disolitude said: lol, great video. I hate macs. My company gave me a mac and first thing i did was install windows on it...and it kept locking up and freezing. Eventually the whole partition got corrupted. Sure the mac os worked still...but who the hell would want to use that? Good luck trying to find proper drivers to watch XVid codec movies (most common ripped movies format) on mac OS...

 

Here you go: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ or http://perian.org/

OT: Quite whining.. millions of people like the Mac and Apple.. can't handle that? well sucks for you...

 

*goes back listing music on his Ipod, surfing the web on his macbook, typing a message on his Iphone*

NiKKoM said: disolitude said: lol, great video. I hate macs. My company gave me a mac and first thing i did was install windows on it...and it kept locking up and freezing. Eventually the whole partition got corrupted. Sure the mac os worked still...but who the hell would want to use that? Good luck trying to find proper drivers to watch XVid codec movies (most common ripped movies format) on mac OS...   Here you go: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ or http://perian.org/ OT: Quite whining.. millions of people like the Mac and Apple.. can't handle that? well sucks for you...   *goes back listing music on his Ipod, surfing the web on his macbook, typing a message on his Iphone*

I like your argument. "Millions of people like the Mac and Apple," as if that's some sort of immunity towards suckage.

 

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I'd never own a mac. I have a friend who keeps trying to convince me to get one, so I let him ramble on and on about all the joys of owning one, and every time I try to make myself look as interested as possible, and every time (he's been trying to convince me for 4 years) I always have it narrowed down to 1 question:

:O "So, what games can I play on a mac?"

:( "Fuck you for letting me talk that long"

:O "LOL MY NAME IS STEVE JOBS I DON'T PERSONALLY LIKE VIDEO GAMES SO I'M GOING TO TANK MY OWN COMPANY PLUS I HAVE A WUN BUTAN MOUSE"

:( "You can play games through bootcamp, smartass, it installs windows so you can play games"

:O "So why not just eliminate the middle man and the dual booting and just stick with Windows? Does the Mac OS suck your dick while internet surfing or something?"

As a PC gamer there isn't any alternative, and it's as simple as that. As far as other functions of a computer, they're mostly pretty mundane so I wouldn't need a $1500 mac to do tasks a computer from 2002 could do.

Also, as a mac owner you can't use the old "PC gaming is too expensive" because with the price you paid for your Mac desktop or laptop I could probably build 3 mid-range PC gaming rigs.

Yeah they are totally neglectable which must be the reason why all the phone companies are running around scared like headless chicken making touch screen iphone copies. Windows Mobile is an operating system the iPhone is a complete phone so comparing them is not really fitting. At the latest the iPhone 3G has made it into a smashing success.
The problem is Apple has in a year carved a very nice piece out of the most profitable high-end phone market for themselves and now they have a platform and will do what they do best. Make it perfect. The 3G (after the first software update) removed most problems people had with the original. I don't want to be a competitor in this market.

Let's face it... MS can't let Apple die because that's MS's R&D department.

OT: I've owned and programmed Macs and PCs for years, and while they both have their strengths and weaknesses, I prefer to own Macs for home. I'm a Unix-head (since 1980) and I like the fact that the current Mac OS (not that earlier crap) is based on Unix. Also, I tend to have a lot less problems with the peripherals working without conflict and the Mac UI is more intuitive (this is why Windows keeps looking more and more like the Mac UI over time).

In the end, it's a personal preference. If I was into PC gaming, wanted to roll my own PC, or wanted to run with the herd I would own a Windows PC. But for now, the Mac meets my needs (I tend to use it for media work).

Lots of faill and flamebait in this thread.

Oh well, you can keep repeating your old anti-apple memes to yourselves while "enjoying" windows.

Angry people, lol. They both have their ups and downs and I can work cross platform without much trouble.

When it comes to my PC, I'd rather have it than a Mac because going to newegg for your own hardware is cheaper for the performance and games I play compared to Macs. And as somebody stated above, I'm not going to overpay on similar hardware just because of the Mac OS.

When it comes to what I'm majoring in, Macs are the computers I have to use. Still, I can perform similar tasks with most of the same Adobe software (Illustrator, Photoshop, and Indesign) on both the Macs and PC's on campus though I suppose the Macs win here because each one has a widescreen monitor and nearly all of them (the new ones) have Core2Duo CPU's compared to all the PC's 19" 4:3 monitors and P4 CPU's. Not only that, the F10 and F11 buttons can be helpful when you want to compare pictures for photoshop and want to arrange a number of them up to inspect at the same time and also to get them quickly off the screen.

When it comes to interface, I can use both, but I'm more comfortable with PC's since that's what I use the most. However, I rather dislike the Mac keyboards and I HATE the Mac mice. I try to make it a habit that whenever I need to work on campus, I'll take one of my own mice to use instead of Apple's crappy one button or mighty mouse mice. A regular three button mouse feels better to use than a Mac mouse and if I took my G5 gaming mouse, I'd feel right at home.

You suck.

I wuv my macbook, and my iPod, I dont like using windows, thats just how I feel, I understand that other people prefer to use Windows but when they make stupid comments saying stupid things with no reason behind them... well lets just say I have lost respect for lots of people who have posted in this thread lol.