Just bought a mac and it rocks.

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  1. Shaitan

    Shaitan Banned

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    Fair enough - you win. Go ahead and steal all you want, because it doesn't really matter. While you're at it, go into stores and waste the salesman's valuable time showing and demo'ing goods to you that you then buy off ebay because really, that's not going to hurt the store any. And rip off stuff from your local computer store too - you know, a cable here and a CD-ROM there. They charge too much and besides, they have some kind of built-in component to their prices to allow for "shrinkage".

    I however maintain a sense of honor.

    I do NOT work anywhere where people bitorrent commercial software and never have. Maybe it's different in Canada, I don't know.

    No, I did not make that anecdote up, I read it on a musician's issues website. I wish I could remember the source.
     
    Shaitan, Jul 20, 2005
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  3. NEMISIS

    NEMISIS GONE

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    I learnt on a MAC, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, etc, etc,
    as this is what the design industry use anyway.
    I think MACS are built by designers for designers with a price
    tag to match, thats why I now have a PC as it's the proverbial
    daddy of ''Swiss army knives''.
    Saying that though, if money was no object I would get a MAC
    again for sure, they are a slick thing to have in the ''designer'' world.
     
    NEMISIS, Jul 21, 2005
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  5. element7

    element7 Random fool

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    ok, dumb question but I've never had a mac and never actually learned much about them, but can one build a mac like one can build a component pc? Do they sell barebones mac kits etc.....?
     
    element7, Jul 21, 2005
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  7. Syntax

    Syntax Senior Member

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    I don't think you can (or at least, there's no point of doing it). You can add and replace hardware yourself without voiding the warranty, though.
     
    Syntax, Jul 21, 2005
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  9. Lilyrayne

    Lilyrayne Chrisppie

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    Ditto! I'm experienced on both. I learned to use the Mac OS in several days, something I never could have done with Windows. I'm talkin' deep down in the core system stuff too.
     
    Lilyrayne, Aug 18, 2005
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  11. Destro_the_punk

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    You can NOT build a mac system in the same way you can build your own windows or linux system. not at press time anyways. They are pretty easy to learn on and as far as I know there are no viruses written for the current mac operating system. The next windows has already had a virus written and it's not even available for sale yet!
     
    Destro_the_punk, Sep 29, 2005
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  13. heero134

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    :D OMG NOWAY!!!11!shift!!one!1111!


    Do us a favor and die.
     
    heero134, Sep 29, 2005
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  15. duke the hippie

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    When you say "deep down core stuff" do you mean Unix? I have been learning Unix myself, when I have the time and find it fun. I enjoy my Macintosh computer.
     
    duke the hippie, Sep 29, 2005
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  17. DreadJockey

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    NOPE they still lag in the game dept.
     
    DreadJockey, Oct 1, 2005
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  19. Ebene

    Ebene Mountaineer

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    As long as game developers work with Direct X, Macs wont be very popular in the gaming business.
     
    Ebene, Oct 2, 2005
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  21. TheMagicalMushy

    TheMagicalMushy Senior Member

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    You can build macs but its usually cheaper just to buy one. They call them clone macs. Basically you buy a mac logicboard and go from there. Getting a power supply to work from what I hear is a bitch though
     
    TheMagicalMushy, Oct 5, 2005
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  23. TIslands

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    Hail Mac user! Welcome to the club!
     
    TIslands, Oct 6, 2005
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  25. jerry420

    jerry420 Doctor of everything Lifetime Supporter

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    macs could be good for games but they arent really,
    i would love to have a new mac to play with but pc's are sooo fucking cheap lol...
     
    jerry420, Oct 13, 2005
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  27. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    I had an original B/W Mac with no harddrive, you booted from floppies. My Commadore 64 wiped its -ss with better sound and graphics, but it didn't have a mouse.

    Then I had SEs, I think they were. My Amiga cleaned their clocks. But the Macs had better software except for video software and sound. The Amiga had 4,000 colors, a mouse, a windows type environment, full multitasking and stereo sound when the Mac went beep beep in black and white. My later Amiga 4000 Toaster ran LightWave 3D video modeling, edited linear video, passed live TV in broadcast quality, did Video titles and tranissions live, and could handle the switching of 4 professional TV cameras at the same time. The same setup was used on TV and in the making of many movies. The Toaster Flyer did all that and digital video back when Macs didn't even know what it was. And the Macs couldn't even do this stuff at all.

    Then about two years ago I was running a Mac network...can't remember what kind they were. One was one of those stupid see through things. Had some nice software but nothing I didn't have on Windows. Photoshop, Adobe Premier, Word, Pagemaker.
    The Macs sucked. Took forever to print a picture, I mean 10 minutes sometimes..in fact they would lock up trying to print on occasion. File transfer was a nightmare. Hunks of junks. Threw them all out but one and got Windows XP. Never a problem now. And I used to hate Windows.

    Is there any useful software that a Mac will run and that Windows can't?? Can't run AutoCadd on a Mac and that's the leading drafting program in the world. Can't run SolidWorks, 2nd leading 3D drafting program. I don't think you can run the leading one either. Can't run MasterCam for robotics. Can't run WorkingModel a leading engineering package.
    Can't even go to the computer store and buy a $5.00 game that used to be $50.00. I bought a used Windows version of PageMaker at a yard sale 2 years ago for 50 cents! It was one verson old and cost $500.00 new! Do that for a Mac.

    You can have Macs. I'll run my Northgate Wins XP system and when it dies go out and buy some $600.00 system that will work just fine.

    Waste of money.
     
    MeAgain, Oct 14, 2005
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  29. IronGoth

    IronGoth Newbie

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    Mac, being UNIX can run almost all open source software...
     
    IronGoth, Oct 14, 2005
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