smaller "community" business.
Unfortunately you're largely wasting your breath arguing with people with "the Apple = God mindset" as they're so indoctrinated. I read recently about a guy who exposed a remotely-exploitable flaw in the OSX WiFi stack ending up getting death threats from Apple fanboys. Death threats, over an operating system. That speaks volumes for the typical Apple evangelist imo.
The biggest frustration about it is how the fanboys will quite happily justify being disadvantaged somehow as "a feature" or something. The iPhone for example ships with no 3rd party app support, no MMS or 3G, woeful SMS support, limited bluetooth support and a hefty price tag - yet everyone lauds it as a "revolutionary device" and/or tries to justify why features that everyone else has come to expect as standard are missing, etc. It's not just the iPhone either - newest iPod comes with encrypted firmware and people are jumping to Apples defence by claiming the users are better off for it, etc.
Apple, in my opinion, are no better or worse than Microsoft - both of them are only ultimately out to make huge profits, both are no stranger to selling upgrades (OS, hardware, etc) at a big premium and both have been known to alienate customers as and when they see fit. The only real difference between the two is that Apple somehow manage to do all of this traditionally capitalist stuff whilst maintaining a customer fanbase one would normally associate with a much smaller "community" business.
Unfortunately you're largely wasting your breath arguing with people with "the Apple = God mindset" as they're so indoctrinated. I read recently about a guy who exposed a remotely-exploitable flaw in the OSX WiFi stack ending up getting death threats from Apple fanboys. Death threats, over an operating system. That speaks volumes for the typical Apple evangelist imo.