Help Me out Mac Guys

[G51989]

I would never spend any money on an old Camaro..

Put a 2002 Ti or Tii in the driveway and I'd be on a ramen diet..

Haha I spent like 25 grand....of money I don't really have lol. ( still paying the college loan ). 1969 Z28, orange with black racing stripes.High revving built 350 ( 7800rpm, puts down 380 to the wheels ), Z28 handling package, Disc Brakes...4speed rock crusher....handles great....oh wait this is a computer fourm lol. Ti? Tii? What car are you referring to?

But yeah, but I think my Camaro situation is alot like a Mac situation with Mac users, they're willing to spend the money for that experience.

 

[vohdoun]

That is a pretty cool looking case, but you won't find anything looking like that in Apple's lineup.

I find a lot of Coolermaster cases hideous and thats one of them. It's too techno, Fast and the Furious/Transformers like. Though they do have some nice minimal cases but they really don't make you go mmmm.

A lot of people like the clean, smooth, sleek looking products Apple comes out with. I wouldn't know, but I'd bet you could find PC case manufacturers that try to copy Apple's design to try and capture that side of the market. That says something about how highly regarded Apple products are despite the cost.

Lian Li is the closest thing you'll get to that look with their brushed aluminum, black or silver. However, that falls under building your own PC due to the premium price of their cases.
http://aphnetworks.com/reviews/lian_li_pc_z60

Then of course the hardcore PC builders that's into pure elegance. http://www.million-dollar-pc.com/

Which is to be expected since none of that falls under OEM's as it's really moot.

Personally, I don't much care for Apple products these days, but I do see why they're very appealing and tempting. I don't know if it's still true, (what with switching to Intel and mainstream components) but as the old saying goes, "you get what you pay for". Apple certainly backed that one up for many a year.

Even though I own a Octo Mac Pro I just find more joy using the G5. I am shocked though how to this day Apple still hasn't put in dust filters for the Mac Pro's.

Nearly everything about OS X is more elegant than Windows. Installers, how the OS works and interacts. Sometimes when I go back to Windows 7 for gaming it feels like some open source OS. Bitsy here and there and to some degree it's still got a bad taste of what Vista looked like. But Windows 7 is still a great OS. It's rock solid but it doesn't have that elegant polish to it like OS X.

 

[GermanyChris]

My freshly completed hackintosh is in a Corsair Carbide 300r..

I like it!!

http://www.corsair.com/carbide-series-300r-compact-pc-gaming-case.html

Quiet and subdued

 

[davidg4781]

Hate to say it, some PC cases are pretty looking lol.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6269869&CatId=1510

Thats what I run.

It's not that I can't or don't want to get it. I get Mac, big time. I don't get the cost associated with one.

Why would I want to install OS on my PC when I have a pretty beastly G5 sitting right next to it already running OSX lol

If you think that case is pretty looking, you don't get it. I'm still using an Antec case from 2003 because I haven't been able to find a decent case that looked nicer. They all have open windows and lights or goofy mesh in the front.

For me, Macs seem to work a lot smoother than their Windows counterpart. The way I expect things to work is how they work. Example... Caps Lock. When I press the caps lock button on a Mac, everything's locked in caps. On a PC, if I press the shift key it goes back to lower case. Why if something's locked it would go back?

Another example, when I have an attachment or upload box open and I want to pick the file on my desktop or another finder window, I just drag that file into the upload box and it finds the folder for me. Do that in Windows and it'll get mad at you. Just ease of use and someone stopped to think how an OS should actually work.

 

[eyoungren]

Example... Caps Lock. When I press the caps lock button on a Mac, everything's locked in caps. On a PC, if I press the shift key it goes back to lower case. Why if something's locked it would go back?

Just a minor comment on that. Inside of QuarkXPress/InDesign this behavior is like it is in Windows. Which is useful, for me at least, because there are times where I need to type a line or block of text in caps that have a few words that aren't caps. Holding down shift lets me do that without having to turn the caps lock off then back on again.