[anon88]

Enlightenment, on 13 February 2009 - 10:32 AM, said:

All employees will have a SMUG and GAY attitude...oh wait that is Apple.

Only microsoft hardware will be allowed in the store...oh wait that is Apple.

The store won't have any cool games...oh wait that is Apple.

You sir, are an idiot.
Here below, are my replies to your three "affirmations":

If you are a homophobe, you should go back to dark ages, and burn non christians.

your second point is a total fail.

Mac's are not made for games, or idiots like yourself. In fact, if you think that Microsoft PC's are > Macs, explain why in the world do all producers, movie makers, composers use Mac PRO's to make their masterpieces on Apple software like Final Cut and other. ?

[anon88]

TechieXP, on 02 March 2009 - 07:48 AM, said:

God Bless You!.
Its much cooler to wlak down the steet using an iPod with cool white headphones, then to use your phone as an MP# player. Because phones are for talking on...right?

Using car talk is always teh best way to get the point across. I tried it many times. An Apple fan won't get it. Its like you said...a BMW is obviously better then a Ford. But why pay more for a car? It depends on where you live. If I live in a rich surburb, I look out of place if everyone is driving a BMW or a Benz and I am driving a Focus? If I can afford to live in a rich burb, I should be able to look like every1 too. Its simply status.

Here in Chicago downtown we have lots of cafe's where students hang out. There is one college that is most asian students. They all have Macs. One day I ate there an I had my PC. Imagine how out of place I felt at first pulling out my Asus. But once I started playing my game...thay were all standing over my shoulder watching me.

The other commeter said executives use macs while everyone else uses WIndows. Duh. Most companies have how many executives? Lets save 20? versus 5000 employess. 5000 x $1500 is way more than 5000 x $700 to do exactly the same thing. Guys who are rich look better carry a Mac. They didn't buy them because they do more then a PC...because they don't they actually do far less. They bought them to look good and to impress.

At first, sir, I was going to say that I agree with you, unless you said "They didn't buy them because they do more then a PC...because they don't they actually do far less." which is a very inaccurate statement, since a Mac can run any software and any task a microsoft based pc can. How is that? Bootcamp = Smart Mac users have a second OS in case they need to use a software that was not yet written for Mac Os or they want to play a game. And guess what? Windows Vista is known to run much better and faster on a Mac, isn't that ironic?

[anon88]

Anyhow mates. Like one of you said. The war is not between Apple and Microsoft, but between macfags and pcfags. So what is Microsoft opens a store or two? So did Gateway once. You should remember this phrase: It is better to be copied from, that to copy yourself.
I am disabling my account and never coming back, so feel free to bombard me with senseless, unproven replies stating that Windows > Mac OS.

With love,
Anon.

[Nuke61]

StalePancake, on 09 September 2009 - 03:04 AM, said:

Yeah, that sounds so ideal.

I think it is ideal... I pick and choose the software that's best for my uses, whether it's Windows or OS X. There were several Mac-only programs that I thought were better than Windows alternatives, but the opposite is also true. In the end, it costs more, but it also saves me time -- and I find my time far more valuable than the small price difference that I paid for a Mac. Maybe I find time more precious because I'm old

If you've found that Windows programs work really well for you, there's no reason to change. In my situation, it just didn't work out that way.

[Nuke61]

In my case, the iLife suite was better than what I had or could find on Windows, ditto with Final Cut Express. On Windows I used Pinnacle to capture video, but ended up using the trial version of Sony Vegas to perform some video tasks. Pinnacle simply crashed far too often, typically with larger video files, but it imported video like a champ. Vegas, on the other hand, allowed me to edit perfectly, and never crashed. The problem is that it would not see my video camera.

On Windows I also edited pictures, put them in a photo album, created books and slideshows to DVD -- but it required several programs to accomplish it all. It was clunky and time consuming. That has been replaced with iPhoto for the editing, slideshow creation, and book creation. One export to iDVD and the slideshow gets burned to DVD. I know it's not professional quality software, but I just do this for family and friends. Sometimes I import to DXO Optics Pro, so that adds another step, but that's only if I want to fix camera/lens aberrations first.

TechieXP, if I'm not mistaken, also uses his Mac for video editing, even though he's very much pro-Windows. For the low to middle end video editing, Final Cut and the Express version are very good. If you're into pro-level editing, then Avid is the way to go, but I'm just a rank amateur -- I know it and freely admit it.

I liked Vegas a lot, but it just would never see my camera. I even did a re-image without Pinnacle installed and it didn't help. There might be other software out there that works well, but like I said, I value my time much more than money, so it was an easy decision to get a Mac primarily for the software that I mentioned. Oh, I knew about that stuff because I had a Windows PC that I decided to try and get OS X running on -- hackintosh it.

[tanveerahmed2k9]

if u enter with anything besides microsoft , you'll be classed as a virus

[volumetone]

seilerbird1, on 13 February 2009 - 08:40 AM, said:

You have to feel sorry for Apple fanboys that this is how they waste their lives away proving to the entire world how jealous they are of Microsoft. You could have just bought a real PC to begin with and then you would have a life.

I dont think anyone who actually owns a mac is jealous of PC's at all. at all.

[KStrawn]

[troll name='StalePancake']
Well I was a mac user once, too. And there was plenty on the PC side that I envied. Eventually I just swiched to being a 100% pc user. I know you like what you have, but admit it or not, the pc has more to offer. You might not need that more, but it's there, and 93% seem to think it's pretty important.
[/troll]

[waldojim]

KStrawn, on 26 October 2009 - 02:45 AM, said:

[troll name='StalePancake']
Well I was a mac user once, too. And there was plenty on the PC side that I envied. Eventually I just swiched to being a 100% pc user. I know you like what you have, but admit it or not, the pc has more to offer. You might not need that more, but it's there, and 93% seem to think it's pretty important.
[/troll]

ROFL - coming from the forums official troll! That is too good... talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

[lutra]

StalePancake, on 25 October 2009 - 09:14 PM, said:

volumetone, on 25 October 2009 - 12:04 PM, said:

seilerbird1, on 13 February 2009 - 08:40 AM, said:

You have to feel sorry for Apple fanboys that this is how they waste their lives away proving to the entire world how jealous they are of Microsoft. You could have just bought a real PC to begin with and then you would have a life.

I dont think anyone who actually owns a mac is jealous of PC's at all. at all.

Well I was a mac user once, too. And there was plenty on the PC side that I envied. Eventually I just swiched to being a 100% pc user. I know you like what you have, but admit it or not, the pc has more to offer. You might not need that more, but it's there, and 93% seem to think it's pretty important.

Agreed. My first computer was an Apple IIe and it was amazing. I still love that thing and had it not died on me, I think I would still have it around if only to play Oregon Trail. The next computer I had was from Hewett Packard and ran Windows 98, had a whopping 128MB of RAM and a 4GB hard drive too! It was awesome, still works actually (I have it running a firewall on my network). One of my friends had the first iMacs with the CRT monitors, OS8 and hockey puck mouse and I felt no envy for her computer at all. It was clunky and difficult to use, but it looked nice I guess. Ever since that computer, I've been building my own, I even built my friend one for college, the same friend who bought the iMac. I guess there is at least two with PC jealousy.

But why do people have to be so uppity about their OS? As long as you're happy, then there's no reason to be jealous of any OS out there.