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Pros of a MacBook (pg. 6)
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| adi26 |
| quote: | Originally posted by tvmann
And if you have cash left pick up some Apple stock, they are on a roll! :D |
Yea, many analysts are predicting Apple's stocks to go upto 200 by the end of the year...I think 200 is too optimistic though...but Apple is on a run for sure... |
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| harcourt |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
some systems need hacking to be able to do that but as of now it is possible to install Mac OS on a PC making purchases of Macs (for your reason) absolutely pointless. |
Yes of course its pointless, the world is full of people who want to (and are capable) geek out like you're suggesting and hack their new purchase in order to install things, you definitely have the majority of consumers in mind there.
Your tirade against apple is funny, enjoy your PC. |
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| Skipper |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
lol, you mac people are seriously clueless (maybe that's the reason you buys macs). It's not his computer that posted it, it's this site's forum/database that is not configured properly that causes this error. |
I'm joking
You remind me of the PC dude on the commercial who has no sense of humor |
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| geroin |
| quote: | Originally posted by harcourt
Yes of course its pointless, the world is full of people who want to (and are capable) geek out like you're suggesting and hack their new purchase in order to install things, you definitely have the majority of consumers in mind there.
Your tirade against apple is funny, enjoy your PC. |
hacking does not necessarily mean ruining your purchase or hacking the out of your computer, hacking in my case means "adjusting your computer to be able to do something that is not initially allowed by creators"
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub.../18/PearPC.html
here are the steps you need to take to install mac os without "hacking".
1. Download the PearPC PowerPC Architecture Emulator.
2. Obtain hard disk images for use with PearPC.
3. Obtain images of your client OS installation disk.
4. Configure PearPC to use the hard disk image and the OS images.
there are other ways also. There is no tirade against apple, there is a tirade against clueless people who think their Macs are better than PC's when it fact it's the same .
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
I'm joking
You remind me of the PC dude on the commercial who has no sense of humor |
i do have a sense of humour, i thought since you have a Mac you were being serious. |
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| Skipper |
that makes no sense whatsoever...much like the error messages I got in windows
B'OH! |
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| Jeff Button |
| You are all ing nerds. |
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| sufee_b |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
that makes no sense whatsoever...much like the error messages I got in windows
B'OH! |
hehehe |
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| Jem_hadar |
| The sky is falling! |
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| jeeper_095 |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
I've had 3 ThinkPads and they are God's gift to portability.
2 T-series and 1 Z-series (replaced by modern T-series).
Go with a T and you'll drink milk and love life. |
ThinkPad T60 ..*drool*...
as for school laptop... lenovo 3000 N200, 2 gigs of ram, 160gb hd, + all the goodies a thinkpad comes with..and honestly you're all set.
IMO, nothing beats a thinkpad in design, reliability and functionality. Now they have the best keyboard thing, you can spill anything on it and it won't fry you laptop....it's insane.
Good luck with whatever you choose,
:) |
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| Tranceplanted |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
that makes no sense whatsoever...much like the error messages I got in windows
B'OH! |
This kind of statement gets me annoyed. Having to deal with both macs and pcs running windows or linux, it's kind of shooting yourself in your foot when you say something like this, if you're a pro mac person.
Macs give error messages too, and I would say that 95% of Mac users won't even know where to start looking for appropriate log files to properly fix it. Windows may give cryptic messages, but most of the time I find that it does a decent job of trying to pinpoint an issue. Linux is better, but involves a steeper learning curve. OS X, which tries to completely avoid pointing users to the terminal, does a great job of dumbing down the power and detail of the operating system, which is, to it's credit, both a success and failing point.
Why is it that Windows is criticized for hiding system files and directories by default, but file browser of OS X is hiding most of the system files as well but isn't pointed out?
Mac is a very polished OS, and is very good at what it does, but having used a variety of OS flavors, it comes down to this. The OS is really irrelevant. If you're capable of doing work and adapting, you will do it with the tools available to you. If I'm unable to write a document and format it in Mac, but can on Windows, that's really more a failing of me rather than the OS or the software.
To the person that mentioned the Mac gets you more creative, it's kinda BS, because what just got you "more" creative were simply different templates that shipped with OS X. That's no more creative than me tracing a Van Gogh. |
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| geroin |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranceplanted
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thank you, good points. |
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