Not sure how I missed this earlier. I'm pretty sure it's been there since Jaguar, at the latest.
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Not sure how I missed this earlier. I'm pretty sure it's been there since Jaguar, at the latest.
Or perhaps a general (huge) list of all the ones so far, generalising the personal stories. How about it tazo, seeing as its your thread? Just as long i get the rights to the adverts, the movie and the book!
Someone should get a list of the best ones and do a set of Switcher-esque ads involving actors. Now that would be neat.
Re: But you NEED a floppy drive!
Heh. I saw a nice article on a Linux advocacy site called "Is Windows ready for the desktop?", a nice "mirror image" of all the articles saying Linux isn't ready for desktop use. It's amazing to see what brain-damaged misfeatures people will put up with because they're used to them.
(I'm not claiming Linux *is* necessarily suitable for general desktop use, although it's a nice environment to code in; I'm considering buying a high-end iBook or low-end Powerbook in the hope that OS X is the right compromise between simplicity and hackability)
Heh. I saw a nice article on a Linux advocacy site called "Is Windows ready for the desktop?", a nice "mirror image" of all the articles saying Linux isn't ready for desktop use. It's amazing to see what brain-damaged misfeatures people will put up with because they're used to them.
(I'm not claiming Linux *is* necessarily suitable for general desktop use, although it's a nice environment to code in; I'm considering buying a high-end iBook or low-end Powerbook in the hope that OS X is the right compromise between simplicity and hackability
)Last year, when I still had my 10 year old Quadra 950, I was surfing the internet, talking on ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger, and playing one of the thousands of online text games... I got into a discussion about computers and software and so forth... Well, I told them that I was running a 10 year old computer. They proceeded to ask me what kind of computer it was, naming off various different 10 year old PC models, all the while completely shocked that I was able to use it when one of them had a 6 year old PC that would barely run. I told them that it was a Quadra 950. All but one of them was stumped as to what it was. That one said "Isn't that a Mac?" I stated that it was in fact a Mac. Then they all proceeded to say how much Macs suck. At which I replied with "At least mine can still run, and fairly well, at that"
Ahh, the joy of stumping PC users...
Ahh, the joy of stumping PC users...
For most of people, it is in deed impossible.
Solution is simply use another mouse of your choice.
But for extreme people such as myself, it does not post a problem.
Heck I used to play Quake 3 on my PB, with mouse pad
Originally posted by MOFS
Or perhaps a general (huge) list of all the ones so far, generalising the personal stories. How about it tazo, seeing as its your thread? Just as long i get the rights to the adverts, the movie and the book!
Someone should get a list of the best ones and do a set of Switcher-esque ads involving actors. Now that would be neat.
Its not my thread, I don't own it. I am proud that I created a topic that people were interested in and felt the need to post to, however its not my thread. a thread is nothing without the people behind it.
to the person who would like to see this thread die an honorable death, I am fine with that. You can start by not posting. This thread lives with every breath of post you breath into it.
Please do not spam this thread guys, 500 replies later and 98 percent of it has been on topic. Don't ruin a potentially very long running thread, with useless spams.
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I can't find the numbers now.... but I believe that Apple is a minor user of PPC chips, when talking in number of units made per year.
iBook - 10.2.6 - 500MHz DVD with 384MB of RAM
Dock - small, hidden, and no magnification. Too much of a cpu hog for me
"Why can't Macs run foo.exe? Everything can do that! Your computer must be broken!"
Originally posted by BarefootChef
Last year, when I still had my 10 year old Quadra 950, I was surfing the internet, talking on ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger, and playing one of the thousands of online text games... I got into a discussion about computers and software and so forth... Well, I told them that I was running a 10 year old computer. They proceeded to ask me what kind of computer it was, naming off various different 10 year old PC models, all the while completely shocked that I was able to use it when one of them had a 6 year old PC that would barely run. I told them that it was a Quadra 950. All but one of them was stumped as to what it was. That one said "Isn't that a Mac?" I stated that it was in fact a Mac. Then they all proceeded to say how much Macs suck. At which I replied with "At least mine can still run, and fairly well, at that"
Ahh, the joy of stumping PC users...
Amen - last year my 4yr old C333 died - and i got a MDD DP 867. Now i enjoy it soooo much - juet needs more RAM (only got 256) and another 3HDDs and ill be set for a few years.
It's really unfortunate that the iBooks' VRAM can't be upgraded. I've got a 500Mhz iBook too, and without QE it shows it's age. I still use magnification though, and size the dock all the way down- it's not that bad. Did it on a Wallstreet and you could almost see the icons being rendered as the sizes changed. oof
Quadras rocked - I got an 840av that still does it's thing.
How about "Yeah, I'll get a Mac once I get enough money." aarrghh- the iBook is only $1,000!! (Though I've had people do double & triple takes after mentioning the price.)
Quadras rocked - I got an 840av that still does it's thing.
How about "Yeah, I'll get a Mac once I get enough money." aarrghh- the iBook is only $1,000!! (Though I've had people do double & triple takes after mentioning the price.)
Anybody remembers the PowerMac 6100? Back then I was in the Apple Promotion Team here in Germany and we were doing presentations in big consumer markets. Of course most of the people who were fiddling around with the Macs we brought were DOS/Windows users.
Unfortunately the power button of the PM6100 was right under the floppy drive on the right side. Like every 20 minutes I had to restart the computer because some dull Windows user wanted to try out the floppy drive and pushed the button to "eject" the disk and got a heart-attack when suddenly the screen turned black!!!
groovebuster
Unfortunately the power button of the PM6100 was right under the floppy drive on the right side. Like every 20 minutes I had to restart the computer because some dull Windows user wanted to try out the floppy drive and pushed the button to "eject" the disk and got a heart-attack when suddenly the screen turned black!!!
groovebuster
Originally posted by Chryx
Yeah, but a nice Powerbook or Powermac is significantly more than that
-Chryx
So's a quality PC who's longevity approaches that of a Mac before becoming obsolete (due to a Windows forced upgrade) or breaking.
That old price argument is really no longer valid - except when you consider speed differences. Of course, after three months of registry "haystacking" that 3Ghz P4 won't be so fast, thus invalidating even that part of the argument.
My IT director just yesterday when I was trying to get my 12PB on the LAN here at work:
"Windows sucks. It's ok. I admit it, and you can too. I just don't think Macs are a very good business machine, but with OS X, I may be wrong."
Wow! Well, clearly he's thinking about the classic, uberproprietary Macintosh of old. At least he's got an open mind.
What? I seem to be running Windows 98SE just fine. Works great with Office 2000 and IE 6 et al (no choice in the matter, it's a required work config). Is OS 8 still that widely used?
Originally posted by patrick0brien
-Chryx
So's a quality PC that'll last an amount of time approaching that of a Mac before becoming obsolete (due to a Windows forced upgrade) or breaking.
That old price argument is really no longer valid - except when you consider speed differences. Of course, after three months of registry "haystacking" that 3Ghz P4 won't be so fast, thus invalidating even that part of the argument.
When, post rebate, a 2.66Ghz Dell P4 can be had for $500, the price argument is valid, because, hey, if the P4 does blow up twice in the lifespan of a Mac and needs to be replaced, who cares, you get a 'free' upgrade compared to buying a Mac in the first place.
and my big Athlon machine is still plenty fast after 5 months..
I'm digging this ibook, but raw performance isn't one of it's strong points
Either way, you'll be paying for something that lasts longer. windows users don't see that they're paying a (seemingly) low price for a (seemingly) fast machine which then conks-out or dies with 2-3 years. You pay a good amount up front for a Mac, but it'll still be around in a few years, long after the windows box bites the dust. All the windows people I know "have to get a new computer" every 2 years because they think theirs is getting old.
Maybe Apple should put this in their ads? "Think Different- longer" or something I dunno, just a thought.
and windows boxes offend my sense of design .. especially those alienware machines- I'm sorry but I find them hideous. Sony, NEC & Fujitsu have been bringing out some real Frankenstein monsters.
Maybe Apple should put this in their ads? "Think Different- longer" or something
I dunno, just a thought.and windows boxes offend my sense of design .. especially those alienware machines- I'm sorry but I find them hideous. Sony, NEC & Fujitsu have been bringing out some real Frankenstein monsters.
Yeah, I guess that's true.
For the money, I've always thought the iBooks were a good deal. The PowerBooks I'm a little iffy on. (and the ProMouse- $70??!!)
We could start another thread about price complaints, wonder if we could beat the number of posts in this thread?
Originally posted by macdong
For most of people, it is in deed impossible.
Solution is simply use another mouse of your choice.
But for extreme people such as myself, it does not post a problem.
Heck I used to play Quake 3 on my PB, with mouse pad
Nice! I still play Quake 3 with my trackpad on my iBook when I feel like a challenge or I can't be bothered to plug my mouse in!
The only reasons I use a second mouse button is in Word when I correct the mistakes its highlighted for me - its a slight annoyance going Ctrl-click every time I come accross a mistake (yes I know I could use the cmmnd-shift-= keypress or whatever it is to check it all at once but its a bit of a hassle). I used to alwats use it on Championship Manager 01-02 but I just got CM4 and that doesn't need it.
Well, yes, that would be true. But, the problem with that argument is that, at least in my experience, Macs last much more than twice as long as PCs. As an example (and this is only one of many that I've known) I had a neighbor who had purchased a PMac 6100 when it first came out in 1994. I knew about their machine because it needed some maintenance and they asked me if I could do it. I agreed, and got them all set up. The machine ran great and did everything they needed it to do. They were running MacOS 8 on that machine. Well, that was in April of 2001. Recently I got an email from them thanking me again for the maintenance, as it's been running great ever since. So, that's a nine year old computer that's still working great. If one assumes that Windows machines must be replaced every two years, then this machine has lasted more than four times as long.
I used to count how many people I killed with my trackpad
kinda silly, but it sure was fun to tell someone that he was killed by a trackpad
Today someone asked me if I could download a program for them off of kazaa, there internet is down, I said I don't use kazaa, I have a mac. They told me macs suck because you can't use kazaa. I frowned and walked away. -tazo
Originally posted by macdong
I used to count how many people I killed with my trackpad
kinda silly, but it sure was fun to tell someone that he was killed by a trackpad
trackpad's not too bad. once i was even more comfortable with to a trackpad than i am with a mouse.
Not a question, but a statement made by a guy I know that has questionable taste in computer hardware at the best of times
"It would be unwise for the majority of home users to have one [a mac]. they're highly elitist and offer little in benefits over a PC/Windows solution"
They're highly elitist?.. what sort of argument is that supposed to be exactly?
Then again, he's adamant that IBM make good harddisks.. so whatever...
"It would be unwise for the majority of home users to have one [a mac]. they're highly elitist and offer little in benefits over a PC/Windows solution"
They're highly elitist?.. what sort of argument is that supposed to be exactly?
Then again, he's adamant that IBM make good harddisks.. so whatever...
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