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Originally posted by Shadowflux
Macs work, sure, I mean now that they've made it so you can run Microsoft programs and what not. But there's more to a computer than it's software capabilities.
What if you need to upgrade a video or sound card on your Mac? What if you want to add a second hard drive? Maybe you want to upgrade the CPU, or you popped something on the motherboard and need to replace it. Hell, even if you open up your Mac just to replace a wire, you void your warranty.
Macs can now do whatever a PC can do as far as software, but YOU can't do as much to a Mac as you can to a PC. It's great that the Mac OS is based off Unix, but I had that back when it was called UNIX. Linux is based off Unix and it's free, you could just cannibalize a few old PCs, install Linux and you'd have a Unix based OS on a machine that can do everything a PC can do, FOR FREE!
Not to mention that I can emulate an archaic version of a PC and still run games and programs that are 10-15 years old or more.
People like Macs because you can pop 'em out of the box and start downloading bad music to your Ipod.
Real geek types like PCs because of the ways you can mess with them, and how, with the right knowledge you can have one for free. Hell, you can do one better and get paid to fix 'em.
Edit: Besides, coding on a Mac is the same as coding on a PC, all you need is a text editor really. The computer hardly does anything and it's just your browser that makes it look the way it does. ATS is just a long text file
[edit on 7-2-2007 by Shadowflux]
Originally posted by Shadowflux
I found a video iPod in the back of a taxi and decided to fix it up.
I thought to myself: "Hey, maybe this iPod will make me change my mind about Macs, maybe they aren't so bad after all."
A few hours of aggrevation later I realized that Macs, and Mac products suck, they always will. If you've grown up with a PC, or you happen to be very computer literate, you won't like Macs.
The iPod has so many issues with it, you can only play one file type for movies, you have to synch it to the home computer all the time etc etc.
You're better off getting a Zen Vision which happens to play all sorts of file types and does everything the iPod does minus the aggrevation.
Zens are made by Creative, which used to make Soundblaster......for PCs!!!!
Originally posted by Shadowflux
Macs suck, wanna know why?
Try to go out and build yourself a custom Mac. Good luck, 'cause you can't.
Try and fix a broken piece of hardware in your Mac. You can't!
Let's dual boot with Linux and still play all our PC based games. Can't!
Fact of the matter is that PCs give you freedom, the freedom to do whatever you want to your computer. Macs just cost a lot and look pretty.
Macintosh is the idiot's Linux
Originally posted by djohnsto77
The replies so far in this thread are extremely disappointing.
I have owned Apples since 1984 and with the exception of one UltraSPARC Sun I have, they are the only computers I have ever bought.
Mac OS X is now a totally great environment for everyone! Programmers love it because it's UNIX based and provides all the UNIX development tools (for free), plus it runs business software such as Microsoft Office, and we also have plenty of great games. Plus, it has the easy to use Mac interface that is far more user friendly than Windows. The new features added Windows Vista operating system are basically just poor copies of the features Mac OS has had for years now.
People dissing the Mac as an idiot's computer are the only idiots here. Remember SkepticOverlord is a Mac user and has developed most of the code of ATS on his Mac.
Originally posted by Shadowflux
I found a video iPod in the back of a taxi and decided to fix it up.
I thought to myself: "Hey, maybe this iPod will make me change my mind about Macs, maybe they aren't so bad after all."
A few hours of aggrevation later I realized that Macs, and Mac products suck, they always will. If you've grown up with a PC, or you happen to be very computer literate, you won't like Macs.
The iPod has so many issues with it, you can only play one file type for movies, you have to synch it to the home computer all the time etc etc.
You're better off getting a Zen Vision which happens to play all sorts of file types and does everything the iPod does minus the aggrevation.
Zens are made by Creative, which used to make Soundblaster......for PCs!!!!
Originally posted by Shadowflux
The iPod has so many issues with it, you can only play one file type for movies, you have to synch it to the home computer all the time etc etc.