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woo hoo! I'm getting a mac!
avello500:
all of my friends gave me the same resons to buy a chevy. i told em to fuck off and i bought a oldsmobile.
all of thier chevy's died trying to catch my olds.
get the mac,dont look back. if you lose a few friends, so what. what kind of friend pushes a pc over a mac?
Faust:
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learning curve
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???
That's one of their strong points. not one of their weak points. And hey, all OS's have bad points for different people - because they're aimed at different people.
And Macs _are_ PC's guys. They're personal. They're computers. ;)
jasonlane:
Now you see there the same old myths that keep going around.
1. Expensive??? Really? Yes if you don't have $1500 or so to spare yes, if you only want to spend $500 go buy a Dell or a Gateway. Really though this comparing chalk and cheese. It's stupid argument. Conversely I could spen $4000 on a Dell, so what.
2. expensive parts (upgrading) Upgrade when? to what, I recently spent
Faust:
1: expensive
Yeah you may pay a premium for Macs but I guess you get what you pay for. You *always* pay a bit extra for the latest hardware and macs have some pretty nice hardware - for how long now has the firewire support been going on? When this is still seen as "unnecessary" by most PC manufacturers. If you want firewire in an intel box you have to go and goddamn buy it seperately - the same applies with wifi and mac lap tops. Macs have some sweet hardware.
2: "hard to upgrade"
This is one of the ones I dislike. I want to control my computer - I wanna shove bits in, take bits out, play with it, set up seperate boxes for seperate tasks by removing / adding bits. You don't want to have complete control of your computer, I do. Personal choice. That said all OS's have bad points.
3: Less Software!
Word - sitting at a Mac now and the software is far better than the crap on the neighbouring win boxes. Maybe games is a bit laggy (ie in Mac releases, not Mac usage) though... We need a Mac / Linux / BSD / whatever gaming "coalition" thing happening here.
4. Learning curve.
Yep, takes care of everything for you. Again not to my tastes but they do seem to excel at it.
What I'm saying dude is that the reasons you chose a Mac are valid reasons. And if those are the reasons _you_ want then your friends can shove their Windows CD's up their arses. And like shine torches up there and see if they can bounce it out there mouth. Yeah. Word.
PS: What the hell is that sig? You show disrespect to Tux - now you must die.
Laukev7:
quote: 2: "hard to upgrade"
This is one of the ones I dislike. I want to control my computer - I wanna shove bits in, take bits out, play with it, set up seperate boxes for seperate tasks by removing / adding bits. You don't want to have complete control of your computer, I do. Personal choice. That said all OS's have bad points.
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That's only true for iMacs and eMacs. PowerMacs are just as upgradable as other PC's. PowerLogix and other hardware manufacturers offer processor and upgrades for PowerMacs, PowerBooks and even G3 iMacs. You can even build your own Mac if you like.
[ August 02, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
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