Just bought a mac and it rocks.

I just bought a mac mini last night and I love it. No more crappy windows for me.

 

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I love my PowerBook!

 

Nice. My next computer will be an iMac, almost no doubt about it.

 

Greetings fellow mac users. I have a 1998 origional imac. I would get a newer one but now all my money is focused in the beetle im restoring.

 

Mac is seriously where it's at for hardcore geeking.

Whereas the art department just loves the click and drool pretty interface it's really sweet to be able to use ps, grep, sed, awk, etc.

All the MIT nerds have apparently abandoned LUNIX for Darwin.

 

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I have a Mac Mini there great computers, watch out for Apples ibooks though I had one and the hard drive died on me after two years, it is the wierdest laptop I have ever owned, the hard drive dies and then after six or so weeks it boots up normally like nothing ever happened, works for like two days then dies again, I have done everything that Apple support has told me to do and still nothing and the real kicker is that all the diagnostic software tells me nothing is wrong with the hard drive, when it can find the hard drive. I think the mac mini's, the G4's and the imac are the best computers apple makes. Just stay away from the apple laptops!

 

My friend also had problems with his iBook (the monitor, not hd), but he just kept complaining and brought it to the store several times and eventually they just gave him a new one, and a far better model too.

 

I would love to have a mac, but I'm a gamer. How are macs holding up for games? Are companies starting to release their major titles for mac as well?

 

If you're going to game, why not just buy an Xbox or PlayStation 3? The money, on those platforms, has been put into the graphics and sound hardware.

For $2-300 you can have a really serious gaming setup tailor made to fragging and sports sim.

 

But the thing is that I can download a PC game using bittorrent faster than I can buy it for XBox. Also, all new games run better on my PC than on consoles, and it cost $800 some 3 years ago.

Fact is: if you're a gamer, a PC is still the way to go.

 

Ah, so the prime advantage of a PC over a console is that you can more easily steal the software?

As someone who makes his living as a software engineer, whose friends work in the gaming industry, and who sees what 100-hour weeks will do to them, I am saddened that you want to rip off these people.

 

If it makes you feel any better, I've worked in the software industry before, and am planning to make my career as a programmer once I finish university. And I also have friends in the gaming industry, and am working on some commercial games with my friends.

I just don't think that stealing games actually makes the game companies lose serious money. The employees are treated fairly and paid well (they wouldn't get any more money if nobody stole games), the managers and CEO's are even better off, and the industry has more than enough capital to create quality games.

Even Bill Gates once said that piracy has helped his company rather than harm it.

 

No, sorry - it doesn't.

What you're doing is thievery.

Justify it all you want, you're still stealing - and many a gaming company has gone under that could otherwise have kept going if their products had sold well.

The cost of entry into that field is immense.

The fact that you know several guys in the field --- doesn't change that you're a thief. And if you are a software engineer it boggles my mind that you'd actually engage in stealing from your own industry.

 

Maybe it is thievery. Guess what? Nobody cares. I'll download what I want without worrying over whether the gaming companies are going to get another thirty dollars. No skin off my ass either way.

 

i want a mac, but i just cant get used to the OS, not very user friendly in my opinion

 

haha, i think the os is the most user friendly one out there.

 

RE: Maybe it is thievery. Guess what? Nobody cares. I'll download what I want without worrying over whether the gaming companies are going to get another thirty dollars. No skin off my ass either way.

It's days like this that I wish I could track down where people live, divest them of their property, and tell them nobody cares.

Download what you want! Just sit there in awe and wonder why the product ceases to appear when the companies go bust.

There's some rap artist out there whose debut album got P2Pd. A very popular download, the songs were great. They sold like a dozen copies. Lost tons of money.
Now he's got hundreds of thousands in debt back washing dishes. I'm sure he appreciates people "downloading what they want".

 

Actually, the average software engineer or programmer downloads far more than a person in any other field. Mostly because they always hang around their computers and can easily and quickly find the best places to download.

I don't think I am stealing from my own industry. I will not lose a single $ by somebody downloading. Neither will any of my co-workers. Small businesses also won't lose any cash because it's very difficult to find a small, cheap and unpopular app. The only people who may lose some money are the CEO's, and even this I highly doubt.

Did you just make that anecdote up on the spot, or got it from some RIAA propaganda site? Last time I checked, P2P only made songs sell better. I can't speak for everybody, but I certainly bought more CD's after downloading music. Before downloading, I only heard what my friends listened to and what was on the radio. It sucked, and I didn't buy any CD's. Then I heard of interesting artists on the internet, downloaded their songs, listened to them and after realizing that I enjoy their work I bought several albums.

It's the same with games. If I had to pay some $50 for every game I try, I would just get a Mac and quit playing games altogether. Actually, I don't think I would ever have played a game if it wasn't for piracy. Right now, I own several games. Not many, but more than I would if I never downloaded anything.

So far, the only companies that disappeared were small businesses that sold cheap games which I actually bought because they were not popular enough to be easily downloaded. No company who's games I ever downloaded has went bust, and all of them are growing by the year.