I didn't realize how popular Macs were

[Tweak155]

You had the power brick go out? The only time that happened to me is when i left it outside overnight; turns out they don't like water much.

I had it sitting in one spot working one day, the next day it just quit charging. It never left the plug from when it was working to when it quit over a period of 3-4 days maybe?

 

[Fritzo]

I wouldn't trade my XPS 17 for a Macbook.

You've never used one then.

 

[halik]

I had it sitting in one spot working one day, the next day it just quit charging. It never left the plug from when it was working to when it quit over a period of 3-4 days maybe?

Interesting, I had a warranty issue with an old one where the magsafe thing frayed, but I've yet to see out of warranty hardware failure.

 

[DesiPower]

A longtime friend, apple hater, finally gave in to iPhone 5s and is loving it... he even like it's keyboard better than Swype... doom is coming...

 

[halik]

You've never used one then.

Ha about this. Dell's been making the same laptops for going on 15 years now. Plastic, 1in thick, 8lbs and like 3 hour battery life.

 

[dennilfloss]

You've never used one then.

Wrong. I used another faculty member's Macbook Pro a bit just last year and did not like the OS and small screen. Plus the sound was not very good either compared to my XPS 17. Of course I find even the 17" screen of my XPS small.

Anyway, I only use the lappy a couple of months each year, as a desktop replacement when I go visit my dad.

 

[Eug]

What is this, 2004? 2 finger click functionality has been out for a while.

I had a MacBook/MacBook Pro for a while. It suited me very well at the time. Now I just use my iPad primarily, and hopefully will be building another PC soon for me and my SO

I know it's been out for a while for Windows. However, I was just curious how well end users who only run Windows adapted to it.

I guess if it's their only laptop, then they'd be fine, but if they're switching back and forth between laptops, it could be irritating for some.

 

[BurnItDwn]

In the office there are about 600 various different x86 Windows Laptops. There are maybe a dozen i-pads. I do not think I have seen a macintosh computer or laptop in years.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Interesting, I had a warranty issue with an old one where the magsafe thing frayed, but I've yet to see out of warranty hardware failure.

Yeah, I had this happen. Apple covered it despite it being years out of warranty. Same thing when the wrist rest on my old white MacBook cracked - they gave me a new keyboard/touchpad/wrist rest unit even though the warranty had expired 2 years earlier.

 

[adairusmc]

GI Bill pays for both tuition and housing? That's awesome!

Also you had me at Sea-doo, but lost me when I noticed that's ski-doo.

They pay for tuition, housing, and I get $1000 a year for books.

The housing is with the post 9/11 gi bill. I signed up witht the Montgomery GI bill but since I had not yet used and served before and after 9/11 I was able to covert it to post 9/11 (chapter 33). The va is getting better about a lot of things. I get my medical coverage totally covered by them for a service connected disability, and I get paid for showing up to my appointments even.

As far as the ski doo goes, my wife won't get a real snowmobile like me (Yamaha 4 stroke with turbo) and she insists on the doo. I demoed one last season and it was amazing, so she is making a good choice.

 

[Fritzo]

Wrong. I used another faculty member's Macbook Pro a bit just last year and did not like the OS and small screen. Plus the sound was not very good either compared to my XPS 17. Of course I find even the 17" screen of my XPS small.

Anyway, I only use the lappy a couple of months each year, as a desktop replacement when I go visit my dad.

You do know you can run Windows on them, and they come in different screen sizes, right?

 

[Ns1]

I switched all Mac about 5 years ago. It's been an interesting ride but it's more suited to the fiancé than me. So she'll be living in an all apple world, I'm moving back to windows. On the plus side, I now know how use both operating systems and understand their strengths/weaknesses

 

[poofyhairguy]

When I sold computers for Dell like five years ago I would have people call and say "well I really want a Mac but I can't afford it."

 

[HeXen]

I wish the MacBook Air had larger screens, I'd be more interested in one. But If I were going to pay for Pro 17", I'd rather just get the Razer Blade Pro just for the option of gaming and the cool LCD touchpad all in a similarly aesthetically appealing case. Only problem with such is battery life which is pathetic imo.

 

[videogames101]

I see Macbooks everywhere on campus.

Except the engineering block.

Where we do actual work.

 

[Ns1]

I see Macbooks everywhere on campus.

Except the engineering block.

Where we do actual work.

yeah while you brilliant future engineers are doing work, the goddamn posers with macbooks are at the quad posting shit on instagram, figuring out how they're going to get fucked up that night


wait, who's the dumbass again? =P

 

[TheInternet1980]

The problem with the Air is the mediocre screen. Bad viewing angles.

BTW, how do your users do without the right click button on Windows?

There is a right click. Boot Camp Control Panel (In the tray) > TrackPad > Secondary Click (Bottom right corner)

As far as the display goes, it beats the hell out of the terrible Carbon's screen door effect panel. And lets not even bring up the Dell E6330's we were rolling out on a regular basis before we decided on Ultrabooks.

 

[TheInternet1980]

Two finger click when I use it through vmware. No idea how to do it if you actually run windows, but then again no idea why you'd actually boot up windows.

We boot into Windows, because training people on OSX/Parallels with a 2 person IT staff isn't happening.

 

[videogames101]

yeah while you brilliant future engineers are doing work, the goddamn posers with macbooks are at the quad posting shit on instagram, figuring out how they're going to get fucked up that night


wait, who's the dumbass again? =P

And paying out the ass to do so?

Oh wait, they're paying for "degrees".

I guess when mommy and daddy are footing the bill, why not.

 

[Ns1]

And paying out the ass to do so?

Oh wait, they're paying for "degrees".

I guess when mommy and daddy are footing the bill, why not.

I went to college for the experience, the degree was secondary. YMMV

 

[videogames101]

I went to college for the experience, the degree was secondary. YMMV

I thought your first post was sarcastic. :|

 

[Kaido]

A longtime friend, apple hater, finally gave in to iPhone 5s and is loving it... he even like it's keyboard better than Swype... doom is coming...

Wait, what? I've had an iPhone for like six years and I *hate* the new keyboard. I'd rather have the old one back, or even better, Swiftkey or Swype. I have no idea why Apple doesn't put in a gesture system like that!

 

[Jeff7]

I see Macbooks everywhere on campus.

Except the engineering block.

Where we do actual work.

At least until they replaced Office 2003 with Office 2007, and that goddamn "Ribbon" interface that has now infected every new application.


"We've also prepared a bag lunch, and some mittens."

Dumb down the interface so that no one can hurt themselves or choke themselves to death, and condemn functionality and versatility to the deepest dungeons.

I thought your first post was sarcastic. :|

Sure is a diverse crowd in here. :sneaky:

<--Yes, engineering major. There for an education in a field that would get me the hell out of retail, and maybe have a shot at putting me in a job where I would need to use more than 0.7% of my brain. The "experience" part of it....I wish they would have paid me for that. Dorms and campus apartments? Wonderful, holed up with a bunch of giant toddlers who are away from mommy and daddy for the first time, discovering that they are capable of making very loud noise on a virtually continuous basis.
I got an off-campus apartment, alone, as soon as I was reasonably able to.

Now to push those memories back down into cold storage...

 

[videogames101]

At least until they replaced Office 2003 with Office 2007, and that goddamn "Ribbon" interface that has now infected every new application.


"We've also prepared a bag lunch, and some mittens."

Dumb down the interface so that no one can hurt themselves or choke themselves to death, and condemn functionality and versatility to the deepest dungeons.

The look on my face when Matlab got a ribbon menu was horrifying.

 

[Hugo Drax]

Walking around campus, I easily count 10 macbooks for every PC I see. It doesn't help that I attend the University of Spoiled Children (USC), but Jaysus Choist, seeing PC marketshare below 10% anywhere makes me sad inside. Well, mostly because I know the vast majority of them spent well over $1k on their MacBook Pros just to surf Facebook. On the plus side, they're not built like pieces of shit like HPs and Dells.

Seems like MS is mostly dead in the consumer market these days.

The Majority of Cxx's and VP's I have met from different companies have carried Apple laptops, when back in the days they were all carrying Thinkpads from IBM/Lenovo.

I do definitely see the trend.