[blizaine]

I just had an interesting conversation with someone at work. I was talking about how cool the new iMac DV SE is with a budy of mine and another employee (windows lover) was listening to the conversation. He felt like sharing his 2 cents and said that noboby want's to buy a Mac anymore.
I quickly corrected him by stating the following: over 2 million people bought the iMac alone in the last year, and if you do the math that averages over 38,400 units sold a week, 5,500 units a day, 230 units an hour and about 4 units every minute.
Then I said "yeah your right only an average of 4 units were sold every minute of every day this year." a unit every 6 to 7 seconds.
He walked away with nothing to say.....

[This message has been edited by blizaine (edited 10-22-1999).]

[pscates]

Typical.
I love how people who have never even sat in front of a Macintosh still manage to feel as though they're qualified to rip into it, spouting the usual lame, baseless myths and cliches.
Personally, I refuse to get into a pissing contest with these people. I can't help it if they want to continue being so clueless. Actually, I usually just smile and nod to whatever they say.
Sometimes I even say "yeah, you're probably right. Tell me more."
This seems to rattle them enough (they can't figure out why I'm not violently defending Apple's virtue) and then they run out of gas and shut their pie hole after a while.
I kill them with kindness, like the perfect gentleman I am

Ur dayum right. The first computer i used was a Mac, in 1990, but after that my dad migrated to the PC, which for the past 9 years has been good for only one thing....raising blood pressure. When ur waiting and hoping that when windows loads, it wont crash. but it always does, and connecting to the internet...is probably the most complicated thing ive done on a PC. I think they(PC users) are just followers, and cheepskates. i mean the only argument they have is "there are more PC users than MAc users"...but y is that ?....simply because they cant afford the Mac.The PC is probably one of the worst choice for a home user, a multimedia producer, and a novice computer user. PC are good for only one kind of people.....computer geeks, who like to fiddle around with the components. i really doubt if computer buyers buy computers to look at the motherbord.i think people buy computers to use, and there is no better computer to buy than a Mac....if u want a PRODUCTIVE computer.
Windows is very very unstable, i remember...i had to format my hard-disk at least once a week, and reload all software. now that i think of it, it was onlly a waste of time. it didnt teach me nething, it didnt do anything for me.
Anyway.....i have been looking for an impartial judge for the Mac/PC world, and i found this site, which offers great advise and adv/disadv for both PCs and Macs. enjoy.... http://gateway2.seattletimes.com/pcp...yit/macpc.html

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[Cotton]

ya know, it's funny. i just got into mac's in march this year with a Lime 266 imac - i traded it two days ago for the lime DV i writing this on - woohoo!! it rocks. anyhow, i troubleshoot w/ pc's at work, at that's all i do with them - troubleshoot. then i come home and actually get some work done on my imac - it's a wonderful switch, and wintel users won't and can't understand . . .

-cotton

Yeah, Wintel users are still trotting out the old (really old) line of "Apple's dead," or "no one uses Apple anymore," etc, etc. I've been working w/Macs since the mid 80s, and with Wintel machines since around 1991, and in my opinion the Mac is superior, in every way: the OS, the design, the innovation. Another line that Wintel users (and even some so-called computer experts and writers) say is "there's no software for the Mac!" Are these people crazy? There's a few thousand pieces of software for the Mac! Word processing, web page software, games, everything. How much do you need? Consumers have been sucked into this "more is better" way of thinking. All the software you could ever want is made for the Mac. Heck, even Microsoft makes several million $ with Mac software.

Plus, let's face it: in a way, Macs are more "here to stay" than PCs are. I know many people who still have (and use) their old Mac SEs or older models from years and years ago! Can you imagine someone saving and using their clunky, ugly Packard Bell or Compaq?

[This message has been edited by bob85 (edited 10-24-1999).]

heres whats the truth with wintel users...
"we got a whole lot of software compared to mac users...we cant afford to buy em all but theyre there".
Mac users...."we may have less in terms of software....but its the best, and its all we need to GET THE JOB DONE !!!"
Wintel sucks.....they are planning on coming out with a colored PC late 99 early 2000, it looks so weird...kinda like a PC coated with taffy.

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It's funny how everytime you talk about a mac when the other person has one of those things called an IBM(oops) and you tell them how great a mac is and they get all pissed off and defensive.This one guy I know has an IBM and I said one day, why don't you buy a mac? His reply was he couldn't afford one so I said you could afford one if you did'nt buy two each year. He brings his IBM in three or four times a year. Some people will never learn.

[iMacZee]

"The first product that comes from Microsoft that doesn't suck -
will be when they market a vacuum cleaner"

(seen on MediaMac DK)


iMz

Yeah, I think most Mac people have had these kind of experiences. Some have been Mac users from the start, some have converted, others have been converted.

I started out as a peecee user because of a lack of both money and experience. Learned DOS (hated it!), learned Winblows (hated it even more) and just about gave up on computers.

Then an interest in art got me into a graphic arts course where I learned. Boy did I learn! 26 '040 Macs in the same room and not a peecee in sight! I was uncertain at first, but was converted almost immediately. Sitting down in front of a Mac with two monitors, and starting up photoshop was all it took. I had gone Mac! (now I'll never go back! hee hee)

Now having said all that, I must confess that I am typing this on a peecee at this very moment. My roomy has a cable net account, I have none at the moment, so I am compelled to use this one. I feel so dirty.

Wait a sec, I'll go hug the iMac......

..... Ah, there we go. All Better!

[This message has been edited by RockLord (edited 04-14-2000).]

[Kozmik]

Everyone should ignore Drangonlance's comments in this topic, because as he noted in a reply to one of the topics he started, he has sold his iMac DV SE and gotten a PC.

[wlonh]

you mean he bought a professional game console because he couldn't take his pc friends' abuse? no! say it's not so!

[keyser_soze]

seeing the name of the forum is "no body wants an imac?" don't u think his input would be extremely accurate, if he really did sell his iMac? Kosmic, he just took your advice.

Quote by kosmic:
If you want to play games on a low-cost machine with a good graphics card, get a PC. Seriously. Or, find an older PowerMac and upgrade it with a really good PCI video card or something.

It really is a shame that the threads with Cash in them have to become such great pissing contests, because some good points were brought up but were drowned out by the sarcasm and idiocrisy of everyone posting there. Dragonlance might still have an iMac were it not for people giving cash a hard time about anything he said and maybe in the process converting people riding the fence of Mac/Pc (possible converts for good) to windows because mac users said to buy a pc.
PS u guys need 2 get a life and take cash's exuberance with a grain of salt and btw �u�k ��� !� ���'�*�g��N@�ߡ��h���Ϡ�h����m�

Oh yeah, and if this post pisses off the moderators, then ban me from here, cause u guys need to stop people from walking all over someone that has a genuine gripe (like cash) and you're not doing it
l8r

[This message has been edited by keyser_soze (edited 04-15-2000).]

[wlonh]

yes, sir!

[keyser_soze]

wow, that was quick, nothing personal, just venting a lil, sorry. Do u work for the NSA? Almost like i typed in an echelon keyword there with that qwik response

[wlonh]

no, the NSA works for me... i'm the one who instructed Ollie North how to rewrite the charter for the NSA so as to make it even more nefarious... the NSA 'black budget' now surpasses that of most industrialized nations... it is a government within a government.

"pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, I am the great and powerful OZ!!"

[bood69]

This whole thread looks like it was written by a bunch of drunks.....

or is it just me?

[This message has been edited by bood69 (edited 04-16-2000).]

[disectamac]

the drinking age is 18 here in Sweden...Woo Hoo!...and if I'm not mistaken Bill Gates got his IBM deal in the 80's because mommy (Mary Gates) introduced him.

Now Bill Gates must have been drunk when creating Windows....he put the shutdown option under the Start menu!?!?!

lol

[garrettnelson]

At my school, our keyboarding lab is full of old LC's connected with LocalTalk to an ImageWriter II, whereas the library is full of HP Pentium III's. On this premise, I would say at least 90% of the people I know say, "Macs are so stupid, they don't print in color." Or, "Those Macs have no good games, only that lame Picture Puzzle." My favorite one is, "Look how much slower the Macs int he keyboarding lab are than the PC's in the library." Hello?

Anyway, have you ever seen http://members.xoom.com/macssux ? Its worth a look�it does more for the Mac's cause than the PC's

I have met numerous idiots that dont even know that the mac os even exsists, they thought macs ran on winblows! Some people (especially Winblows users) need to crawl out of their caves and see what they are missing.

[Anthony the PC lover]

I went to that Anti-Mac website and I couldnt stop laughing when i saw the pictures they had...check these out hahahaha!

<center><img src=http://members.xoom.com/macssux/compuwar.gif></center>

<center><img src=http://members.xoom.com/macssux/macintrash.gif></center>

<center><img src=http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/macssux/macbs.gif></center>

<center><img src=http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/macssux/destroy.gif></center>

Hey...why does the xoom.com logo come up instead of the picture?

[This message has been edited by Anthony the PC lover (edited 04-18-2000).]

[seanyepez]

I think nobody has the right to blatently platform bash without any real point. There is the Wintel platform, and there is the Mac. That's the way it is...

Arguing is nothing but pointless controversy. Why even start it?

I agree with seanyepez! A box is a box, PC or Mac. If you buy a Ford (just an example) and it gives you bad service, you don't buy another Ford. I will never buy anything again from Apple or Compaq. For some people (like me) the Mac is NOT the answer. If you have something good to say about what you have, fine. If you don't, put a sock in it! Like I should talk. I've bitched 'bout my iMac on this forum in the past. Anyway, just remember, a box is a box ...

Jimmy

[iPad]

heh. Are windows people always that ignorant?

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