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Moron buys MBA w/o research, complains

Is this satire? I am really not sure as the guy couldn't figure out the aptly named "two-finger scrolling." Has he used a windows laptop with their crappy clones of the mac trackpad? I feel like he must have upgraded from a 2004 thinkpad with the keyboard nub.

And then he was complaining about the keyboard? Again, what was he using before? An IBM Model-M? I love my mechanical keyboards, but as far as laptop keyboards go I haven't found one that compares to the mac. Most feel cheap with rubbery clicks.

Also VGA? I doubt you will find windows laptops with VGA ports today. At best DVI but most now will have HDMI or display port.

To me it sounds like this guy hasn't upgraded his laptop in the past 10 years and is just shellshocked with the changes that have been made.
 
Look at how he points out the "flaws" (no VGA port, CD drive, etc), there's no way the article (or the writer) is serious.
 
I feel that guy's pain.

I bought a new car. It didn't even come with keys. Only something called a "Start Button" and it took me two hours to figure out how to drive the thing off the dealer's parking lot. I tried to insert the square keyless-keyfob thingy everywhere. It didn't fit in the cigarette lighter or anywhere on the dashboard. Finally, the salesman got suspicious as to why I sat in the lot for two hours, came over and asked. He jumped in the passengers seat and pushed the start button. The car started right up! I hate my new car because it doesn't have a keyhole for me to start the engine.
 
Binarymix said:
1. VGA?? Get and adapter, or a new friggen monitor, it's 2014!!

2. CD's?? Get the mp3 version. Again, it's 2014.

3. USB printer?!?! Although I'm glad he wasn't searching for a serial port on his MBA again, come on, wireless printers are all over now and cheap. Once again, it's 2014 FFS!!

That is all.


He must have been trolling the internets.
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USB printer would be possible if the guy didn't have to use an external keyboard and mouse :p It could be out of habit, since the trackpad on his old laptop was probably awful.
 
mrsir2009 said:
USB printer would be possible if the guy didn't have to use an external keyboard and mouse :p It could be out of habit, since the trackpad on his old laptop was probably awful.
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or he can just buy a wireless printer.... I bought a nice wireless laser printer from Amazon for less than $53 last month.... works perfectly and requires no wires, except the power cord! (considering that I print more than 50 pages each business day)
 
Gasu E. said:
It was hysterical, but apparently went over the heads of some respondants.
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I wouldn't go so far as hysterical, but it clearly was tongue-in-cheek. The bit about needing to attach the keyboard and the faux-complaint about natural scrolling were clear indications that the piece was not intended to be serious.
 
After I bought my new apple notebook with that extra crispy "retina screen" I had similar problems.

I knew that it doesn't come with a built-in zip drive (most zip drives are external anyways, I was hoping for a built in one for those sweet extra megabytes), but not even a floppy? No serial ports for the mouse and printer either. :(
I had to go and get adapters and then the "genius" at the apple store was looking at me funny...
After I explained to him that apple seems to have forgotten the trackball on it, he asked me about my mobile number, but noone from apple has paged me yet and I am about to mail them a complaint letter!

I am deeply disappointed :mad:
 
Binarymix said:
2. CD's?? Get the mp3 version. Again, it's 2014.
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True story: An acquaintance complained that he couldn't get his several large boxes full of CDs onto a new MacBook, because there was no CD drive. Now that's several thousand pounds worth of CDs, so "get the mp3 version" doesn't cut it. (Anyway, you can't get MP3s from iTunes).

So I went to the Amazon website, typed in "external CD drive", and showed him that you can get an external CD drive for less than £10. (CD Read/write + DVD read/only for £10.35). He was _so_ happy with that.
 
gnasher729 said:
True story: An acquaintance complained that he couldn't get his several large boxes full of CDs onto a new MacBook, because there was no CD drive. Now that's several thousand pounds worth of CDs, so "get the mp3 version" doesn't cut it. (Anyway, you can't get MP3s from iTunes).

So I went to the Amazon website, typed in "external CD drive", and showed him that you can get an external CD drive for less than £10. (CD Read/write + DVD read/only for £10.35). He was _so_ happy with that.
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mp3 is just a modern day placeholder for digital music file :)


He could have downloaded his cds. That's what I have done over the years. It would take way longer to rip every CD then to search and download the album.

I really don't care about the so-called 'piracy' aspect. If I own the physical media, I can download the same media, because I could have otherwise ripped the cd and the end result is the same.

Alternatively he also could have ripped the cds from a desktop and used iTunes home sharing to transfer the media to his MBA.

Or, like you said, get an external drive; but this guy is already out of ports for that!! :D
 
i remember when the air first came out, everyone was like no cd drive? it will be useless! now the times have caught up and apple is 6 years in development already.
 
I'm guessing for many longtime PC users going to Mac would be like time travel into the future. Even Apple using have a hard time letting go of obsolete tech, VGA ports, Optical drives, built in Ethernet ports on laptops...
 
The website is even more useless than he is. I tried to leave a comment about how foolish he was to buy something he had not researched and the whole 'an hour to figure out right-click' thing and all I get is a spinning circle. No log in. No nothing.

When I first bought my MBP, I didn't know how to right click either, so I, GASP, Googled it! How hard was that? SMH
 
bniu said:
I've got a few questions for that fella. What's a CD, VGA Port, and a Printer??? :D

If you want to listen to some music, just fire up iTunes! External monitor, isn't everything mini display port these days? Printer? What??? People still print???

I'm so glad my laptops have done away with all the legacy crap that I almost never use.
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I can play CD's using the Apple drive, I can print to a wireless Canon MP990 printer and a little TB adapter gives me HDMI, DVI or DisplayPort to monitor connections.

This guy is a plank.
 
Binarymix said:
He could have downloaded his cds. That's what I have done over the years. It would take way longer to rip every CD then to search and download the album.
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Ripping CDs is very little work, actually. It takes time, but _you_ have to do very little actual work. iTunes can rip and eject CDs automatically, so all you do is put one CD after the other into the drive. It takes about one hour for 10 CDs, but only five minutes of that are work.

And you get the quality that you want. If you download music, you never know what you get. Most of the time, what you get is rubbish. And I heard of people downloading Madonna albums, and after ten seconds of music she starts screaming at you for being a bastard pirate :D

And I have met kids who were told by their parents not to download any music, and it just was beyond their comprehension that they could stick CDs into their computer. They just didn't get it. They really, truly believed that they had to buy their favourite CDs all over again. (I didn't tell them that your computer doesn't know who owns the CD and it can rip their friends' CDs just as well. I think that would have been information overload and could have damaged their poor little brains).
 
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I switched to using Macs about two years ago. I learned 80% of what I needed to know in a day. I am now a Mac support specialist in the IT department I work for. If you do your research it's not that difficult.
 
Not a strong testament to his intelligence..

And he put it up on the internet for future employers to find.
 
The silly thing is, most of his complaints are my complaints with Apple, too. And that's after using a mac for 10 years. Why are we limited to 2 or 3 USB ports? We were limited to 3 USB ports back in 2006! Likewise, I get that there's no CD drive, but why can't I connect my mac to a dock and make it a more useful computer - with a keyboard, mouse, printer, etc., as you can with comparable PC's?
 
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