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I love mac os x, it destroys windows - but everyone forgets one thing...

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shmutheprophet

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Mac OS X is, in my opinion, the greatest operating system hands down. Nothing touches it. It's FreeBSD roots make it extremely stable - and its user friendliness just make it WOW.

However, alot of people seem to think all PCs are made by Dell and inferior to Macs.

I am typing this on a custom built PC (which just means personal computer), running Gentoo Linux. This is just as stable as a mac, albeit not as user friendly.

PCs are great - windows sucks, but PCs are great.


Windows DOES NOT MEAN PC

PC DOES NOT MEAN Windows
 
Xander562

Xander562

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We know, you're kind of preaching to the choir here. Macs in fact are PCs too if you're going to take the term literally. I don't think there's any confusion here.
 
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shmutheprophet

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Dunno I was just browsing and saw abunch of, "back when I used windows and always freezed / crashed" and stuff like that. Just wanted to point out windows is a choice in the PC world. Dunno, guess it was alot smaller percentage then I thought, my bad. lol.:rolleyes:
 
Breegy

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I don't understand how this belongs under the "MacBook" section.

I still dislike PCs. I'd rather cozy up to Windows on a Mac than have a PC computer. :cool:
 
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scott85213

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I agree with him about the part how all macs are PC's. It upsets me how people misuse that term. Macs are PERSONAL COMPUTERS.
 
JNB

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Tallest Skil said:
*Large male church choir* AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAllllrightyyyy Theeeeeeeeeen... ;)

And yeah, we know, but guess who propagated the idea that the two are distinct? Apple.
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Tallest Skil said:
And yeah, we know, but guess who propagated the idea that the two are distinct? Apple.
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It was more IBM with the branded-as-such IBM PC. Up to that point, PC was just the geek's way of referring to them. Most of us just said we had a computer, desktop computer, or by brand: Apple, Kaypro, Osborne, Heath, whatever (even though I owned one, we would never actually admit to a TRS-80. TI-99/4's were OK--for a while, anyway). The real gearheads among us used to say cool stuff like, "I just breadboarded my CP/M box over the weekend, dude!"

The Macintosh was really the first significant PC that used consumer-oriented naming (not counting the Lisa here) as part of its brand identification. Most of the others were alphanumeric soup, along the lines of power tools or industrial machinery.
 
Chappers

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Its rare for me to actually want to swear at someone - but today.......

I can't be bothered - I only hope the OP is not so pratronizing to his real world peers. (Yes it is spelt incorrectly deliberately)
 
mkrishnan

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Threads like this are fine. They're expected to stay civil.

However, we do ask that you post them in a reasonable forum. Preferably this one (Apple, Industry, and Internet Discussion). I mean posting about a custom built Gentoo box in the Macbook/iBook forum is kind of silly, as I'm assuming you didn't custom build a notebook, and a tower PC is not exactly a compelling alternative to a notebook for portability.
 
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shmutheprophet

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mkrishnan said:
Threads like this are fine. They're expected to stay civil.

However, we do ask that you post them in a reasonable forum. Preferably this one (Apple, Industry, and Internet Discussion). I mean posting about a custom built Gentoo box in the Macbook/iBook forum is kind of silly, as I'm assuming you didn't custom build a notebook, and a tower PC is not exactly a compelling alternative to a notebook for portability.
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Yeah sorry about that :(
 
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shmutheprophet

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*Sandy* said:
I have a Vaio and love it most of the time, but still wanting my new macbook :)
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Yeah, I love my Macbook, its a great machine :cool:. I'm just saying when people act like Macs are the only way to not use Windows, that is totally false.
 
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