New Mac v.s. Pc commercial is full of CRAP!!!!

[apk919]

Originally Posted by erics75218

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MICROSOFT FOR THE WIN!!

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I wish I knew more about the Mac OS, I'm sure that I'd like it more than I do now.

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[PhlypSide]

Originally Posted by erics75218

.....I feel like Mac people always have to feel good about their purchases and stuff...since they paid so much for it, why not.

^^^^ Hey do you ride a Ducati? There's another thread where someone was looking for a bike and ended up with a Japanese bike.....

Pot. Kettle. Black. LOL!

[erics75218]

Originally Posted by apk919

...in a "I could learn to like fat chicks" kinda way :-)


The pop up adds are more due to features of browsers 2 years ago....your computer hardware and operating system have nothing to do with internet cookies, pop up adds..etc. So depending on what browser you were using I'd think that would be the problem there...modern browsers = better...old browsers = sucky.

[MNlotus]

i see, that makes sense

Originally Posted by erics75218

...in a "I could learn to like fat chicks" kinda way :-)


The pop up adds are more due to features of browsers 2 years ago....your computer hardware and operating system have nothing to do with internet cookies, pop up adds..etc. So depending on what browser you were using I'd think that would be the problem there...modern browsers = better...old browsers = sucky.

[JoshS]

I'm a man. And, as a man, I have the God given right and a natural ability to channel surf. I take that right seriously, I've become extremely adept at it, so well in fact I've forgotten there are actually commercials on the TV and the radio.

[zygotesoup]

YouTube - Mac vs PC Parody: The Unspoken Message

nuff said.

[Cardinal]

I'm a PC guy, but I admit to not knowing much of anything about Macs. The only PCs I've ever had problems with were ones I didn't build myself from parts I selected. A store-bought PC, in my experience, usually turns out to be a nightmare due to the third party crap that comes installed on it. Building and upgrading a proper PC is easy, cheap, and fun, and will save countless headaches in the long-run. It's not so much what your computer has installed on it, but rather what it DOESN'T have installed on it.

I'm also a nerd with 3 functioning PCs, with 2 in use. One for regular use, and one strictly for MAME emulation. If I had a computer when I was a kid that was equipped with every arcade and home video game I ever spent a dime on, I wouldn't have come out of my room.

[Monsi]

the last time my comp froze was when I was OC'ing my CPU, and I am running windows 7 RC

[RENDERMAN]

Mama always said PCs are like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.

[Mr. Know]

Some Language...NSFW:

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[chapster5]

Originally Posted by Cardinal

I'm a PC guy, but I admit to not knowing much of anything about Macs. The only PCs I've ever had problems with were ones I didn't build myself from parts I selected. A store-bought PC, in my experience, usually turns out to be a nightmare due to the third party crap that comes installed on it. Building and upgrading a proper PC is easy, cheap, and fun, and will save countless headaches in the long-run. It's not so much what your computer has installed on it, but rather what it DOESN'T have installed on it.

I'm also a nerd with 3 functioning PCs, with 2 in use. One for regular use, and one strictly for MAME emulation. If I had a computer when I was a kid that was equipped with every arcade and home video game I ever spent a dime on, I wouldn't have come out of my room.

I know exactly what your talking about! If you build it yourself, you know whats going into it, what your putting on it, so you know what to expect out of it!

and i have 5 computers, all windows XP Pro

[chapster5]

Originally Posted by the1sen

I'm a current Mac user. That said, I used to build & maintain PC's; up until 2 years ago I was exclusively a PC guy. Now I don't build PC's anymore, and I only maintain the ones I have.

When I tried OSX, I found that instead of worrying about what was going to slow down my machine, I was worrying more about the work I was doing. Over time, I have found OSX is, for me, a much better solution and that I can concentrate more on my work instead of the glitches in my machine.

The hardware is all the same. And yes, some of the dudes that work there are douche bags... But they have some great people too.

Facts? In my job, running at peak performance is imperative. I initialized and reinstalled my programs on my PC's every 1-2 months to get rid of bugs and fix whatever crap that was wrong with the registry. I did it because that kind of performance is important to me. In a Mac environment, I initialize and reinstall all my programs about once every 6 months.

To each his own.

You already said that...

[Keeper]

I was using Macs long before I even touched a PC and I can't think of a reason why I would ever buy a Mac.

I've had two PC's in more than a decade. Neither crash, get viruses, etc. and I have all sorts of junk (mostly freeware) installed on them.

[Cardinal]

Originally Posted by chapster5

I know exactly what your talking about! If you build it yourself, you know whats going into it, what your putting on it, so you know what to expect out of it!

and i have 5 computers, all windows XP Pro

Agreed. I use WinXP Pro and it's been rock-solid.

[thetoast]

I feel like I comment on every one of these threads... I got rid of my MacBook 6 months ago, in favor of a much more portable PC (trimmed Vista and light linux installs), and have since bought a quite powerful desktop PC (linux only). If there is anything that my flip-flopping has taught me, is that I'm not completely satisfied with only Mac or only PC. I like messing around with a PC and customizing it (this is how linux appeals to me), but when I don't want to concern myself with the in-depth stuff, it'd be nice to get back on a Mac for a while. Plus, I'm curious about how the new OS X is turning out.

[apk919]

OK, my $0.02...

I've been writing proprietary code for UNIX-based machines since college (a long time ago)... I've owned Windows PCs, Macs, and PCs running Linux (sometimes dual-boot).

Now I only have Intel-based Macs (well, I haven't completely phased out my Linux servers yet... soon). I can run OS X and Windows XP at the same time, on the same box. And all of my UNIX-based code (including an enormous amout of freeware/shareware) will compile and run easily on the BSD-based OS X (even parallel-processing apps). Three machines in one: no viruses, very few crashes, and very fast (desktops are dual quad-cores).

[Cardinal]

Originally Posted by apk919

OK, my $0.02...

I've been writing proprietary code for UNIX-based machines since college (a long time ago)... I've owned Windows PCs, Macs, and PCs running Linux (sometimes dual-boot).

Now I only have Intel-based Macs (well, I haven't completely phased out my Linux servers yet... soon). I can run OS X and Windows XP at the same time, on the same box. And all of my UNIX-based code (including an enormous amout of freeware/shareware) will compile and run easily on the BSD-based OS X (even parallel-processing apps). Three machines in one: no viruses, very few crashes, and very fast (desktops are dual quad-cores).

Hell yeah. I used to mess around with UNIX, back in the day. Nice machine.

[Keeper]

Lotus: Less is More
Unix: Less is More

[specialk]

Originally Posted by PhlypSide

^^^^ Hey do you ride a Ducati? There's another thread where someone was looking for a bike and ended up with a Japanese bike.....

Pot. Kettle. Black. LOL!

lol i was thinking the exact same thing.

[PhlypSide]

Originally Posted by Keeper

I was using Macs long before I even touched a PC and I can't think of a reason why I would ever buy a Mac.

I've had two PC's in more than a decade. Neither crash, get viruses, etc. and I have all sorts of junk (mostly freeware) installed on them.

^^^ What good is a zombie if it doesn't run?
( Zombie computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )

Just because you don't seem to have problems doesn't mean you're not already pwnt (compromised).

Now I don't know what you've got on your machine, but perhaps it is high-value enough to someone else to keep it running?

There are compromised machines out there that are being patched by the intruders to keep other intruders out!

Anti-spyware and Anti-virus are always one step behind malware authors. A very false sense of security if this is all you rely upon to protect your machines/servers.