Macbooks, they suck dont they?

[Gryph]

sup taratata! Computers are the devil.

 

And yes, Steve Jobs does look and talk and act like an asshole. Too bad his products are actually good which afford him that ability.

 

You fail. While I'll admit, pre-x86 Mac's were great for things that required raw horsepower (Video editing, graphic/3d design), OSX is ass and any flavor of Linux superceeds it, making your Mac of today nothing but a PC with a Windows-wannabe Unix OS that does a miserable job.

 

Oh and the Ipod is an overpriced f**king fad, nothing more.

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I had a long reply ready to go but I don't feel like wasting my time dealing someone with such hardliner juvenile behavior. I'll tell you what though, when the ipod fad dies I'll pay you $100.

[taratata]

sup gryph!

 

Basically, macs are all about ease of use and ergonomy. When you have to get a work done, it's important.

 

Linux is really good technically, making it a system of choice for servers. It also has an open philosophy and doesn't require, well, a mac like macos does.

 

Then, windows lets you use lots of softwares. The vast majority of them have equivalents for macos and linux, except games.

 

Therefore, to each his own, and don't go around crying that such system is crap. If it really was, noone would be using it, would they? I know there's an unlimited supply of stupidity in this world, but when something is crappy, people eventually stop using it.

 

I chose to have a wifi chip implanted in my brain. Way cooler, except for the tumor that's starting to get a little big.

[Gryph]

taratata lays the wisdom down.

 

How's school and life going?

[Wizard]

WE MISS YOU IN IRRCK dude!

[taratata]

sup wiz!

 

I finally left undergrad to get in the real wo.. huh grad school. I think I've read that you have too Gryph, how's it going? I'll start working in a lab in two months. Kinda scary.

 

I haven't had internet at home for a whole year! Well, I didn't miss it that much but I finally got it back. I guess withdrawal is over. I may get back on IRC one day, but not now. I've got lots of stuff to do and basically haven't done any yet. Getting on IRC would only make things worse.

 

I may start posting again here, or maybe I won't. time will tell

[Gryph]

Indeed I have also moved on from undergrad and am now in medical school. Grad school is a whole different field with different peers.

 

I hope you stick around even if you don't post as much.

[ben2dx]

people just buy macs because they smoke crack.

[Shibathedog]

I don't really have a problem with macs besides their ridiculous prices. You can always change the OS later. It used to be a problem with their crappy architecture but not really anymore. Personally I don't like OSX though, I can see why some people like it, but I find it to be far from efficient for getting work done. Theres just so much bullshitting around on macs to get things to work right I don't even want to deal with it. I had the "privilege" of using one of the new G5s or whatever (The super expensive desktop line) for my web design/animation class and it was such a pain in the ass editing on the mac that I eventually dropped the class. Which probably had more to do with the crappy mac to pc support (I had to do some work at home obviously). There where a ton of little pain the ass things about it though that added up and just made it impossible. Such as the way the mouse moves, I will never be able to get used to that and draw anything with that, even with mouse smoothing entirely off I couldn't get the damn mouse to move right. I like my jerky mouse movements. Someone told me its just the mighty mouse that does that though and if I had brought my own mouse in it would have been fine, but what a pain in the ass that would have been. I just don't like the weird organization of the whole OS. It reminds me of Vista where its trying to be TOO user friendly and ends up being way less efficient for power users.

 

Then again I will never ever ever buy a pre-built PC ever again. So I'm only taking laptops into consideration which are all overpriced to begin with. (which is why I STILL don't have one for college which sucks)

[Wizard]

If I had the money, I've love to get a G5 for music development. Simply because I'm used to all that crap. There was a period I had to use macs for 2 years nearly straight through (on the weekends I went home to my PC) and have grown fond of them. Their music software is WAAAAAAY better then the selection on windows. And I like their video editing software more, the only thing that's compareable to that on windows would be Sony Vegas.

 

Remeber, MS rips Apple off on everything :V

[Shibathedog]

Eh see I disagree there too, Macs used to have an enormous software advantage, but now that all the adobe products are on PC too, not so much.

 

It still has a software advantage for all that user friendly crap like garage band, but professionally, about equal. So your back to deciding between actual OSes.