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01-16-2010, 08:21 PM | #221 |
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I try not to get too involved in these "vs" threads (they never end well), but I'd like to chime in with some thoughts as a person who has used Macs and Windows/Linux-based PCs extensively, to counter some of the misguided statements put forward in the few pages of this thread that I've read:
As I'd alluded to before in a previous post, the primary reason the perceived difference between Mac OS-based machines and Windows-based machines persists is because of long-standing social and economic perceptions (accurate or not) about the type of person who would prefer one over the other, not because those differences actually exist between the hardware. In terms of OS functionality, there doesn't seem to be a clear-cut and reliable method of telling which OS is better (and believe me, I've spent the past several years looking for one). It all boils down to user preference. The analogy I like to make when it comes to Mac and Windows proponents arguing over which is better is that it's like a Toyota Matrix/Voltz owner arguing with a Pontiac Vibe owner over which car is better (internally and mechanically, both the Toyota Matrix and Pontiac Vibe are made from the same components, with only the sheet metal covering and cabin appointments being different). What they're actually arguing about is subjective corporate/brand loyalty, but each believes that they're arguing for the empirically superior position. |
01-16-2010, 08:26 PM | #222 |
So much drama 'n the LBCs
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It really is fun, and hasn't gotten anyone banned (err, to my knowledge...yet?). Way more fun than the tired ROC vs whatever-babble threads.
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01-16-2010, 08:29 PM | #223 |
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Hell, I don't even own a PC! I'm using a broken keyboard and a computer I made out of coconuts and sand to talk with you guys right now!
Macs and PCs? PFFFT! Coconuts are the future, baby! |
01-16-2010, 08:39 PM | #224 |
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Ah, I didn't mean to discourage you guys from hashing it out .
It does seem you're having fun with the discussion. I just wanted to throw in a few salient points about the hardware that might have been buried under all the "vs" rhetoric and back-and-forth. |
04-02-2010, 01:47 AM | #225 |
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OK, since Apple is coming out with so much new stuff and is going to change life on earth as we know it in the next few years, I wanted to throw this up again!
By the way, just bought a new 27" Imac with 1TB HD, 4 gigs of Ram and it is insane, I can download music, surf the web, listen to music and do photoshop stuff lightning fast. ( at the same time, my new HP freezes if I use media player and surf the web) Also got a 32 GB Iphone but filled it within a week. P.S. My 4 year old Imac is still faster than any PC! LOL I still love all you PC guys! As long as you don't get too close to me and give me any viruses! |
04-02-2010, 01:50 AM | #226 |
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Oh forgot, I got Macs, almost immune to viruses.
Funny, never got a virus on any of my macs but already on my 4 month old HP and my daughters 6 month old Dell. |
04-02-2010, 01:59 AM | #227 |
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Mac g5 tower and Apple Iphone 3G
Apple all the way !!!
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04-02-2010, 02:02 AM | #228 |
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I like the way you get 4-7 years out of a mac and 4-7 weeks out of a new PC before a virus destroys it. Seriously, we have three new top of the line PCs in the house ( and I need the PC for work stuff) and they are absolute garbage, PERIOD!!!!!
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04-02-2010, 02:12 AM | #229 |
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Mac. Only wieners use PCs.
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