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^ The last time I bought a desktop, the guy at the store tried talking me into a Mac, telling me about how nice having it all integrated into the screen was and such. Then I asked him how do you upgrade it if it's a sealed unit. He was confused and kept asking me why on earth I would want to upgrade the disk drive or the video card, and that if something failed it's "no big deal because you just send the whole thing in." Riiiiight
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are you criticizing the machine because of how the salesperson sold it to you?
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They are defensive for PC's because for almost the entire population, a PC is better.
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That's probably true. I wasn't trying to say Macs are better than PC's, nowhere did I say this. I'm saying i don't understand your reasoning for why you need to bash the Mac's for what they are.
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The innards are no better than any PC. I'm not sure what you mean about flex, I've never seen a laptop flex under sane use.
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any? We all get it. For the same price you can get an Acer with 4gbs ram and a 500gb hard drive. They also feel like plastic toys. Are you really that dense or quick to dismiss the fact that macbooks have a nicer aluminum case? Does that not warrant to be a factor in someone's choice when purchasing a laptop? Oh fuck, I feel stupid because I decided to buy a nice 'looking' laptop. I feel smarter already for avoiding the macbook bandwagon. So if I own both, I'm half as dumb?
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Originally Posted by underscore
A Hackintosh functions exactly like a Mac, so really that is the best way to expand your knowledge without blowing money on something you might hate. Do you even know how a Hackintosh functions? Probably not.
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I actually don't 100% know how a hackintosh works. Honestly. all the kext and modding of the EFI mind-boggles me. Having to think about whether or not an apple update will fuck me over also worries me. For someone that has more than one system, or is technological oriented like you, I'm sure it's ok and fun. For someone computer illiterate, like I already said, and I don't want to babysit them or be on the phone if some update does screw them over. But really, for a lot of us mac owners that really don't know how a hackintosh works, explain it to us please, in a way google can't.
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That, and most computer illiterate people can't figure out PC's, which as you said have ~90% of the market. If you can't figure out the most common OS, you shouldn't be getting fancy and toying around with OSX or even Linux. Why direct what little knowledge you have towards the minority?
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Those users that only wish to do simple tasks, I personally think OSX is more user-friendly. It's been the case where my parents think it's easier to use SL, but a lot of my friends that have been using windows since 3.1 simply returned their macbooks. I'm not sure Apple's goals were to have a user interface like Linux. They heavily skinned it so it'd be easy to use. If OSX is as complex to you as Linux, you're either a terminal freak or still looking for the right click.
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It's true, go ahead and poll Mac users, 99 our of 100 will not know a single technical thing about the machine they are using.
Oh good, thanks for the heads up. Mac's are now officially useless.
"Oh hey yeah I can get you a great deal on a new Mac, only there's a chance it might not fucking work"
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I'm not sure what you mean by the last parts. What great deal? That I can get you? Better sell all the apple stocks before they bankrupt from all the DOA 27" iMacs and when ppl figure out how useless the new i7's with nice screens are!