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Forum Topic: I Hate Mac's Lying Commercials!

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At 5/16/08 02:33 AM, g0t wrote: Watch the 3rd and 4th part of his review. He compares BUYING the parts seperate as close to Mac specs as he can. about an 80 dollar difference.

First of all he selects cabling for the hard drives etc when all the hardware components come with cabling included, that's what, -$100?

He keeps going on about how you can expand to up to 32Gb's of RAM but fails to mention that will cost $9000, although that's irrelevant.

Haha, "It's gonna take you 6 hours to build this thing." If you're building your own computer, it is assumed that you know what the hell you are doing in which case it will take you no more than an hour. If you don't, you take it into a shop and they do it for you for another $50 or so. "It's gonna cost you $60 per hour of labour". WHAT!? You're doing the work, it doesn't cost you shit, if you take it in to be built it's $50 ALL UP.

The resale value. Bullshit. It uses the same hardware components which degrade at the same rate.

The bottom line is, the Windows-based system will cos you less everytime. $500 less in this case when you get rid of his bullshit maths regarding the build time.

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At 5/16/08 03:06 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote: Hey Armin have fun with your graphics design tools I'm sure they're super cool.

They are matt take a look pretty fucking good aren't they.

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At 5/16/08 03:11 AM, g0t wrote:
They are matt take a look pretty fucking good aren't they.

You're pretty good at drawing dicks you must have seen a lot in your lifetime.

Suddenly I find that all those negative thoughts creeping around in the back of my head have been shot to the front in a blaze of unwelcomed glory.

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At 5/16/08 03:13 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:
At 5/16/08 03:11 AM, g0t wrote:
They are matt take a look pretty fucking good aren't they.
You're pretty good at drawing dicks you must have seen a lot in your lifetime.

Yeah and i get off on it u dirty fag

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At 5/16/08 03:10 AM, Jesse-Ray wrote:
At 5/16/08 03:06 AM, youngblood26 wrote: Plus, in physical memories, Vista requires 512 MB while XP just needs 256 MB, So, it is a half of Vista's.
Bullshit how come on my old 244 Meg RAM computer I could run XP at 180 MB? FAGGOT!?!?!?!?!

Because you share the other memories. Actually, when you put a new disk drive (256 MB), 244 MB RAM is the estimate when you check your DXDIAG. 180 MB is your full memory, 64 MB is your approx. total memory. Add them, and the result is 244 MB. Nothing changed. Anyway, thanks for being a horrendous guy to me.

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At 5/16/08 03:16 AM, g0t wrote:
Yeah and i get off on it u dirty fag

It's a good thing you have that preschool computer otherwise you wouldn't be able to draw these pictures. Maybe you could get a tablet as well I'll just be off playing Starcraft 3 on my gaming machine.

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At 5/16/08 03:19 AM, youngblood26 wrote: Because you share the other memories. Actually, when you put a new disk drive (256 MB), 244 MB RAM is the estimate when you check your DXDIAG. 180 MB is your full memory, 64 MB is your approx. total memory. Add them, and the result is 244 MB. Nothing changed. Anyway, thanks for being a horrendous guy to me.

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yeah u know u like it matt mmmm

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At 5/16/08 03:36 AM, g0t wrote:
yeah u know u like it matt mmmm

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa there's a line and you crossed it buddy

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At 5/16/08 03:38 AM, Rabid-Echidna wrote:
At 5/16/08 03:36 AM, g0t wrote:
yeah u know u like it matt mmmm
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa there's a line and you crossed it buddy

I'm not your buddy, chap.

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You can say what you want, but macstill rules and It always will...
There will be a time that you to will own a mac yourself and then you will experience the awesome feeling of pure style and power... anyway don't watch the fucking comercials and grow some balls and stop wining about how crappy vista is :P

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Behold... Mac osX requirements from 2001 (XP's release) to 2007 (Vista's release)

MAC osX Cheetah (10.0) System Requirements
Release Date: 2001
Supported Products: Power Macintosh G3, G3 B&W, G4, G4 Cube, iMac, PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4, iBook
Minimum CPU: ~266MHZ
Minimum RAM: 64MB (128MB rec.)
Minimum Capacity: 800MB

MAC osX Leopard (10.5) System Requirements
Release Date: 2007
Supported Products: Intel, PowerPC G4 or G5
Minimum CPU: 867MHZ
Minimum RAM: 512MB (1GB rec.)
Minimum Capacity: 9GB
Special Note: Requires DVD drive

So... what have we all learned here? If your hardware isn't good enough, you have to upgrade it. Is it possible that you'd have to upgrade hardware to get from Cheetah to Leopard? Yes it is. Infact, the inflation of minimum specs is not that much worse going from vanilla XP to vanilla Vista.

Mac has had 3 operating system upgrades to 'soften the blow' from cheetah to leopard. Windows had service pack 2.

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At 5/16/08 01:16 AM, TheSovereign wrote: PC users often boast the sheer power of PC's and how Macs pale in comparison. However, PC's cannot run OSX natively

Pssst.

That's because Apple don't let you, they're all into that "ONE SOURCE, ONE PEOPLE, ONE REICH" type thing where you need to pour all your money into one company.

However if you don't mind breaking the law and such, there are ways to make Apple's OS run on a regular PC. =)

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I'm not a big fan of macs, mostly because they are overpriced and very weak for what you pay for them. You can buy a very powerful custom PC for $2000. I will, however, admit that their Mac pro if a goddamn power plant. Room for 32gb RAM, 2x 3.2GHz quad core processors, 128-bit SSE4 SIMD engine,
64-bit data paths and registers, up to 4 internal hard drives. That is one monster of a computer, but it's going to eat your wallet, spit it out, stomp on it, eat it again then take a shit on it.

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At 5/16/08 01:16 AM, TheSovereign wrote: PC users often boast the sheer power of PC's and how Macs pale in comparison. However, PC's cannot run OSX natively

What does that have to do with power? It's a compatibility issue, not because non-Apple computers lack the power.

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Well, people on Macs usually talk about their HOLY SHIT YOU CAN DO VIDEO AND PHOTO EDITING! Yeah, well, you can get programs for Windows that are vastly superior for a lot cheaper. Same with anti-virus. I'd rather pay like 50$ for a decent anti-virus or anti-spy program instead of paying hundreds more for a physically better-looking computer and a ton of applications that are virtually useless to the average computer user.

There's no reason to get a Mac unless you just must have the crappy default programs that come with their systems. iPhoto, iwhatever, ii, iDon'tevercapitalizetheiforsomereason. The only one that people generally like is iTunes, and that can be used across systems.

They're overpriced and many people think that a machine that looks futuristic=superior.

Sure, wow, cool keyboards. Nothing is square. Flashy monitors. INCREDIBLY INNOVATIVE SLOTS ON THE SIDE INSTEAD OF THE BACK (HOLY SHIT!!!),

Macs are overpriced with terrible hardware and are a bitch to upgrade. Another argument for macfags tends to be LOLNOVIRUSES1!1! Well, the more Mac users there are, the more viruses there are going to be. so I'd stop trying to convert everyone to your OS.

Yet the other day I saw a bunch of computer retarded people crowding around this 1300$ Mac at a Best Buybecause it was so shiny and white with a bigass monitor. Yeah? Well, it had a gig of RAM, ran DRR, had something like a single core 2.66 GHz, and a shitty HDD.

That's Mac's marketing for you. Make something look shiny and futuristic. yet people who have no idea about computer hardware and compatibility go crazy about it.

And then the mac fanboys always talking about how their video cards are just as good as Windows ones. O RLY? Try running Crysis.

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At 5/15/08 11:33 PM, PantsAndSandals wrote: Mac commercials are so dumb, and saying vista is glichy! Well, I have been using vista for almost a year now and I haven't have anything seriously glichy happen. Why do people think vista is so bad!? Most people own PC because they are most widely used.

Oh stop whining.
Also your post reminded me of this picture.

I Hate Mac's Lying Commercials!


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Microsoft should make a commercial using the same idea, but slandering about macs.


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At 5/16/08 01:34 AM, g0t wrote:
Why is that PC Users ALWAYS jump on the "LOL GAMES" point on a MAC vs PC discussion. Is that all you use your computer for? Games? What are you? Fucking 12 years old?

Aside from that, if you're into playing games that much, then just buy a fucking Mac Pro and You'll have enough of everything.

I know that empirical and personal evidence should never be accepted in an argument, but I haven't played a single computer game in over 3 years.

My Mac suits my purposes quite well.

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Pft.. fuck Vista and Macs. Use Linux :P


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At 5/17/08 02:15 PM, UnknownFear wrote: Pft.. fuck Vista and Macs. Use Linux :P

I use all three.
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At 5/17/08 02:42 PM, Hellian00 wrote: Anybody else seen this video? I think it proves a point.

No, it doesn't prove anything. If you knew anything about anything, You would know that commercial is talking about OS 8 or at the latest OS 9.

That's a pointless fucking video, it has nothing to do with OS X.

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At 5/17/08 02:42 PM, Hellian00 wrote: Anybody else seen this video? I think it proves a point.

Nice.

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At 5/17/08 02:19 PM, Alfie wrote: I use all three.

LOL! I'm dual-botting Windows XP Pro and Linux Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop at the moment. I really like Linux :)


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XP Pro > Mac < Vista < XP Pro

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People that use compters are lame.

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Did they make a sp3?

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