What makes you feel proud of owning a Mac?

[yamadataro]

Originally posted by MacBandit
Wish I had the money to do that. Want to donate or sell cheap any computers that are a year old in the future?

Well I use them for professional stuff for my tiny design firm. So I have a big-deal excuse for doing that

As to the give-aways, sorry man! I'm doing something socially meaningful with them: I give my old ones to my friends and family to suck them into the Mac cult!

Bandit, I'm hoping that Santa is coming to your way tonight ... with an Apple keyholder?!

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by yamadataro


Well I use them for professional stuff for my tiny design firm. So I have a big-deal excuse for doing that

As to the give-aways, sorry man! I'm doing something socially meaningful with them: I give my old ones to my friends and family to suck them into the Mac cult!

Bandit, I'm hoping that Santa is coming to your way tonight ... with an Apple keyholder?!

Keyholder? I'm not sure what that means.

I just recently purchased a new Mac so at the moment I'm not in need for a new one but I was thinking about the future. I am currently using a Dual/GHz/DDR with a gig of ram, superdrive, etc.. I don't think there will be any Apple goodies under my tree this year. I have several family members that use Macs but they aren't into it as much as I so they don't do those sorts of gifts. Computer related gifts usually come from me.

 

[yamadataro]

Originally posted by MacBandit
Keyholder? I'm not sure what that means.

Sorry I've just realized that it's a so-called Japan-glish (English word somebody created in Japan. I meant a key ring with an Apple tag...

 

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by yamadataro


Sorry I've just realized that it's a so-called Japan-glish (English word somebody created in Japan. I meant a key ring with an Apple tag...

japanglish! score, that's funnier than germish!

lol. i have to say, OS X does it for me. what a "dreamy" OS. i love having all that linux power to my name, even if i hardly use it. that, coupled with the elegance and smoothness of the interface, spoke volumes to me. and the powerbook is the coolest mobile device on the planet no matter how you cut it, hehe.

 

[MacsRgr8]

Mac = Pleasure without computing
Windows = Computing without pleasure

 

[UnixMac]

wow....... Where do I start??

 

[King Cobra]

Have you guys seen those commercials that help PC users learn how to use their computer? just follow me here... There is this guy dressed in white, holding a reflective dark silver CD by the sides, and has a beige/white PC to the right. The guy is giving out this CD to those, who want to know how to use their PC. And if the customer is not fully satisfied, he gets his money back.

Ironic, the first thing you should know about computers is how to turn them on/off. And you don't see anything like this from Apple.

 

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by yamadataro


Sorry I've just realized that it's a so-called Japan-glish (English word somebody created in Japan. I meant a key ring with an Apple tag...

Ahhh Askodeska(sp?).

 

[ibookin']

-The fact that I can capture DV from a live camera for almost an hour without any crashes. The PC laptop sitting next to my machine crashed 3 times just using Word. I have found that the stability of Mac OS X is unmatched in any other consumer OS (i.e., Windows).

-Having my iBook and iPod get oohs and aahs when compared to PC bricktops and Archos MP3 Players

-Being able to run KDE, Gnome, etc. on XDarwin without installing Linux.

-Having my computers more than a year before they either break or become obsolete.

Shall I go on...?

 

[TyleRomeo]

Its all about the splendor of OSX

Tyler

 

[PC Clone]

Why am I proud of owning a PC?
-I bought it more than a year and a half ago for $800 and it's still a great system...
-Windows XP is sweet... since putting XP Professional on here many months ago it has crashed maybe 2 or 3 times tops, and nothing that wasn't solved by a simple(and quick) restart...
-I have access to hundreds and hundreds of programs at my fingertips
-As a gamer, there is nothing comparable to having a PC with a broadband connection...
-I love being able to upgrade whatever I want on my computer...
-I love being able to customize my computer, from the way Windows looks to the way my case looks... variety is the spice of life!
-LAN parties! Counter-strike! Bwahahahaha!
-Two button mouse! Woohoo!

I can go on forever...

 

[Durandal7]

Sounds like we got us a bonfide troll.

 

[Les Kern]

Originally posted by PC Clone
Why am I proud of owning a PC?
-I bought it more than a year and a half ago for $800 and it's still a great system...

I still have a Mac 7200 that's 6 years or so old, and it runs every program my G4 867 runs.
Point for me for longevity

-Windows XP is sweet... since putting XP Professional on here many months ago it has crashed maybe 2 or 3 times tops, and nothing that wasn't solved by a simple(and quick) restart...

I crashed once in 6 months.
TIE

-I have access to hundreds and hundreds of programs at my fingertips

Did you pay for them? I did and I indeed have hundreds. But let's face it; most everyone can get by pretty nicely with perhaps a dozen.
Okay, TIE.

-A a gamer, there is nothing comparable to having a PC with a broadband connection...

True. One point for you.

-I love being ale to upgrade whatever I want on my computer...

Mac users have no need to upgrade. Two points for me.

-I love eing able to customize my computer, from the way Windows looks to the way my case looks... variety is the spice of life!

You should get around the Mac sites more. Two points for me for your lie.

-LAN parties! Counter-strike! Bwahahahaha!

I do LAN parties, and I win a LOT over my PC brothers.
Point to me.

-Two button mouse! Woohoo!

Point to me. I have a four-button mouse. (And I guess a "state-of-the-art" scrollwheel... whatever that is.[/B][/QUOTE]

Six to 1. I win. Buy a Mac... you won't be sorry.

 

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by PC Clone
Why am I proud of owning a PC?
-I bought it more than a year and a half ago for $800 and it's still a great system...
-Windows XP is sweet... since putting XP Professional on here many months ago it has crashed maybe 2 or 3 times tops, and nothing that wasn't solved by a simple(and quick) restart...
-I have access to hundreds and hundreds of programs at my fingertips
-As a gamer, there is nothing comparable to having a PC with a broadband connection...
-I love being able to upgrade whatever I want on my computer...
-I love being able to customize my computer, from the way Windows looks to the way my case looks... variety is the spice of life!
-LAN parties! Counter-strike! Bwahahahaha!
-Two button mouse! Woohoo!

I can go on forever...

Sorry, did you read the title of this thread????
It's called "What makes you feel proud of owning a Mac?"
This is a Mac forum, it's hard to believe you bothered to register just so that you could post this as your one and only post ever on these boards.....how sad.

Go have some fun!

 

[UnixMac]

Originally posted by PC Clone
Why am I proud of owning a PC?
-I bought it more than a year and a half ago for $800 and it's still a great system...
-Windows XP is sweet... since putting XP Professional on here many months ago it has crashed maybe 2 or 3 times tops, and nothing that wasn't solved by a simple(and quick) restart...
-I have access to hundreds and hundreds of programs at my fingertips
-As a gamer, there is nothing comparable to having a PC with a broadband connection...
-I love being able to upgrade whatever I want on my computer...
-I love being able to customize my computer, from the way Windows looks to the way my case looks... variety is the spice of life!
-LAN parties! Counter-strike! Bwahahahaha!
-Two button mouse! Woohoo!

I can go on forever...

1. I believe in the saying.. "you get what you pay for"

2. Windows XP is a light weight compared to any Unix (read OS X)

3. In almost two years of running OS X I have crashed a total of "0", Zero, Zilch times.

4. There are NO PROGRAMS that I want and cant run on Mac OS X

5. I have 3D games like Star Trek EF, QIII, Unreal II, Max Payne, Return to Castle Wolf and more..... all running at very good frame rates considering they were not written for my duel processor Mac not optimized for Altivec (they are PC ported).

6. I have upgraded my drives for the PowerMac to a RAID config, I also upgraded my graphics card to a Radeon 8500... What else do I need to upgrade?

7. OS X is the most customizable Unix out there and thats good enough for me.

8. I go to LAN parties and the PC guys all look at my machine with envy. Especially OS X.

 

[PC Clone]

Originally posted by Les Kern

I still have a Mac 7200 that's 6 years or so old, and it runs every program my G4 867 runs.
Point for me for longevity

Well then let's all just go out and buy used Mac 7200's then! Screw all this modern "2 GHz" crap! My point is my computer is a year and a half old, inexpensive, and still hangs with the best of them... unless your 7200 can really compare with today's machines as far as performance, no points for you!

Mac users have no need to upgrade. Two points for me.

Originally posted by UnixMac
I have upgraded my drives for the PowerMac to a RAID config, I also upgraded my graphics card to a Radeon 8500...

Apparently they do... no points for you!

You should get around the Mac sites more. Two points for me for your lie.

Bah, show me some sites and I will be the judge... either way, it still isn't anything you can do that I can't, so once again, no points!

I do LAN parties, and I win a LOT over my PC brothers.
Point to me.

Do you play CS? Battlefield 1942? You won't beat me or my friends

Point to me. I have a four-button mouse. (And I guess a "state-of-the-art" scrollwheel... whatever that is.

Good man, but that is not an Apple standard... I am stuck with the horrid one button mice when I use the Macs at work

Buy a Mac... you won't be sorry.

Why, when there is no reason to get one(other than deplete my checking account)?

UnixMac-
1. Welp, I paid for a great system and I got one

2. Unless OS X spits out candy from the zip drive while giving me a bj, I doubt I'll be losing sleep over not having it...

3. You must be very lenient on your machine then... curious, what programs do you regularly run on it?

4. Again, I wonder what you use your computer for... there are some times I find the need for a certain program to do some miscellaneous task, and I'm always able to find one for it...

5. Just getting into those games huh? Hmmm...

6. The motherboard, CPU and OS for a start

7. "Good enough" is something Mac users are used to...

8. Haha, no they don't, unless you go to LAN parties where everyone plays Doom 1 on their Pentium 166's, and you show up with your $2000 1GHz G4, then sure they'd have reason to be impressed... otherwise you're a damned liar, because if me and my friends were at a LAN party and someone walked in with a Mac, we'd be laughing our asses off...

Originally posted by edesignuk

This is a Mac forum, it's hard to believe you bothered to register just so that you could post this as your one and only post ever on these boards.....how sad.

Sorry, but I saw some things said at this site that were just begging to be responded to... this is my way of helping to make the world a better place

 

[Ziggyzee]

Wow, I'm impressed! You can play games on your PC, wow!!!

I had the same mindset about Mac users. I used to laugh at people buying macs. I really don't think I was wrong thinking that years ago.

But today, I laugh at people buying pc clones especially anything with an amd chip.(unless all you want to do is play games).

That was my last straw. My last pc with an amd chip at 1ghz was crap.

Granted I have only had my mac for about a week and still don't know all the ins and outs, but, I love it!

I just finished a project in 2 days that would have taken 4 days and 7 restarts on my pc. That's one reason I love it in the week I have owned it. I'm sure more to follow.

 

[Les Kern]

Originally posted by Ziggyzee
Wow, I'm impressed! You can play games on your PC, wow!!!

I just finished a project in 2 days that would have taken 4 days and 7 restarts on my pc. That's one reason I love it in the week I have owned it. I'm sure more to follow.

By golly, you've GOT it! In two simple sentences you've summed up the reason why most productive people own a Mac, and it's why my PC's gather dust. Games, although fun, are just diversions and not a way of life... at least for me.
My PC brothers never laugh at me during a LAN because, well, we are adults, and no, they don't make BF1942 for the Mac. We play games that are available on both platforms like UR tourney, Ghost Recon and Allied Assualt. After that's over and we go home, I get work done. It's nice to know there is a difference between upgrades to merely play games, and enhancements. Macs don't necessarily need these things to run PS7.0, but it does speed it up. So I was wrong and so was he. But my old 7200 can indeed run what I need it to run. So why did I buy a new G4 tower? The SuperDrive and OSX. The new X was hard when I beta tested 10.0, and I thought I'd never switch, and actually went back and forth several times... but Jag has it going.
It was asked what I run normally. A short list:
PhotoShop 7.0
Quark 5
GoLive 6
EtherPeek (I'm a sysadmin)
Flash MX
Fireworks
Bryce 5
Acrobat Pro
Final Cut Pro 3.0
MS Office v.x (The best MS product ever, in my humble opinion. If it wasn't for those macro viruses...)
OmniGraffle (to make sense of a complicated concept)
But know what? This whole subject is taking me back to what I said I'd never do, and that's argue hard in the PC/Mac question. So I say goodbye, back to my world of productivity and vision. Valclav Havel once said:" Embrace those who seek the truth, run from those who have found it".

 

[PC Clone]

Ziggyzee- What project are you speaking of? I have an AMD 1GHz machine and I love it... I find it funny that Mac users always use the excuse that "My PC crashed every day, and my screen would flash and make scary noises, while demom imps jumped out of my monitor... " Honestly, if PCs were as unreliable as you people make it out to be our world would be falling apart... everyone uses PCs...

Les Kern- well I still don't see a reason to buy a Mac when you can build and customize a faster PC for less... unless of course you get one of those possesed PCs But to each his own I suppose...

 

[Ziggyzee]

I'm not going to start my thing is better than yours, and besides, you wouldn't understand what I do.

All I know is my pc with the amd chip sucks for anything but games.

 

[vniow]

This makes me proudest of all.

And guys, ignore the obvious troll above. Don't give him the satisfaction.

There are plenty of bi-platform users here that can point out the advantages and disadvantages of each, no need for zealotry (on both sides) here.

 

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by edvniow
This makes me proudest of all.

Intel can kiss my a$$, appart from my origional P120 PC I have never bought Intel, and I defiantly won't be now.

Originally posted by edvniow
And guys, ignore the obvious troll above. Don't give him the satisfaction.

Heh! Way ahead of you, all I see of his posts now is this!

 

[UnixMac]

Originally posted by PC Clone


UnixMac-
1. Welp, I paid for a great system and I got one

2. Unless OS X spits out candy from the zip drive while giving me a bj, I doubt I'll be losing sleep over not having it...

3. You must be very lenient on your machine then... curious, what programs do you regularly run on it?

4. Again, I wonder what you use your computer for... there are some times I find the need for a certain program to do some miscellaneous task, and I'm always able to find one for it...

5. Just getting into those games huh? Hmmm...

6. The motherboard, CPU and OS for a start

7. "Good enough" is something Mac users are used to...

8. Haha, no they don't, unless you go to LAN parties where everyone plays Doom 1 on their Pentium 166's, and you show up with your $2000 1GHz G4, then sure they'd have reason to be impressed... otherwise you're a damned liar, because if me and my friends were at a LAN party and someone walked in with a Mac, we'd be laughing our asses off...


Sorry, but I saw some things said at this site that were just begging to be responded to... this is my way of helping to make the world a better place

1. I know people who buy their cloths at Wal-Mart, their Coffee at Dunken Donuts, and their cars from the local Buick dealer and they all think they have great taste too.

2. Windows XP an off shoot of DOS is not worthy of being even compared to OS X, a full blown Unix based OS (end of discussion).

3. Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/ImageReady
Cinema 4D XL
Final Cut Pro 3
Cleaner 6 (for MPEG Encoding)
DVD Studio Pro
Various 3D Games based on the latest Quake Engine
M$ Office
Nikon View 5 / Photo Editor
Mathematica (limited user version)
various Unix apps downloaded for FREE!

4. See above

5. No, I just havn't been into games as much these days with all the fun I'm having with DV and MP3 encoding at speed twice as fast as you.

6. I am not a computer engineer, nor do I want to be... I want a computer that works with out maintenance and tweaks.

7. If I didn't think that a Mac was good enough, I would likely get a Sun or CGI machine before I ever got a PeeCee... again Windoze sucks! I used PC from 1983-2000... enough!

8. YES THEY DO... I know this and nothing you say can change it.

ALSO....PC Clone... go here to see why my $3000+ PowerBook kicks your PC laptops' a$$..


good evening.PowerBookG4 vs. PC Laptops

 

[Les Kern]

Originally posted by PC Clone
I still don't see a reason to buy a Mac when you can build and customize a faster PC for less... unless of course you get one of those possesed PCs But to each his own I suppose...

I whole-heartily agree that you can get a MUCH faster (in some things) PC for a lot less money, but I always go back to my history in working with both beastly machines. I has much more to do with TOC than anything. You don't know me, but a hell of a lot of water has flowed under this bridge, and the things I have seen/experienced could fill volumes. AM I a genius? Far from it, but I know what I know. Just today a good friend and 20-year PC user lost XP completely to a virus that the latest build missed. (He bought a G4 last month and says he gets more done on it than the PC because of the time dealing with oddities) Or the time I had a lab of 30 PC's that took 4,000.00 AND the vendor to come out to get 20 of them to print. The other 10 did much later, after 15 of the original stopped printing. Or the time another 15-year PC friend spent 4 HOURS trying to get a video card to work that was recommended by the vendor. How ridiculous is THAT? I could go on and on, as these were hardly sporatic incidences. So I guess my point is this: If Microsoft had a better, more stable OS that didn't intefere with my life, I'm sure I'd be a PC user. But the history just isn't there. I play games on occasion, so that's a non-issue. One might argue that I might be a computer idiot, and don't know jack and that's the reason I've had the problems. Fair enough, but not true I assure you. And Mac are just fun to use too. I have a 1.2Ghz Omnibook that has XP Professional. It's horrible. Just try adding any one of my 50 network lasers. XP is NOT fun. (But I AM intrigued by .net technology). Finally, to each his/her own. Use what you use, I use what I use. Ah, bliss! I am back in my "who cares what computer anybody uses" mode and the emotional dead-end of the PC/Mac "war". Later friend.

 

[janey]

Jaguar. The only reason why I switched back to a Mac-Jaguar. So nice, so beautiful, Steve, you sure did a great job this time! But I also feel proud of owning other computers, not just my Macs. They are not the only computers on earth and I think that Linux is just as good (except for the gooey part). The downside of owning a Mac however, is that Mac users are the minority and everyone thinks that your Mac is so exotic and beautiful. In one hour I got asked out by 4 different geeks because of my TiBook.