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Microsoft only cares for businesses?
solemnwarning:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---6.656MB?
Lies.
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No lie :P
Tasks: 106 total, 3 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 9.4% us, 1.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 87.6% id, 0.8% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si
Mem: 514204k total, 278464k used, 235740k free, 6616k buffers
Swap: 498004k total, 191488k used, 306516k free, 96516k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
7828 solemnwa 15 0 56284 7028 6032 S 0.0 1.4 0:20.82 kdevelop3
worker201:
--- Quote from: dmcfarland ---Whats the solution then? Apple's OSX can only be run Macintoshes. Thats can get expensive not to mention a limited amount of hardware choices, because Apple only manafactures MAC hardware. I know they tried an OEM scheme that didnt work that well.
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I'm not going to say that Mac is the solution. But you should know a few things about Apples. One, their hardware is the best available on the consumer market. Two, a PC with comparable specs to a Mac would be more expensive than the Mac. Three, the average PC company (Sony, Compaq, HP, Dell, Gateway) uses garbage hardware whenever possible, to offset the cost of the more expensive hardware. Four, Apple's OSX is specifically designed to be integrated with their hardware on a bare-metal level, providing superior performance. Five, there are never any driver or library conflicts on a Mac, because all the hardware is known and fully understood. And six, Apple doesn't actually manufacture their hardware. They use ATI graphics cards, IBM chips, and Seagate hard drives, just like everyone else.
Again, this is not a perfect situation. But it doesn't quite make Apples suck either. Make sure you understand why and how Mac hardware is controlled, and how that can affect the price. Then you can make a better arguement against Apple, if you need to.
dmcfarland:
I wasnt criticizing Apple. I was pointing out that Macs are more expensive than PC's. They are. Im not reffering to I-macs or mac mini's.
worker201:
The point I was trying to make is that there is a reason why they are expensive, and you really do get what you pay for.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: solemnwarning ---No lie :P
Tasks: 106 total, 3 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 9.4% us, 1.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 87.6% id, 0.8% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si
Mem: 514204k total, 278464k used, 235740k free, 6616k buffers
Swap: 498004k total, 191488k used, 306516k free, 96516k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
7828 solemnwa 15 0 56284 7028 6032 S 0.0 1.4 0:20.82 kdevelop3
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top lies.
(Why the HELL did I just install Kdevelop?)
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