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yeah. i never used a mac. but i want to buy one, cause i have the occasion to buy one cheap. i just wanted to ask, what is the thing about macs ? faster then pc's ? more stable ? |
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they're great...osX is very stable i find, better than 9...depends what you use it for tho...not very many games, but wonderful with design progs...more later, gotta go to work |
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morre stable. and they look neat. i have a bit of money that i'm thinking of trrading forr a mac. |
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what model is it that you're buying? |
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oh o thought about an old imac... 233 mhz ;) |
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if you're doing a lot of design for print, the color calibration is much better on a mac than it is on a pc. other than that, you've got bragging rights that you are a cool kid with a pretty computer that you paid a whole lot for. |
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if i would buy a better one, mean g4 or g5... what can he give me looking at sound creating ? |
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beautiful and fuck yuou reaspoh phewas |
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i still can't look at it cause something with my flash is damaged... |
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more stable, nicer looking, apparently only one percent of my programming class use them, that being me, plus faster than pc's. and that flash movie is retarded. only time thats ever happened to me is using windows xp. |
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actually that flash video sounds like what macs do to me. but i think they've gotten better recently? |
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recently? if by that you mean two or three years, then yes. |
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mac's are expensive. mac software is expensive. mac tech support is expensive. mac peripherals are expensive. i would switch, but i cannot afford to. |
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:) i laughed. |
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that video, while funny when he flips out... I could not relate to any of what he was saying. Never had those problems about crashing or anything. and uh, to turn it off, you hold down power... touch it once, it goes to sleep, hold it down, it turns off. |
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i dislike the cd/floppy disk system, like he said. i don't know how it is now. |
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The Mac has the wonderful 'invisible folder' option. This is the one where, at some point, it decides to save all your files in an invisible folder. Every time you press save, it doesn't save it in the location the file's in, but a new one instead. When you reopen the file from its supposed location (rather than the 'recent files' menu in the actual program), a really old version is there. The best part? Any file in an invisible folder is completely inaccessible. You want to get at it? Unless it's in the recently opened files menu, no chance. This is especially useful when it's your Music Technology coursework that's been fucked, a month before the submissions deadline. Oh, and they're lovely and expensive. And the OS interface is retarded, outdated and designed by morons. And... oh, yes, a hell of a lot of software isn't supported by Mac. There's on reason Macs are 'more stable' than PCs. They only use Apple software. Unlike PCs who support software from every Tom, Dick and Harry, Macs are very selective. There are rarely software conflicts. That's both an up-side and a down-side. I will never buy a Mac in my life. |
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haha, the mac OS just rapes me in the ass. i wish you could turn off "retard mode" |
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I like burger king better |
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Macs are really nice for design work. Everything is very "drag and drop" oriented. Macs are somewhat more intuitive and plug and play for connecting peripherals and networking. A really smart move is to buy a mac and add virtual pc, which will allow you to run windows like a shell overtop mac OS and use cross platform files between the two. I work at kinko's and while I like macs a little more for some things it is nice to have both. |
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man, macs suck if you're a total moron. |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but on OS X can't you just drop into a command prompt and do shit that completely bypasses any idiot mode of the gui? I was checking out a G4 recently but I couldn't figure out how to get a command prompt... |
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I've been a victim of that too. Lost a couple of months work on that. Fucking pissed me off something chronic. Sorry about your coursework. |
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I think you would do most of that kind of stuff with scripts but I am not real sure. |
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On the mac I use there's a button next to the reset one that brings it up. |
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ah yea the programmers button. i haven't done much of that kind of thing but I know that is what you use to update firmware and stuff like that. |
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OS X is lovely to use, both in terms of interacting with the interface and its stability. My mac seems very uncluttered compared to how I feel about my windows PC. Everything is much simpler, so it rarely seems to have any problems. I've been using a 466 Mhz mac G4 for two years nonstop and it stilll runs as well as the day I got it. |
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purlieu > what's that 'invisible folder' thing?! O_O i know there are invisible folders (you can find them using ResEdit), but i never had any save problems like you described... ALL computers have problems, not only macs : ) i just don't like PCs for a question of taste. the only thing that disturbs me about mac is that there isn't soulseek on it. |
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