Mac users Are Weird

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So, basically you are saying: It's a Mac thing, we wouldn't understand???

 

[TonyG]

Mac+homebrew napalm=only good mac (burnt to a crisp)

 

[xodarap]

The worst is when you get a teacher that is a MAC freak. UHGH, the science academy was overun by those wierdos dont ever try a logical discussion with one of those! Just nod your head and murmor &quot;Jobs is God&quot; every once in a while then spit while their not looking.

 

[Pod]

<< Good point; that's why most major universities network PC labs where it counts, and keep a few Macs in a back room somewhere so the hippies won't freak out. >>



That's pretty much why we had to toss in some (then new)G3s into our university's residential computer labs...we have like 12 PCs and 4 Macs per lab in our system. Labs without oversight by Residence Halls are exclusively PC (exceptions being the SGI Labs, Sun Labs, and the Art Department Mac Lab.) based and are very stable and reliable. The Macs tend to be the majority of the service calls for us lab people.

Being a photography major/aspiring pro/whatever I use the Macs here only because the negative scanners are slaved to them..I'm more comfortable with the Windows interface, the MacOS has major interface issues, it hasn't really changed a lot since the early days...OS X may change that, but from what I've been reading it's being rushed out the door with a sh&icirc;tload of stuff non-functional (DVD playback being a major one I think...)or buggy.

I found a novelty recently, 2 Mac users who are not zealots about it...both work in the school's art department actually. One doesn't cast an opinion since he swears he hasn't touched a PC in six years, and the other says he likes variety and keeps a Mac around just for that...

 

[guste]

aRyll, I wasn't refering to you at all. Just generally throwing it out to the masses.

I did fail to mention in my last reply, the original post was quite funny.

 

[The Wildcard]

Hmm i am not going to argue performance and price here because that could last for days, but i find that in some sectors of industry, such as graphic arts and music, for example, many artists like macs over pc's simple because of ease of use. In addition, the apple computers have a &quot;look&quot; that many people also like too.

So if people want to buy apples, let them. I own a PC and will stick with one till the day i die, lol.

 

[AnimeKnight]

this is cut and paste from another thread posted by me.. i am not here to argue i am here just stating my experiences with Mac

I totall agree with LaBang I never used mac until last year when I started to work at an elementary school.. one thing I can tell you is that for education K-6 maybe even 8th grade they are soo easy to manage and configure. Don't have to spend time on configuration and trouble shooting. Therefore you spend more time on educating the kids instead of trouble shooting computers. Also they are so colorful makes learning more fun.

I wouldn't say useless... if you look thru the forums how many posts are about &quot;help can't see my computer in the network neighborhood i have win98 and trying to connect win95&quot; for apples doesn't matter you have Imac with os 8 or a performa with os 7.6 you put it in the hub or enthernet port and boom you see both computers on the network no rebooting requires.. it's until now w2k can setup network without booting..Mac has this looong ago already. I guess you are a type of person that wants to go thru all the configurations and head aches of setting up computer. True you get to learn a lot from it.. heck that's how I learn but there are a lot of people that don't have the luxury to mess around and trouble shoot the computers like you. They just want open the box plug in the keyboard and plug and start using the computer..

 

[AnimeKnight]

And I have yet to see macs do really well what PCs do really well, network. I used to help run a 400+ PC network running NT. There was one Lab of 20 macs which gave us more problems than the PCs combined.

mmm.. I have been working on Macs and PCs for 1 year now and I have the opposite experience.. PCs are usually the one that is giving me problems.. Mac you plug them into ethernet port and they all see each other with no problems doesn't matter what OS you are on. PC wise you have to confiure the Tcp/ip or ipx and if you have different network card then sometimes one network card not compatiable with the other so they don't see each other on the network.. with Mac i never had that happened to me before.

Whatta complete mook. Personality my ass.
PC users often mod their case why? to personalize it.. to say my tower is unique.. to give it a little personality.. that's how i c it anyways..

I gotta admit what Hiero is scary but up till now I have not met them
All I have to say is that Mac users are some of the most arrogant, cheapest, freakiest people I've ever met.
I don't know about arrogant from what you put These people come into the store and just stay there for hours, talking to each other about their personal lives they seemed pretty friendly making friends and stuff cheapest? I personally know a guy that last year personally purchased 35 Imacs for a school and continusly buying new education softwares for &quot;his&quot; imacs. plus i don't think they are cheapest just look at the Macs that they are purchasing Macs are known for its pricy components/systems.

Personally I prefer PC but I see how easy macs are for education purposes for little kids. Also i think that the reason there are not a lot of softwares or hardwares support for Mac is that Appls F*ed up earlier in the stage on advertising and wrong frame of mind set.

1. The cost of computer is too high... SCSI cost way too much
2. they didn't advertise it well
3. I think this is the main one.. is that thinking that people will go for quality instead of the price

because they had a bad start and consumers all purchase PC so all the manaufacturs start focusing on PC hardwares and softwares causing apple to lose their market..
I think that if they didn't go for SCSI or somehow make the price lower and advertise well i believe that we will see a lot of support for hardware and softwares..

 

[Plantanthera]

I don't think artist uses Mac is because of ease of use, but it it what they learn on. Mac give a deep discount to schools so the student were force to use them, once they leave the school they don't have time to learn a new OS GUI.

Mac in the educational system still affecting the art industry, but it is changing soon. PCs only has been in the system for about 6 years, and it take 4 years befor the frist batch of student grad with PC/graphics. Therefore it will be lucky if you can find some people that uses PCs for graphics because there has been only one wave of PCs grad to the 10 of Macs. The affect will not shown in the work place for another 4~5 years when you will see graphics artist on PC will diplace Mac. And, in 10 years who know it could be Linux or even Mac back on the reign.

 

[Champo41]

Anyone remember Robin Williams' comment on Macs?

&quot;Buying Macintosh software is a lot like buying porn. You walk into a software store and ask if there is any software for the Mac and the employee says 'Come with me' in a rough voice and makes his way through the backdoor.&quot;

 

[Hiero]

That Robin Williams comment is hilarious and true. From my experiences mac users are either wealthy or cheap. There is absolutely no middle ground. They either buy the latest or they constantly complain about the lack of software for their Apple Lisa and how inflated the prices are. I personally feel that defending a (purchasing) mistake is one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I'm sure we all do it every now and then but all these people really need is an epiphany. They need to get up from the depth of ignorance and realize that the game is over. They personally believe that March 24 is a national holiday and that everyone should celebrate. One of the main problems with Apple is Jobs. He's too arrogant (which rubbed off onto the masses) and narrow-minded. If he was a Gates he would have easily diversified the company's portfolio. Apple is in a bind and they can't see the writing on the wall. All these fruity computers won't give them growth, expansion will. Apple needs to move to Intel ASAP or come up with a new device (like they did with the newton). Apple has a lot of potential but the tyranny of Jobs forbids creativity anywhere outside of fruit-oriented colors (or industrial design). These sheeps need to kill the shepherd before he takes them over the cliff.

 

Heh. I just got back from CompUSA on 5th Ave in Manhattan. They have a whole section for Macintosh. It's funny walking into that section because I think I should put on a black turtleneck and black pants just to fit in. Everything is bright, the desks the Macs are set on are self-illuminated. The funny thing is that there were maybe two shelves full of Mac software, tops. That includes all the bargain junk like &quot;MP3 Pro 2001&quot; and the other stuff you see in the $2 PC racks.

There was a bunch of artsy people lined up at the G4 Powerbook, waiting to get their grubby hands on it. I wanted to check it out first hand but some guy who looked like Dieter from Sprockets was not backing off it any time soon. I also saw the iMac ?Doggie Spot Edition?. It's really ugly. The display on the iMac is horrible. Very blurry. It does a discredit to the one thing the Mac does have, beautiful image/font quality.

 

[xodarap]

I think i can spot the Mac flamors coming.

But before I dispouse what I know to be the truth of the matter I would like to state that may first complaint against macitosh is my inability to collect non biased information (IE a Mac magazine that wont say all Mac products are sacred and steve jobs is god) If anyone here can find me a websight devoted to or at least giving equal time to Mac products that may have occasion to criticsize the hardware and not only spouts it virtures PLEASEPM me.

 

[Hiero]

Hey dwell I used to work at that store. The mac dept. used to be on the 2nd Floor before we moved it down. It's more visible but more cramped. I hope whoever is manning it is doing a good job cause I did my best for that section and its zealots. If you want unbiased news check out some of the british macintosh websites. I don't know why but the Brits tell it like it is, unlike American journalists. Weird.

 

Hiero: The Mac section is on the second floor. They redid the whole place about a month ago. It's much nicer than it was before.

 

[Hiero]

Cool. Thanks. I'll check it out when I return home to New York City. I always hated that Red CompUSA shirt. One cool thing about being a Mac rep. is that we got to wear these cool Black (turtleneck) shirts made by Apple while everyone else wore red. It made us stand out.

 

[GoldenTiger]

PCs are better at the one things macs are supposed to be better at: GRAPHICS! Faster cards, faster computer, faster image editting, faster 3d, faster animation, faster 3d animation, faster CAD, easier to use, no stupid puck-shaped mouse... what was that again about your $1400 sh!tty mac being better than my $900 kickass PC that is 3x as fast??

 

[Hiero]

Macs are for kids and Graphic designers

 

[GoldenTiger]

bump

 

[Delusion2001]

i hate macs...

 

[mryellow2]

hey bdawg, what you got running, our graphics dept has got a xerox 2060 and a doc-40, the doc 40 was, i think around 200k when we first got it along with the server which itself cost 25k way back when. and i totally agree, tektronics are by no means &quot;high-end&quot; and for all you people using them out there, for god's sake please don't use the waxy ink on master copies that you intend to send to get color copies of, they stick to the glass of the copy machine forcing some poor bastard to put every sheet on the glass by hand! sorry about the rant

as to your comment about better printing capabilities, i would say that the two platforms are pretty much equal, well at least when i compare my win2k machine against my g4. in some cases the colors are slightly more saturated from the mac and sometimes that's even a good thing