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Anyone else just HATE Apple?

#261
CBO-7string said:
I am going to get a new HP machine,next month,but only because its more affordable and Sams Club has a very good deal on a very hot PC.I will get a mac laptop later on when its a wise financial decision.The main thing that pisses me off about Microsoft is how Mr. gates is ripping off alot of folk by coming out with a new OS every 4to5 yrs.A lot of major companies are having to shell out big dollars to stay current.I loath (Pista) thats what I call it-because its made alot of Professional techs very angry.Besides PC's crash alot more Macs because of theyre signal path design(RISK VS SISK) and compatibilitly issues are solved with running the Parallels program. Be Blessed Chaz.
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Macs now run CISC processors (Intel) as well - the old PowerPC processors were RISC-based. I don't think that's a factor in their reliability. Their reliability is mostly based on both the software and the hardware being designed by the same people, one specifically for the other.
 
#263
SuperDuck said:
Like... their processors? ;) Toshiba and Matshita make their hard drives, ATI makes the graphic cards... Yup, Apple's all over getting that super-special hardware. ;)
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Not as such... more the motherboard, the graphics, sound and networking hardware, and all the stuff like that are standard to each Apple machine, with a standard set of drivers. This eliminates the chances of hardware conflicts, incompatible drivers and so on that many PC users get if they install a different motherboard, different network card or other such thing. Plus the UNIX platform that Mac OS X is built on is a whole lot more stable than the Windows architecture (which hasn't changed much since the Windows NT days).


And most Apple machines ship with Seagate hard drives, by the way. ;)
 
#264
Rusty Chainsaw said:
Not as such... more the motherboard, the graphics, sound and networking hardware, and all the stuff like that are standard to each Apple machine, with a standard set of drivers. This eliminates the chances of hardware conflicts, incompatible drivers and so on that many PC users get if they install a different motherboard, different network card or other such thing. Plus the UNIX platform that Mac OS X is built on is a whole lot more stable than the Windows architecture (which hasn't changed much since the Windows NT days).


And most Apple machines ship with Seagate hard drives, by the way. ;)
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You'll have to tell my wife's Mac that. I just checked where all her stuff came from, and she has a Matshita hard drive. Regardless, neither are "designed" by Apple. (Also, again, the graphics cards are done by ATI, usually integrated into the mobo.)

And just because I feel like a contrary cuss tonight, OS X is built off of BSD, not UNIX. :)
 
#265
SuperDuck said:
You'll have to tell my wife's Mac that. I just checked where all her stuff came from, and she has a Matshita hard drive. Regardless, neither are "designed" by Apple. (Also, again, the graphics cards are done by ATI, usually integrated into the mobo.)

And just because I feel like a contrary cuss tonight, OS X is built off of BSD, not UNIX. :)
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OK, smart-arse. :D

Apple's motherboards are designed in-house (although based on current standards, like Santa Rosa for the laptops), and manufactured by Quanta (who, along with ASUS, make almost everyone's motherboards), with Apple's custom BIOS.
 
#266
I use nothing but Apple these days. They're more stable than any Windows based system I've used, it all seems to work better together (except Microsoft Office...wonder why?) and other than that, my iPod Nano converted me.

I'm not stuck up, it works for me. If it doesn't work for you, so be it. Different strokes for different folks. I still use Windows from time to time and can get around equally well on both.
 
#269
My son's I Pod battery crapped out two months after the extended warranty was up. They just exchanged it and gave him a new replacement I Pod, no huge forms or 3rd degrees or 5 levels of people to go through. Just here tell what the problem was, sign here and boom a new I pod!

I have had nothing but good experiences with Apple since I have been using them since the 90's.
 
#270
Barkless Dog said:
My son's I Pod battery crapped out two months after the extended warranty was up. They just exchanged it and gave him a new replacement I Pod, no huge forms or 3rd degrees or 5 levels of people to go through. Just here tell what the problem was, sign here and boom a new I pod!

I have had nothing but good experiences with Apple since I have been using them since the 90's.
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How much did you pay? :)
 
#271
Dave Grossman said:
LAME!
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/12/22/macsAreEvenMoreExpensiveTh.html

If that was me, I'd be kicking all sorts of ass over there.

- Dave
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on this page, morthemne has a quite reasonable reply... the drive policy is kinda lame, I would be well advised to remember that story because I love my MAC's... though this story does speak volumes in that the writer, as established as he is, continues to use MAC. The last line certainly wasn't something like "I now have a Dell"...

Not trying to offend in anyway, but it does surprise me that on a site like this, that thrives on it's variance on instruments, preferences and knowledge of them, has people on it that are so straight lined in their approach to a product like a computer. After all, that's all they are, computers. What you use to do your computing, or bass playing, is your preference. :)
 
#272
Barkless Dog said:
My son's I Pod battery crapped out two months after the extended warranty was up. They just exchanged it and gave him a new replacement I Pod, no huge forms or 3rd degrees or 5 levels of people to go through. Just here tell what the problem was, sign here and boom a new I pod!
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You can thank the iPod Battery Lawsuit for that.
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It took a lot of people being screwed over for you to get the service you got.

- Dave
 
#273
marcray said:
Not trying to offend in anyway, but it does surprise me that on a site like this, that thrives on it's variance on instruments, preferences and knowledge of them, has people on it that are so straight lined in their approach to a product like a computer. After all, that's all they are, computers. What you use to do your computing, or bass playing, is your preference. :)
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Yeah, nobody here would ever give someone crap about playing a "boutique" bass, or a 9-string bass or using a pick. :p

- Dave
 
#277
X Wolf said:
I much prefer Apples to PC's, among other attributes they seem to be far more secure with regard to virus infections.

George
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as more and more people are using apples more and more viruses will be made for them.

it's just as easy for me to write a malicious script for an apple as a PC. More people have PCs and the point of viruses and spyware are to effect as many people as possible.

you should be praying that people don't convert to mac
 

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