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thescruff wrote:Not a very educated one Noid.

I can do anything that you can do, only twice as fast.

Riiight!

Noid wrote:PC's are better!
If you have problems then that's precisely it....YOU have problems.

I've had PC's for years and never had so much as a glitch with them, if you keep good care of them then they last. If you do nothing and clog them up with crap programs and let them get ridden with spyware and viruses and do nothing to stop it then like anything it will eventually cease to work!

Mac's are so damn boring and the functionality is seemingly designed for children with no more life in them that one of them little pretend laptop things. If i was 5 and wanted a computer I'd be happy with a mac but if i actually wanted to do anything with it I'd be screwed as an adult!

Just to point out, that this is my opinion and obviously not based on any facts what so ever and merely an educated speculation.

That ^^^ has to be THE most unintelligent posting I have ever seen on this forum. What a load of boring twoddle. Not even worth a response other that what I have said. And to say "an educated speculation" is laughable - a comment from a complete idiot who knows nothing about the computer industry.

Well f*ck you and f*ck the forum then!!!

That was my opinion and i am entitled to it!!!

I have years of experience with PC's and saying that I'm unintelligent is way below the belt!!!

How exactly would you know what i know or don't know about the computer industry!?!

Keep it cleans guys.

Don't pay to speculate noid, if you don't know.

OK scruff but naive posting wind me up.

The only reason i said speculate is that i was trying to make it lighthearted so people didn't get moody, clearly didn't work so sod it!

If people can just erupt like that they they must have problems

Macs will get viruses and malware, at some point, it just depends on if someone feels they could make money from a mac virus. Same thing with Linux.
However compared to windows, Macs and Linux are more awkward to break into, (Macs to a lesser extent - due to quicktime and safari (the worst browser since IE6) [at an ethical hacking conference, the mac fell first, then the windows pc, the ubuntu linux box wasnt cracked at all, not saying it couldnt be...just wasnt cracked within the 3 day time limit.

My problem with apple is that they get away with things that if done by msoft would result in anti trust proceedings and people screaming "monopoly"

Also the "form over function" annoys me, non replaceable batteries? fat lot of good that is in a mobile if your out and about and the battery fails, least with my nokia I can buy another battery from a range of places.

IDBI - Open the start menu, click run, and type msconfig
go to the startup tab once msconfig opens, you might be surprised at how much tat is running by default - my pc was crawling on start up....till I realised there were 10 diff things trying to load on login - printer manager (loads when I print anyways), messaging clients, phone manager, office suite quickloader (bit of a misnomer there as it slowed everything down)

untick anything obvious that you dont need firing up immediately
just be careful, disabling too much can stop things working prop.

The two oldies are becoming religious fanatics over their macs.

You can see the parallel with muslims.

Happy Crimble

Seeing as osx runs on the same architecture as windoze , I think apple made a big mistake not making it available to a wider market by selling it separately. They might have made a bigger impact on windoze especially since vista went straight down the toilet.

Sure macs can be prettier than pcs hardware wise but not always. For the price you'd pay for a mac you'd get a damn good pc/laptop thats more powerful and in some cases just as good looking.

Linux is more secure than osx just as pretty when it needs to be runs of older hardware and can do everything windoze and osx can. Get yourself a cheap linux computer!

I'll second that linux is worth a go. 8.10 of Ubuntu (aka Intrepid Ibex) is really polished, only thing it cant do properly yet is windows games but WINE might yet deliver on that front.

For example changing wifeys laptop from vista home premium to linux gained a sizeable speed boost, plus no vista weirdness

Vista is ok but picky about which hardware its willing to play nicely with.

If apple would retail mac OS X then i'd consider giving it a go, but since they won't I'll stick with linux and a smattering of windows

I'll stick to O SX then

I still got windows XP pro on me laptop if I get board

Cedega, Wine, Wine Doors, Play On Linux.

Plus linux has a lot of good games itself considering no ones being paid to make them.

They'd be stupid not to market it separately but they wont for some reason. They'd make a killing.

yep. surprising number of good linux only games.

annoying how some companies can write a game which runs perfectly under wine by design, and then adobe cant even design an installer which renders in wine period :(