In Popps' honor I create this MAC USERS ONLY THREAD, you unwashed PC scum stay away.

[baja]

Ya Here.....

I got a little whearling sound in my hard drive after four years of hard hard travel use.I called Mac turns out my service plan had expired the day before at midnight. The supervisor said no problem next time you are in the States bring it in and we will replace that HD for ya free.

Just another reason to love Mac

[baja]

Tell your good Mac story here.

[baja]

Have you ever seen a thread started to say I love my PC.

People buy PCs for the same reason they shop at WalMart, because it's cheap.

[baja]

Boy what an elite thread I'm the only one here...

[DenverBrit]

Tell your good Mac story here.


Good story?
Well, Apple, with a great graphic operating system, managed to allow Microsoft to dominate the PC market worldwide with the awful DOS operating system. You have to have a dumb-ass business plan to allow that to happen. :welcome:

[alkemical]

Maybe you guys can make sure windows users have their own fountains and bathrooms too!

[ElwayMD]

Don't get me started about Macs at the moment. My class (a video lab full of macs) is full of computers deciding not to allow students to print their final projects. Why? Not even our Mac guru can figure it out. I have had more problems using macs for non-linear editing than I ever had using a PC for the same job.

[Spider]

Don't get me started about Macs at the moment. My class (a video lab full of macs) is full of computers deciding not to allow students to print their final projects. Why? Not even our Mac guru can figure it out. I have had more problems using macs for non-linear editing than I ever had using a PC for the same job.
simple , your thingammabob isnt interfacing with the doohicky .........get that fixed and you are good to go

[baja]

No!!! I said GOOD Mac story...
;D

[Los Broncos]

I once worked on a Mac, very easy access.

[Beantown Bronco]

I once worked on a Mac, very easy access.

I could say the same about half the girls I met in bars back in the day. Sure they looked nice and pretty at first and were fun for a little while, but I'm sure glad I didn't marry them.

[Ratboy]

PCs are cheap eh? Not mine, I dropped 2k into my system, nice try though.

[alkemical]

Make It Stop!

[baja]

Ha ha it's the never ending day

[alkemical]

You are worse than i am

[baja]

Not possible you're the champ agitator, i can only study and learn master.

[Kaylore]

My PC just pooped on your lawn. :welcome: :devil:

[baja]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI&feature=related

[baja]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI&feature=related

[alkemical]

Not possible you're the champ agitator, i can only study and learn master.

lol - that's because you have to find the JOKE in it. :)

[scttgrd]

How about us Linux scum? Oh, and the new Ubuntu 8.04 is being released today, give it a try!

Sorry I couldn't resist this pic.

[alkemical]

mac = emo!

[Kaylore]

mac = emo!

rep

[Spider]

you nerds ...... ;D

[Memento]

From Dave Barry's "Dave Barry in Cyberspace" (a dated but hilarious look into the history of computing) in "defense" of the PC...

"In short, the Mac was far easier to use. So the vast majority of us serious computer users rejected it... the main reason we have computers is so we can be tormented by them. We don't want some wussy "user-friendly" computer. We want a challenge.

"That's why, to this very day, the Mac is not considered by us cyberwonks to be a truly serious computer. It is popular maily with your flaky or artsy-fartsy type of individual -- your artist, your poet, your beatnik, your flower arranger, your heroin addict. We serious users pride ourselves on wrestling with openly hostile computers that are running an operating system from the proud, incomprehensible Microsoft tradition..."

[Spider]

but all kidding aside , this is probably why I never bought mac , all I want to know is I turn on the power button and it works ....... I dont want complications , last thing I need is to be sitting in a truckstop trying to figure out my operating systems . I want fast easy operation ..... not to complex ...... windows 3.1 worked just fine for me

[Kaylore]

From Dave Barry's "Dave Barry in Cyberspace" (a dated but hilarious look into the history of computing) in "defense" of the PC...

"In short, the Mac was far easier to use. So the vast majority of us serious computer users rejected it... the main reason we have computers is so we can be tormented by them. We don't want some wussy "user-friendly" computer. We want a challenge.

"That's why, to this very day, the Mac is not considered by us cyberwonks to be a truly serious computer. It is popular maily with your flaky or artsy-fartsy type of individual -- your artist, your poet, your beatnik, your flower arranger, your heroin addict. We serious users pride ourselves on wrestling with openly hostile computers that are running an operating system from the proud, incomprehensible Microsoft tradition..."

That's a major factor of it. I've said it before: Macs are chick computers. They're like a VW bug of computers. They have soft edges, bright colors and smell of estrogen. They are easy to use, somewhat intuitive and ridiculously overpriced and impossible to upgrade.

I don't want an expensive bubble of pastel colored cutesy. I want my computer to resemble a Borg cube: A brick of electronics and technology that looks all too incomprehensible and yet somehow in the wires and mishmash It produces a purring engine of power and ability! At a whim I can reach into the core and change out the technology to something superior. I can run all programs and interface with all electronics. Any game is at my leisure at full efficacy.

PC's are powerful.

Mac's are weeners.

[watermock]

I just got a Dell/Vista Premium and it rocks. cheap.

[Dagmar]

http://www.level99comic.com/media/1/20070226-level99_089.jpg

[broncosteven]

My Brother in law once found a MAC laptop in the trash (he is a garbage man), he gave it to me to see if I could get it to work. This was around 1995 no idea what model it was.

I could not find a power cord and it cost over $100 to get a new one from Apple so I put it up for sale when we had a garage sale.

I put it up for $75. Some dude came in and saw it, asked if it worked. I told him I didn't have power to see if it even worked. He pulled out the $75. I told him no returns, he gave me the $75 and left.

I hope it worked out for him. either way I split the $75 with my Brother in law and made some cash off an Apple user.

It did LOOK like a nice laptop though....

[Los Broncos]

I could say the same about half the girls I met in bars back in the day. Sure they looked nice and pretty at first and were fun for a little while, but I'm sure glad I didn't marry them.

Yeah, guess I can say the same....I like my PC.

[Bob's your Information Minister]

One time I used a Mac, and it sucked. It wouldn't do what I wanted.

So I used a PC. It got the job done.

Moral of the story: never send a Mac to do a PC's job.

[24champ]

DUDE!!!!


GET A DELL!!!!!!



http://www.nextgenelectronics.com/images/delldude.jpg

[Bronx33]

I have a PC and this post is officially my area!!

[alkemical]

i hated that ****er

[broncosteven]

DUDE!!!!


GET A DELL!!!!!!



http://www.nextgenelectronics.com/images/delldude.jpg

I never figured out why they fired him because he was blowing weed.

I mean they hired him to portray a Spicoli type stoner, the fact that he was in real life a stoner should not have come as a surprise.

[Bronx33]

I never figured out why they fired him because he was blowing weed.

I mean they hired him to portray a Spicoli type stoner, the fact that he was in real life a stoner should not have come as a surprise.


Actually that guy is dumber than spicoli he had a golden carpet ride and smoked it all away.

[kmonty]

I'm gonna miss XP. Can't stand my wife's Vista laptop, I've already had to mess with it about 10 times this year. And pretty soon I'll have to get a new laptop and then I'll be in Vista hell too...

[Bronco Jamus]

Vista won't be a round long. It's on par with Windows Me

[Ratboy]

I'm gonna miss XP. Can't stand my wife's Vista laptop, I've already had to mess with it about 10 times this year. And pretty soon I'll have to get a new laptop and then I'll be in Vista hell too...

Are you kidding me? Vista is great! I've only started using it, but so far, so good.

[Los Broncos]

I dual boot with XP and 2000, 2000 is still a solid OS.

[Bob's your Information Minister]

What do you need 2000 for?

[cmhargrove]

That's a major factor of it. I've said it before: Macs are chick computers. They're like a VW bug of computers. They have soft edges, bright colors and smell of estrogen. They are easy to use, somewhat intuitive and ridiculously overpriced and impossible to upgrade.

I don't want an expensive bubble of pastel colored cutesy. I want my computer to resemble a Borg cube: A brick of electronics and technology that looks all too incomprehensible and yet somehow in the wires and mishmash It produces a purring engine of power and ability! At a whim I can reach into the core and change out the technology to something superior. I can run all programs and interface with all electronics. Any game is at my leisure at full efficacy.

PC's are powerful.

Mac's are weeners.

This is what my Mac looks like - is this not Borg?

[broncofan2438]

Does anyone have a good place for Mac Downloads?

[Kaylore]

This is what my Mac looks like - is this not Borg?

And this is what it feels like when you use it:

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w219/Jazzinmali/RainbowBright.jpg

[broncosteven]

This is what my Mac looks like - is this not Borg?

Apparently this MAC is dust resistant.

[Los Broncos]

What do you need 2000 for?

What else would I dual boot with, a donut?

[cmhargrove]

Apparently this MAC is dust resistant.

It has a plastic shield.

First a very Borg aluminum panel, then a plastic shield underneath. Under that, sharks with lasers...

[cmhargrove]

And this is what it feels like when use it:

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w219/Jazzinmali/RainbowBright.jpg

Do you have something against rainbow bright mother f$%^@r?

Just kidding...

[baja]

That's a major factor of it. I've said it before: Macs are chick computers. They're like a VW bug of computers. They have soft edges, bright colors and smell of estrogen. They are easy to use, somewhat intuitive and ridiculously overpriced and impossible to upgrade.

I don't want an expensive bubble of pastel colored cutesy. I want my computer to resemble a Borg cube: A brick of electronics and technology that looks all too incomprehensible and yet somehow in the wires and mishmash It produces a purring engine of power and ability! At a whim I can reach into the core and change out the technology to something superior. I can run all programs and interface with all electronics. Any game is at my leisure at full efficacy.

PC's are powerful.

Mac's are weeners.

Dude, get the hell out o here with that chick shiit, my Mac Power Book has a gun metal silver titanium case. Hell it made my dick 3 inches longer just by owning it.

[broncosteven]

Dude, get the hell out o here with that chick shiit, my Mac Power Book has a gun metal silver titanium case. Hell it made my dick 3 inches longer just by owning it.

I have to admit my Silver BMW does the same thing for me.

[BroncoBuff]

Tell us your feel-good Mac story here.
Okay. Awhile back, I watched an "adult" film snippet on the Internet, using Apple's "Quicktime" media player ... I gave the film three thumbs up!




:~ohyah!:

[Orange_Beard]

Thumbs?

[SureShot]

Thumbs?

Ouch

[Dagmar]

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/3012/macpcom5.jpg

[24champ]

http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/Mac-PC.jpg

[24champ]

http://www.apatheticrant.com/comics/2007-08-17-mac-vs-pc.png

[Dagmar]

Okay. Awhile back, I watched an "adult" film snippet on the Internet, using Apple's "Quicktime" media player ... I gave the film three thumbs up!




:~ohyah!:

Are you sure "Three Thumbs UP" was wasn't the title of the movie?

[Play2win]

I have the first iMac ever made. It is over 10 years old. I still play with Photoshop in it, among other things. I wont mention my BIG 30 Inch (monitor). That iMac will work when its 20 years old.

Everybody likes what they like, I love my Mac(s) :)

[broncosteven]

I have the first iMac ever made. It is over 10 years old. I still play with Photoshop in it, among other things. I wont mention my BIG 30 Inch (monitor). That iMac will work when its 20 years old.

Everybody likes what they like, I love my Mac(s) :)

I have a 286 running MS Dos 6.2 with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in my Garage incase anyone wants to play a mean game of Minesweeper or freecell.

It still works also.

I **** YOU NOT.

[alkemical]

I have a 286 running MS Dos 6.2 with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in my Garage incase anyone wants to play a mean game of Minesweeper or freecell.

It still works also.

I **** YOU NOT.

damn, i want to play some Oregon trail! (actually i do have that and run it through a dosbox emulator for windows xp)

[broncosteven]

damn, i want to play some Oregon trail! (actually i do have that and run it through a dosbox emulator for windows xp)

I may have Wolfenstein or Doom on it.

I still remember having to tweak Config.sys and Autoexec.bat to get enough upper memory to get the 1st Doom to run.

That was how I made the jump from mainframes into PC group. Had to do the same thing for early NIC drivers.

[Natedogg]

It just comes down to Unix > DOS. The rest is just decoration..

[broncosteven]

It just comes down to Unix > DOS. The rest is just decoration..

Everytime I have to "mount" a volume I giggle for 5 minutes...

[Kaylore]

http://www.apatheticrant.com/comics/2007-08-17-mac-vs-pc.png

I love right click. The stupid one button thing on Macs is...stupid.

[broncosteven]

I love right click. The stupid one button thing on Macs is...stupid.

I used the middle scroll wheel to navigate and respond to your post!

[BroncoBuff]

I used the middle scroll wheel to navigate and respond to your post!

Yup ... I'd be really frustrated without the scroll wheel.

[broncosteven]

So are all the MAC's out buying PC's so they can Right click and scroll?

Awful quiet guys!

LOL

[Kid A]

the macs I use have scroll wheels (which work both horizontally and vertically) and have a right click function, it just isn't a physically second button but works the same way when you click that part of the mouse.

honestly I use both (I do graphic design) for adobe CS, and don't have a huge preference either way.

[Play2win]

I use an 8-BUTTON mouse, along with a Wacom Intous tablet-- that I can invoke exposé, spaces and quicksilver with a single click.

[Popps]

mac = emo!

Nah, I think those kids are usually "gamers," i.e... DnD playing, Magic the Gathering playing... WINDOWS users!

ROFL!

[Popps]

I love right click. The stupid one button thing on Macs is...stupid.

Wow, now... I generally take you as a guy hovering somewhere near average intelligence, Kaylore. If you're actually seriuos with that post, and you really believe what you just posted, you're about to get a serious downgrade.

Or, am I just so stupid I didn't pick up on your sarcasm?

[Popps]

Dude, get the hell out o here with that chick shiit, my Mac Power Book has a gun metal silver titanium case. Hell it made my dick 3 inches longer just by owning it.

:rofl:

Dude, did you see the computers Boob was positing on that other thread? They looked like something he made in his garage. Oh, wait... he did...

http://blog.wabbadabba.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/computer.jpg

[baja]

Lol Popps

[Kaylore]

Wow, now... I generally take you as a guy hovering somewhere near average intelligence, Kaylore. If you're actually seriuos with that post, and you really believe what you just posted, you're about to get a serious downgrade.

Or, am I just so stupid I didn't pick up on your sarcasm?

You're really sensitive about this, aren't you Popps? Do you own stock in Apple or something?

[Popps]

You're really sensitive about this, aren't you Popps? Do you own stock in Apple or something?

I've owned it a few times. Bought it last year at 76 and sold in the 140s. Recently bought on the dip to 117, and it climbed over 170 today before settling back at 169. So, sure... on top of being great for my business, the Big AAPL has brought me some nice returns, as well.

That said, we were just having fun.

Sensitive? Please.

You never answered the question, though. Were you serious with that no right-click statement?

[alkemical]

Nah, I think those kids are usually "gamers," i.e... DnD playing, Magic the Gathering playing... WINDOWS users!

ROFL!

only an emo MF'er comes up with a lame comeback like that.

[Popps]

only an emo MF'er comes up with a lame comeback like that.

Woah dude, you just scored 30 battle hits and 45 life points!

[alkemical]

Woah dude, you just scored 30 battle hits and 45 life points!

lol, and you know this how ;)

[Kaylore]

I've owned it a few times. Bought it last year at 76 and sold in the 140s. Recently bought on the dip to 117, and it climbed over 170 today before settling back at 169. So, sure... on top of being great for my business, the Big AAPL has brought me some nice returns, as well.
ROFL!
That said, we were just having fun.

Sensitive? Please.

You never answered the question, though. Were you serious with that no right-click statement?

When I was doing video editing at school, every single apple we used had the one button-only mice. Yes, I was serious.

[Popps]

ROFL!


When I was doing video editing at school, every single apple we used had the one button-only mice. Yes, I was serious.

Brother... any mouse will work with a Mac. I (literally) have mice with 6 buttons for my editing work. (Trackball) The mice that ship with Macs are multi-touch, as well. Meaning, you can set it up to simply click on the left side for normal click, and the right side for right click.

Any mouse has worked with any Mac, at least since USB was invented. Right click is universal.

[Popps]

ROFL!


When I was doing video editing at school, every single apple we used had the one button-only mice. Yes, I was serious.

Oh, and even 15 years ago or so when perhaps their mice didn't have right click, you could just hold "option" with your pinky to bring up the right click menu. But, that was many, many moons ago.

[Popps]

lol, and you know this how ;)

I made it up. There's probably some Magic the Gathering nerd livid at me right now.

:D

[Bob's your Information Minister]

:rofl:

Dude, did you see the computers Boob was positing on that other thread? They looked like something he made in his garage. Oh, wait... he did...

http://blog.wabbadabba.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/computer.jpg

Your campaign of misinformation is disgusting. My PC is put together elegantly and simply.

[Play2win]

Any system that does not have Exposé is just lame.

Exposé + 30" Display = Pure Heaven

[Popps]

Your campaign of misinformation is disgusting. My PC is put together elegantly and simply.

Fair enough, dude. You're right. I know you worked hard putting together The Dragon Slayer....


http://usera.imagecave.com/Gorf/FatNerd.jpg

[baja]

Well Popps I got my G3 i phone when it came out.I stood in line for about 2 hours (Can't believe I did that) and after a little learning curve i must say I LOVE THIS THING. These Mac people are geniuses.

[Popps]

Well Popps I got my G3 i phone when it came out.I stood in line for about 2 hours (Can't believe I did that) and after a little learning curve i must say I LOVE THIS THING. These Mac people are geniuses.

I'm on the "old" 2G iPHone, but I love the **** out of it. It integrates into all my apps flawlessly and has been an invaluable tool for my business... which is funny because it's sold as sort of a media/fun phone. I owned two Blackberries and a Treo (and liked them all) ... but this is on another level, imo. I'm just now tapping into these apps on the creative side, too. There's a music (drum beat/midi-like) app that's pretty incredible. Tons of good games if you've got time for that kind of thing.

That said, there are issues to be worked out. Call reliability needs to improve. (Some of that may be AT&T.) SMS pic-messages has to be added. Wireless iTunes needs to happen, etc.

I get occasional freezes, but I got that on my other phones, too. I think people feel like there should NEVER be a problem with these phones because they are expensive. (Or at least they used to be.) But, they're just computers and I don't care what kind of computer it is... you get SOME level of problems. PC, Mac or Commodore 64.

I'll hold off on the 3G until they work some bugs out, and then I'll upgrade. I'm happy with my 2G and am operating under the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" motto.

[baja]

The 3rd party apps are amazing. I have one called 'I Want'. This app is friken unbelievable. It lists restaurants, grocery stores, banks ETC within a (chosen by you) radius of where you are. When you choose a business a google maps comes up showing where you are and where the business you chose is located. The app then proceeds to pin point where you are and show you walking to the pinpointed desired location.

I have another app that is a very accurate level.

There is an app that you put the phone near a music source and the app will tell you the song, artist and lyrics of the song. I can't find this one but I hear it is out there. I would love to get it.

[alkemical]

The 3rd party apps are amazing. I have one called 'I Want'. This app is friken unbelievable. It lists restaurants, grocery stores, banks ETC within a (chosen by you) radius of where you are. When you choose a business a google maps comes up showing where you are and where the business you chose is located. The app then proceeds to pin point where you are and show you walking to the pinpointed desired location.

I have another app that is a very accurate level.

There is an app that you put the phone near a music source and the app will tell you the song, artist and lyrics of the song. I can't find this one but I hear it is out there. I would love to get it.

I have windows live search on my phone that does the same thing.

[Rock Chalk]

I have windows live search on my phone that does the same thing.

Forget it Josh.

Stupid people are stupid people and they don't understand there is NOTHING innovative about Mac, its just marketed better. They steal EVERY idea from someplace else just like MS does.

[baja]

You are a bitter little boy, you should have grown up before starting a family. Good luck

[Rock Chalk]

You are a stupid old man.

You should stay in Mexico coward.

[Bob's your Information Minister]

I have windows live search on my phone that does the same thing.

That's the problem with most Mac users.

They don't even try the alternative and automatically assume it couldn't do half the things their precious Mac product can do.

BTW, iTunes put spyware on my PC. Last time I download ANYTHING made by Apple.

[Bronx33]

That's the problem with most Mac users.

They don't even try the alternative and automatically assume it couldn't do half the things their precious Mac product can do.

BTW, iTunes put spyware on my PC. Last time I download ANYTHING made by Apple.


Quit downloading midget porn dumbass.

[baja]

You are a stupid old man.

You should stay in Mexico coward.

Coward?

I'm not the one that needs 50 guns and a bazooka to feel safe. You are a true coward sonny boy and deep down you know it

[BroncoBuff]

Any system that does not have Exposé is just lame.

Exposé + 30" Display = Pure Heaven
Dare I ask ... what is expose?

[Popps]

Dare I ask ... what is expose?

It's pretty simple, but one of those things that once you have... you're eternally hooked on it.

Basically, you just set up the 4 corners of your monitor to represent something when you mouse up there. I always choose "all windows." So, when I mouse up to the far left (or right) corner... all application windows in any program that are open shrink down and appear on the screen at the same time. Then I can just click on one of them... and it comes to the forefront. It's just an extremely fast and visual way to get in and out of apps/screens.

I'm an editor, so it's invaluable to me. But, I now use it for anything. You can have several internet windows, a MS Word doc, E-mail and an editing program open... and just mouse up to the left corner to see every single app window.

It IS cool with a large monitor, but actually helps make good use of smaller ones as well.

[Popps]

Quit downloading midget porn dumbass.

Hilarious!