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My loyalty falters...
Pantso:
quote:Originally posted by psyjax v6.9 /Dave:
I have allways resented the "Mac's are for idiot's" rhetoric. That certainly is not the case seeing as how you can get just as technical with OSX as you can with *NIX.
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Once more, I totally agree! ;) You could even get technical with Classic, a lot more than you could with Windows!
Zombie9920:
quote:Originally posted by Calum-21.2:
True, macintosh is a better machine, and it is more expensive, but you must allow people to buy mid-price kit as well, otherwise we are looking at an apple monopoly, and that *would* be ugly.
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Macs aren't better machines. Macs are behind in hardware technology. They still use slow ass SDRAM...while PC's are capapble of using DDR RAM(twice of what SDRAM is) and RAMBUS(has superior memory bandwidth). MAcs are still barely crossing the ghz barrier while our PC's are making it over 3ghz, and yeah, our fastest PC's handidly beat out the fastest Mac offerings. How fast are the IDE hard drive transfer modes in Macs? Don't they only do a maximum transfer mode of ATA-66 or do they actually do ATA-100 now? Sorry, PC's have the MAc beat there too. In PC World we have ATA-133 emerging and we are getting a new IDE standard called Serial ATA that will tremendously boost the hard drive performance on our future motherboards(it will be alot faster even if using an old hard drive on a new Serial ATA capable motherboard). Macs have firewire, big deal. We have Firewire and we also have USB 2.0(which happens to be a little faster than Firewire).
The PC market isn't controled by one company(Apple tries to control the hardware and software market...at least MS only controls software ;P), you can build your own PC easily, and you can easily upgrade stuff in your PC. Say next year you want to slap a 5ghz CPU in your machine to replace your already fast 3ghz CPU. Ok, no problem..you just pull out your old CPU and put the new one in(unless you are getting a different type of CPU..then you will need a motherboard which isn't all that expensive).
With a Mac, what do you do when you want to upgrade that pathetic 800mhz machine? You can't just put a new CPU into it because the CPU happens to be soddered on the motherboard(like some old 386's and 486's used to be). I guess you just throw your existing machine in the trash or give it to a bum and go buy a whole new machine just to upgrade your processor speed.
Saying the MAc is elegant is BS. You can get PC cases that look just as good as or look even better than a Mac's case. PC people tend to be more crafty than MAccies too. If we don't like the way our case looks we simply pull out the dremel and a few other tools and we mod our cases. I think it is a good thing that all PC's don't look alike and I think it would suck if every household had a Mac because there would be no variety in computer looks other than the little variety that Apple gives you.
Macs are overpriced and overrated for what they really are(they are out dated).
Calum:
ho hum. zombie 90210, why is it that you never answer any of my serious posts? even you should be able to see that this one was just a bit tongue in cheek. you always seem to want me to get down to the nitty gritty, and then when i do, you fail to respond.
also, what does 'handidly' mean? (you used it in your last two posts).
Zombie9920:
quote:Originally posted by Calum-21.2:
ho hum. zombie 90210, why is it that you never answer any of my serious posts? even you should be able to see that this one was just a bit tongue in cheek. you always seem to want me to get down to the nitty gritty, and then when i do, you fail to respond.
also, what does 'handidly' mean? (you used it in your last two posts).
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Doh, I meant to put handily. I probably mis-spelled both times because I always type as fast as I can and I don't take time to proof-read my posts. ;P
Calum:
and as for my other question? or will you evade that as well in true zombie90210 style?
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