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| Thread ID: 87565 | 2008-02-26 06:29:00 | made the switch | handya (3666) | PC World Chat |
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| 643833 | 2008-03-03 20:44:00 | i know i have said this b4 but the guys that are bitching on about how much you dislike macs and the crapy warranty and the fact you cant upgrade, you i know you have never used mac os 10.5 because you would sound a lot different if you did :P I have used Mac OS 10.5 and I hated it. Mac treats me like a noob with their operating systems. It's a brand anyway - there's nothing better about Macs. But if you buy a Mac you're buying into a club - whereas if you buy a PC it's because you want a tool. I remember hearing about the amount of money Steve Jobs spent getting the translucency of the plastic just right on the first iMacs. Everybody that bought one paid for that development - not for the development of good hardware. And all the games available for Macs are poo - and they run like poo on Macs. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 643834 | 2008-03-03 20:55:00 | EA are releasing all (most??) of their games from now on to run on MAC. Both my flatmates have iMacs, and I find them fairly good. Especially for what you pay. $1800 for a discrete, nice looking 20" unit isn't bad in my books, and with bootcamp then you can run XP and play anything that your PC can, fairly well too. | Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 643835 | 2008-03-03 23:26:00 | ok so you cant upgrade that easily thats something i new when i got my first mac but that did not worry me, the warranty same as most pc places like dell. but @ least the software works, have you ever tried using vista, my mother got a new laptop last year, it came loaded with vista, after a hefty 2 hour install i turned it on for the first time, this seamed strange nothing would load, i checked the ram usage, vista was using 99% off my 1gig ram, i only had 7meg free! wtf. :badpc: i know i have said this b4 but the guys that are bitching on about how much you dislike macs and the crapy warranty and the fact you cant upgrade, you i know you have never used mac os 10.5 because you would sound a lot different if you did :P Yep, Apple and Dell both belong in the same bin, along with Vista. The rest of your comments are mere gibberish, But hey, believe whatever crap makes you happy. You deserve the crappy brands you buy. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 643836 | 2008-03-03 23:30:00 | EA are releasing all (most??) of their games from now on to run on MAC. Both my flatmates have iMacs, and I find them fairly good. Especially for what you pay. $1800 for a discrete, nice looking 20" unit isn't bad in my books, and with bootcamp then you can run XP and play anything that your PC can, fairly well too. Great, Games running under emulation on over priced under specced computers. PERFECT. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 643837 | 2008-03-03 23:54:00 | Great, Games running under emulation on over priced under specced computers. PERFECT. Bootcamp is not an emulator Metla Bootcamp allows Windows XP to run NATIVELY on the Mac. When you run Windows XP on your Mac you are running Windows XP exactly the same as if you purchased a PC with a Intel Core Duo. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 643838 | 2008-03-04 00:43:00 | Bootcamp is not an emulator Metla Bootcamp allows Windows XP to run NATIVELY on the Mac. When you run Windows XP on your Mac you are running Windows XP exactly the same as if you purchased a PC with a Intel Core Duo. It works too. We've got a stonking Mac here at the office (more powerful than our PCs) which we inherited from someone with too much money, and we're contemplating updating to to Leopard just so we can turn it into the best COD4 machine in th house .... |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 643839 | 2008-03-04 01:16:00 | But still, wtf is the point? Just get a PC in the first place. All your doing is buying something twice the cost of what you actually need, and the one half the cost does a better job.:badpc: | wratterus (105) | ||
| 643840 | 2008-03-04 01:44:00 | But still, wtf is the point? Just get a PC in the first place. All your doing is buying something twice the cost of what you actually need, and the one half the cost does a better job.:badpc: For gaming definitely but that has always been and will always be the case. It is also a market that **** have no interest in competing in (where desktops/consoles are involved). I think they are more than happy to let the XBox, PS3, Wii and gaming rig builders fight it out amongst themselves. |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 643841 | 2008-03-04 01:49:00 | For gaming definitely but that has always been and will always be the case. Is there any instance where running Windows on a Mac is more profitable than getting a Windows PC though? Parallels, sure, thats OK, but again, is there any real point? What can a Mac do that a Windows PC can't? Would it simply come down to the person in question's software desires? |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 643842 | 2008-03-04 01:55:00 | Is there any instance where running Windows on a Mac is more profitable than getting a Windows PC though? Parallels, sure, thats OK, but again, is there any real point? What can a Mac do that a Windows PC can't? Yes if you just want to have x amount of work stations in your work place but still need to cater for workers who may prefer to use Macs instead of PCs but you don't want to have redundant machines lying around and any given time, in this situation virtualization in the enterprise comes into play. It also allows you to cater for Linux/OS X/ XP/Vista on one machine. Would it simply come down to the person in question's software/OS desires? You got it in ONE. Happy workers are productive workers - what ever platform they prefer. It is happening a lot in the US. I can post links if required. |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
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