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Got chastised at work for wanting a mac

Mac's = True plug and play

peecee's = True plug and PRAY

You can also count on peecee's getting gobs of viruses (or whatever the plural of virus is) while the Mac gets virtually none. I won't say zero, because there have been a few over the past 12+ years, but almost none of them did any damage. How many pc's have been f*cked over by a virus?? Too many. I actually had to repair a person's home peecee because it got b*tch-slapped by a virus (in a very bad way). She paid the price of not being diligent with the virus protection software (there has already been a couple of updates this month alone for the definitions on peecee's).
 
OK, I decided to get a tibook. Should I get the 800 megahertz one now or wait til the 1 gig version is released? Do you think we will see the one gig tibook before the end of the year?
 
depends how badly you need a computer....they were recently updated so I'd get it if you need it, If its more of a want...then wait if thats what you wanna do.......then again waiting prolongs your PC agony...
 
If you can wait about a month, do so and see what comes out at MWNY. Then get the fastest model they offer. I wouldn't put it off longer thinking/hoping that they release something faster. Unless you can wait that is. Personally, I wouldn't any longer then the next expo.
 
Originally posted by taeclee99
OK, I decided to get a tibook. Should I get the 800 megahertz one now or wait til the 1 gig version is released? Do you think we will see the one gig tibook before the end of the year?
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The only other thing to wait for, if you're not in a hurry, would be the release of Jaguar. It would come installed on the TiPB without you having to upgrade later, and it might be a good time to see minor upgrades to the PB in terms of videocard and maybe processor. That might happen a month or so after MWNY.
 
Re: Screw them

Originally posted by Pismo
Anyone who disses my PowerBook will get their arm shattered. I had to put up with a lot of people's crap a few years ago during Apple's dark years. Today, only ignorant PC retards diss the Mac and they give the dumbest reasons why they THINK they are inferior to PC's. Macs do not look girly at all. Like their gray/black PC bricks are really attractive. PLEASE!!!!

Whenever I walk into a computer store these days, I don't even make eye contact with the PC's. I go straight to the Macs. Today, I was in a local computer store, drooling over the new 800 MHz TiBook. I didn't appreciate the store clerks placing a Compaq Presario next to it. What an eye-sore!!! It's like having a really beautiful, expensive house and your neighbors rotting shack and ten rusted car frames in their yard is bringing down your property value.

One more thing...if I ever meet that "Dude, you're gettin' a Dell" kid, I'll kick his teeth down his throat. That should wipe that stupid grin off his face.

LONG LIVE APPLE!!!!!!!
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Zealotry on either side is equally lame. You sound every bit as childish and stupid as the people you're supposedly so much better than. Mac zealots are as much a problem for Apple as the PC zealots are.
 
Re: Re: Screw them

Originally posted by IndyGopher

Zealotry on either side is equally lame. You sound every bit as childish and stupid as the people you're supposedly so much better than. Mac zealots are as much a problem for Apple as the PC zealots are.
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Why are computer zealots a problem? If someone is blinded by brand loyalty what deleterious effect does that have on anyone or anything?

Perhaps people like to feel superior to others by claiming to be fair minded about the pros/cons of macs/pcs, so they chastise users they consider zealots. To that I say..... Long live Whirlpool.... all other home appliances suck. (Whoops.... is that a problem?)
 
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well we all know that theres a right and a wrong and that if we're not right then thats really really really bad.....i mean it must must must must must must must be true this way because it just can't be untrue you know what I mean? :D
 
fruits

i think that those co-workers are hiding either hidden mac liking or total cave-man stupidity. Girly, what a load of crap. I have the same problem with my friends, they rdicule me when we talk about it at school, but once they come over to my house, they begin to drool and complain about there beige-crappy-slow-boring PC's being not as cool as my new iMac G4 with a DVD burner.
 
Originally posted by AlphaTech
If you can wait about a month, do so and see what comes out at MWNY. Then get the fastest model they offer. I wouldn't put it off longer thinking/hoping that they release something faster. Unless you can wait that is. Personally, I wouldn't any longer then the next expo.
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Hey Alpha, do you think Apple will update the tibook so soon? After all it has been only a month since the latest revision.
 
Originally posted by taeclee99
Hey Alpha, do you think Apple will update the tibook so soon? After all it has been only a month since the latest revision.
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The new ones came out at the end of April...

It's way too early for an update, but that's just my opinion.:)
 
Re: Re: Re: Screw them

Originally posted by buffsldr


Why are computer zealots a problem? If someone is blinded by brand loyalty what deleterious effect does that have on anyone or anything?

Perhaps people like to feel superior to others by claiming to be fair minded about the pros/cons of macs/pcs, so they chastise users they consider zealots. To that I say..... Long live Whirlpool.... all other home appliances suck. (Whoops.... is that a problem?)
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Why are zealots a problem? Because they further the notion that people who use Macs are fringe types who can't be reasoned with. They tend to spew rhetoric, and they blindly repeat catch-phrases and quote statistics that are often dubious. And I don't think it applies only to computers. If you stood in an appliance store and kept repeating your Whirlpool comment, then I suspect you would lower people's opinion of Whirlpool.. or at least make them reluctant to join your fringe group.. in exactly the same way.
 
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