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- thedragon4453, on 02/12/2008, -6/+67I agree - I think this should have been confessions of a sucker.
I mean, I know that this guy's not supposed to be a techie, but come on. Who spends $2000 without researching a bit. The stores are nice, but seriously.
The funny thing is in two weeks this guy will be that guy at starbucks.
"Hey, look at me. I'm writing my screenplay. Gotta have people see me writing my screenplay." - JNudda, on 02/12/2008, -6/+45So he thinks "Apple Has Won" because they have nice chairs and a crowded store? Buried.
- linytron, on 02/12/2008, -5/+44The guy got manipulated, lied to, and ripped off. Great story.
- doctechnical, on 02/12/2008, -3/+34If this guy passed within 100 yards of a Saturn dealership he'd be driving home in a Saturn. One born every minute...
- supermajic, on 02/12/2008, -6/+34Oh, you must have missed the memo, it said 'Please take Steve Job's ***** out of your mouth BEFORE you blog.'
- insomniac8400, on 02/12/2008, -5/+30ooops. Killed believability in the first line: "1. Michael Dell & Other Consumer PC-Makers: It's Over. Apple Has Won" LOL.
Honestly, I hope this whole article was supposed to be satire. - f4nt0m4s, on 02/12/2008, -12/+37$2300 for a machine that will last 2 to 3 years? To move beautiful looking squares around? Apple fanboys are a riot. For 600 dollars you can build a basic non-gaming PC that will last you for 2 to 3 years. I have two laptops for school, a 2007 Inspiron E1705 and a 2001 Dell Latitude C840. The C840 has 1.25gigs of a ram, an 80gig Seagate hard drive, a CD/DVD optical drive, an ancient video card with like 32mb of memory, and a 2.0ghz Pentium 4m processor. The thing is going on 7+ years, and it runs Office 2007 without any problems. I can run Matlab off of it. I can program with it. I can run Firefox comfortably. That's a 7 year old laptop. I have XP Service Pack 2 on it, and it runs like butter. My 7-year old beater laptop that's worth maybe 100 bucks does all the basic applications this douche bag paid $2300 for. Oh, and it's a Dell.
BURIED FOR BEING FANTASY - chris9902, on 02/12/2008, -5/+23It's over people. they have chairs in the shop! chairs... right in the shop!
- Katana, on 02/12/2008, -2/+13I loved this bit, just shows how stupid he was, assuming this article isn't a joke.
"I was almost certain, my friend Jack's son (14, going on 25) would be in awe over. And, I thought, if I play my cards right, I could probably get the brat to come over and actually download some of those games he and his friends are obsessed with and, you know what, are going to look damn good on my new computer."
Apart from admitting to piracy, most decent new games won't run on OSX, he'll have to install windows on it anyway. - sluddy, on 02/12/2008, -2/+13i hear ya! im not into this whole apple/pc fanboy thing,but that guy was so planted it was actually cringeworthy reading.
- azbmr, on 02/12/2008, -1/+10The WORST part of this is how much money people have to throw away like this. This guy admitted that he does the standard, non-techie, Office-Email-Web usage of a system. You can go to Walmart and buy a system that does those things (and more--Whoa!) for $500. All he has proven is that he is a moron who dropped $2300 on a system that does exactly what his old system did.
- Harbinger67, on 02/12/2008, -1/+9Dude, Half-Life 1 is the ***** with a trackpad. Don't you forget that.
- jaggedwind, on 02/12/2008, -5/+12You guys should lighten up. The guy's making fun of some of it and some of it he's just observing with humor. Christ you're over the top. The Geniuses are sleazily selling computers to people who don't need them. There's a line for the coffee & lounge. People wear black. Buy furniture there. It's clearly hyperbole. Plus the guy said he's a retard for being suckered into a new computer. He's not once saying the computers are great, he's saying the place has snagged its audience. By the way, some of the stuff he talks about is exactly like the store I sometimes go to...whatever. The guy's clueless but he knows it, it's his first visit to an Apple store.
- diggface5000, on 02/12/2008, -1/+8I never felt comfortable dropping so much money while getting so little attention. I do like to go and test out the things before I buy them, but when it comes time to actually buy I do it on the website.
- DeathfireD, on 02/12/2008, -6/+13lol the funny thing is it sounds like the user interface won him over because it was "sexy". Now I bet if you showed him a linux PC with Beryl or some other 3D desktop environment installed, he would probably have the same impression.
- deviouskoopa, on 02/12/2008, -0/+6I don't think you understand... it was the brightest screen EVER. Gotta have a bright screen to check emails.
- coyne740, on 02/12/2008, -3/+8So... should I order Apple servers for my business or not? You know, since they are going to drive the PC companies out of business...
- truspect0r, on 02/12/2008, -1/+6Games on a 7 series nvidia?
- glaurung, on 02/12/2008, -2/+6Buried for stupidity and lack of willpower.
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -2/+6From A Non-Techie My Ass - I can smell the stench of Apple Fanboyisum all over this article.
- mjfitzge, on 02/12/2008, -2/+5this whole story seems like a lie... i think he just got himself a free computer by writing an apple commercial in his blog. in fact, i don't even think his friend jack has a son.
- inactive, on 02/12/2008, -1/+4Mac guy:
the store was wonderful and so were the staff. Everything was so shiny and had a faint glow. Jesus was there, listening to an iPod and so was Motherteresa, but she was just trying out the macbook air. The service rep, Ghandi told me that a smaller music player for my quaint music collection would not be enough! He told me the joys of iTunes and how many years of music I could hold on the new TerrorPod but I needed a Macbook pro to get the most out of it.
The screen is like, glossy which I like and he said it even has 2 sticks of RAM!!! It must be important if it has to have two, but so does its Grafiks modules. 7900gs Radeons! It did cost extra for RAID, which should improve my stats on World of Warcraft he told me and even sealed the deal with a free small coffee. They are soo good.
I just had to tip him extra. Its ok, i could walk home who needs a bus when you have a Mac! Later, after pleasing him I pleased myself at the thought of owning this mighty mac.
I love my mac. - inactive, on 02/12/2008, -9/+12I'm always amused at how the Apple haters get drawn to these topics like bees to honey. They accuse Apple users of being stupid, (yet at the same time, smart enough to have the money to buy Apple products) elitist, gay, and having homosexual encounters with Steve Jobs and say some of the most disgusting things I've ever read and yet, it's the Apple users that are "douchebags." Oh, yeah, right.
- freezeout, on 02/12/2008, -2/+5I've been an Apple user since the early 80s and this whole brand worship thing is really getting out of control. I used to be proud to be a "mac guy", now I lie and tell people I use PCs just so I don't have to be associated with all the fanboism and douchebagery.
- ZekeSulastin, on 02/12/2008, -5/+7Maybe if the Apple zealotry wasn't so strong in just about every other story to the point where Windows users have been called the same on a daily basis, there wouldn't be such an urge to retaliate.
It takes two to tango. I'm not saying the insulters are right, but I am saying that you are not free of sin yourself. - dukeeeey, on 02/12/2008, -8/+10it's articles like this that make me want to shoot apple fan bois
i'm surprised the guy wasn't walking around the store with a hardon - dualityim, on 02/12/2008, -3/+5"And the stock price? (Apple's lower than before but way higher than most.)"
Apparently not only is this person ignorant about technology, he's ignorant about finances as well. - acatzr800, on 02/12/2008, -2/+4Dude you are dead on. Somewhere along the line, he thinks that PC = Dell. Hardly. Ask any 16 year old guy to built you a 2.8ghz machine or, gasp, a 6800+ centered powerhouse and you'll be spending less than $1k - and that includes his labor and a sweet case.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2And he sounds like a pedo.
- waydee, on 02/12/2008, -0/+2Couldn't agree with you more - reading that article actually made me cringe. I'm not particularly anti-Apple, I own a few of their products and find they work well, are aesthetically pleasing and were actually reasonably priced given their features. I'm not big on the whole Apple-lifestyle that some people seem to adopt though, seems very strange and almost cultish. Maybe i'm not as much of a sucker for a pretty store, comfy chairs and fresh coffee as others... I go to a store knowing what I want because I will have researched it beforehand. The Apple-store "experience" just isn't important to me but I certainly understand its importance to Apple - lure people in, give them a different experience to the big-box retailers (Apple make their spotty-faced teens look somewhat respectable), make them feel better treated and you just might get a sale of a very expensive computer.
What worries and confuses me though is the people who visit these places often, you see the same fanboys milling around all the time as if its their responsibility, for the cause, to be seen in the store. When they can't be at the store, they're on the Internet preaching the good word of Jobs. I don't understand this. - dan222555, on 02/12/2008, -2/+4"First, I'm not a techie or a remotely skilled computer user."
Then it's no wonder he was seduced by Apple.
Like a lot of people he fell for the glitz and the glamor. Apple's selling it and people like him are buying it right up. - expert01, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1Agreed.
"He said, "this" system--iMac 2.8GHz--was the least I should be using &, unlike my current system, it would last at least 2-3 years (a lifetime today). And it only cost $2300, he said."
A cheap $700-$800 Core 2 Duo system with 2GB of RAM will last a normal PC user a good 4-6 years. And a top of the line system (Dual 8800 GTS ($550), Core 2 Extreme QX9650 ($1380 combo), 4GB of RAM($120), a 24" HP HD Monitor ($500))... will cost about as much as that Mac. And it'll perform better. And it'll last much longer than 2 years.
Have a feeling this article might be satire. - acatzr800, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1Idk.. it has the feel of being genuine. I've sent it around at work and everyone thinks its hilarious (we have 50+ macs here, but the IT staff is almost all PC).
Regardless, I don't want this guy reporting on anything connected with me. Either a) he'll write some fluff piece to try to get a free computer and in the process make a fool out of us both, or b) attack me, associating me with some stereotype that applies to make 5% of people like me. - dan222555, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1And I should care, why?
- jc7012, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1word.
- expert01, on 02/12/2008, -1/+2No, he would ask if it's apple, and blow you off when you said no, because he's obviously a fanboi.
- NoodleMap, on 02/12/2008, -2/+3seriously, I've Been forced to used Macs for years. When there is nothing else to do in the mall, because I'm trapped with the misses, I'll wander in to one of these holes. I've never found it to be as this guy explains it. Where the F are the hot girls glamoring over all the guys. "I'll Force Quit some apps for you sweet heart" All I ever see are a bunch of lost souls tapping away on Garage band or blinding pushing on an iPhone like it was a vagina they so desperately wish they could play with at home. Going to an Apple store to look at Girls? Give me a break. Take some pictures of this phenomenon and maybe Playboy will do a spread "The Girls of Apple" Something tells me that isn't going to happen.
- deviouskoopa, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1Or that he has a wife... he clearly states that went to the mall just to pick up sneakers, and only visited the Apple store to kill time because of the bad weather. Then he comes home with no shoes......
LIES. - JackandCoke, on 02/12/2008, -2/+3Apple helps the sheep, when a person who actually knows something about computers comes in, the geniuses are just useless used car dealers.
The only thing that is actually appealing about apples is the OS, not their hardware. - f4nt0m4s, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1You're right, it's a 2002 laptop. My bad. And his 2300 dollar iMac can do ***** more than my two crappy Dells? I mean, I can believe it, but I won't. My E1705 is a 2300 dollar laptop. I can do everything on a Windows or Linux platform that you can do on a Mac OS, so take Steve Job's dick out of your mouth. After reading the article I'd say our buyer isn't very tech savvy. He's blowing his wad on an expensive machine that he will never use to his potential. Play games? He won't. Run multiple OSes? I doubt it. Edit massive video files? Ha. He bought the machine for pretty looks and "sex appeal." The guy in this article is wasting his money, and your point is moot.
- expert01, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1The guy writes rants. Sounds like this is just another rant about his strange experience at an apple store, or poking fun at apple fans.
- SirBotchness, on 02/12/2008, -2/+3Too bad i can't bury this story for faggotry or something. This is the biggest pile of ***** i've read in a while. Next this guy is going to say David Koresh was a good dude cause he made a killer cup of "Joe".
- f4nt0m4s, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1So, my 2000 dollar laptop has lasted more than the 2 to 3 years his 2300 computer is supposed to last. That was my point.
- f4nt0m4s, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1 the GeForce440 in the C840 can run Half-Life 1 and to a lesser extent CS 1.6. It could have handled 1.5 with a lot less problems. I threw a custom wireless card in it so it's all good and gravy.
- synd, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1Actually, *****, you overestimated.
- whalt, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1Gabba gabba we accept you, we accept you, one of us.
- f4nt0m4s, on 02/12/2008, -0/+1www.dell.com/downloads/us/products/latit/c840_spec.pdf
Actually, *****, it did offer a P4. "The C840 uses Mobile Intel Pentium 4processors-M at 1.60, 1.80 & 2.0GHz andthe new Intel 845MP chipset." It is speced out to support a max of 1 gig of ram, however that was back in 2002. I have a 1gig dim in it and a 256mb dim in it and Windows XP sees 1.25 gigs of ram. I underestimated, it's a 2002 laptop. Going strong on 6 years. - employeeno5, on 02/13/2008, -0/+1Apple makes nice expensive machines.
They're a brand and an image and an expectation. I've never had serious issues with PCs. All of my "mac" friends have the same minor problems with their computers and operating systems with the same frequency as I and most PC users have. My Dell laptop running Linux has never given me a problem in two years and can do more both hardware and software wise than my friends brand new Macbook Pro.
He's paying more twice as much too. The advantage? He gets some top notch design and a cool brand. His computer is no more useful or enjoyable than mine though. It's just slicker. The whole thing about Apple being more productive is really just eye candy and hype that are very good at giving the illusion of productivity when you're playing with it for the first time. It's your personal habits that make you productive though not your OS.
A brand new BMW is a great car for many people. However that doesn't mean that a Toyota Corrola isn't an excellent vehicle.
And that's okay. You should get the beamer if you want one and can afford it, it's a great car. Believing the idea that you'd be having not only serious car woes, but lifestyle woes, by going with the Toyota is either being a snob or an idiot. Possibly both. - inactive, on 02/12/2008, -1/+2Its meant to be light hearted you retard.
- DblTap, on 02/12/2008, -3/+4He sound's jealous of the Apple Store employees. He raves about how nice the store is and the kosher environment inside the lounge. I agree, it does sound like fanboyism ,But personally I think he's got a woody for Steve Jobs.
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