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ienhz · 07-12-2009, 03:05 PM

Honestly, just try out OS X for yourself. Like someone else pointed out, for the love of God, don't listen to advice like "Macs are better for school", "Macs are better for browsing the web", "Macs don't crash/get blue screens" (yeah, they don't get blue screens, they get kernel panics LOL), "Macs load faster" and other assorted garbage.

For what it's worth, I'm a business student and I had a MacBook unibody for about 3 weeks before I returned it. Couldn't do any of my business statistics homework with Mac Office because some macro didn't work and solver in Excel apparently didn't work. Couldn't do any of my business management information systems homework either cause there's no Microsoft Visio or Access on the Mac. Couldn't sync my BlackBerry because there was no software from RIM. I could go on but yeah, if you take classes that even need any type of software, it probably won't work on the Mac. Sure, you can use boot camp but why the hell would you buy a Mac in the first place then?

I'll admit, OS X sure is pretty to look at though.

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ienhz Rs has made me the man i am today! Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Vancouver Posts: 3,196 Thanked 35 Times in 24 Posts Failed 7 Times in 4 Posts	Honestly, just try out OS X for yourself. Like someone else pointed out, for the love of God, don't listen to advice like "Macs are better for school", "Macs are better for browsing the web", "Macs don't crash/get blue screens" (yeah, they don't get blue screens, they get kernel panics LOL), "Macs load faster" and other assorted garbage. For what it's worth, I'm a business student and I had a MacBook unibody for about 3 weeks before I returned it. Couldn't do any of my business statistics homework with Mac Office because some macro didn't work and solver in Excel apparently didn't work. Couldn't do any of my business management information systems homework either cause there's no Microsoft Visio or Access on the Mac. Couldn't sync my BlackBerry because there was no software from RIM. I could go on but yeah, if you take classes that even need any type of software, it probably won't work on the Mac. Sure, you can use boot camp but why the hell would you buy a Mac in the first place then? I'll admit, OS X sure is pretty to look at though.