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hyiu:
when I watch that video... I was thinking... what are they thinking ??....

before I read on, I thought it was real.... so I guess I only have 1 brain cell left...
I better protect it... or I might not remember how to type... lol...

I'm not a MAC person, do not own any apple product...
iphone, ipod, ianything...

but I look at this economy... and then look inside the apple store...
its still packed with people buying....
I guess there has to be a reason....

but another person was saying MAC doesn't have virus and such...
that is because MAC doesn't have the market share...
MAC holds less than 10% mkt share of PC mkt...
its not worthwhile to create virus for it...
just think how much $$ they're making for all those anti-virus pgrm....
so, does that make me a PC fanboy ??... lol....


Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: Level42 on January 09, 2009, 02:23:08 am ---Call me a fanboy if you want, so far, I've only bought two Apple products in my life. A Mac Mini and an iPod 4G Nano. I am a satisfied customer. That's all.

--- End quote ---

Mac mini's were released a year ago.

I bought a PowerMac in college running Mac OS 7.x.  It was the top of line Mac and the best operating system around(so I thought). After I graduated they released OS 8 and it was too big for the hard drive that came with the top of the line Mac I bought 2 years earlier.  Plus Mac just stopped supporting OS 7  there was no transitional period, all new programs had to run on OS 8.

I was where you are, unless you have 3 grand to throw away every other year, next year you'll understand my contempt for Mac.

I think people who have always been PC users can care less about Mac vs PC, it's the Mac users who've been burned by Mac that have the antiMac attitude.

RayB:
What's this BS I keeping hearing about "fixing/maintaining" a PC and not having to on a Mac? What exactly have I had to fix on my 3 year old PC? Nothing. Meanwhile Mac laptops have been literally exploding.

Level42:
Ok here we go:


--- Quote ---but another person was saying MAC doesn't have virus and such...
that is because MAC doesn't have the market share...
MAC holds less than 10% mkt share of PC mkt...
its not worthwhile to create virus for it...
--- End quote ---

One of the most dead-beat horses.
Do you really think 10 percent of the market is not an interesting target for virus-writers?  If I would be a virus creator, it would be the ultimate challenge to succesfully launch the first virus for the OS X platform. You'd be the hero of the scene.
So, you're wrong. The reason why there are no virusses for OS X is that it's simply constructed too safe to get a virus to work.
Compare that to 1 million virusses for the PC platform.

Which brings me to:

--- Quote ---What's this BS I keeping hearing about "fixing/maintaining" a PC and not having to on a Mac? What exactly have I had to fix on my 3 year old PC? Nothing. Meanwhile Mac laptops have been literally exploding.
--- End quote ---
I mean I don't have to run any virus scanners, keep them up to date every 2 days, do malware scans, clean registries, re-install the OS 3 times per year because the system has become slow because of all the added applications that polluted the registry and more, install drivers for every new product I add, have to defragment my Harddisk, recover from blue screens, do I really need to go on ?

My Mini is a computer like I always wanted. Like a TV. Turn it on and off (well OK, in sleepmode) within 2 seconds, just work and use it instead of maintaining it. It's also extremely silent. It's in my living room and it's a dream compared to the vaccuum cleaner sound that my previous PC produced.
 
Oh, and the battery problem you referred to was NOT a Mac only problem:

Quote:

Laptops do sometimes burst into flames. There are at least 43 reported incidents in the last two years. In 2004 and 2005, Apple, Dell and Hewlett Packard collectively recalled more than 300,000 laptop batteries “due to fire hazards.”

Unquote.Bad batteries. Not Apple's fault, battery builder fault.


I've been a PC user for a very long time. I'm even a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. I just got SO tired of fixing my own and other people's endless numbers of problems with PC's that I tried a Mini. Picked it up while on holiday in the US. The fact that it had an Intel processor made me think, hey if I don't like OS X I can always run Windows on it. Funny.

The only thing I'm saying, give a Mac a try. It's stupid to judge them without having ever used one.

Dartful: Tell me, if you'd run Vista on the PC you had bought two years before it was released, how would it run ?
I've experienced it the other way around. My Mini came with Tiger. When I switched to Leopard it improved a LOT on it's performance. Seeing what Apple is planning for the next OS it will get even better. MS only wants to continue the circle of loading the hardware more with each new OS because that's what makes the circle of love between MS and the PC builders continue.....

My Mini is over 2 years old now (don't know why you think they were released a year ago ? The G4 Mini's were released in early 2005). The Mini was not 3 grand but less than 700 USD incl. mous & keyboard.

I'll stop now, because I'm overly defending Apple already :D

And Barry if you read this, please don't take it personally ;)

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: Level42 on January 09, 2009, 05:54:28 pm ---I'll stop now, because I'm overly defending Apple already :D

--- End quote ---
Explaining the greatness of OSX and how horrible windows is when no one else has mentioned either one is overly defending Apple.  Now that others have responded to your initial comments, I would expect no less then a novel about the greatness of OSX from you  ;D

Personally I don't really care which one people use because they both have their advantages and disadvantages.

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