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The worst thing about Macs
Ralf Maximus:
+1 for using "grotesque" in post.
Carol Haynes:
There are lots of people out there who like caviar - personally I find it a grotesque and unpleasant food
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Know what you mean. I got talked into trying Marmite once. :)
-mrainey (October 19, 2007, 08:14 AM)
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LOL - I share a house with someone is passionately in love with Marmite - I have to leave the room just from the smell!
nontroppo:
it is an opinion and I am entitled to my opinion
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We are indeed free to our opinions (though the Political landscape may make that less tenable in the near future :o ), but it appears to me part of your opinion is based on outmoded and incomplete information (as you amply showed by thinking OS X is just BSD+minor bits, that the desktop appeal is only because of iPhoto), which was the same critique you made of professionals who ignored Windows and chose Macs... Pot, kettle.
We *can* all agree that marmite is grotesque though... :)
steeladept:
All I can say to add to this is I know two techs who are big time Macbook fans, but both of them got the Intel chip Macbook so they can run WinXP on it. Moreover, one of the two (the *slightly* less technical, I might add, oddly enough) is running his XP through VMWare Fusion. I don't know about the other guy, he may be, but I haven't talked to him since before Fusion came out. I know what you are thinking, but you are wrong - he went to Law School and isn't around anymore. I don't talk to him because I have issues with Lawyers !! :P
Anyway, both of them are very PC literate irrespective of OS! The only other Mac users I know of are my Uncle (used to do a ton of desktop publishing) and his sons (all 5 of them). My Uncle used PC's at work before he retired and hated them because his Mac was so much easier to use to accomplish his work. Now he uses it because it is familiar, comfortable, and does everything he wants and needs. No more, no less.
My cousins, similarly all work in the computer entertainment industry - computer animation, photo touch-ups, computer art; artists each and every one. For them, it is a similar situation: They learned in school how to use the tools on these machines and they are comfortable with it. They have them at home because they use them at work, and even if they changed to Windows platforms, they would stick with Mac because it is what they like - period.
Am I the only person who doesn't know any fanatical Mac fanboy flame attractors? It appears so, at least of the people who know mac users.
To nontroppo - I understand your points and take your meanings, but I don't know that you are following the meanings of others posting. Maybe I am wrong...
To Carol - nontroppo has a point. When was the last time you priced Macs? Maybe it is very different in the UK, but worldwide (in general) Mac has realized this point and lowered costs dramatically! They are no worse than a high end quality machine as far as I have seen. Still higher than you might want to pay, but hardly three times the price for half the power. Also, as Mac-centric developers have moved to the Windows platform with their products, MANY Windows products have moved to support Macs due to the significant user base they can quickly and easily tap (compared to developing a new product). Lastly, they are very upgradeable - easily as upgradeable as any laptop. Well, maybe not the desktops, I have never worked with them, but the laptops are.
Lastly to all - I have thought heavily of getting a Macbook simply because it looks good - very good comparatively - but as time marches on, I also have seen that hardware is becoming more and more of a commodity in general. If you get something new, might as well make it look good, because no matter what you get you will be able to run current OS's (well most OS's anyway). Instead of an OS, however, I am waiting for the Hypervisor so I can run all OS's through a VM machine. That is my 4 cents, since it is way to long for 2 cents ;D
nontroppo:
To nontroppo - I understand your points and take your meanings, but I don't know that you are following the meanings of others posting. Maybe I am wrong...
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No I'm not following nicely along am I :devil: My point is that this thread started not over Mac vs. PC (debate ad nauseum), but about Mac fanatics. We had replies from people ribbing those fanatics (no problems there), but also a substantial generalisation of dumb stereotypes to *most* Mac owners. I'm not here to follow along with those silly strawmen stereotypes, nor try to argue about which OS framework is better; merely that just because fanatics suck, it doesn't have to make one a bigot. Can't anyone see the irony in that? ;)
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