What have you purchased recently?

    Dont mean to jump on the hate wagon here, but FUCK, how can anyone use a mac and consider it a better machine?! It boggles my mind

    Its like a PC only slower

    Also people who say macs are better for anything are idiots.

    I do like their cases and laptop housings though (worst part is that is enough for some people to buy a mac)

    you know why it's a better machine? cause in nyc I can go to 3 different stores and have virtually any part of my laptop fixed for free in about 15 minutes while getting to check out dozens of gorgeous mac owning fashion models.

    I don't get people when it comes to the PC/mac thing. Everything else in the world people pay a premium for design because they appreciate the aesthetic appeal and it's not a problem. Also, final cut pro and logic are two pieces of world class software for their respective professions. Seeing as how the future is "in the cloud" I don't understand why you WOULDN'T buy a mac. So you can play the latest game at 60 FPS with max settings? Have fun with your 13 lbs and 2 hours of battery. Did I mention any mac can flawlessly dual boot windows with bootcamp (preinstalled) anyway?

    I don't even have a macbook anymore, I use my main pc as mac pro and I love it. It's so much more straight forward. When I was working as a network administrator I was responsible for 2 all mac/xserver environments. Best. experience. ever. Seriously that whole office had maybe 1 problem a month, everything else was just adding new users. At least half the point of owning a mac is the OS itself, not that you can get 2.8 ghz instead of 2.4 for $300 less. The entire filesystem and the way you can see, move, install, remove ANYTHING and not have to worry about dll's, registry entries, shortcuts is just amazing. Everything is exactly where you would expect it to be. What windows user profiles with documents and settings tries to be is what mac IS. I don't think I ever had to go outside of a users home directory to fix an issue. Unlike windows where I now have 40 command line strings memorized to do what cant be done through the GUI in 2009. I could really go on and on about this point...dashboard, spaces, stacks, so many things that are not only intuitive but are just downright cool.

    But then I guess if people can't type ping -t http://www.google.com at the command line they wont feel like 12 year old hackers and be able impress their friends

    I dont feel like making a long post. But I have no clue what you are talking about 40 command line strings?! I think someone jumped on the Mac bandwagon WHEN DOS WAS STILL BEING USED

    Seriously get windows 7 on a 64 bit machine and try to tell me OSx even comes CLOSE to it.

    I'm 21. I never even USED a mac until I bought my macbook a year and a half ago. You need to stop hating and just try it. I wouldn't say I used to be a hater but I definitely was indifferent towards macs. Since then I've used them in home and professional environments and I have to say they're just better to work with, ESPECIALLY when it comes to troubleshooting.

    I dual boot my mac pro with windows 7 x64 on a Q6600 8 gb and a good graphics card...can't remember model. The only time I ever use windows is to play TF2 or a video game. I don't even boot into windows anymore for programs I just use vmware. If windows didn't have such a monopoly on the corporate and office world they would be done. Maybe wherever you live it's too expensive but for a place like NYC or any other major US city it's just too inconvenient to own anything else.

    Maybe you don't know about the 40 command line strings thing because you never worked in a networked environment. What do you even mean by "close to it?" What would be the criteria for that? At least I gave you a few concrete examples of why I think macs deserve some respect.

    Well dont think my "hatred" is unmerited due to lack of Mac 'usage'. I have been around Macs (and using them a lot) since 1995 when my father got his first one for PS work in his home office. Since then Ive used the colorful mac shit brick thing with one cord or whatever its deal was and MANY others. And more recently their laptops. I just cant stand it, its so terrible

    I could go on, but eh I need to finish LC

    pc's work fine in nyc but from my experience the turnaround for a broken part or even tech support is lacking. most people who own a mac are going to have laptops so being able to walk into a store (which are spread around nicely in nyc) makes life easier.

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    Watch this video and tell me osx doesn't have more integrated functionality than a PC. Keep in mind that's a 3 year old video and it still would take a bunch of 3rd party software to make a PC do any of that...much less flawlessly.

    http://www.apple.com/mac/ even the videos on this page which are higher res give a nice overview of why it's amazing

    Ideally I'd be sitting here typing right now how great linux and compiz fusion are....because it can do almost all of the things built into osx and obviously it's open source...unfortunately with linux there are too many driver issues for a main pc. As a server they're great but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who isn't a power user for day to day use.

    I don't even own any mac hardware but I still use OSX as my main OS because I just like it more. Even though it was a pain in the ass to get working 100% and everytime I update I have to backup the entire HD in case it fucks things up, I still rather use it over linux or windows.

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    ":2neuynum]Well, that's running windows. You have to emulate windows, and then run the apps. That's kinda sucky!

    It has nothing to do with emulation when you're running Windows on a Mac with Boot Camp. It's native.

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    It has nothing to do with emulation when you're running Windows on a Mac with Boot Camp. It's native.

    not to mention some benchmarks show windows xp runs better on a mac than a pc with comparable hardware ;D

    but seriously a lot of people STILL don't understand that pc's and macs run on the same hardware....meaning you can have windows on a mac. as soon as I tell people this they're like "lol 4 real, k buy macz"

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    uhhh can you explain what you mean by this??

    it's like they deliberately made the user interface too user friendly. everything is so rounded in speech and design that you have a hard time working around in it. i had to do guesswork to figure out how to do certain (perhaps more complex) operations on the operating system. it's like it wasn't geared towards someone with expertise at all. and if this is truly their goal, to give people the ability to fine tune a system without knowing anything about what happens when it is done or about the consequences of doing it, then i am against it. i'm not saying i'm against user friendliness, but there is a line where it crosses over to be fail safe idiot mode.

    i also forgot to mention the price of their systems are much higher for the same specs of a regular computer, which is ludicrous. if design is so important, why not just buy a sculpture to hide your laptop in? i bet you could get that cheaper than whatever you pay for a macbook anyway.

    finally: i call bullshit on same spec computers differing in benchmarks from a mac.

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    uhhh can you explain what you mean by this??

    it's like they deliberately made the user interface too user friendly. everything is so rounded in speech and design that you have a hard time working around in it. i had to do guesswork to figure out how to do certain (perhaps more complex) operations on the operating system. it's like it wasn't geared towards someone with expertise at all. and if this is truly their goal, to give people the ability to fine tune a system without knowing anything about what happens when it is done or about the consequences of doing it, then i am against it. i'm not saying i'm against user friendliness, but there is a line where it crosses over to be fail safe idiot mode.

    i also forgot to mention the price of their systems are much higher for the same specs of a regular computer, which is ludicrous. if design is so important, why not just buy a sculpture to hide your laptop in? i bet you could get that cheaper than whatever you pay for a macbook anyway.

    finally: i call bullshit on same spec computers differing in benchmarks from a mac.

    perhaps you should use lunix then sentura?

    Thank you

    Sentura took the words out of my mouth (I suck sometimes at getting thoughts down on paper or posts)

    Also, my mother once needed a new harddrive for her "power" mac thing g4 or something. (keep in mind this is like 6 months ago) So knowing Mac's reputation, I decided to go with her when she took it to the "genius bar" (good lord that gets me everytime a bunch of one button fuckheads who know jackshit about computers) just so she didnt get fucked out of a deal. I asked them, how much for a new 500gb internal for this mac? Dude said "$200 plus installation" and then immediately I started laughing and asked why it costs so much. His response? "Its just a better harddrive". So then I asked what made it "better" and he said "mac makes it" - I'm sorry but thats just downright brainwashed O_O

    Anywhoo it turned out it was some seagate 500gb 5400rpm (holy :roll: ) that they were charging $200 for. So I told my mother to GTFO that store and we did, I went home, ordered a 600gb western digital off newegg for $60 and installed it in like 5 minutes when it got there.

    And finally, if I see one more pompous prick assed little mac commercial making fun of "PC's" I might fucking vomit. On top of never praising their own product and only putting down the competition, THEY ARE MAKING FUN OF A "PERSONAL COMPUTER" WHICH TECHNICALLY IS WHAT THEY ARE TOO" fuck I want to shoot someone when I see those commercials. (sorry about the anger here, the mac ads really get to me for some reason )

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