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The price of Mac computers are ridiculously expensive. You can buy like 2 or even 3 Dells for the same price of one normal Mac computer.
Quote from: Dascoo on June 14, 2007, 02:43:29 pmI've had to use macs for my elementary school for 3 years.....and there's nothing special about them. They suck actually. I'd rather use Windows. Crashed on me 4 times, froze like 10 times and this is on a Mac with OSX. Yay.I don't usually ever get into discussions about computers, cause to me, a computer's a computer. But I did hear that apparently Macs can't get viruses, is that true?
I've had to use macs for my elementary school for 3 years.....and there's nothing special about them. They suck actually. I'd rather use Windows. Crashed on me 4 times, froze like 10 times and this is on a Mac with OSX. Yay.
I just don't see why people don't want macs. I can understand if you can't afford them (as if they're that much more expensive) but other than that, with the ability to run windows on an intel mac, the reason to get a PC is....?
in the time it would take to start uo windows fully (all programs loaded) he could turn a mac on, and get a big lead on a project...
"Macs and Mac users. Can't make it better? Put it in a fruity looking case! Why spend millions on research and development on new OS's or hardware that's truly better than your competition when you can spend much less and make it really different on the OUTSIDE and make smarmy "Switch" ads for TV? Welcome to the future! Same ****, new choice of colors. Enjoy your one button mouse and fifteen inch monitor! Upgrade? Don't be silly. Everything is already built in! That way, when you feel like you need a more powerful machine, you don't have the stress of swapping the processor and motherboard for a couple hundred bucks like on a PC. Instead, you spend a couple thousand more and simply throw away your old Mac like an old Dreamcast. Wow! Mac sure is EASIER (toss)! Your neighbors will think you're throwing away an artsy lamp from the 1960's. Not that you're really going to need to upgrade soon, since most Mac users I talk to say things like, "I don't understand PC users. How many word processors do you need?" That's the thing. Mac users think of a computer as a letter-writing machine, or at the most, a box that can run Photoshop and go on AOL and design their Geocities webpage. They've accepted the fact that less than 50% of the good PC games and applications make their way onto a Mac port before they're already old news on the PC. Looking over the game rack in the Mac section of Comp USA is like a Golden Oldies collection. "Hey, I remember Sim City! Back in high school I used to stay up late playing it and would be late for school the next day! Wow. That takes me back." Good games NEVER come out for the Mac first. This could actually contribute to Mac users' attitude that the inability to upgrade their video card, etc. is a non-issue. "Why would i want to do that? My video card is perfectly fine. I don't see why I'd need better graphics than I have right now for years to come." Granted, the Mac user that said this was in the midst of playing "American McGee's Alice" in 2004, which was released for the PC in 2000, and they described it as the most beautiful game they had ever seen. Mac users always complain about how PC's are "too complicated" or that they "don't work properly." Is it really a marketing point that your computer is easier to use for people who are too stupid to use a PC? "Oh my GOD! It just, like, bleepy-bleepy-bleepy der-stroyed the paper I was, like, working on! And, like, it ummmm.. like, sounded, like, so good too, because I'm ummm... like, a master of, like, verbal ummmmm... skills. And like, My Dad's computer-machine-box-thingy just like... DEVOURED it. It's like uhhh ................................................. .................... a bummer (Whew - for a second, I couldn't think of the right word). I mean, like... It couldn't possibly have been like, ummm because I deleted it, or like... ummmm.. I didn't save it after I made changes, or something, because uhhhhhhhhhh I'm.... umm... like smart. I'm Ellen Feiss, and I'm on Ketamine." Gee! It couldn't possibly be because the user is completely inept or that having far more configuration options would be inherently more problematic than shipping a whole computer from the factory with a "Warranty Void If This Seal Is Broken" sticker on it. Think of it as a Toyota Camry vs. a Racecar. The Camry is an all-in-one deal that is steady and reliable. A racecar is much more problematic, but much more configurable for better performance. "Windows PC's CRASH! HAHAHA!" They say it as though Macs NEVER crash or have errors. "Awwwww - it had a little boo-boo! That sucks, but I just can't stay mad at my Mac because he has that sweet little smiley face and a cute widdle turquoise case. Awwwww. Baby's so cute when he spits up!" Another amusing factor is that Mac thinks it's a selling point that their computers can EVEN run some Windows programs like Word and Excel. Mac users have also bragged to me that they can easily burn a cd in either Mac or PC format, as though it's some magical special ability, and not a NEEDED adjustment so Mac users can even joke about being compatible with the OTHER 99% of computers out there. You're PROUD because your product can (and needs to) EMULATE your competitor? "Switch to us, because we're the same!" If the greatest thing you can boast is that you can run your competition's software, isn't that the complete essence of defeat? What a great battle cry! "ME TOO!!!" It's a lot easier and requires a lot less courage and legitimate innovation than, "I'm Better." How many Mac programs are commonly used on PC's? The only one I can think of is Quicktime, and no, I don't think it's time to switch to Mac so it can run native. They want to play both sides of the coin. "We're the same! We're different!" "Think BETTER?" Nope. Just "Think Different." You should have something better to say than, "We're not like our hugely successful competitor. We're some OTHER company and our computers are DIFFERENT. And on the occasion that similarity would strengthen our marketing, we'll opt to say that we're THE SAME. Not better. Not more innovative. We're the OTHER company. Buy OUR'S because it's not THEIR'S." Mac users always joke about Microsoft's monopoly. Look in the mirror sometime. With Mac, not only do you have only one source for an OS, but you have only one source for HARDWARE. That makes Mac a far more monopolistic company than Bill Gates could ever dream of. If Bill Gates said that the only place you could buy a PC or an upgrade for one was from Microsoft, the federal government would eat him alive. That kind of monopoly has been Mac's business method since day one. With PC's you can buy from Dell, Gateway, Acer, Micron, Hewlett Packard, Compaq, Packard Bell, and a plethora of other companies, not to mention that accessories and add-ons can be bought from an even wider array of companies. If you want a Mac, you buy it from Apple, period. Apple allows no competition and no integration, and as a result, they don't ever have to improve. Their users will use Mac even when Macs are shown time and time again to be less useful than PCs. Mac users act like some sort of weird cult of scientologists. They'll defend using a Mac with the same zeal and fervor as some whacked-out doomsday cult member with nothing to back it up besides rhetoric. "SHUT UP! MAC IS BETTER!!!" "In what ways?" "Ummmmm.... I don't know... uhhh... I just LIKE it. Yessss, my Precioussssss. SHUT UP! YOU'RE STUPID! You're BILL GATES' PUPPET! (As though Mac owners are somehow not Steve Jobs' puppets) THIS LITTLE PURPLE BOX OF CIRCUITS CONTAINS THE ANSWERS TO LIFE'S MYSTERIES AND I HOLD THE KEY!!!" "That's a mouse... A transparent mouse, but a mouse nonetheless." "INFIDEL!" Just give it up, guys. Stop trying to throw benchmarks at me like I'm going to trade in my PC and it's hundreds of times more applications, games, and hardware options merely for more processor speed (if it's even applicable). The age of the Mac decisively ended with Win95. VHS was supposedly not as high quality as Betamax. Beta owners didn't try to hang on. They switched. Throw in the towel. As a side note... On my web counter, the Mac OS Slice on the pie chart got so small it disappeared, being overrun by Linux, Windows 2000 and Windows NT4"
Quote from: jrgp on September 30, 2010, 03:36:50 pmOnly anime shows I've felt any interest in over the years are Pokemon (original TV series) and various hentai.so clearly jgrp is a goddamn anime connoisseur. his opinion might as well be law here.
Only anime shows I've felt any interest in over the years are Pokemon (original TV series) and various hentai.
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Macs are expensive, especially when:1. you can't upgrade them.2. developers don't give a **** about mac users.
Quote from: a-4-year-old on June 14, 2007, 02:03:09 pmMacs are expensive, especially when:1. you can't upgrade them.2. developers don't give a **** about mac users.1. Wrong. You can upgrade some components of any new Mac (upgrade processor from a Core Duo to a Core 2 Duo, Apple sells extra RAM for their computers, etc.)2. With Bootcamp, it doesn't even matter.I'm running Windows right now because I kind of have to, but I still think Macs are great computers for any purpose.
Anyway, that's just my $0.02. Linux for stable working environment and anything but games and graphics design stuff (no photoshop : ( ), Mac for professional studio work (NONE of you are doing this, so...), and XP for everything else. XP also overlaps into Linux's and Mac's categories, so there's really no point to getting either one.
Apparently Macs are great for movie making and other creative jobs with programs such as Final Cut Pro, but I've edited sound and movies on Windows and Macs to a professional standard in my time at collage and I haven't found any significant advantages for choosing one over the other, so I still don't know why Macs are supposed to be 'the designer's computer'.
Mac is late. To everything.1. Ipod was not the first mp3 player, and certainly one of the worst2. Iphone was not even close to the first cell phone that can do things like OMG INTERNET3. Mac is way late on getting PC game releases4. Intel processors1. Remeber rio? you probably don't because their marketing team had their heads up their asses, anyway they made some of the first real economical mp3 players, they didn't skip and ran on 1 AA battery, yeah, I have a rio 500 and the installation CD that only works with win 98. It was ****ing great.2. whoever bought an iphone is a total mac fanboy, Look at me! I can watch some of all the youtube videos that I have already seen on bigger and nicer screens! For 600 dollars! And I don't even have a "to do list" That and a 300 dollar phone that runs windows can do basically the same thing without the fingerprints, that is also old technology.3. Games? I have actually seen one of those stupid Youtube videos boasting a "long" list of games, yeah, Duke nukem 3d ran on dos retard. DOS Besides, unless the developer actually bothered to port it well it is probably filled with bugs from the shotty "i want to suck more money out of people" port.4. Apple really needs to shut up. They push away users when they do stupid things like "WE HAVE INTELS NOW" Yeah, about that... I already have an intel on a PC, Stop this nonsense about innovation when you were late to even getting the right click function and all you really did was make your mac even more of a pc by putting the same hardware inside.
3. Well, the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360 can play old games, would you call them 'retarded'?
