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Main Forums => Anarchy => Topic started by: Crazy Greek on July 29, 2010, 01:32:27 AM
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In case we don't have one yet...
I'll start by saying I've "been a PC" all my life. Recently bought a Mac about a year ago and went full Mac shortly after wards.
Fast forward to now, I am required to buy a PC to run some applications for a program I am taking so I went to buy a PC, rather a laptop or something equal to my Macbook Pro I use now.
The results are terrible, at virtually all price points PCs were bloated, heavy, slow, loud clunky piles of crap. The gap is so wide it surprised me. The laptop I ended up going with is a HP 14 inch which is pretty much a clone of my Macbook.
Anyhow, whats everyone else rocking these days.
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I am required to buy a PC to run some applications for a program I am taking
This is usually something I point out to Mac users. Most of them don't care or never need to install said applications, but the point remains that you had to get a PC to run a specific application. (I think that's what you're saying)
I then proceed to run my PSX emulator and play FF8 or Tekken 3 and ask them if they can do that. Anyway, I'm usually more interested in an academic sense with the differences between the two. I know that some people look for different stuff in a machine, so Macs are there for them. Fine, at least they aren't using a PC and asking me a shit ton of questions about it.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
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Generally speaking, Macs are for fuzzy heads.
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Macs are not compatible with Wunderkind. I crash them often and regularly when I try to install myself.
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After having to use it a couple of times in school, this pretty much sums up how I feel about Macs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqN76gYKHMs
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After having to use it a couple of times in school, this pretty much sums up how I feel about Macs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqN76gYKHMs
:lol: :lol: This is the funniest thing I've seen in awhile.
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Fine, at least they aren't using a PC and asking me a shit ton of questions about it.
The fact that I know nothing about Macs has not stopped Mac users from asking me questions about Macs.
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I'm running a Darter Ultra from System76 (http://www.system76.com), with Linux Mint 9 64-bit (http://www.linuxmint.com) installed on it.
Screen: Glossy LED backlit 12" diagonal
Hard Drive: 320 GB 7200 RPM SATA II
Memory: 6 GB – DDR2 800 MHZ x 2 DIMMs
Optical Drive: CD-RW / DVD-RW
Processor: Core 2 Duo P9700 2.80 GHz 1066 MHz FSB 6 MB L2 (25 Watt)
Wireless: Intel Wi-Fi Link 5300 – 802.11A/B/G/N Up to 450 Mbps
It cost me $1400 even, and came with an extra AC adapter and I got free shipping as well. I bought it back in April, so far it's been awesome.
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I'm running
duel core
8800 geforce GTX
2gig of ram
7500gb storage
20" TFT
with win7
she's not such a hot shot anymore, but she was a decent machine when i got her December 2007. Her first name was starbuck, but when she rose from the ashes like a beautiful Phoenix with a fresh new op on her, she needed a new name. I called her Tardis. :)
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The fact that I know nothing about Macs has not stopped Mac users from asking me questions about Macs.
Ah, yes but they are not asking me a 'shit ton'. :-) After the first they usually give up because I don't know or because I berate them.
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I'm a PC guy.
I love my iPhone.
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It's only the iPhone 4 that you need to worry about that with. My 3GS works pretty good no matter how I hold it.
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I'm a PC guy.
I love my iPhone.
I'm pretty much in this boat. Though, I don't know if I'd go so far as to say I loved my iPhone. I like that it holds my music and has apps and stuff.
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I have both. Win XP laptop for work. iMac and iBook for home, plus a Win XP laptop for home. The iMac is the main compy at home. I like the hardware and the stability of the OS. I hate that most apps for Mac don't behave the same way in the PC version (especially Office). I line the windows versions better, keyboard shortcuts, easily navigated with the keyboard keys. Whereas almost any Mac version is mouse driven and it's very difficult to set up keyboard shortcuts.
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"pc" is so ambiguous. technically even macs are pcs. its not a copyrighted term. if you want to discuss OS's, the thread should be called mac os vs windows vs linux. just saying. and macs are for hippies.
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I am a tree huggin' dirt-worshippin' hippie.
And I am NOT a Mac.
And I am offended by your generalization. Most of us don't even use computers.
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"pc" is so ambiguous. technically even macs are pcs. its not a copyrighted term. if you want to discuss OS's, the thread should be called mac os vs windows vs linux. just saying. and macs are for hippies.
I agree. I hate that the term "PC" is somehow now automatically associated with being exclusively a "Windows computer".
They're all personal computers. Hell, now that Apple has gone to Intel-based CPUs, there really isn't even any difference in the platform anymore either. So it makes even less sense to use that term as if it's something distinctive.
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I agree. I hate that the term "PC" is somehow now automatically associated with being exclusively a "Windows computer".
They're all personal computers. Hell, now that Apple has gone to Intel-based CPUs, there really isn't even any difference in the platform anymore either. So it makes even less sense to use that term as if it's something distinctive.
"Personal Computer" was a marketing term invented by IBM. But it is not altogether meaningless, even today. From the start, IBM had a open architecture concept, and Apple did not. That is what PC vs. Mac boils down to for me. I have written hundreds of apps that will run on any DOS/Windows machine anywhere in the world. I know that I can open up any non-Apple machine and have a good shot at diagnosing most problems. I know I can swap out generic components purchased at an independent electronics store. I know I can wipe a hard drive and reinstall an OS I have kicking around on a CD-ROM with the activation key scrawled on it with a Sharpie.
So to me, PC still means "personal computer". Macs are more like leased equipment.
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What Ivan said!
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Warning! This post will be extra cheesy.
I like PC Mac.
(http://www.presidentschoice.ca/LCLOnline/dyn/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m380040_MachCheese_ENFR.jpg)
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Don't the French have their own word for "extra"?
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Same word. Slightly different pronounciation.
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Tell them to put an accent or a squiggle or something on one of the letters, so we can tell it's not English. I mean, I was totally sucker-punched. I'm all like ex... extr... ok, I know this word! Extra fro... froma... Weird Tingly Feeling???
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You have to look at the bright side. Now you know some Russian and some French! Put that on your resume.
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Correction: There are other ways to say the meaning of extra, just like there are in the English language. You could say "additionnel" which is equivalent to "additional", not to "extra". But it pretty much means the same thing. "extra" in english is "extra" in french and that's it (if you want to be extra technical about it).
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"pc mac". ha.
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EXTRA FROMAGE DU PIED!
Yum.
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Some great parody ads from our industry (http://www.deepchip.com/wiretap/100730.html)
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I think a mac is to a "pc" what my iphone is to whatever flip junky thing I had in the long long ago.
You guys should really try it out. After about a month I realized how much better it was.
I find it funny how before Macs really became mainstream again virtually everyone online hated anything windows and now people defend "pcs" and hate on Macs (Unix based).
Odd yes.