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the real reason wintel boxes are inferior to Macs...
Interscope:
BSD has the best multitasking.
OSX uses BSD.
Windoze does not use BSD
=-)
cocoamix:
You know Zombie, you used to have quite a bad reputation around here, but messages like the one above makes me think that there's hope for everyone.
Interscope:
quote:Originally posted by Jimmy James: Mac Commando:
Well, I've had a Quadra 840av for ages now. Yes, the cool old one with the 40MHz 68040. The one that has the 66MHz DSP in it for video and audio processing.
The one that was seven grand new.
Yeah. I've got one.
But anyway, I was at a friend's house and... for some reason, I had it and my Power Mac 7200 (beloved machine) out in the car. My friend's dad is a moron and just got a POS new Hell, I mean Dell.
What a turd. The plastic case is so fucking cheap that I cracked it by leaning too hard against it.
So, knowing that I use Macs, he looks at me and says "Hey, bet you can't do THIS on any of your Apples!"
He then plays a short video clip.
I look over at my friend, we go outside, bring in the 840av along with a mouse and my trusty VGA adaptor. We plug his dad's shitty Dell screen into the Quadra (I'm still apologizing to my baby) and I plug a VCR into the Quadra via the RCA video in, and the sound via an RCA to 1/8" adaptor to the mic in port of the Mac.
I fire it up, plug the cable TV into the tape player and we watch tv shows on the Quadra.
Then I look at the imbecile dad and say "No, you're wrong! But the real question is... why would I waste my time with a music video when I could watch TV on a Mac from 1993?"
Wintel boxes get so old and so decrepid so quickly that it hurts. That Quadra shames anything my dad has (older P2 Dells and Compaq boxes from 300 to 500MHz). Running OS 8.1, it's more reliable than windoze 2000.
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I remember my p166 i just dumped a few months ago... It had a tv-card just liked your old mac, it worked like a charm... I used Win95 and Linux.
xyle_one:
quote: You know man. You are too right. Maybe PC people and Mac people should like unite and let it become a computer users community instead of Mac user and PC user community. ;P The machine one prefers doesn't make the person who he/she is so why should there be a continuous Mac vs. PC war? Truthfully, I'm starting to like the maturitiy level of most Mac users so I'm not going to even be bothered with trying to compare Apples and Oranges anymore.
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wow. i really wasnt expecting that response. less trollish, more contributing member. today is def a strange day at the MES :D
hm_murdock:
Wow indeed.
Now, mind you, I didn't make a performance claim. I was simply commenting on system capabilities. A machine built in 1993... completely stock (save for an added HD and RAM upped to 128MB) can do things that a stock PC from this past year could never dream of doing.
I still think that Apple's lost the edge in hardware innovation, and until I see otherwise, I'll go on believing that. They've still got the engineering and industrial design, but they sure ain't got any new "insanely great" ideas.
As for your PC, Zombie, I don't doubt it'll kick most Macs' asses. I'm afraid that Apple's not only fucked up by putting marketing first (sticking with the marginal G4) but also by skimping in other areas, like getting DDR so late in the game, using IMHO, shitty ass Maxtor drives when for the price you pay, you should be getting the best Western Digital drives in the world. That's what the ability to piece together your own box lets you do... make sure you get THE BEST from everything.
Right now, Apple's claim to fame is quality and software. That's why I use Apple computers instead of PCs. I can't run Mac OS and OS X on x86 boxes. And even if I could, I'd have to worry about IBM's shitty static BIOS concept rearing its ugly head and fucking things up, making hardware configuration a true Pain In The Ass(TM)
[ January 21, 2003: Message edited by: Jimmy James: Mac Commando ]
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