I don't think I own a single Apple product, but I have had to visit the Apple store at the Mega Mall a couple of times. Fortunately, I've only ever had to go in as far as the front counter (that's where the gift cards live). The thing that struck me most was the smell. As soon as I crossed the threshold, a wall of "eau de sweaty yoof" assaulted my nostrils. Yuck. I seriously couldn't wait to get out of there. Stuart.
I like my ignition between the seats! You have to admit the new Mac Pro 3.2Ghz 8 core is pretty baller. And you can boot them with Windows. The biggest thing wrong is the ridiculous premium you pay for any apple product.
I'm a Windoze sheep. Find me a copy of Pro E, Solidworks, or CATIA for Mac. I suppose it's a mute point since you can run Windows in a Mac? Whatever. All I care about a computer is that it does what I need it to do. I don't own an iPod, and probably never will.
Yea thats funny, My friend just got a Sabb and we were discussing the ignition between the seats, it looks cool...but thats about it.
Insulting a Mac = fanboi attacks. I'm a gamer @ heart and if my reasonably priced lappy/desktop can't run CS:Source, or even Warcraft 3, then it's crap imo. In the end it all depends on your priorities, if you wanna look cool and have the same laptop as everyone else in the college classroom, then you buy a mac. If your going through your midlife crisis and wanna be hip and young, then buy a mac. Etc, etc, etc.
Meh, nothing really all that controversial there. What would "Confessions of a Best Buy" specialist read like? The exact same thing I'd imagine. I've got one dell laptop and 2 ibm and lenovo thinkpads (respectively) sitting in the basement with either fried mother boards or burnt out screens that happened 1-3 months after the warranty expired. I have an 20gig irivir mp3 player that probably isn't even made anymore, let alone supported by the company that I bought at BB with a 2 year service plan (expired). Hell, I guess it ain't so bad that a guy can at least get some service via a survey, good luck with that at BB. Also, I've got a friend who just moved to San Francisco to work at an apple store, he was working at the mall of america and made a good impression because he wasn't a moron (which I bet I can't say is true for the rest of them). It's called electronics retail people. Obsolescence is just a casualty of war for those of us who like to buy gadgets, and we all keep on demanding more power with smaller chasis at a cheaper price, that means hot running batteries and flimsy plastic shells. Everyone who wants to pay $1000 for a stainless steal brick of a mp3 player that has a 4 hour run time and 5gigs of capacity raise your hand.
There we go. About 3 times the convolution there I'd guess. I think the real lesson here is that we all need to grow a pair and toss our crappy computers in the trash and bust out our slide rules. :hsugh:
Meh, you don't get it. I have and iRule. It's much easier to use, and doesn't look so "70's laboratory" dull. The ruler parts are all made of brushed aluminum, and the plastic thingy there, on the iRule, it's bigger, and has smooth rounded corners and glows with a light green hue. And before you mouthbreathing standard slideruler types start griping about the price, the Apple iRule is very reasonably and competitively priced at $200. It just came out, and Steve Jobs assures me that a new one is on the way that will be packed with even more features and that it will blow this one away!
You loser. They just came out with the iRule Touch, which has all the aforementioned features, but it comes with a little touch screen. The screen is harder than necessary to use, but you won't be able to imagine a sliderule without one. You'll be the envy of your friends when you whip this bad boy out of your iPack.
run OS X without Apple hardware: http://www.macworld.com/article/132984/2008/04/psystar.html A couple guys at work are running older versions of OS X on some Dell laptops. I have even read of someone getting it to run a eepc. For what end I'll never understand. Hipsters I guess.
Yeah, I don't see the reasoning behind putting it on other hardware. There seems to be such a list of hardware incompatibilities that it just wouldn't even be worth it. I suppose some people do it just because "they can".
I can decode the former though blunt force trauma. I simply bang my head into a wall until I reach unconsciousness, then it just doesn't matter at that point. With Matt I just run it through a spell checker. Twice As far as the debate goes, I personally don't care. I just want something that runs CounterStrike and lets me surf the net. Sure, their ergonomics are cool and their stuff is very shiny and pretty, but it just doesn't make my heart skip beats.
And therefore you shouldn't have a Mac. Mac OS still is just stupid. I personally hate the "Its so easy you don't need two mouse buttons!" Pfft, then what the heck is this CTRL click or ALT click or whatever mumbo jumbo BS you have to do do access context menus?!?! GHEY. That's what it is. MACS can DIAF.
Follow the ways of the force or go down the path to the darkside In the words of Yoda http://youtube.com/watch?v=uyzHBmCHZio
You are welcome. I'm glad you found it interesting. You have helped me indirectly in the past with my car. Here was some payback.
I love Macs but I hate the stores and the people who work for them. I try to ask them a simple question over the phone and since my warranty was up they wanted me to fork up $200. So I pretty much learn how to do a lot of stuff for my mac on my own.
^ Yes to this statement. For sometime I was a PC repair person, learning the ropes and worked beside a few Apple zealots, this was the time I realized that Apple was just fancy-schmancy plastic gobbeldygoo with cutting edge hardware inside, which is why it costs so much. ^ I got quite a :laugh: outta this comment, at work too. ftw. Every computer I have built has been of quality parts, and has always lasted for years, no problems, 'cept software. This latest one I built is one fast mo, all the hardware is pretty much best thing out there 3 months ago. Everything cost me abt. 1k, and the most expensive part was the case. Not this exact one, but you get the picture. Macs are generally the same thing under the hood, but with flashy marketing and more stylish looks, sometimes. I want the freedom to customize a computer the way only a PC allows.
The marketing plans must account for the American "shiny-object" syndrome. Doesn't matter if your crap breaks in 15 months because we're going to talk you into replacing it when it's only 11 months old anyway.
Apple makes inroads into Corporate life? http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_19/b4083036428429.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily
Sorry, this simply will not happen until Apple has something equivalent to Windows Active Directory, SMS, etc. Apple simply does not have any real enterprise tools, and they don't seem to care.
Yeah, that would require a complete overhaul/major addition to the current systems. I just can't see MS doing that just so that competing OS's have compatibility..
or the Server Group sees some profit movitation in supporting OS X just like the Office Group does.... Other firms see $$$ in it: http://www.quest.com/quest-management-xtensions-for-sms/ Don't be so quick to discount.
Here goes something funny I just came across. http://gizmodo.com/386382/gta-ivs-i...t-of-apples-mystique-then-stabs-it-repeatedly
Absolutely classic commentary on that last link. "I guess from this hate attack that GTA IV was written on windows, by people who are xenophobic about learning anything new. I can remember the outrage when DOS was replaced by Windows with the IT crowd all saying its all style and substance and not worth it. Amazing how they have changed (or not)" "Grow up man, people (heaven forbid, I'm gonna include Mac people here) constantly make fun of Windows users, it's only fair that some of us share the joy. It's called a sense of humor. Now, normally I would suggest you simply go down to the store and pick one up, but the Apple store (where you shop) has only ever sold the proprietary iHumor, which only allows you to laugh at Steve Job's jokes. The rest of us use WinHumor, which has been extended to allow us to laugh at anything, including you and Steve Ballmer." "Well if you think it is funny to rip on things you don't understand, do so, but you have to face the facts that everything Steve Job's creates is (key word) better then anything made by microsoft, and you might have to pay a little more for something, which in turn is 10x better then microsoft and its crap software vista."
A FRUIT COCOON!!! :laugh: Hahaaa, yeah the Mac OS might be more stable, but low and behold the Mac crash! Overheating problems due to poor design, to the socialist Apple proprietary junk they stuff into peoples brains. There are good point and bad points to each platform, they just want people to be all whipped up in a fervor so that people take sides and don't think for them selves. Sorry to say, but, the hard core Apple crowd is way more overzealous with their snide remarks. Oh well, its just a company vying for the hearts, minds, MONEY of the consumer. I like to customize my hardware anyway I want, Freedom!
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