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Mac vs PC

dtugg said:
I just think that Macs are overpriced. Especially the Mac Pro, which is the only one that can really be upgraded. There is just no reason for that computer to cost $2500. For that money I could build (or just buy) a computer that is much, much better. But then again, it wouldn't have the pretty case. :rolleyes:
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Have you seen some of those PC cases out there now? Come on, Mac's got nothing on them. How many Macs have you ever seen with neon lights on them? Huh? How many?
 
Digital audio I/O used to be important to me when I was attaching a DAT player to the computer, but now it's much easier to just record the audio from DAT directly onto a portable flash card digital audio recorder since I don't tie up my computer for 2 hours recording digital audio on it in real time. Just put it on the flash card and then it takes a minute or so to tranfer the data from the flash card to the PC.

At any rate, if you need it you can get a sound card with digital (both coaxial and toslink) s/pdif I/O for pretty cheap these days. A far cry from 10 years ago when I paid $500 for a digital sound card.

And most new motherboards have more USB and firewire ports than you could ever need. Hell, I even have 2 USB 2.0 ports on my monitor!
 
Joeydonuts: I'd be worried about it sprouting feet and trying to kill me.
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Uh.. then don't buy this case:
 

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If there is any justice in this universe, please tell me that CD loading slot in Bender's teeth is actually functional.
 
Aepervius said:
Not upset. More like gently mocking. Most PC user I know do not care about PC vs Mac war. But in my (albeit limited) experience , mac user take pride in their Mac, as well as a few high end PC user. Most of the rest just use it and DO NOT CARE (PC or Mac). We can see an example here with daskeptic thinking that PC user are upset to not be the target of a market artificially made expansive.
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I'm not exactly sure where you think I was in error. If you re-read what I wrote, you will notice it was an observation exclusively about people I've known. It said nothing about you or anyone else here. Unless you happen to be familiar with those about whom I was writing, you are not in any position to determine whether it was upset or gentle mocking.

For the record, raised voices and harsh words generally signal that one is upset.
 
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I want to apologize for throwing the previous thread off topic. My bad! I won't let that happen again.

Anyway, hmmmm, what's to say here? Well... I can tell you that I learned everything about computers and the use of a GUI based OS on a Mac and I didn't really see any fascination with the PC until about a few years ago. I've always found the Mac to be more user friendly than the PC and as far as multimedia props goes to the Mac specifically in the area of graphic design, music production and video production. There's only one suite of software for music production that I use on the PC and that is the Sony Production Suite (i.e. Sound Forge, Acid, Vegas Video, and CD Architect). It's particularly excellent software for Post Production and Mastering.

Then there is the sister OS, Linux! I am rather impressed with the latest stable release of Ubuntu Linux especially it's functioning on an AMD system. I find the graphics to be superb, setting up the Samba file system and the Apache web server system is a breeze and the fact that the OS is open source and you are free to tweak or totally reconstruct the code is great if you know what you're doing. However, if you're not so technically inclined it's still a great operating system for the price ($0.00)!

DC (Dick Cheney was not here)
 
With all due respect Skeptichick, you are talking out of your USB port.

I've not seen so much typical PC bashing, PC nightmare myths and strawmen, and Apple talking points in ages. And some furious backpeddling and semantic games.

I've been a PC user since my first homebuilt PC which was a 286-12mhz with 1mb of ram. I've owned virtually every type of board or chip since then, over dozens of different individual systems, and I've never had anywhere near the nightmares described in this thread, even going back to the start. Not even close. It strikes me as "PEBKAC" more than anything else.

Seriously, your anecdotal experiences with PC's are far from the norm. Further than you'd clearly be willing to accept or recognize. It's one of those things where anyone who knows the reality can't help but read the things you are saying and think "oh great, another blind Mac zealot".

I don't mean to be insulting.. but your attitude has been irritating. You speak authoritatively, but clearly speaking nonsense and talking points. And perpetuating the Mac vs PC elitist nonsense that has never been good for anyone.

You love your Mac. Great for you. Enjoy it. Don't be angry that so many more people don't. There is a good reason, despite all strawmen you Mac types like to throw up as to why. And the way Mac people bend over backwards to rationalize how great the Mac is over the PC, and how terrible the PC is, demonstrate there are some personal issues involved. Just who are you seeking to convince? Don't bother trying to convince happy and stable PC users, it'll never happen. Accept the role Apple plays. That's about all it's ever going to be.
 
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SkeptiChick said:
Printer was an HP, color printer, scanner, fax, all in one sort of deal.
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OfficeJet K80? ;) Know and the drivers weren't great.
Olympus still digital camera. Required drivers, or wouldn't be recognized. Drivers happened to be bundled with pointless and stupid photo editing software (when I had Corel, so didn't need that junk), and it was pretty impossible to separate the two. Same camera required no drivers at all on my Mac.
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Quite strange.(Never owned one,so cannot comment)
Was wireless. I wasn't privvy to the solutions for all cases, but in at least a few there was some sort of permissions problem that seemed to have been a setting that no one was even aware of existing (even the guys at microsoft who were called when the IT department came up blank). I do wish I remembered what that setting was... There was no explanation as to why it affected some computers but not all (or even the majority), and they only found the solution by giving up and randomly enabling and de-enabling each and every setting in series.
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Pity no longer known...
It was a serious pain in the behind... No fun to diagnose at all. Thinking back on it, there probably was some sort of problem with the motherboard, but that wreck is long gone now, so no way to check into it.
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Understand.

Pity,this is more about emotions then anything like techincal aspect. But then price is still high enough to stop any consideration anyway. (BTW similar reasons are against consoles,but I would like to have one of each... to take it apart)
 
Darat said:
Now that's a blast of nostalgia for me... CU Amiga & Rise of the Robot... ah fond memories of ECTS and hype.
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The Amiga and the Atari 1040 STe were the bomb back in the day! Mac and PC got nothin' on them!

DC
 
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