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 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:44 pm
DarkHalcyon Oh, and Phoenix, no one likes Macs because they suck. All they have going for them is the fact that they're very stable, pretty easy to use, and they have super flashy super shiny interfaces. But last time I checked you either can't upgrade, or upgrading is expensive because you can only use mac hardware. I wouldn't consider very stable and easy to use sucking.. Nor would I consider a graphically pleasing user interface a point of suck either, although I will say that not everyone likes the way OS X looks, just like not everyone likes the way Windows looks. I upgraded my iBook a lot since I got it. I put in an internal wireless card and I almost doubled the RAM. I'm getting a Macbook soon, and those have a user upgradable hard drive and RAM.. I'll probably double the RAM to 2 gigs after Leopard comes out. The Mac Mini isn't officially user-upgradable, but if you know how to get it open, you can change some of the components. The G5 towers are almost as upgradable as any tower desktop. It's just the iMacs that are relatively stuck the way they are, because of the design. They're built to put a whole computer into a small desktop footprint for style, power, and ease of use in a small package. Some people _have_ modded iMacs, though - Google it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:59 pm
DarkHalcyon because you can only use mac hardware. last time I checked, newer macs can run windows so...just blew a whole in that statement of yours blaugh
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:51 am
And they don't get viruses, which is good for me xp 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:03 pm
Donovinhs Knight DarkHalcyon because you can only use mac hardware. last time I checked, newer macs can run windows so...just blew a whole in that statement of yours blaugh But it's emulated, isn't it? Emulation, especially that of an OS, really pisses me off sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:12 pm
nathan_ngl Donovinhs Knight DarkHalcyon because you can only use mac hardware. last time I checked, newer macs can run windows so...just blew a whole in that statement of yours blaugh But it's emulated, isn't it? Emulation, especially that of an OS, really pisses me off sweatdrop it's also a beta, and a rather bad one at that, so calm down.
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:37 am
ZonkotheSane nathan_ngl Donovinhs Knight DarkHalcyon because you can only use mac hardware. last time I checked, newer macs can run windows so...just blew a whole in that statement of yours blaugh But it's emulated, isn't it? Emulation, especially that of an OS, really pisses me off sweatdrop it's also a beta, and a rather bad one at that, so calm down. Well, at least linux's WINE surpasses the false attempts of MAC to mix WinOS into the system xd . Linux rules ^^ (I love their pinguin mascot... way better than the windows flag xd ).
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:54 pm
nathan_ngl But it's emulated, isn't it? Emulation, especially that of an OS, really pisses me off sweatdrop Parallels is in-window OS emulation, running one OS in another. I'd assume it's like Virtual PC, but I never used that.. Parallels does not impress me, and frankly, I hope it is NOT the only solution they decide to continue supporting. I will be very upset, as will many people who prefer a true multi-OS setup. Apple's solution is the beta software Boot Camp, which allows you to partition the hard drive and install and boot into Windows normally, after burning you a CD of drivers. Essentially, it's a disk partition tool that formats part of your disk to a file format recognizable by Windows. Having used it, I'd like to know where anyone heard it was bad. It was easy to set up, and runs XP Pro on my friend's iMac faster than my Dell at my parents' house. xd Of course, that's just with comparable benchmarks. Oh, and Boot Camp was also Apple's response to a bunch of geeks who, within a couple months of the Intel Macs' release, had strewn across the internet a plethora of hacks to install Windows on your Mac - They realized, wow, WTF, people _want_ that?! xd So instead of letting people hack the crap out of their hardware, they took the hacks, ran with them, and put out this beta software to let people do it the legit and easy way. (I'm a card-carrying member of the Macintosh Guild. >.> And I also hang out with these guys from this tiny yeshiva on Avenue J who all carry Powerbooks and live in their rabbi's apartment sometimes. xd )
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:39 am
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:11 pm
xd Everybody is entitled to their own opinions, though, and I haven't tried out Linux to be a fair judge. 3nodding I can say, Windows is lousy, though. xd We've got 2, and they are really stupid, crashy, and slow.
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:52 pm
all i know is, for the price of the cheapest mac (sans the mini), i can get a dell xps, or an alienware. sure, you get what you pay for, but that's mac's only real problem, isn't it? affordability.
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:14 pm
ZonkotheSane all i know is, for the price of the cheapest mac (sans the mini), i can get a dell xps, or an alienware. sure, you get what you pay for, but that's mac's only real problem, isn't it? affordability. gotta spend money to get good products talk2hand
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:01 pm
Donovinhs Knight ZonkotheSane all i know is, for the price of the cheapest mac (sans the mini), i can get a dell xps, or an alienware. sure, you get what you pay for, but that's mac's only real problem, isn't it? affordability. gotta spend money to get good products talk2hand um, dude? some of us pay out of our own pockets. my parents haven't bought me a thing outside of food, clothes, etc since i was 12.
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Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:10 pm
ZonkotheSane Donovinhs Knight ZonkotheSane all i know is, for the price of the cheapest mac (sans the mini), i can get a dell xps, or an alienware. sure, you get what you pay for, but that's mac's only real problem, isn't it? affordability. gotta spend money to get good products talk2hand um, dude? some of us pay out of our own pockets. my parents haven't bought me a thing outside of food, clothes, etc since i was 12. so? I bought my old computer myself, and it was a mac... well...I didnt buy it myself...but I did use my own money for it ninja
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:25 pm
I like my i-pod nano which i got for my birthday heart
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:27 pm
I have a friend who is a huge mac lover
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