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@Anonymous: I've grown up around programmers, I know a lot of the vernacular, and in theory, at least, what a lot of the parts (hardware and software) do, I just find so much of it so mind numbingly boring that I could never get into it, I'd much rather make things that won't be obsolete in half a year, or if I'm lucky, two years.
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@Anonymous: It's quite obvious that your exaggeration that all non-apple based computer cases have 18,732 lights, and they all look like airports from a distance must have been like the Mona Lisa, per your basis.
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@Anonymous: No, I did not think the PCs with their goofy blinking lights were like mona lisa, I think your grammar is a bit off, I think you meant to say I thought the macs were like mona lisa, but your grammar is so jumbled, I can't tell... Please, rephrase.
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@Anonymous: People like to make their cases look flashy to show off the fact that they've built their own powerful machine. They may not look pretty to somebody who clearly gets off to the the white minimalist style of a mac that is totally original and not ugly at all. At the end of the day, they have made a tower that they like the look of -you have the same case as every other person that is willing to shell out far too much money for an underpowered machine because it conforms to the fashion they subscribe to or your strange desire to want all of your options to be sugar coated with 'user friendly' 'features'. People like you make me laugh, enjoy shelling out all that cash again in a few years while I update a component or two and still run a more powerful machine than apple is selling.
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@Anonymous: It seems like I may have copy and pasted incorrectly, allow me to fix that.
It's quite obvious that your exaggeration that all non-apple based computer cases have 18,732 lights and that they all look like airports from a distance must make Macs like the Mona Lisa, per your basis.
Also, while I'm correcting grammar, allow me to correct yours.
No, I do not think that PCs, with their goofy blinking lights, were like the Mona Lisa. I think your grammar is a bit off; I think you meant to say, "I thought that Macs were like the Mona Lisa," but your grammar is so jumbled that I can't tell... Please, rephrase.
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@Anonymous: It wasn't about grammar, I only went there because I couldn't decipher your babbling.
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@Anonymous: My last mac lasted 8 years, I only had to upgrade the memory a couple times, and get an additional hard drive for it at one point. Yes, I should have replaced it a little while back, but it still runs photoshop alright, albeit a little slowly, only now have I felt a need to replace it. in the same amount of time, my best friend (who happens to be a PC user) has cracked a motherboard (because holes were slightly off), replaced his memory more times than I can remember, has had his processor overheat, and has replaced it twice, and has spent far more money than me.
I can count on one hand how many times my computer has crashed in that time. Macs are low maintenance, Yes, they look great too, but I'm drawn to them because I only have to think about the thing I want to do with the computer, not about the computer it's self. That, to me, is what a computer should be all about, it should be invisible to the user, and should do everything in it's power to just get out of your way and let you get to what you're trying to do.2 1 -
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@Anonymous: 7 years ago I was running the wanky powerPC version of OSX on an AMD PC, along with dozens of other OSs which wouldn't run on Apple hardware at the time.
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@Anonymous: Apple certified support professional here (at least used to be a few years ago but haven't recertified and haven't touched one in 2 years).
Macs break all the time, the hardware is shit and they would break much more frequently than PCs from HP/IBM/Sony, etc. Some Apple machines would require proprietary tools to disassemble them, I expect this has gotten worse as their designs have become more superficial.
The OS is a bit more resilient, but would often require reinstaling. The only thing that was good about them was the ability to reinstall the OS while leaving apps & data intact.
Apple basically took a fantastic Unix OS, crippled and broke, then left you with a shit, useless GUI for macfags to wank and cry over.21 1 -
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@Anonymous: > Macs break all the time, the hardware is shit and they would break much more frequently than PCs from HP/IBM/Sony, etc.
That's saying something, because I've seen far too many high-end HP laptops shit the bed in less than two years under normal use.
I understand the draw towards Macs for some users--and right now I use both Win7 on a self-built rig and both Win7 and Lion on a Macbook Air that I like quite a bit--but in general the cost effectiveness of Macs is way, way out of proportion. If my MBA wasn't from and for work, there is not a chance in hell I would have bought one when I can get a more powerful Asus lappy for 1/3 the cost. -
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@Anonymous: Actually the bulk of my work was dealing with windows machines.
However, considering less than 5% of the machines we supported were macs, yet around 20% of my workload was dealing with these macs, I have grown to dislike them.
A lot of my colleagues loved them though, half of my department had one. I even had a G5 powermac at one point, which broke a couple of times in 3 years (logic board & HDD).
In 15 years of bulding PCs, I've still never personally suffered from a faulty Mobo, PSU or CPU. Admittedly I've had 3 faulty HDDs, 1 faulty VGA (6 years old, still works but the fan started to fail and caused it to overheat and freeze the screen), 1 faulty stick of ram after a power spike in the house (stick was 5 years old). I'm happy to stick with my PCs thanks. -
Truth. These are THE SAME FUCKING THING. Unix is a superior operating system, but the driver support for windows is vastly superior. If you're gaming, get a PC. Macs are for rich people, hipsters, or people who are dumb enough to actually be willing to spend twice as much on a shiny case. I mean, what is $500 extra anyway, if you really don't know what the fuck you are doing, and will probably never notice the difference anyway?
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@Anonymous: Easy to explain that difference there. People who own apple machines tend to send them in for repairs when they break (perceived valueable investment), I notice that a lot of people just throw their other laptops away when they break.
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@Anonymous: It was slow as fuck, and not running natively, l had it VM'd using PearPC. Admittedly it was much better when OSX86 came along with modifed x86 versions of 10.4
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@Anonymous: Rofl assuming when he broke his mobo it was PCs fault.
+ RAM costs like 20 bucks for medium-high range, i have no idea how me broke it that much to work up enough money to tower over your overpriced facebook machine.
only once have i had a hardware problem and i can admit that it was my own fault (bent the pins on the processor)
my computer cost $900 like a year ago and still owns
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@Anonymous: If you buy a computer just because of how it looks you shouldn't be buying a computer
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@Anonymous: my first computer and still own it, though it now lives in a box in the loft.





