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[Eli26]

< insert anti-Mac comment here >

< insert a Mac user's boot to your ass >

Now GTFO Mac hateh.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

This was my first mac. Powerful 512k machine

 

[Kabukiman]

I've used Linux since Redhat 5.1...

Red Hat 5.1 was my first Linux too! I switched because Windows 98 flat out wouldn't work for me. My computer would randomly reboot. Microsoft said it was a hardware issue and the manufacturer said it was a software issue. Eventually, I just said F-it and learned as much as I could about how my machine worked and installed Red Hat Linux. Once I was on Linux, I never had a random reboot issue again.

So I was a strict Linux guy until OSX. When OSX was announced, my mind was blown: A UNIX operating system that would let me use mainstream software alongside all the UNIX tools I've come to depend on with Linux? YES PLEASE!

 

[Kamandi]

5.1 was cool. I had always wanted to own a Next cube (which for the kids reading was from the company Steve Jobs started when Scully and the board forced him out of Apple). Redhat 5.1 with it's OpenStep window manager was a very close parallel to the desktop experience of a Next. A friend of mine had been using Redhat since it's 3x or 4x version and egged me on. I also wanted to pick up some Unix skills, so I built a spare machine. It eventually overtook Windows for my daily driver.

I have a laptop now with Ubuntu and a desktop at home with Fedora 16.

There are many good reason to pick up a Mac and I probably will at some point. KDE and Gnome have both started to do the opposite of improve with each new version. Most of the software I like in Linux also compiles or has pre-built binaries in OSX, so my data and files are not locked in to Linux. YUM and Apt have made it easier to install software in Linux, but sometimes I admire how stuff 'just works' in Mac. It's also a UNIX, so it has better security and isn't as vulnerable to attacks as windows.

 

[darthviper107]

I will never get a mac

 

[DHAVAL]

I have I-Mac 21 inch........nice one now need bigger scrren so thinking of buying Thunderbolt display i also have macbook prO

 

[MadCow]

I will never get a mac

And I will never get another pc...

 

[Eli26]

I will never get a mac

And we should care, why? I see no point in posting in a thread, other than being a troll. It's like the person who has a dog thread up, and you go and post you hate dogs. Lame.

 

[darthviper107]

If people can post that they are getting a mac then I can post that I'm not?

 

[BadMoon]

If people can post that they are getting a mac then I can post that I'm not?

I think Eli is referring to the fact that every Mac thread ever created on this board has negative comments posted in it by you.

But I digress, if you enjoy being an ass, by all means you certainly do have the right to post here.

 

[darthviper107]

Well I guess their negative if you're a Mac fan.

People are a bit unrealistic in their mac love though so it's hard not to comment.

 

[Kamandi]

Setting aside my Linux preference for a moment and just comparing Mac to Windows, Mac wins for me hands down.

1) I know enough about UNIX that I would feel comfortable trusting an OSX box with my data and not fear it being infected as is too common on Windows machines. Windows allows far too many global functions to be initiated by a non-admin user. If someone is a ******* in OSX they might lose their home directory, but the root directory structure would remain intact. Root user creates a new /home/user and there's your recovery process.

In windows you may very likely have to re-format and re-install.

2) Apple takes the user interface more seriously that anyone else. They do everything possible to make computing simple for the beginner. I gave my two eight year old daughters each an itouch for christmas last year. They never, not even once, have asked me how something works. They picked up those ipods and went nuts. I've watched them and they've Bluetooth connected them to play Asphalt 6 head to head. Show me a Windows or Microsoft product with that type of user intuitiveness.

There are things I don't like about Apple too. nobody's perfect. I don't like the "Walled Garden" istore approach to selling trusted software. At least on my android I can opt to install from untrusted sources, meaning I can take responsibility for my device in a way Apple wouldn't trust me to do.

I don't like that Apple won't allow third parties to license and build OSX boxes. I think their slice of the home PC market would expand substantially.

I don't like that Apple only markets to home and education uses. I wish Apple would try to win the enterprise. I'd love to see more businesses with Macs in their cubicles. Apple is dropping the ball. Google is going to go for this market and Apple and MS will be blindsided.

 

[BadMoon]

Well I guess their negative if you're a Mac fan.

People are a bit unrealistic in their mac love though so it's hard not to comment.

I have had my Mac since 2009. Have done nothing to maintain it and it works just like I bought it 3 years ago. I've personally never owned a non-Mac PC that was capable of that. So really I don't see whats unrealistic about loving a product that still works good as new?

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

comes in on monday... first thing im doing is playing diablo 3.. hioooo!!!

 

[darthviper107]

I have had my Mac since 2009. Have done nothing to maintain it and it works just like I bought it 3 years ago. I've personally never owned a non-Mac PC that was capable of that. So really I don't see whats unrealistic about loving a product that still works good as new?

Unrealistic is how people keep saying that's somehow opposite of Windows PC's

In my experience my computers haven't had any issues, other than my 7 year old hard drive dying but that's not due to Windows.

People keep saying Windows isn't secure or it's buggy, in my experience I've had the same amount of issues as when I've had to use Mac.

 

[Eli26]

Well I guess their negative if you're a Mac fan.

People are a bit unrealistic in their mac love though so it's hard not to comment.

Unrealistic? How so? Oh wait, I don't care! Move along! It's a pity really that a fellow Joss Whedon/Fire Fly fan could be this way. It brings a tear to my eye.

 

[Eli26]

Unrealistic is how people keep saying that's somehow opposite of Windows PC's

In my experience my computers haven't had any issues, other than my 7 year old hard drive dying but that's not due to Windows.

People keep saying Windows isn't secure or it's buggy, in my experience I've had the same amount of issues as when I've had to use Mac.

Now that is lies. I have not had any issues with a Mac. I have never had to reformat a Mac or take one in for repairs. I have no anti virus or feel the need to get one. Ad ware, spy ware, malware, Marry Poppin's freakin' ware, scantily clad ware, not a problem. Toodles! Scurry along! Shoo shoo.

 

[Eli26]

If people can post that they are getting a mac then I can post that I'm not?

It's called class. Knowing when to have an opinion. We are fans of the product. What you're doing is trying to get a rise out of people. Like Badmoon said, be an ass. It's just, not in good taste. It's actually rather immature and makes you look like a punk.

PUNK!

Anyway, have a good day sir.

Outside of this tread, we can get along in harmony. In here, you're just a punk ass _____, who at the end of the day, his opinion won't change the fact we think the Mac product is far superior.

 

[darthviper107]

Again with the being unrealistic. I guess the feeling is because of how threatened you must feel as a Mac user, and this is no way meant to be a bash of Mac users, it's a possible reason why you would act so crazy.

Mac adoption has been extremely slow, despite how much people talk about Apple the number of people using Mac has barely gone up at all. Plus there's rumors about Apple cutting down their line of Macs and how they've been making their software less useful (by removing features to make them 'easier'). I'd be a bit concerned as a Mac user too since it seems like Apple is much more concerned with improving their mobile offerings while leaving Mac to stagnate.

 

[Eli26]

Again with the being unrealistic. I guess the feeling is because of how threatened you must feel as a Mac user, and this is no way meant to be a bash of Mac users, it's a possible reason why you would act so crazy.

Mac adoption has been extremely slow, despite how much people talk about Apple the number of people using Mac has barely gone up at all. Plus there's rumors about Apple cutting down their line of Macs and how they've been making their software less useful (by removing features to make them 'easier'). I'd be a bit concerned as a Mac user too since it seems like Apple is much more concerned with improving their mobile offerings while leaving Mac to stagnate.

You're a troll and a idiot if you think I am the only one being unrealistic. Get out. Seriously. You have a guy talking about how he's happy about a purchase, and you come in with this nonsense crap? Whether it's truth or fiction that you're spewing, save that for a PC thread. Heck, make up your own. Nobody is threatened, just annoyed and perplexed that a person who clearly doesn't like Macs has to come in here touting his negative BS. Learn the definition between being threatened and annoyed. It would be no different if I went into an NFL thread to post football sucks, and calling out their fans for being idiots for loving the sport. That would be an ass-hole thing to do. This is no different. Again, when it comes to ____ like this, save your opinions for yourself.