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Chocorific
 Member 6745 Level 38.97 May 2006 
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My experience with MacBook users:
They only buy a Mac because of the design and tend to have even fewer knowledge about their system than the average windows user. If something breaks they're just as helpless as everyone else. @Parallels: I advice against using it: Why? Because it uses part of Wine's sourcecode and and it took a lot of time to get to the points where the developers admitted it and released the modified source. That's ripping off the Wine people who do their job for free. And I really don't like that kind of attitude. me: Using a Dell Inspiron which works for me. I can do everything I need to do. Browse the net, office work, LaTeXing, coding, listening to music, watching movies, etc. The system is not a gaming machine but I never intended it to be one. gfx chipset is integrated, so it's rather slow compared to current gfx accelerators on the market. But personally I advice against using a laptop as gaming machine. 1) you don't get the fast desktop equipment for your laptop 2) the fast laptop equipment if expensive and draws power en masse 3) fast laptop equipment produces a lot of heat and heat transfer is always the main problem with laptops Anf besides the different OS a Mac-machine is nothing special anymore. Only generic x86-hardware with some unique design that doesn't appeal to me (but I rarely buy hardware because of the design *g*). How ya doing, buddy? |
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Chocorific
Member 6745 Level 38.97 May 2006
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Hardware in a Mac and a PC is virtually the same. The time when PowerPC architecture was used is long over.
Also you can install OSX on any x86 system (if hardware drivers exist). The only thing that you pay for when buying a Mac is the Apple brand. That's the same with the iPod, iPhone, etc. - people buy it because of the brand, not because it's a superior piece of hardware. Second point is something you already pointed out - style. People buy the stuff because it 'looks good' (whatever that means). Another reason why so many people are running around with iPods. They don't know they have bought a product that is technically inferior to other products on the market. They've bought it because "everyone has one", "it looks good on me" or "because you aren't cool without it". AND because it's Apple - an expensive product can't be bad... *lol* There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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