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the worst question a pc user has aksed you

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oh and I also neglected to mention that I only have about 1.2 gigs of music. the rest is pirated everything else (like 10 gigs) i figure a ten gig will be great for all my music and all future, plus when i want to bring a few movies with me (3-4 gigs).
 
Originally posted by tazo
oh and I also neglected to mention that I only have about 1.2 gigs of music. ...
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Wow, small time... ;)

I have close to 10gigs of music, alone. I currently have a 20gig iPod, on which I keep my music and a backup of my user home directory.
 
Here are some idiotic questions and statements I've heard before from random people both at work and elsewhere:

Overheard in the studio where I worked, when a GRAPHICS DESIGNER was asked to open the PDF file he brought with him on a burned CD: "Is this a demo computer? There is no CD Eject button"

"Is it true that you can make hollywood movie posters with an Apple?"

"Isn't Steve Jobs jewish?"

"My laptop has all kinds of ports and costs 1,200 dollars, but Apple sells powerbooks with no ports for 3,000 dollars! I knew you got ripped off", failing to grasp the concealed panel on the back of a 15" PB.

"Are most Mac people in some kind of a cult?"

"You don't like computers?". This was asked by some dumb chick in my Pol Sci class. "Computers" of course means "Wintel" in her world.

Classmate exclaimed: "My VAIO is smaller than your Apple PowerBook!". It was quite ironic when he pulled out an external drive to use the CD, then I showed him that PB has a built-in CD/DVD-ROM. 1 hour later his battery died and he pulled out a pen to take down the rest of the notes by hand.

"I would never buy a mac, because then I have to buy a mac printer"

"So where the hell is the Claris Works?", was asked by someone who missed the whole new millenium thing.

"I will message you on AIM. NO WAIT. You're on a mac.. should I just email you instead? Can you read windows emails?"

"Didn't Microsoft buy Apple?"

"What's the point of using a MAC when they'll be out of business in a year?". I heard this 4 months ago from an ignoramus who calls himself an MCSE.
 
Originally posted by ollywilson2003
Its so true, im amazed by the amount of people who honestly think that all the web pages are stored on "the Windows server" or something.

I must be a magnet for Windows idiots or something.....
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You don't know the half of it. Millions (Yes, more than I'd like to admit) of the computer users think Internet Explorer is the Internet. They do not understand that there might be other browsers which can access the web.
 
i hate this thread. I am the sort of person who does the following:
Actor -
PCI; PC idiot
Me; com one, please
2PCI; second PC idiot

PCI: what comp. do you use?
2PCI: mines got a p4, how bout yours?
Me: no, i use a mac.
PCI: why, they suck!
2PCI: yeah, no office or floppy drive
Me: ok, there is office, i can read emails and i dont get viruses ever, i dont even have or need an antivirus program.
PCI: whoa, whats up
Me: just stopping you being a copmlete looser an asking those dumb arse pc qs.
2PCI: what about windows
Me: what is windows (i am being a prick here)
PCI: its on the network computers
Me: Oh, that - i though that was a cheap rip-off on MacOS 8.6 - oh wait! it is
PCI+2PCI in awe as i show them a 12" pb and how it connects to the netowrk without a busy thing on the mouse, it browses it and then i do it all again w/ airport. Of course they are still trying to remeber the network settings on their computer.

I had been on that network before and had an automatic profile for it.

then i ran pout fo the room and screamed. I can not stand ignorant pc users
 
"You use Macs? But aren't you, like, a computer geek or something?"

I got this one several times from other students when I was in college (at a school not generally associated with idiocy). Macs are toys, they reasoned, and they were shocked that a tech-minded person would deign to use one. Just because I theoretically know how to deal with junky machines and ugly malformed software, doesn't mean that I want to. It is sort of like expecting a soldier to shoot at himself periodically, just because that's what he has trained for...
 
Stories!

My school had just got a lab of new iMacs approximately four years ago. It was the tail-end of the summer. Teachers were just starting to trickle in to set up their classrooms and get ready for the opening of school. I had just finished setting up the lab when a teacher comes in and exclaims, "Oh, great! Why did they get these? They have no floppy drive?" A second teacher walks into the room just as the other teacher is whining and says to me holding up a floppy disk, "Dave, can you help me? This disk keeps telling me there's an I/O error. It won't let me open anything." I grab the disk as the silver protective portion is bent, loose, and ready to fall off. I turn to the teacher complaining about the lack of a floppy drive on the iMac and say, "This is why there's no floppy drive!"

Into the school year about two weeks, a couple of teachers complained that the new method of saving to a networked server was too hard for students because they weren't saving to the right place, and we should have floppy drives because they're so much easier. Lo and behold a couple of days go by and she sends a student down from her class to print out a file from a disk. The girl comes to me and says her disk is screwed up, but it was fine when she saved it at home. I put the disk in the computer with a floppy drive and it mounts on the desktop. I look at the top of the floppy drive's window, "It says, 0 items." I go back to the teacher afterward and I said, "I see saving to a floppy disk is easier, eh?" She's like, "What?" I told her that student was at home and couldn't save to a floppy disk.

Those were stories from approximately 4 years ago.

Recently, a student was complaining about the iMacs saying that they suck and we should get Dells. An eighth grade whipper-snapper. "You see I just got a new Dell," he proudly protests. "And it blows these computers away. "Do you really like Macs? Windows is so much better and easier."

I'm like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, back up there fella! Are you going to come in here and compare your brand new computer to these computers which are four years old?" He didn't know what to say. I continued, "Why did you upgrade? How old was the computer you just replaced?"

The student didn't have an answer. He was wishy-washy, "Like two or three years old."

Outside of work, in my social places, literally every time I hear someone mocking the virtues of the Mac, I eventually get out of them that the Mac was old. How old? They don't know. I had one lady come back to tell me it was running 7.5. I told the woman if it were a comparable PC it would be running Windows 3.1. She was befuddled as if she didn't know the comparison I was making. I said, "Version 7.5? Of course that's old. That computer is old. You know Apple is up to Mac OS 10.2."
 
One of my idiot friends thought that he'd be able to answer the age old argument of Mac vs. PC so he did an English paper on it... my favorite argument of his was

"Why would you want a computer that you can't use kazaa on?"
 
Originally posted by DaedalusDE
One of my idiot friends thought that he'd be able to answer the age old argument of Mac vs. PC so he did an English paper on it... my favorite argument of his was

"Why would you want a computer that you can't use kazaa on?"
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dear. god. What an idiot. lol
 
A girl was watching over my shoulder as I worked on my new 17-inch PowerBook at university the other day, and she was going on at me about how much she hated Macs. In the course of my working, I passed my mouse over the Dock and it magnified, causing her to shout, "God, I hate Macs, but I love how it just did that!"

I find, though, that Mac-haters are in the minority. When I'm working at coffeeshops on my PB, all the people I talk to are up on the latest Apple hardware, and several times in the few weeks of my owning this 17-incher, people - including some on Gateway laptops - have told me that they were on their way to buy one, having seen mine. I think things for Apple are looking up.
 
This isn't really a single question, but rather an example of Microsoft denial.

Induhvidual: "Mac sucks!"
Me: "Why do you say that?"
Induhvidual: "I don't know. They just do. They're so cute and they look funny. Mac sucks."

Later, after hearing about problems that the Induhvidual was having with Windows...

Me: "You wouldn't have to worry about all those crashes if you stopped using Microsoft software and instead used a Mac with OS X."
Induhvidual: "I actually like Microsoft. I don't see what the big deal is. My computer does what I need. Whenever it gets messed up, I just start all over again."
Me: "Reboot?"
Induhvidual: "No, that other thing you do with the recovery CD."
Me: "Do you mean that you reformat your hard disk and reinstall all that software."
Induhvidual: "Yeah, like every few months. What's wrong with that? I heard that you're supposed to do that. It gets rid of viruses too."
Me: "For what kind of work do you use your computer?"
Induhvidual: "I just do the Internet and a little typing."
Me: "And your PC stops working because of that?"
Induhvidual: "Usually only if I'm doing something that I shouldn't be."
Me: "Like what?"
Induhvidual: "Like being on the Internet and typing something in Word."
Me: "Would you like to try something better?"
Induhvidual: "No. Why would I want to change what I have if it works?"
 
i suppose its not really the same, but a PC asked me if if my powerbook could take cds. When i said it had a DVD burner he didnt believe me, i didnt really want to go to all the trouble (of opening the profiler) just for a pc guy, but i did, and boy was he amazed.
 
I got a buddy just like that! He reformats his hard drive every few months, claiming it's good for the system because it cleans out all the bugs and viruses.

God, these stories are great.
 
I have a friend whos a network administrator for a very large company. Luckily for me most of my friends are unbiased and have a Mac envy. This friend, however, insists that Mac OS X is limited and theres nothing special about it. ....Ha, "Nothing special about it." He also constantly brings up that Mhz debate.. I really believe the intellegence thing. Apple users are just smarter people.


<< Just because I theoretically know how to deal with junky machines and ugly malformed software, doesn't mean that I want to. It is sort of like expecting a soldier to shoot at himself periodically, just because that's what he has trained for.. >> LOL!!!!!!! Funniest Thing I have heard in a while.
 
When people come to my house and see my Blueberry iMac, they always say...nice monitor...where is the computer?

They can NEVER figure out how to eject the CD...dragging to the trash, always ask, "Where is the button to get this out?"

After they use OSX for awhile they have every single program open on it, because they think closing the window closes the program.

Last they always tell me, nice computer but I need one that runs MS Office!
 
How about this

Job Interview:

My Question: To the customer concerned about getting a Mac or a PC, what do you tell them in terms of pro's and con's of each system.

Reply: Only buy a Mac if you only need to do video editing, Mac's cannot use word or (the best one) play mp3's. PC's can do everything but video editing. So I would say to get a PC unless they will be editing video.

My Reply: Don't call us, we'll call you.

End of Interview
 
Brilliant thread, guys. i can't remember any specific quotes, but most people i've shown my new 17" iMac to have been split into 3 main groups:

1) Just don't understand what an OS is and what programs are, and how there are choices other than windows. They just think windows = computers. So they just look at me blank-faced when I tell them about my iMac (this includes my mum, poor woman), as they just think its a weird version of windows, and that you can't really do anything on it.

2) Really like the mac and are interested in getting one themselves in the future, if they can afford it. these are people that i still like to keep as friends ;)

3) Challenge me to prove that its just as good a computer as windows, thinking that i'm just a mac addict. they don't really listen to what i'm saying, they just think i'm a maniac and smile, knowingly. its really annoying!
 
This is what happened when TELEWEST sent someone to install my cable internet connection. One man installed the wires with no problems, and then another arrived an hour later to install and configure the software.

I call him the ICE which stands for Idiot Cable Engineer.


ICE: Hi, I've come to install your new cable connection.
me: Oh great, theres my computer, I'll leave you to it.
ICE: They had to send me because the other guys don't know how to work Macs
me: Oh, thanks.
ICE: No problem, its a bit harder than proper computers, but I can do it.
[ICE sees OS X on screen]
ICE: Oh, I can't do it on this machine, it only works with normal Mac Windows.
me: What?
ICE: I can only do it on the old mac windows
me: Oh, you mean OS9?
ICE: Yeah, I guess. I only have instructions for that
[ICE starts to pack up his things and gets ready to leave, I reboot into OS9 to keep him happy]
me: Here you go then.
ICE: Wow, thats neat, you've got 2 hard disks right?
me: No, you can do this on any Mac with OS X
[ICE follows instructions to configure modem, takes about 20 seconds]
ICE: I think some of my instructions are missing, there should be more settings to play with.
me: Maybe its just simpler on my Mac?
ICE: [laughs]
me: So what next?
ICE: I'll connect it anyway and see what happens. It won't work though. I'll have to phone the office to get the instructions.
me: OK.
ICE disapears under my table with the end of the modem lead. He seems to be under there for ages, looking in a box of old CDs and in my small cupboard. After 5 minutes or so, ICE reappears.
ICE: Where is your computer? Is it in a different room?
me: Its right there, on the table
[I point to my Cube, the only thing on the table apart from the display, keyboard, mouse, and pro speakers.]
ICE: No, I need the actual base station to plug the modem into. It has to go directly into the main part of the computer.
me: Yeah, thats it. All the sockets are underneath at the back.
[I show the ICE because he obvioulsy doesn't believe me]
ICE: Macs are so stupid, you can never do anything with them.
me: Does it work?
ICE: Yeah, it seems to. It must have been used with our cable service before because its already been configured and someone must have put that network card in it.
me: No, its brand new. It just came like that
[I reboot into OS X]
me: It seems to work OK in OS X
ICE: Yeah, its definitely been used for this before, it wouldn't work just like that otherwise.
me: Is that it then?
ICE: No, before you use it you must install a firewall and virus protection. You can get it from this website [I've forgotten which one] when I've gone. Its essential, you will have serious problems without it.
[When the ICE has gone, I check the website. There is no Mac software there. I set up the OS X firewall with Brickhouse instead and don't worry about viruses.


I still laugh at that tw@t when I think about it now!!
 
Wow... I must say, you kept your cool! :)
This one is not only funny, it's pathetic, really. This ICE-man seemed to be the Mac-expert?????.....OMG.
 
(When the original iMac first came out. I was using both platforms at the time, but when I remember this comment it STILL pisses me off...)

"Oh look, it's got a handle on the back so you can bring it straight to the trash dump!"

Well looky here, I'm still USING that same Mac while your pc has long been trashed. NOW who's machine is in the dump?

1.
"Where's the floppy drive?"
"How often do you USE floppies?"
"..."

2.
"Does it run office? No it doesn't, does it?"

3.
"Man, you can't do ANYTHING on a Mac!!"

4.
"Macs like, never get viruses, huh? That's cool.."
(suckers:p)

I can't think of anymore, but I get 'em on a daily basis. I ask for it though, I start fights with windows-users to try to get them to realize that they're idiots and wasted too much money on crappy hardware and an even crappier OS.
 
Originally posted by dobbin
This is what happened when TELEWEST sent someone to install my cable internet connection. One man installed the wires with no problems, and then another arrived an hour later to install and configure the software.
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-dobbin

I've had several Broadband connections over the years.

The first time, I had one computer running 9.0.4. I didn't let the Configrer of this two-man cable baqnd to touch the machine. He wanted to install a new browser and some software to get it to work with the cable modem.

Knowing how Cable Modems work, I knew this was not necessary.

With the guy over my shoulder (he had to witness connection to do his job properly) I asked for the host ID of the DHCP server I'd be connecting to.

When it worked right then, he actually dropped his disks on the floor - mouth agape.

"You don't even have to reboot? WOW!"

This got the hardware guy running to see what the commotion was about. Both were stunned and actually said something along the lines of "I gotta get me one of those."

Last year, I moved and ordered a new install. By this time MediaOne was now ATTBI, and I was running OS X. And guess who shows up - the same two guys.

I again refused to let them touch it. This time not even asking for a host ID, just setting the TCP to DHCP then quitting the prefs.

This time the reaction was: "Damn that's cool. That's OS X huh? I gotta upgrade."

They both had purchased Macs. :D
 
I had a similar experience with the computer club I'm in. It's all a bunch of windoze users, and they wanted to see a demo of Safari.

The meeting head was in the middle of telling me I could use his internet connection when I already had it setup (switched over to DHCP and pulled an IP address in record time) he stopped and said "Is that it?? It's that easy?"

1 week later a Mac users group was formed from the same club that, since 1996, was always windoze based. 1 guy so far has bought an iBook.

Like shooting fish in a barrel with an elephant gun...

:rolleyes:
 
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