woo hoo! I'm getting a mac!

[Laukev7]

MAC: 'Mandatory Access Controller', or 'Maybe A Computer' (very offensive)

Mac: Macintosh

MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

Microsoft: Microsoft

LINUX: Linux Is Not UNIX

Linux: Linux

Conclusion: Be very careful when you capitalise.

[avello500]

thank you for the lession on capitals. i shall try to remember it in the future.

[choasforages]

you will be very happy with your powerbook. they are built very well and will be usable for years. and im talking about usable in a comfortable way, unlike my tp600. its many many years old.


now onto the old's chevy, buick argument.
general motors is the parant company for alot of things. you think microsoft has power, think about GM, they own hugh's (direct tv), 20% of fuji heavy industry's (think subaru), saab, oldmobile, buick, chevrolet, gmc, saturn, pontiac, cadillac, opel, hummer,  and probably alot more that i don't know about.

[preacher]

I believe when people argue that there are less applications, there is no way to beat a windows pc. It doesnt matter how many applications are available for an alternative OS, someone will bitch and moan because there is one application they just cant live without that isnt available for macs or linux.

In fact my roommate believes that windows is better than linux, because AOL wont run on linux.

[ August 03, 2003: Message edited by: ThePreacher ]

[M51DPS]

I have a quick question. Should my brother get an iBook, or spend a couple extra hundred dollars on a PowerBook? He said that he's just a college student and won't need the extra power of a G4, but I think that the PowerBook will last much longer just because it does have the extra power. Any advice?

[jasonlane]

There both very good to be honest. Think the ibook was up for Linux hardware award recently. Guess it would always be better to have a G4 over a G3 if you can afford it. Personaly I love the ibooks, especially the 12'' models, there light and extremely portable.

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by avello500:


pre-1975,the body's are made by fisher.
the trans are the same. the motors are NOT.  buick ,olds pontiac, and chevy use different motors . in 1975 gm standardized all the lines with chevy motors and then all went to shit. the buick ,olds,pontiac 455 c.i. motors are all different from each other as well as different from the chevy 455c.i. motor.

i could go into several differences that people who know, know.
so you know, i spend most of my week tits deep in greese fixing and cutomizing cars and have done so for the past 16years.
every ford i have driven or raced blewout the motor. every chevy broke after 6 runs or so.
my olds has 240,000 miles on it and i can barely drive it on the street because of to much power.
i also take yearly trips in it that range from 2000-6000 miles.

[ August 03, 2003: Message edited by: avello500 ]

Oh... you never mentioned its an old car.  I just assumed it was somewhere in the '90's.  I have been in Olds and Chevy's and GM's.  They have the same everything (now at least)  Even the handles above the doors, on the inside are the same.


I wish I had some engine skills.  I just need to take a college class or something on it.  I love cars.  I wish my parent's car had a 455 that would be rediculously awesome.

[3eyes]

quote:In fact my roommate believes that windows is better than linux, because AOL wont run on linux.

*falls down laughing* Sorry about that. But I can't help it - you have a very, um, not ISP-wise roommate.

So far as I'm concerned that's one of Linux's strong points because AOL is the absolute worst ISP out there. I'm on DSL now but when I was on dialup I was with Earthlink after I dropped AOL - Earthlink didn't kick me offline all the time (AOL seems to think you can't hear it when the computer is processing it as it comes down the line to kick you off  :rolleyes:  )  

Now only if Earthlink would make broadband available when my contract is up.........

[ August 03, 2003: Message edited by: 3eyes ]

[Pissed_Macman]

quote:MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

AAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[M51DPS]

I was on AOL, if you enjoy forcing inferior software to do what it wasn't meant to (namely, sign on), then their browser is for you.

[3eyes]

quote:Originally posted by M51DPS:
I have a quick question. Should my brother get an iBook, or spend a couple extra hundred dollars on a PowerBook? He said that he's just a college student and won't need the extra power of a G4, but I think that the PowerBook will last much longer just because it does have the extra power. Any advice?

Well, I don't know for certain, but I've heard that ibooks can occasionally be troublesome. It seems the motherboard isn't constructed as well as the powerbooks.

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by M51DPS:
I have a quick question. Should my brother get an iBook, or spend a couple extra hundred dollars on a PowerBook? He said that he's just a college student and won't need the extra power of a G4, but I think that the PowerBook will last much longer just because it does have the extra power. Any advice?

tell him to go to amazon and get the powerbook.  They have 100 dollar rebates on all PowerBooks... that means a superdrive loaded 12"er for $1700.... what a great deal.  And the G4 will blow the G3 out of the water in OSX.