I will never switch.
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- janne0
".... to margarine. FUCKIN BUTTER FOREVER MAN!
k0na_an0k
(Jan 11 05, 11:23)"HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAA...
- janne0
honestly, how many offices around the world are going to change their office networks to Apple, none.
mrdobolina
(Jan 11 05, 11:44)
-----------------------not none.
i have spoken to a rep from an office with 2,000+ employees and they are seriously interested in macs when they become more affordable so he told me.
they are having lots and lots of troubles with Windows now.. virus, bugs and lots of other crap.
personally i help lots of people here with their macs as we live so far away from the major cities there's no mac-support around the corner here. i have switched quite some people to macs in my life. :)
- mrdobolina0
one in a million, janne and the more mac permeates, the more mac viruses will come out.
- mg330
Neither will I. I have a better PC than that that I built in November 03 for about $350. Could build an even better one now for the same money.
Already had the monitor, and all the gizmos that Apple says "just use existing stuff to hook up to the Mac minibuns.
- ********0
yeah mg33 I can tell you built your own PC by the looks of your website. Funny- how you can always tell a PC user by their websites.
I could probably build a cheaper kitchen table than I paid for mine but I rather just eat there.
It's about the software.
Now get back to CD Creator...
have fun.
- ********0
Gates will get so rich someday he'll buy Apple. Mark me words, which might suck, but it'll happen. Maybe not himself but MS as a company will.
- ********0
I'll change all you PC heads to a game. You like digging around in system files pretending you are a computer whiz and us macheads just use the "easy" OS (which I find funny in itself- why not be easy- would you want a remote for the DVD player to have ten thousand buttons when you only need 6?)
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Tell me one fancy geeky system thing you can do with your OS tweaking and I will tell you how to do the same on the mac- but it will take 10 steps less.
- mg330
Hey puter, I just switched hosts and have not had the time to put something up there! :)
Hopefully this weekend.
- janne0
one in a million, janne and the more mac permeates, the more mac viruses will come out.
mrdobolina
(Jan 11 05, 13:19)
---true, true, very true.
but hey, the only guys i got switched to Macs are creatives, mainly photographers..
i certainly do NOT hope Apple will ever surpass Windows in sales, that would be the end of it all...indeed.
- ********0
Big Business = PC. End of the line.
- mrdobolina0
ok puter, upgrade your video card to the new generation of vid cards on your own...
- QuincyArcher0
read this, you'l laugh:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view…I bought a mac laptop, because i wanted a good unix based OS. that, and other laptops are huge and heavy.
I believe that different people use their machines for different reasons. If windows does what you want it to do, and you don't mind dealing with it's short comings, then use it.
but as for me, MacOS does all the things i need a laptop for. Plus, it makes me extra hip!
- mrdobolina0
puter, my point is, there are some people in this world that want things to work right out of the box and then there are people who want the ability to tweak and mod their setups. one is not better than the other.
Microsoft and Apple have this in common, they are both trying to separate you from your cash.
- k0na_an0k0
that joke would have been better if the guy had boobs.
- ********0
to he his own jeeeze guys
- abizzyman0
a buddy of mine is building his own box (easy to do these days if you have a little A+ in ya - or just a little common sense)
dual xeon 64 bit processors at 3.6mhz each
4 gig ram
300gig sata 2 hd
16X DVD R-RW
256 vid card...
... all for under $3200 and about 3 man-hours of assembly.
I'll take that anyday over any Apple product. Those processors can't compete w/the G5's (even dual).
- ********0
my point is that OS X is certainly tweakable. Go to this website and read some of the millions of geeky tweaks-
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The majority of computers users in this world are not running tweaked out systems, they have no interest in building a "muscle car" they want to:Send email
Chat
Surfer the web
Have fun
make movies
make DVD's
listen to music
and all the rest of it-so they go to Staples or Office Max and buy a cheap computer only to find out that it is an task to do any of these unless they ask their computer geek nieghbor how to. The new macs are directed at that audience- the HUMAN user.
And even if they did want to run servers, have specialty apps- OS X is completely able to do so- and to some extent better.
- abizzyman0
solid point, puter.
Useability is a major issue - i'm one of those geeks nextdoor that you were just talking about.
I can't tell you how many times I've had to head over to my Dad's place to fix his box or show him how to do something... and there are the neighbors here in my apartment building that I've helped numerous times for what we (on NT) would consider the simpliest things.
If we're having an argument over performance and options - hands down - it's PC on top... there's just so much more out there you can work with.
If we're going to argue over who has the 'prettier' interface and hardware - Apple, hands down.
- abizzyman0
and I failed to reiterate that apple has a much more intuitive interface - very friendly.
microsoft has catching up to do on simplicity and design.
You can buy a nice box to house your hardware for a pc if you're going to build - if not, you're at the mercy of the producer.
- ********0
tell me what ?more workl" you do with your PC-
All the best movies
graphics
scientist
music
and so forth I ever found where surprising "made with a mac" -I make my living on it- only touching a PC a few times a week, normally to fix something for someone. Until the day I can not work and do everything PLUS some compared to a PC user- well I will remain.