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Offline Yknurd

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« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2008, 12:21:41 PM »
Every time you give Steve Jobs a dollar, God kills a kitten.

Really, I swear!
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« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2008, 12:29:41 PM »
...and every time you give Bill Gates a dollar, Steve Balmer eats a kitten
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« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2008, 12:31:47 PM »
That's why I fly my Ubuntu flag.
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« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2008, 12:42:04 PM »
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That's why I fly my Ubuntu flag.


how is ah working for ya under ubuntu?
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« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2008, 12:46:43 PM »
ubuntu/macos its all Unix, its all good :aok

seriously though apple laptops have been the best for years, throw in macosx and the ability to run windoze and they are unbeatable.

as for cost, well TCO of my powerbook in 5 years about £2600, TCO of my brothers series of Toshiba, Sony, Compaq and HP laptops over 5 years about £6500. i'll take the "cheesy" and "over priced" option thanks.

o yeah and when was the last time a woman ran her fingers over your pc notebook and went "ooooo thats nice". several times. i'm not kidding. :D
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« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2008, 01:04:00 PM »
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Agreed...

Seeing any version of WinBlows is a cheap, non-functional knock-off of Apple's OS anyway....

I own 4, nothing better.

(And, yes, LePaul, they run XP MUCH better than any PC I've ever had/built)


Right.

OS X is just BSD with a pretty *32 bit* gui slapped on top (with most of its indeas knocked off from previous os's such as os/2, amiga workbench, x-windows, and 3rd party plugs).

Apples should run xp well, it is hardware DESIGNED for windows after all (made in the same factory as sony vaio's, asus, and hp laptops).

Meanwhile apples latest laptop looks like a knock off of the intel metro prototype: http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/intels-metro-laptop-prototype-is-worlds-thinnest/

edit: so macbook air has no ethernet port, no dvd/optical drive.... and its overall bigger than toshiba's and sony's slimline models (with ethernet and dvds). NO pc card slot and no built in 3G.  No removeable battery (apart from taking the unit apart).

LOL macbook fail more like.
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« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2008, 03:07:02 PM »
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Its a cool gadget that will be very useful for some, but completly useless for others. It will sell as hell, but i think ill stay away. If it had been abit more square in some places and had a user replacable battery, disk and ram I would prolly have ordered one already.



Did you notice he was wearing a black turtleneck?  I bet if you got close he'd stink of cappuccino and biscotti.

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« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2008, 03:11:28 PM »
He always wears that :D

now.. whats wrong with a cap and a biscotti?????? :cool:
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« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2008, 03:51:11 PM »
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o yeah and when was the last time a woman ran her fingers over your pc notebook and went "ooooo thats nice". several times. i'm not kidding. :D


Errr actually when I had a Sony R505 and a an Asus W1 both got that.

My current Asus W5 is pretty nice as well, especially given Asus make macbooks anyway, and I can run OS X Leopard on it under VM Player if I wanted.

Sorry what were you saying about unbeatable?
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« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2008, 05:42:09 PM »
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Macs are - essentially - PCs these days.


Why? Because they put an intel chip inside and made it able to run winders for the common sense challenged that can't operate a clearly superior OS in OSX? Can any IBM-esque/ Windows platform PeeCee run a MAC product other than the iTunes version written specifically for it?

I like Linux and Ubuntu as well, great OS's. Just can't stand Windows or anything that has anything to do with Micro$haft.

Joke of 2007? Vista :rofl
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« Reply #25 on: January 16, 2008, 05:45:26 PM »
BSOD<----Pwns Windows :(
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« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2008, 05:51:02 PM »
Windows don't care....

BSOD: <------Owns you
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Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. - Tim Vine.

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« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2008, 06:03:54 PM »
Honestly, Ive never liked Apple OS's. Used one about 5 years ago, which was alright (forget which it was now...), but I didn't 'love it' and it certainly wasnt any better (to me) than Windows. Used another Mac OS (think it was OSX?) because my school district decided they wanted to spend thousands of dollars on shiny new computers for the art departments at my school. The 2 they installed I got to use. It was kind of a novelty thing (it was cool because it wasnt Windows, what Ive used my entire life) but it seemed very un-functonal. It also seemed EXTREMELY disfunctional when it started crashing after about a half an hour's use (consistently). Honestly, just trying to USE a Mac OS, it just doesnt make sense. Thats probably just because Im not looking at the right place, because Im used to Windows, but I honestly like everything about Windows much better. Especially IE. I hate Safari or whatever they call it.
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« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2008, 06:09:52 PM »
Firefox is the best on either OS.
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Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. - Tim Vine.

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« Reply #29 on: January 16, 2008, 07:46:24 PM »
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Why? Because they put an intel chip inside and made it able to run winders for the common sense challenged that can't operate a clearly superior OS in OSX? Can any IBM-esque/ Windows platform PeeCee run a MAC product other than the iTunes version written specifically for it?
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Joke of 2007? Vista :rofl


Because it is a chipset and hardware designed and developed for the PC (Windows) market, not for the mac market. Apple are now entirely reliant on what the pc market does for their new hardware.

Yes I can OS X on my Windows laptop in a VM Ware session. See the picture below.

Joke of 2007? not just vista, try leopard as well. It is full of bugs, and the many FULLY QUALIFIED ENTERPRISE MAC engineers I work with refuse to deploy it in its current state. Also worth noting is the problems with the mac update server going on at the moment, I understand on US apple client clocked up 320Gb of internet traffic over the xmas break with the update corruption issues.

Now two pictures...

First OS X running on my laptop:



Second BSOD on a mac (aka Brown Screen of Death aka Kernel Panic):


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