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| Thread ID: 80199 | 2007-06-14 21:15:00 | For Winmacguy | somebody (208) | PC World Chat |
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| 559218 | 2007-06-15 08:28:00 | we were going to tie it to the tow bar of our ute and go racing in the paddocks - but we took off to fast and tore the handle off it - so drop kicking was the only thing we could think of - i had to use that damn mac for a week and a half so it was NOT missed at all :yuck: Sounds like a bad case of PEBKAC. Was it running OS9 or OS X? |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 559219 | 2007-06-15 09:28:00 | It Was running OSX - it was running it horribly to be honest :P after i got used to all the different locations and started to know how everything worked on OSX - i still thought it was horrid to use and work with - it also had a "mighty mouse" plugged into it - ohh i hated that i never got used to it :yuck: This was a while ago - and now at my new job i have to image and look after the new Imacs our work uses - while i don't mind doing it as its part of my job - i just wont ever enjoy it - so you can't use the "you haven't used one long enough" excuse on me :p "Originally Posted by bob_doe_nz Mac's. Made by idiots, for idiots" what he said :p |
MAC_H8ER (5897) | ||
| 559220 | 2007-06-15 09:45:00 | They don't fail, do they? That's a PC characteristic, which is intensified by all the "upgrading" and "fixing" people do. :D Since 1984 my family has owned seven Macs. In that time only two problems. First was the white spot issue on PowerBook screens, but that was fixed under warranty. The only other thing that ever went wrong was the ethernet port stopped working after about three and a half years on our iMac G4, which we never bothered to fix as the wireless network was fine for internet sharing and it was due for replacement anyway. So, in summary, not perfect, but generally pretty reliable. Anything that has gone wrong wasn't a DIY job anyway. :) |
maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 559221 | 2007-06-15 10:58:00 | LOL www.youtube.com |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 559222 | 2007-06-15 11:28:00 | It Was running OSX - it was running it horribly to be honest :P after i got used to all the different locations and started to know how everything worked on OSX - i still thought it was horrid to use and work with - it also had a "mighty mouse" plugged into it - ohh i hated that i never got used to it :yuck: I agree with your comment on the mighty mouse, while I don't personally have a problem with mine it has been an issue of contention for many years amongst Mac users with some preferring PC mice and some preferring Mac mice . If the iMac you were using was a G3 iMac (the colourful ones) that would possibly explain why it was not so great and you were probably on an early version of 10 . 1 or 10 . 2 which a lot of first time users to the Mac platform didn't like . |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 559223 | 2007-06-15 11:56:00 | You say that you have now worked with Macs for a while and still don't like them, that is fairly normal for a PC trained IT person to say. It doesn't mean that Macs are bad it just means that you don't like working outside of your comfort zone. My advice would be to get more familiar with Macs because they are gradually coming back into the corporate and education environments. You say that you deal with a number of Macs at work, do you work in education or for a larger company with in inhouse marketing dept that uses Macs? |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 559224 | 2007-06-15 12:03:00 | LOL . youtube . com/watch?v=VLo1USJIkgY" target="_blank">www . youtube . com Steve Ballmer wishes Microsoft customers would get that excited about Vista :p :xmouth: The difference between a Mac geek and a PC geek: The Mac geek can work on both platforms, washes daily and has a sense of style:cool: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 559225 | 2007-06-15 12:19:00 | You say that you have now worked with Macs for a while and still don't like them, that is fairly normal for a PC trained IT person to say. It doesn't mean that Macs are bad it just means that you don't like working outside of your comfort zone. My advice would be to get more familiar with Macs because they are gradually coming back into the corporate and education environments. You say that you deal with a number of Macs at work, do you work in education or for a larger company with in inhouse marketing dept that uses Macs? Heh, Mac_H8er is probably one of few that could actually say that a Mac is crap and has actually tried it. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 559226 | 2007-06-15 12:41:00 | Heh, Mac_H8er is probably one of few that could actually say that a Mac is crap and has actually tried it. Except that his view is not uncommon among MCSE IT types who have "tried" it but don't like it because it isn't Windows. A lot of Mac users don't like Windows but have to use it as part of their jobs the difference being that the are equally capable on a PC as they are on a Mac unlike PC IT types who only know Windows. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 559227 | 2007-06-15 13:30:00 | You say that you have now worked with Macs for a while and still don't like them, that is fairly normal for a PC trained IT person to say. It doesn't mean that Macs are bad it just means that you don't like working outside of your comfort zone. My advice would be to get more familiar with Macs because they are gradually coming back into the corporate and education environments. and everything you post is typical of a mac fanatic, so neither of you are going to give an unbiased opinion imho, mac-h8er has given it mac a go, dislikes it for genuine reasons, and you're just trying to write him off as being "a typical pc tech". has it ever occurred to the mac fan club that perhaps people who dislike the mac OS actually do for genuine reasons? i mean if mac users can prefer mac over windows/linux i'm sure it can work both ways can it not? |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
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