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Not A Nice Person

Not A Nice Person

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Just got my 27" iMac back after a week and a half in the Geek Squad repair shop. LCD went out, which is a repair roughly the price of a new Dell (or half the original cost of my iMac). Ye gods and ancestors I hope THAT doesn't happen again!

Totally worth it though. I bought an iPad and tried it for a week (hated the touchscreen) and just used my phone the last few days. There's an Amazon.com bingefest coming on tonight! ;)

~Boar
 
Mac users love their macs. No matter how much I've tried to convince them. I gave up years and years ago.
 
My college students both have mac's and have had stuff go wrong, I feel your pain.
 
jbfurdog said:
Mac users love their macs. No matter how much I've tried to convince them. I gave up years and years ago.
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It's the interface and the picture quality, at this point anyway. Twenty years ago, when I was doing desktop publishing, it was because Adobe ran beautifully on Apple's OS and sucky as hell---sometimes would eat up so much RAM it wouldn't even print---on Microsoft's. Nowadays I suppose it's mostly media/graphics people on Macs and gamers on PCs, even though the two platforms are getting closer and closer to each other.

~Boar
 
I work in data analysis all day. Staring at my PC makes me want to rip my hair out. Having a Mac at home is a nice change up and for some reason the different programs are helpful I not making me crazy. Now it seems like I always have both. Windows laptop at work, Windows laptop at home, iPad and two iPhones at home, old Mac for recording music at home. But I guess that also falls in the category of specialty (music) because protools on a pc is just pathetic. Had no choice but to be extremely proficient in both platforms

Edited for autocorrect spelling... From my iPhone. Damn iPhone.
 
My Alienware needs a new motherboard and I've been putting that off because it's somewhat pricey :/ At first it sucked because I always used it, but now I've gotten used to doing everything on my phone :D
 
I have a mac at work and use a PC at home. Some companies, Agilent, only put their instrument software in Microsoft, so we have those as well.
 
Smokin'Sims said:
I have a mac at work and use a PC at home.
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I have the exact opposite, and I do have to admit---now that I'm with a progressive and up to date online charter, my PC experience is vastly improved over the clunky, kludged together mess my old school district inflicted on us all. I still don't like Windows (nothing beats my iMac's Dock + Launcher for easy) but Chrome on PC is almost as smooth as Safari on Mac. Different, and things are in different places, but at least it all works and it's easy to operate.

~Boar
 
No fruit PC's or phones here.....:cool: I built all the PC's at home and for my workstation. Fast, reliable, easy to use.....staying put here.

What I do know is for well under a K I can put together an almost state of the art PC that drives like a dream and can be upgraded inexpensively. Don't see that in the Apple stores.....

The PC / Mac argument is like arguing over your favorite flavor. Honestly, I believe it's more about personal preference than anything else, anymore.
 
Not A Nice Person said:
But! Did you mine your own ore and smelt your own rare metals? No? Turn in your man card, sir! :p

~Boar
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I brought the silicon in, in bags of rocks. Grew the crystals in the garage in an inductive furnace. Sawed them up, polished them, and put the epitaxial layer on in the kitchen oven. Shot the masks and etched the wafers in the bathroom. Sawed them up and packaged them in the garage. Got lazy and bought the MoBo's and the memory, but I could have made them too. We're self sufficient here.....:p

As soon as I pay off the EPA guy, it'll all be good........:eek:
 
I was a die hard Windows guy and was a system admin for a lot of years. Now I only buy Mac.
 
I have my first Mac product, a Mac Airbook. I wanted to learn more about Macs due to certain possible aspects of my trade often requiring it. I'm no computer wiz, but it has been absolutely flawless, and fast as hell, for over 2 years. All previous laptops (Dells, Acers) were a lot of trouble, usually starting after the first windows update. Dell was the worst customer dis-service I've ever encountered.
 
Just to lighten the mood. I'm a pretty savvy computer hardware guy. HP and IBM certified, MCSE way back in the NT days. I was working as the Director of Information Systems at this company when I got a call from a friend telling me about this cushy gig at a school board about 30 miles away. They wanted somebody to take their existing computer lab and convert it from hard IP addresses to DHCP and setup the DHCP server. Piece of cake. One day of work for $750. So I send in their form, have 2 phone interviews and one in person at the admin building and eventually get the gig.

I show up on the assigned Saturday and the custodian lets me in, unlocks the computer lab and gives me his office number so I can call him when I'm done. I walk into the lab and all it is are Macs. Never touched one in my life. My first problem was that they don't have a power button so I couldn't figure out how to turn them on. I ended up calling somebody which was embarrassing as hell. In any case what should have been a 2 hour job if they were real computers ended up taking me all friggin' day. You'd have thought that in 3 interviews somebody would have mentioned they were Macs!

At least I didn't break anything but came damn close. BTW, that was the last and only time I ever worked on an Apple product. What a pain.
 
With Windows 10 loaded on my laptop it's like lightning. The gaps are closing between the 2 OS's for sure.
 
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