hell yeah son...so far I've been able to ascertain that Mac owners would rather throw money away because they can't be bothered to make knowledgeable decisions regarding their equipment or how to use it. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Irreverent
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hell yeah son...so far I've been able to ascertain that Mac owners would rather throw money away because they can't be bothered to make knowledgeable decisions regarding their equipment or how to use it. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Irreverent
I'm actually going through the same situation. I'm looking for laptop and I'm leaning to switching to mac. If i do switch what are some of the basic programs a student will need? Any help will be great.
My man, you have proved NOTHING. Mac doesnt work for you because you want to configure our own machine and "upgrade" things on your own. Thats fine but most people never will and have NO desire to try and "upgrade" their drives on their desktop let alone their laptops. Macs work for the everyday person that just wants a computer to play music, manage photos, and surf the net. They look better in most peoples eyes and all software needed for the aforementioned user comes with OSX. They dont have to decide between the half dozen Windows operating systems, they get one that has everything they need. Yes, it takes decisions away from them but thats kinda the point. Ease of us has always been the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
Most users arent like you, you used to work in the industry and enjoy mixing things up, most users dont. They want a machine that includes nearly everything they NEED and looks cool. Some dont want to spend the extra money and thats not a big deal. By a PC and move on. I dont get why you have such a hard on to try and prove that PC's are so great. You seem to have the same over the top passion about it as some of the Apple fan boys we all love so much.
What the hell are you talking about? You can list all the magical software that runs on windows without admitting to anything. This is borderline Deeker crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
How do you figure? I never suggested running windows on a mac, even though you can. You still haven't given ONE reason why I would need to.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
That is a fallacy spread by pc users.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
Yeah, because only pc users that switched to Mac have had virus problems on their pc. You're SO right though, I'm so mindless and need all my decisions made for me that I've used both and made an informed decision. Meanwhile you freely admit that you've never owned a mac yet are spewing endless bull**** in this thread about them.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
That's all I have? What else is there? It rips and plays my music, is it supposed to polish my floor too?Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
iTunes can rip mp3's all the way up to 320kbs, which is the maximum for the format. MP3 is a lossy format. If you're expecting top quality sound out of them, I'm sorry to say but you're a <insert insult here>, even with your "reference quality" sound system.
Again, you can. Plain and simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
I've worked at one of the largest ISPs in the world for the last 10+ years and almost every UNiX admin had a mac, so you're not impressing me. Sorry to say but your "network guys" were ****ing morons. There's nothing about a mac that "compromises the infrastructure."Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
I'll bet it would be really hard to find 10x the sites like that about windows...Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
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Yet it doesn't stop you from talking out your ass about them. I can understand you saying that you don't want to use one because it "doesn't make sense to you," but that you sit here and go on and on about how they "suck" with practically no experience is borderline retarded.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangePuck
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Originally Posted by OrangePuck
WTF is a computer engineer?
One step above "Power User" an just below "NOC Engineer," no doubt...Quote:
Originally Posted by Creeping Death
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by seraphim
Good luck...All this info and I'm still on the fence. It is starting to look like price is going to be the deciding factor since PCs and MACs seem to come with equally downloadable stigmas...I would think that as a student price should be a big factor too. You can worry about all the bells and whistles after you've graduated, got a job totally unrelated to your major and can shell out wads for a system that meets your needs whether it be porn, gaming, music, video editing, porn or more porn.Quote:
Originally Posted by emfn
hahaha thats alot of porn and im kinda over the whole gaming thing. I just need a machine thats not gonna crap out on me and thats fast. im seriously looking into macbooks, bu it seems like theres alot of extra things you have to buy with it i.e Microsoft office.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tacos Rule
Well, you have to "buy" office whether you get a pc or a mac, but again it boils down to your budget and personal prefrence. As a student, I'd guess that you don't have a ton of disposable income but I could be wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by emfn
I used PCs exclusively for about 10 years, decided to give Mac a try about 6 years ago and have never looked back. I use my mac mainly for:
- Web Browsing
- Pro Tools
- iTunes
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Corel Painter
- MS Office
- VLC for pr0n.
It's also a BSD system under the hood so that is an added bonus for me as a systems administrator. Also, whether "easy to avoid" or not, you don't have to worry about viruses or anti-virus software doing stoopid **** like blocking your internet connection.
To me, the reasons are obvious and compelling. Ideally you could spend some time using both before making your decision. Or you could listen to a ducks fan that has never owned a Mac... ;)
