• Almost Nobody owns just a mac
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I have a mac, and I have a pc. I'm not a fanboy of either and I wish everyone would just shut up about which is better and learn to like 2 things at once. And yes mac's are overpriced but so are alot of things so shut up whining.
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;17690544]Macs suck and [url=www.google.com]this website[/url] wins.[/QUOTE] What is this a virus? (I changed the link)
[QUOTE=HomoPastry;17686311]No kidding, maybe Apple should stick to mobile devices? There pretty much wasting money on Macs.[/QUOTE] They make money, but only through how pretty macs are
Nothing new then.
[QUOTE=DaveP;17688777]I treat the macs I have access to like the easel for my work, and they're very efficient tools in that regard. I really feel a lot more relaxed working with them then with my laptop on projects in Photoshop/Illustrator/After Effects/Final Cut Pro, the workflow seems to be a lot smoother I think this was quite obvious to begin with: When you can get a PC for £200+, and are ingrained in a society where the PC is the norm, you're going to get this level of market penetration[/QUOTE] I agree, especially with the smoothness of workflow. It's so much easier to get things done photography/design related etc. Even simple things like being able to quickview RAW files helps a lot (windows doesn't even support any kind of RAW files by default). Quickview is a great example of a simple tool that is insanely useful. That's a kind of work thing. The only thing I use windows for now is gaming (I don't do a lot of that anymore anyway so it doesn't really affect me). Operating systems as a religion is p. dumb imo.
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;17686472]Gah, there's some kid at my school that brings his laptop to school everyday, and when someone asked him why he had an apple sticker on it he said it was because he wanted it to be a mac. (It's a lenovo laptop running linux)[/QUOTE] :sigh:
Also final cut pro is only for OSX :)
[QUOTE=:smug:;17692181]They make money, but only through how pretty macs are[/QUOTE] They do make money, I figured that, but they would make A LOT more money if they devoted all of there attention to there iPhone, because they don't have nearly enough competition as they do on home computers. How many Zunes do you see around? I can tell you I have never seen a Zune in person.
Apple has some of the best marketing in the world. It's how they get computer-illiterate fucks to buy their stuff. One time I remember going to BestBuy for a cable or something. Anyway All the Macs were laid out on a table so I went by. I read the specs on one of the laptops, I think it was a Macbook Pro, and thought "Well that's not bad". Then I saw the price. $1300. I went over to the netbooks running Windows XP and there was one with the same specs for around $700. Without their "hip" marketing Macs would be discontinued.
[QUOTE=Craptasket;17688535]Wanna learn about Windows and how it saved my job and boosted my productivity? Don't fall into the temptation of a MAC [editline]03:57AM[/editline] Install Now[/QUOTE] Convert to Mac and win a FREE Apple Ipod!
[QUOTE=usaokay;17686259]and almost everyone at my school owns any type of iPod.[/QUOTE] At least a 1/3 in my school, poor school =[ [editline]12:51AM[/editline] [QUOTE=debmaster;17695981]Apple has some of the best marketing in the world. It's how they get computer-illiterate fucks to buy their stuff. One time I remember going to BestBuy for a cable or something. Anyway All the Macs were laid out on a table so I went by. I read the specs on one of the laptops, I think it was a Macbook Pro, and thought "Well that's not bad". Then I saw the price. $1300. I went over to the netbooks running Windows XP and there was one with the same specs for around $700. Without their "hip" marketing Macs would be discontinued.[/QUOTE] I visited the Apple store in London. Really nice layout, great customer service (even though we only went in for an iPhone case) and you could interact with all of the products. They had some Mac's with games on, some with garage band, comfy bean bags to sit on whilst you played. Really great layout and looked very modern. Still don't want a Mac, I do however on the latests Nano and love it, my brother has an iPhone which is awesome as well....
[QUOTE=HomoPastry;17686311]No kidding, maybe Apple should stick to mobile devices? There pretty much wasting money on Macs.[/QUOTE] And that is exactly why they update them and manufacture new models every few months. Riiiiight.
[quote=funnybunny;17686472]gah, there's some kid at my school that brings his laptop to school everyday, and when someone asked him why he had an apple sticker on it he said it was because he wanted it to be a mac. (it's a lenovo laptop running linux)[/quote] osx86?
brb off to the Apple thread. Oh, and iPods are shitty too, at least the 2nd (or was it 3rd?) generation iPod Nano will permanently die if you leave it somewhere hot for more than a day. Even a fucking dresser drawer (without clothes on top of it) can fry the thing.
why are they growing? they should go die. it would solve alot of issues.
I like my Mac, more then my PC. (Inc. disagrees).
[QUOTE=Nyaos;17687448]No matter how many facts there are defending the Macs Windows fanboys won't listen fairly so I don't think I'm going to bother this time.[/QUOTE] It's not that I hate Mac users, I just don't have any pleasant experiences with Macs. I do, however, hate the douchebags that feel feel the need to interrupt me when I'm working on my laptop to point out that I'm somehow inferior for preferring Windows over MacOS.
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;17690544]Macs suck and [url=http://jucy.tw/T4oc ]this website[/url] wins.[/QUOTE] ^ = [url]http://jucy.tx/t4oc[/url] Scam site, don't click
lol, household penetration
[QUOTE=debmaster;17695981] Without their "hip" marketing Macs would be discontinued.[/QUOTE] Not really, they are still the industry standard in the creative sector.
The college i'm going to, the pc's are Alienware
[QUOTE=toxicpiano;17704868]Not really, they are still the industry standard in the creative sector.[/QUOTE] mainly because of apple's bullshit exclusives. there is no other reason to use them.
[QUOTE=Xmeagol;17705585]The college i'm going to, the pc's are Alienware[/QUOTE] Woowwwwwwww.
[QUOTE=Latias;17686527]I have snow leopard OSX86 on the second partition of this ASUS laptop, and my primary OS is Windows 7 What does that count as?[/QUOTE] illegal [editline]12:31PM[/editline] [QUOTE=ashxu;17687434]Fuck, i hate this stereotype. Girls assume everyone has an iPod (Real men don't use iPods) and that everyone uses facebook. I only have facebook because i wanted to see Garry Newman's profile :sigh:[/QUOTE] i have an iPod, what the fuck do "real men" use? i wish i could get rockbox for the newest nano!!! THE THING SOUNDS LIKE A CHEAP 20$ MP3 PLAYER, I NEED ROCKBOX! T_T
[QUOTE=limulus54;17705677]mainly because of apple's bullshit exclusives. there is no other reason to use them.[/QUOTE] I've worked in a graphics department before, none of the software they were using (illustrator, photoshop, quarkXpress) are OSX exclusives. As my boss said, if you want to work in the graphics industry, you need pretty need to use a mac.
[QUOTE=Wakka V2;17686496]Most of professionals (Doctors, designers, etc.) own macs.[/QUOTE] I've seen them all running XP [editline]12:51PM[/editline] [QUOTE=BLU Sandvich;17690499]Macs can pick up viruses just as easy, if only people would make viruses for them. A lot don't bother because it doesn't have the potential to affect a large population of computer users.[/QUOTE] Macs can get viruses but the idea that they can't is engraved in most peoples brains..
I love apples commercials [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIlGsWXtkgM[/url] They bash Microsoft for advertising so much and not spending money on fixxing vista -.- APPLE BASHES MICROSOFT FOR ADVERTISING, DURING APPLES ADVERTISEMENT oh why yes they also include the vista hate bandwagon
Not to mention Vista is bug-free for the most part.
[QUOTE=toxicpiano;17711219]I've worked in a graphics department before, none of the software they were using (illustrator, photoshop, quarkXpress) are OSX exclusives. As my boss said, if you want to work in the graphics industry, you need pretty need to use a mac.[/QUOTE] I can see absolutely no reason for that. in fact, that statement makes me want to go into "the graphics industry" and use a self-built windows/Linux machine the whole time. because if the programs aren't exclusives, they are the same on each os. so, in conclusion, the graphics industry wastes a shitton of money on shiny aluminum boxes.
[QUOTE=Xyrofen;17687298]Boot camp is pretty cool.[/quote] My favorite thing it when Mac users bash Windows, but then they use Boot Camp and act like it's hot shit that they can run Windows. [QUOTE=Xyrofen;17687298] My favorite thing is when Windows exclusive users bash Mac OSes, but then they use RocketDock or shit their pants over features that are added to windows or are plug-ins they can get that are really standard on Mac OS X.[/QUOTE] Oh, I see you've made point for me.
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