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gulmatan · 05:18 PM

Y'know having Dell ad campaigns between watching Star Trek on Spike is quite disgusting. Who wants a $300 boat anchor (or a $700 slim bookend) when you could get a solid-bulit MacBook? So, you pay three times the price but, no viruses, Unix bullet-proof stability and seamless I/O integration. So, you people with your Dell, hey if you want to live in WinTel Hell, I don't feel sorry for you.

invisibleX · Aug 11, 2006, 05:17 PM

Preaching to the choir.

C.A.T.S. CEO · Aug 11, 2006, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by invisibleX

Preaching to the choir.

hallahua!!

imitchellg5 · Aug 11, 2006, 05:28 PM

Another service of the Cult of Mac. I wanna be a member

Lateralus · Aug 11, 2006, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO

hallahua!!

Hallelujah?

tutelary · Aug 11, 2006, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO

hallahua!!

http://www.the19thfloor.net/images/aloha.jpg !

C.A.T.S. CEO · Aug 11, 2006, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by Lateralus

Hallelujah?

don't know how to spell it

oh well

mojo2 · Aug 11, 2006, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO

hallahua!!

That's what members of the U.S. Army do.

They holler, "hua!"

hallahua.

rickey939 · Aug 11, 2006, 07:15 PM

Them Apples are good stuff.

imitchellg5 · Aug 11, 2006, 07:30 PM

They are good and I will never ever ever use a peecee.

Area Man · Aug 11, 2006, 07:45 PM

I've been a Mac user since about '89. Never owned a Windows box, thankfully. Haven't had to use it at work either, aside from setting up email accounts, since '92.

imitchellg5 · Aug 11, 2006, 07:49 PM

I had to have a PC for my dad's job for a few years

but at least I had PowerBook G4

ghporter · Aug 11, 2006, 09:51 PM

Ok, so we're all happy to own Macs. Why bash Dell's attempt to make money too? A lot of people here seem to think that only the mentally disabled buy PCs anyway, so how much skin off your nose is it that Dell advertises during Star Trek reruns? What's your beef?

And HuAHH is an Army thing... you wouldn't understand. (I read that on a tee shirt once-and I still don't understand.)

brassplayersrock² · 10:41 PM

something that has never made sense to me.

PC = personal Computer right?

everyone says they hate PCs. but aren't, if using PC meaning Personal Computer, all Macs are a PC since they're mostly personal computers

or am i missing something?

Alex

Lateralus · Aug 11, 2006, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

...MAC...

Mac.

Apple Pro Underwear · Aug 11, 2006, 11:12 PM

i'm tired of being pro-mac, i prefer to see bitches suffer

they deserve it for being stupid

kick52 · Aug 12, 2006, 05:36 AM

Originally Posted by gulmatan

Y'know having Dell ad campaigns between watching Star Trek on Spike is quite disgusting. Who wants a $300 boat anchor (or a $700 slim bookend) when you could get a solid-bulit MacBook? So, you pay three times the price but, no viruses, Unix bullet-proof stability and seamless I/O integration. So, you people with your Dell, hey if you want to live in WinTel Hell, I don't feel sorry for you.

amen, brother!

andreas_g4 · Aug 12, 2006, 07:04 AM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock

or am i missing something?

Well, who knows…

mitchell_pgh · Aug 12, 2006, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by gulmatan

Y'know having Dell ad campaigns between watching Star Trek on Spike is quite disgusting. Who wants a $300 boat anchor (or a $700 slim bookend) when you could get a solid-bulit MacBook? So, you pay three times the price but, no viruses, Unix bullet-proof stability and seamless I/O integration. So, you people with your Dell, hey if you want to live in WinTel Hell, I don't feel sorry for you.

My sister purchased a "$300 boat anchor" and it runs rather well. She also purchased an iPod for it and iTunes for Windows is solid.

I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "So, you pay three times the price but..." because not everyone has that 3X the cash lying around. While I love the Mac platform as much as the next guy, our entry level is still expensive.

ghporter · Aug 12, 2006, 09:22 AM

I started my computer-using career in about 1980 with a Hewlett-Packard "desktop calculator" that also ran a version of BASIC. Later, I got to play with a GS II a bit, and loved the Apple concept. I got to build a few programs on an Apple ][, and that was great too. But these were all someone else's machines. When it came time to buy my own computer, all I could afford was a Gateway 386 machine. I wanted a Mac, but it's only recently that I could afford one.

This rather elitist pricepoint structure is one thing that gives non Mac users something to complain about. It looks very much like Macs are "rich people's computers," and Apple's insistence on keeping a high entry price (until the Mini) reinforced that. Culturally it's kind of late for a reasonably priced, entry level Mac; the impression I described will last for a long time. And technical merit is always secondary to affordability (note the way VHS beat Beta).

imitchellg5 · Aug 12, 2006, 10:05 AM

lol, a IIgs was my first exposure to Apple in the '90s. Nothing is wrong with buying a PC if you can't afford a Mac, but many can afford a cheap iMac or a Power Macintosh.

ghporter · Aug 12, 2006, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by imitchellg5

lol, a IIgs was my first exposure to Apple in the '90s. Nothing is wrong with buying a PC if you can't afford a Mac, but many can afford a cheap iMac or a Power Macintosh.

Yeah, NOW they can. In 1990 however, I could barely afford the cheap Gateway I bought-and needed for school. I'd have loved a Mac then...

SirCastor · Aug 12, 2006, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by ghporter

A lot of people here seem to think that only the mentally disabled buy PCs anyway,

Two wrongs don't make a right, but we've dealt with the same thing coming from the other side...

ghporter · Aug 12, 2006, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by SirCastor

Two wrongs don't make a right, but we've dealt with the same thing coming from the other side...

Not on the scale I've seen here. It's mean spirited too. Poor sportsmanship is not good no matter where it's found.

The few dedicated PC users who actually think about Macs AND have an opinion are more fanatic than the overwhelming majority of computer users-who just want to surf and stuff and don't care what the label reads on the box that lets them do it. On the other hand, it seems that a large percentage of people who post threads about the merits of Windows vs OS X and PC hardware vs Mac hardware are very juvenile in their attitudes and don't mind expressing that to the world.

I use both, would like the time to play around with Linux, and revel in the wonders of computer diversity. Why can't everyone else accept the differences, appreciate where one is better than another, and just go on?

I've said this MANY times, but being a Mac owner is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A RELIGION. But it seems to be for a lot of people.

Velocity211 · Aug 12, 2006, 11:01 AM

So many people insist that their home built PC is much better than any Mac because it has neon lights, cases that light up, etc... That's not the friggin point! I just laugh at their incompetence.

gulmatan · Aug 12, 2006, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

I started my computer-using career in about 1980 with a Hewlett-Packard "desktop calculator" that also ran a version of BASIC. .

Which one was that, HP-85, HP-83 or HP-87?