Stop Microsoft
Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: bcortens on 17 July 2002, 23:18
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Go here and sign the petition
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iTol/petition.html (http://www.PetitionOnline.com/iTol/petition.html)
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Nice :D
Im EDIT: *Number omited, privacy retained*
Opps! heh heh
[ July 17, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax ]
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Please everyone sign this petition even if you arent a mac user. Try and save apple from turning into a microsoft!!! I think this os 10 update nonsense is a travisty, i sure as hell aint paying $130 for this bullshit. I dont expect it for free but come on $130!!! I cant even begin to imagine how mad i would be if i had just gone out and bought os 10.1 and now this crap. I bought a mac to get away from this kind of SHIT, upgrades every other day, taking about all these new "features" that should have been in the first one! Come on apple show some class...
Sorry to rant, [i had to get it out] I like apple but this is terrible..
[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: trc3 ]
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i just signed it even though im pissed at my powerbook right now. i think that is bullshit
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I signed.. but i dont really give a shit because the only reason i dont 'hate' mac is because it is more stable than windows... but that isnt hard to accomplish
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not to mention that it doesn't use that shitty x86 hardware.
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quote:
Originally posted by trc3:
Please everyone sign this petition even if you arent a mac user. Try and save apple from turning into a microsoft!!! I think this os 10 update nonsense is a travisty, i sure as hell aint paying $130 for this bullshit. I dont expect it for free but come on $130!!! I cant even begin to imagine how mad i would be if i had just gone out and bought os 10.1 and now this crap. I bought a mac to get away from this kind of SHIT, upgrades every other day, taking about all these new "features" that should have been in the first one! Come on apple show some class...
Sorry to rant, [i had to get it out] I like apple but this is terrible..
[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: trc3 ]
I don't know about .Mac .
But I think the OSX upgrade is worth it, it's hardly a windows style upgrade. Lot's pf worthwhile goodies are included and your avarage windows upgrade is usualy twice as much.
Besies, if you wait a month the price will drop.
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Damn, I just looked at the signatures and there are a lot of Mac users ticked off about this one. 9837, to be exact.
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BTW.. Im ordering Jaguare now, the upgrade is only 69 bucks for those that are running 10.1 or 10.0 so it's worth it IMHO.
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Originally posted by psyjax:
BTW.. Im ordering Jaguare now, the upgrade is only 69 bucks for those that are running 10.1 or 10.0 so it's worth it IMHO.
Where did you see that? I only see where, as of yesterday, if you bu a new Mac 10.2 is 20 bucks.
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Its up to 13284. damn
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I actually think it
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Originally posted by alucard:
Where did you see that? I only see where, as of yesterday, if you bu a new Mac 10.2 is 20 bucks.
Hehe... oops. It's a student discount thing, I imagine it's going to come installed on new Mac's, that is for free.
So if you are a student, it's only 69 just call up apple to order.
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17,000 votes now ;)
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What I find funny is that (a) this is the #1 most active petition on petitiononline.com (as of Friday afternoon, July 19), and that (b) there's a counter-petition (that basically says "stop whining" located here (http://www.petitiononline.com/MUAMW/petition.html) that's almost as popular.
In any event, I signed on against the .mac fees. I won't be paying; I don't have any great need for the services myself, and I already have 37,693 e-mail addresses as it is.
I didn't see anything in this petition about the $129 fee for OS X 10.2, though . . . where'd you get that from? (I get 10.2 and 10.2 Server free anyway, being a member of the Apple Consultant's Network. (http://smile.gif) )
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I just signed it:
19457 Signatures Total
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.Mac Sux! Period!
Just look at the amount of sigs on each petition. 500+ vs. 19000+!
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chaosmaster
what exactly do u have against x86?
It is the cheapest, widest available, seems to be the fastest (in the affordable price range) and seems to be the most expandable. I know apple claims that their computers are faster than pentium's but I doubt it. my PowerMac 733MHz G4 runs a hell of a lot slower than out dual 900 pentium system in Photoshop. It also runs slower than my 1GHz and 1.2GHz Athlons.
This is OSX and WinXP comparison. I know OS 9 is faster, but it is only fair to use the 2 newest operating systems in a face off, do u not agree?
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It's not so much that x86 that sucks, it's Windows that *really* sucks.
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Originally posted by Billy Gates:
chaosmaster
what exactly do u have against x86?
It is the cheapest, widest available, seems to be the fastest (in the affordable price range) and seems to be the most expandable. I know apple claims that their computers are faster than pentium's but I doubt it. my PowerMac 733MHz G4 runs a hell of a lot slower than out dual 900 pentium system in Photoshop. It also runs slower than my 1GHz and 1.2GHz Athlons.
This is OSX and WinXP comparison. I know OS 9 is faster, but it is only fair to use the 2 newest operating systems in a face off, do u not agree?
Try a dual 800 or a dual 500 G4 vs. the same system and you will see a world of diffrence. The 733 was a bit of a fiasco cuz it benchmarked lower than even the dual 500Mhz machines. Right now the dual 500's are the best cheep mac's available if you can find one. The dual 800's too.
It's true that they got AMD's to beat a dual G4 1Ghz. But the machine was a dual 2Ghz and the diffrence was less than 30%. And on certain more hardware intensive tasks that took advantage of altivec the Mac pulled ahed. That's what the benchmarking on Apple's site showes.
This was an old topic coverd a long time ago in the Mac forum. You can look back into the history if you are interested.