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SQ_Crazies

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May 5, 2010 10:32 AM
Reviews are whatever.

Market share is much more important.

Look, I'm not trying to have a Mac/PC debate here. I have nothing against Apple. I have nothing against people who own them. I have a PC, but everyone likes their own thing.
May 5, 2010 10:32am
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May 5, 2010 10:33 AM
BORIStheCrusher wrote: lol, so mac computers are not user friendly, don't have good durability, and have great overall satisfaction because of market share? I'd love to see some user reviews.
They are no more or less user friendly than a PC in my opinion, and are grossly overpriced for what they have to offer.
May 5, 2010 10:33am
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Nate

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May 5, 2010 10:35 AM
Fab1b wrote: Keebler I couldn't be happier with my Macbook Pro or my Iphone!
I love my iPhone also but outside of Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, AT&T service SUCKS in Ohio. My MacBook is fine. I've had one major issue with it where my Hard Drive was practically dead for 2 days during my last 2 weeks of Grad School. It is functional and fine but for the price, I could have got a better PC with more hardware and features. My MacBook has never had a functional ethernet port either. I didn't notice it was bad until a few months after I purchased it because I had to configure a new router. Had to drag out the dependable Vista box to do that.
May 5, 2010 10:35am
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May 5, 2010 10:37 AM
I just speak from personal experience and since having my Mac none of the PC's I have owned (and I have owned a few plus laptops) compete with the Macbook.
May 5, 2010 10:37am
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May 5, 2010 10:39 AM
BORIStheCrusher wrote:
SQ_Crazies wrote:
BORIStheCrusher wrote:
SQ_Crazies wrote: Buy a MAC, join a cult is what he's agreeing with. Not an iPod. Sure, it's an Apple product, but it's not the same. The iPod is just by far the best product on the market in terms of price, user friendliness, durability and overall satisfaction. Though the Zune is a very nice product these days too.
lol, couldn't the same be said for their computers?
No, not really. The iPod has some 75% of the MP3 market share. In the Mac v. PC argument, the numbers are opposite.
lol, so mac computers are not user friendly, don't have good durability, and have great overall satisfaction because of market share? I'd love to see some user reviews.
Apple doesn't have a lost cost MAC option so when they do research they compare their average computer to the average PC, which is far cheaper. If you bought a PC, and spent as much money plugging components into it as the cost of a MAC, even MAC users would be raving about PC's. You don't get much computing power for the price with a MAC, all you get is some friends because everyone who has a MAC is cool, so if you buy one you are cool.

I've never seen so much circle jerking with a PC, but with a MAC once you buy one you're part of a community LOL
May 5, 2010 10:39am
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May 5, 2010 10:42 AM
Fab1b wrote: Like I said and I'm sticking too it, if you are anti mac you are anit apple but own an apple product, just saying your a memeber of the cult then too!
I fucking hate MACs, if I were to load up 1500 into a laptop then I'd get a PC that would kick the shit out of MAC performance wise. But I love my iPod.

You can be anti-Mac and not anti-Apple because not all Apple users are in a cult but all Mac users are in a cult. Does that not make sense? It's the square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square idea. All Mac users are in a cult but not all Apple users are.
May 5, 2010 10:42am
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May 5, 2010 10:43 AM
I don't get the attitude towards Mac users, even when I had PC's and not a Mac I didn't see what your saying about them!
May 5, 2010 10:43am
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May 5, 2010 10:48 AM
Thanks for answering my question, DOUCHE BAGS!
May 5, 2010 10:48am
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SQ_Crazies

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May 5, 2010 10:49 AM
Fab1b wrote: I don't get the attitude towards Mac users, even when I had PC's and not a Mac I didn't see what your saying about them!
I mean the price to performance numbers are quite obvious.
May 5, 2010 10:49am
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May 5, 2010 10:58 AM
I was always pro-PC and wouldn't touch a MAC in college. Got my first teaching gig, got a MAC laptop (all teachers have them here) and I am now flip-flopped. I learned some server stuff and some maintenance stuff with MACS, and they just seemed easier, more user friendly. I'll never go back to PC unless I'm forced. Just a personal preference thing. And I'm gay. Wait.
May 5, 2010 10:58am
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May 5, 2010 11:34 AM
who cares? you buy what the fuck you want.

I bought my Macbook Air because it was a thin ass computer, and I thought it looked cool. I didn't spend nearly their inital asking price, and didn't give two shits about the competing laptops (I think it was a lenovo at the time? Don't remember).

you buy what you want...people still shell out thousands for a friggin Bimmer or Range Rover and they break down 4 years into owning them.
May 5, 2010 11:34am
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May 5, 2010 11:37 AM
What's a Bimmer? Do you get Rimmers in them?
May 5, 2010 11:37am
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May 5, 2010 11:39 AM
SQ_Crazies wrote:
Fab1b wrote: I don't get the attitude towards Mac users, even when I had PC's and not a Mac I didn't see what your saying about them!
I mean the price to performance numbers are quite obvious.
And again I disagree
May 5, 2010 11:39am
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May 5, 2010 11:41 AM
Fab1b wrote:
SQ_Crazies wrote:
Fab1b wrote: I don't get the attitude towards Mac users, even when I had PC's and not a Mac I didn't see what your saying about them!
I mean the price to performance numbers are quite obvious.
And again I disagree
It isn't something you can really disagree with, it's well documented.
May 5, 2010 11:41am
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raiderbuck

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May 5, 2010 11:41 AM
ernest_t_bass wrote: What's a Bimmer? Do you get Rimmers in them?
A BMW
May 5, 2010 11:41am
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May 5, 2010 11:48 AM
SQ_Crazies wrote:
Fab1b wrote:
SQ_Crazies wrote:
Fab1b wrote: I don't get the attitude towards Mac users, even when I had PC's and not a Mac I didn't see what your saying about them!
I mean the price to performance numbers are quite obvious.
And again I disagree
It isn't something you can really disagree with, it's well documented.
Ha ha since I use one, and have owned PC's and work on a PC I will say it!! Its like this, you saw a movie and say it sucks, so there for I should just take your word for it and not see the movie for myself right?
May 5, 2010 11:48am
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May 5, 2010 11:54 AM
raiderbuck wrote:
ernest_t_bass wrote: What's a Bimmer? Do you get Rimmers in them?
A BMW

May 5, 2010 11:54am
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why so serious?

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May 5, 2010 11:54 AM
It's not that, it's this:

Basic Mac vs. Basic PC Laptop: Performance wise the Mac wins, price wise the PC wins

Basic Mac vs. tricked out Laptop: Performance wise PC wins, price wise it's tied.
May 5, 2010 11:54am
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May 5, 2010 11:56 AM
And I don't get this misconception that they don't break down. 3 of the 4 kids in my house who have Macs have all had repairs done to them in the past year, and I've had my customized HP for almost 4 years now and haven't had a single repair needed, although like I stated earlier I'm starting to have internet issues here and there.


If Mac lowered the price of their basic Macbook to around what the price of a basic PC is, around $500-$600, then I'd definitely consider getting one.
May 5, 2010 11:56am
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May 5, 2010 11:57 AM
Fab1b wrote:
SQ_Crazies wrote:
Fab1b wrote:
SQ_Crazies wrote:
Fab1b wrote: I don't get the attitude towards Mac users, even when I had PC's and not a Mac I didn't see what your saying about them!
I mean the price to performance numbers are quite obvious.
And again I disagree
It isn't something you can really disagree with, it's well documented.
Ha ha since I use one, and have owned PC's and work on a PC I will say it!! Its like this, you saw a movie and say it sucks, so there for I should just take your word for it and not see the movie for myself right?
No, it just isn't a matter of opinion. The components you can get for the same price could potentially give you far more computing power and performance, assuming you spend your money correctly.
May 5, 2010 11:57am
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Nate

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May 5, 2010 12:02 PM
SQ_Crazies wrote: No, it just isn't a matter of opinion. The components you can get for the same price could potentially give you far more computing power and performance, assuming you spend your money correctly.

This. Give me the $1000 the basic MacBook costs and you get twice the PC.
May 5, 2010 12:02pm
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May 5, 2010 12:03 PM
This debate is stooopid.
May 5, 2010 12:03pm
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Nate

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May 5, 2010 12:04 PM
justincredible wrote: This debate is stooopid.
So are you, you Apple lovin' hippie.
May 5, 2010 12:04pm
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May 5, 2010 12:04 PM
It all comes down to personal decision making. I wouldn't tell anyone not to buy a PC if they want, if they ask me how I like my Mac they will be told I love it and I recommend it.
May 5, 2010 12:04pm
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May 5, 2010 12:07 PM
Fab1b wrote: It all comes down to personal decision making. I wouldn't tell anyone not to buy a PC if they want, if they ask me how I like my Mac they will be told I love it and I recommend it.
Understandable. I tell people that I wouldn't waste their money on a Mac. If they want the bang for their buck, they should stick with a PC.
May 5, 2010 12:07pm