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Originally Posted by ziggytrix
WTF? I've a bachelor's degree in computer science from an accredited American University, I've worked in tech support, graphic design, web application development, corporate infrastructure, on PC (NT, 2000, and XP), Mac, *nix servers, hell I've even did a semester of AS/400 programming on an IBM mainframe. I've studied system architecture, programming languages, artificial intelligence. Now you can post your CV and I still won't give a fuck cuz the rest of your argument is weak. See below.
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Haha you're so old-school.
Seriously, it doesn't matter what you know because if you reread my post I said "most people."
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The real downside to the apple laptops is that they're still a generation behind on their mobile processor. But for everything he mentioned an iBook is more than sufficient. You don't need a P4 3GHz processor to surf the web or play a 4 year old game (which, by the way looked MUCH better on the Mac than it did on the PC).
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The ONLY thing that I'll give Macs is that their LCD screens are top notch. They should stop making computers and just make monitors, because I'd buy one of those if it didn't come covered in faggy clear plastic.
Everyone always says, "oh you don't need a fast computer for that blah blah blah." You know what? Yes you do. After about a month of your shiny new SLOW iBook, you'll be looking at the people around you saying, "Shit, I wish my laptop could do that. Fuck, if I would have just waited another three weeks, I could afford to buy this month's iBook that comes with that feature. Time to go grab a pair of dark framed emo glasses, crank up the Radiohead, and head over to Starbucks in my Mini because I'll only fit in with other losers who bought a Mac."
Saying that the Mac version of a 4-year-old game is better is weak (LOL, how ironic, you calling my arguments weak). GL Quake looks awesome on my current machine. It's called better technology, plus four years that it took developers to port the code. You'd think they gave the artists something to do during that time, too.
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You say there is no software but you give no examples. All Macs come with a great selection of programs to start off with, and many others are available for almost everything you would want to do on a computer, gaming aside.
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Yeah, just like how XP comes with everything you could ever possibly use or want to ever do with your computer. Wordpad to meet all your word processing needs and Media Player garbage for MP3s. I'm sure they're really awesome and would meet all the needs of a mentally-handicapped senior citizen learning to use a computer for the first time.
Safari is bullshit. The little helper apps are bullshit. Want more? Pay an annual fee to get access to handy .Mac!!! Don't even get me started on the shareware that's available for Macs. That's all bullshit, too (and I have firsthand experience because one of my professors writes some of those apps). Every one of them is just a variation on the same theme: "Oh look! We can take this RSS feed from the web and display it in an interesting fashion!"
Good luck going out to buy software, especially if you don't live in a city with one of those Apple stores. I think all Best Buy sells is MS Office for Macs, and it's just a display box because they knew no one would really want that anyways.