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- fenixconnektion, on 05/13/2009, -98/+1619"...and I need it to be under $550"
Mac: *****... *walks away* - freakish_beast, on 05/13/2009, -23/+1020I want a Megan, if you know what I mean.
- BlackJackJester, on 05/13/2009, -3/+772Hi, I'm creepy Linux guy.
- mrhandyman, on 05/13/2009, -155/+845I bought an Asus Vista-based notebook for $1800 AUS. It does all my work, has HDMI output, plays Fallout 3, COD 4, TF2 and all my favourite time wasters. When I got the notebook I removed all the uneccesary software and extra vista bits, got a theme hack to make the interface much sexier.
Now, if I wanted a MAC with the same performance, I woud be paying double the price.
I am a graphic designer who refuses to buy into ***** marketing, I do however own an iPhone, I will never own a mac though. Any person with enough technical knowledge can get the same performance and stability out of a windows laptop as any Mac.
No doubt I'll be dugg down though. - gcnaddict, on 05/13/2009, -351/+948Buried for inaccuracy: My macs froze and crashed all the time (rainbow swirlies of death, kernel panics) until I loaded Windows 7 onto them. My PCs never crash, and they're all running at least Vista.
- comradeTJH, on 05/13/2009, -85/+639Wheter Apple makes the better computers or not that's another discussion, but something's clear for sure; they've got the better advertising agency :-)
- waspbr, on 05/13/2009, -58/+523macs don't crash? since when?
- Ardaen, on 05/13/2009, -24/+475I'm a Mac and a PC.
- Tendu, on 05/13/2009, -47/+487My PC never crashes. Then again, I'm not an imbecile.
- apamize, on 05/13/2009, -26/+411"...I changed my mind. I'm willing to pay $2000."
Mac: *looks back, smiling :) *
"...but I want to play all the latest games."
Mac: sigh... *continue to walk away* - yellowfish04, on 05/13/2009, -44/+376THERE HAS NEVER BEEN IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND A MACINTOSH WHICH HAS CRASHED OR HAD A VIRUS
that's true, right? - Brandoskey, on 05/13/2009, -43/+327why would you need to buy a new pc every year? do you have even the slightest clue as to how a computer actually works? how the parts go together? anything at all?
you can pay $2000 every 3-5 years or pay half that for a pc that's as fast or faster that will last 3-5 years just as easy.
what it comes down to is how gullible you are...you sound pretty damn gullible so far. - Angostura, on 05/13/2009, -48/+297I don't want to get into a Mac v PC thing, but you must have done something very odd to them to get a kernel panic. It normally indicates a hardware fault. But since Windows 7 runs on it OK, it can't be that. Which suggests some heavy duty tweaking about inside the System folder.
The System folder. Leave it alone. - jordn, on 05/13/2009, -21/+267I want a Megan Fox, if you know what I mean.
- jojothepirate, on 05/13/2009, -57/+302Can anyone explain to me why if I was a graphic designer I would buy an underpowered mac to run Photoshop when I could buy a PC rig that would run it run twice as fast(better hardware) for the same price? (what's up with "artists" thinking macs are better?) Thanks mrhandyman for proving some people aren't morons.
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -6/+237I have a computer and it works.
- tarley, on 05/13/2009, -135/+350Alternative script:
"Hello I'm a PC and I'm about to play <insert some game: Halo 2/GoW/etc>. Would you like to join me Mac, oh wait a minute you can't. And then the Mac starts crying." - GoldenGlovez, on 05/13/2009, -34/+235Let's see... Advanced Knowledge in PC Home/Server Operating systems. 75k a year Job. Advanced knowledge of Mac Home/Server OSX $12/hr job behind a counter being called a "genius". Who's the real genius?
- pegothejerk, on 05/13/2009, -9/+199use virus protection.
- brickbat, on 05/13/2009, -63/+228"Any person with enough technical knowledge can get the same performance and stability out of a windows laptop as any Mac."
I completely agree and that is why our family has 3 macs now. I used to spend a lot of my time maintaining stuff and fixing stuff my wife and kid did to XP just by using it. And at least once a year I would need to reinstall the whole o/s just because of the random failures becoming more common.
I don't do any of that now. The last maintenance I did was to upgrade the HD in my wifes macbook. My kid is now an expert in Adobe lightroom instead of an expert in keeping an XP machine safe. Yes macs are more expensive. To me and my family it's worth it. - aussieNickuss, on 05/13/2009, -9/+164No different than dumbasses screwing with ***** in the C:\WINDOWS folder. I've had to deal with that a few times.
- Darthyoshiboy, on 05/13/2009, -27/+180LOL, I've never built my own PC that was anything less than cheap, fast, reliable, and aesthetically pleasing, I haven't crashed under Windows since Windows 2000 (Never had a virus either), and for the $2000 dollars that I've spent on my 3 systems since the year 2001 (One tower, a laptop, and a complete overhaul of the aforementioned tower 5 years later), I've had at least a competent gaming system that has consistently done what I've wanted it to and at times a laptop to boot.
So, let's see, $2000 for 8 years @ $250 a year, Vs. your $4000 (for roughly the same period of time with Apple by your estimate) and $500 a year, I think that I'm sitting pretty well off with my PCs.
My current desktop system is a Core2 Quad 2.5Ghz with 8GB of ram, a 640GB Raid0 drive cluster, and a Radeon 4870, I built it in the shell of my previous system and got to reuse a number of my old parts. I'd like to see a Mac touch that for even the whole $2000 I've spent in the last 8 years on more or less three whole systems. (AND incidentally I've still got my Core2 Duo 1.8Ghz with 3GB of ram, 320GB hdd, and Intel GMA Graphics laptop to keep me company when I'm away from my desktop, still on that $2000)
True PC users don't care about "resale" they don't have to, they'll run a config for years until it absolutely has no value left, and then they throw out that which is chaff, keep the wheat, and start anew.
Digg me down, cause you know it's true and it hurts. - TKOtheKDR, on 05/13/2009, -15/+159LOL
- bot001220, on 05/13/2009, -25/+167Mac user: "The computer case: you must NEVER open it!"
- superherofive, on 05/13/2009, -12/+149Man that was the most brutal nerd burn I've read in a long time.
- Genecalypse, on 05/13/2009, -12/+144Can they just start brawling already?
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -109/+240"The System folder. Leave it alone."
Proof that Mac owners don't know ***** about computers. - atgmac, on 05/13/2009, -6/+127I'm a Mac, a PC and a Linux.
- Ryan_KW, on 05/13/2009, -8/+128These ads are for the general public. Not us techies who can tweak Vista until it's just right, or download Windows 7 RC1, burn the .iso and make a dual boot machine. Most of the general public have no idea Win7 even exists yet. Hell, my wife doesn't even know it exists and she uses it everyday on her laptop. I spend my day with a 100 average users. Most are afraid to check their email.
- koanage, on 05/13/2009, -1/+120Are you prepared to die in an online internet forum while fighting for the honor of said computer?
- wwwluckyro, on 05/13/2009, -7/+117I just got my first kernel panic yesterday on a unibody MacBook Pro by trying to connect it to the Internet.
Editing HD in iMovie two days ago crashed the program 2 times. The third time it crashed the whole system.
Even tho I like Apple, I am an honest guy. - mason092, on 05/13/2009, -20/+127You have to do something seriously wrong to get a kernel panic just like you have to do something seriously wrong to get a BSOD.
- WaffleJesus, on 05/13/2009, -2/+100I'm a mac, a PC,. a Linux, a Hippo, And Inspector Gadget
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -2/+96I think you'll find it's over 9000
- sodoh, on 05/13/2009, -26/+120and that is the way it should be. 99% of the users don't give a toss how the machine works. Only that it will work.
- passedoutghost, on 05/13/2009, -9/+99Mac users have the spinning wheel of death, but they would call that a feature.
- koick, on 05/13/2009, -1/+88http://mytsoftware.com/misc/linux2.jpg
- JordanE, on 05/13/2009, -7/+89@Smrekar
Who buys a notebook PC and only uses it for a year? You sound pretty gullible to me... - Angostura, on 05/13/2009, -8/+87Partly it is historical bias: Repro houses have run Macs, so sending artwork across in Quark Xpress formats etc. was always easier. But basically if you are a graphic designer you want an appliance that does the job, so it is the little things that make the difference - font management, OS-level native support for PDF creation and manipulation, the Colorsync profile system. Plus a dearth of in-the-wild malware makes things easier.
To answer you question you have to look at the whole package and think of the whole workflow. A 0.5 second difference in the speed at which a Photoshop filter renders, really isn't the thing which will make your working day seem frustrating. - kendrew, on 05/13/2009, -15/+93By the time they graduated, they got a new laptop, and it was still cheaper for BOTH of their laptops than your cruddy mac.
- Youssif, on 05/13/2009, -3/+77I am a MAC, PC, Linux and a SERIAL KILLER ..
- AngelBunny, on 05/13/2009, -4/+78no because it is written in all caps.
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -15/+88then you're using a pc
- nurbsenvi, on 05/13/2009, -14/+87We have 9000 penises in Digg wanting Megan.
- fahrvergnuugen, on 05/13/2009, -1/+73Fast, Cheap & Reliable. Pick 2.
You can apply that to just about anything... computers, cars, women... - anteyekon4myst, on 05/13/2009, -54/+126I normally like these ads, but this one was a little lame.
- passedoutghost, on 05/13/2009, -22/+93I'd like to insert my penis in her vagina if you know what I mean.
- nepidae, on 05/13/2009, -3/+74I love apple, but yeah the only reason you would ever buy a new comp each year would be for video games (and even then you could probably just spend 200-500 on a new video card every 2nd to 3rd year.
- eliburford, on 05/13/2009, -17/+85Hi, I'm a "PC" and I found that quite entertaining, good for a laugh. I'm still gonna stick with my Windows machine though. And my anti-virus software (NOD32) does a great job, by the way. Macs and Windows machines both have their pros and cons, I'm not going to bash either.
- sillymeganlee, on 05/13/2009, -4/+71Oh, this is going to be weird. :\
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