Would you say it goes “beep beep beep beep beep beep”? Ellen, is that you?
At the risk of being whooshed… We call Canadian bacon “back bacon”. It’s made from the eye of the pork loin loin, accordingh to my dictionary. It resembles, but is not the same as, the ham, which is the upper part of the hog’s leg.
I’ve had the opposite experience-I have great luck with my custom built PC (for a FRACTION of the cost, I might add!), and every time I had to use a Mac, it just sucked. No right click-how does one save pictures? And don’t even get me started on trying to print!
I mean, if it works for YOU, fine. But I LOVE my custom-built PC, even with its beat up, faded, smudged grey casing. It’s what’s on the inside that counts, baby.
Hey, I’m not partial when doling out designations of suck-titude. I am willing to say lots of PCs also blow choad and I’ve had a few meself. As in 'OMG WHY THE HELL DID MY POOR LITTLE AMD PROCESSOR MELTDOWN AND SPEW POISONOUS FUMES INTO THE AIR?? YOU P.O.S COMP, I KICK YOU OUT THE WINDOW!!"
I was making a comment on the Mac Ads and their belief that Mac’s never break down and pointing out a personal experience that proved it WRONG. I don’t care which is better, I just feel like Apple is lying to the public by having those shmoes (GOD I HATE THAT DUMBCHICK WITH THE TERM PAPER) on the commercials say that it never breaks.
My first comp was a second-hand Mac-enstein LCII and I loved it to bits till weird stuff happened to the hardware. I have a PC now mostly because I like to game (Sims, EQ, CS,etc.) , and with sufficient RAM and a decent videocard I, too, can Photoshop and do various other things.
shrug
I’ll get a cite for this tonight, but a certain graphics magazine says that once you reach the real high end stuff for both PC and Mac, you’re paying about the same and they do roughly the same job.
IMHO, Macs are way cuter than the PC’s in general. 
And I still didn’t get my bacon with maple syrup. 
Ha.
Double ha.
TRIPLE ha.
Go check out the links that Lord Derfel posted. Sure, a Mac may put more bang into each clock cycle, but a PC’s brute strength makes up for the Mac’s elegance.
To sum up the two links: The second one (Mac vs. PC-2) compared a dual 1-ghz G4 system to both a dual Athlon 1800+ and a P4 2.53 ghz system. The first link pitted a dual 1.25 ghz G4 system against a P4 3 ghz system. In both tests, the PC’s smashed the Mac systems outright.
Dude. I don’t care. My only point was, megahertz is not the sole indicator of system performance. Go play “my PC can beat up your PC” somewhere else.
I have two Macs, my wife has a PC. I can’t, off the top of my head, recall any problems either one of us has had recently.
At the office where I used to work they have three PCs and two Macs and it was my responsibilty to maintain all of 'em. The PCs (all three) needed constant troubleshooting, while the only problem I ever ran into with the Macs was once when the idiot secretary couldn’t get the printer to work, so she just kept dropping print job after print job into the queue (turned out the printer was out of ink).
Bottom line for me is I have had more difficulties with PCs. Moreover, I was trained on Macs at a newspaper, so I’m more comfortable with them. So I choose to support Apple.
Plus Bill Gates is the anti-Christ. Now him fried up as extra-crispy bacon… Hmmmmm…
If Bill Gates is the anti-christ, why was it that the Apple I cost $666 when it first hit the market.
Calm down, buckaroo, I only reports the facts. You’re the one who started this whole “let’s debunk these myths” idea.
elf6c, did you get that off Gone Gold?
“Fraction”? You make it sound as if PCs are only a few bucks, and Macs are the price of a small yacht. I know PCs are cheaper, and that lower price is tempting, but it isn’t like you have to hock your house to get one. My G4 was pretty cheap, thanks to eBay. (It was only a few months old when I bought it from a filmmaker in NYC who had been a PC guy forever, but fell in love with Macs. He wanted to sell “my” G4 because after seeing how great Macs were, he went out and bought a top-of-the line model, and was switching his whole filmmaking operation to Mac, not that you asked, but I thought he had a pretty cool story.) No, my G4 probably is not as fast as a PC of the same price, but then again, a PC can’t run OS X or Final Cut Pro, so there ya go.
How much time did you spend on a Mac, total? Not that I begrudge you your dislike of Macs, if you dislike them, don’t use them, it’s no skin off my nose. And as far as the right click thing? I use right-click all the time. My Wacom digital tablet’s mouse does it masterfully, as the OS fully supports right click.
Who cares, anyway? Why would I care about what your PC looks like? Did anyone ask? Why would any of us give you a hard time about what computer you use? Was this thread started by a Mac user? Oh, wait…
And as we all know, all Mac users never turn on their Macs and like, use them. We just admire the external design. That’s why we never go on about OS X, or how we love using Photoshop on our Macs, or anything like that. And all those studios and graphics houses that guy Macs, well, they don’t really use them—they just are for decoration. Oh yeah.
LOL
Just because the Steves are in league with the devil doesn’t mean they are the devil. And in spite of the much-publisized battles between Microsoft and Apple, the two companies have a long standing and very amicable relationship as far as I’m aware. 
You know, I have to say that what keeps me from buying a Mac is the Apple community–not the zealots, who are just as unbalanced as the PC owners who try to crush the Macistas belief in the superiority. No, it’s the feeling that, by buying a Mac, I’m buying a lifestyle, which is a marketing angle I inherently distrust. When a manufacturer sells a product by playing on its customer’s demographics, I’m immediately suspicious. Those Switch ads are the penultimate example of what I want to avoid: buying something that writers and artists love because it works like their brains do (to paraphrase one of them), or something that cops and embittered PC sysadmins find refuge in.
If it weren’t for that, I’d probably wait a year or two, for OS X to get really tweaked for its hardware, and then buy it to have a lovely interface on a solid Unix core.
Well, to be fair, even if the price of the PC is 79/80’s that of a Mac, it’s a “fraction”…
But the way the market looks right now, it’s look like a PC will be about 2/3-1/2 the cost of an equivalent Mac… the former price for a name brand model, the latter for one built by yourself.
Admit it, it’s fun as hell to build your own PC…
Oh, certainly. I am even considering (kind of half-ass) in taking a class to learn how to build my own PC. I have been needing to get a new PC for a while now (even though I love my Macs, I wouldn’t mind having a PC around somewhere) and it would be a good learning experience to do it myself.
And sure, even if a PC is 99% of the price of a Mac, yes, that’s a “fraction”. But some people seem to think that all Macs are priced beyond the reach of mere mortals, and that just isn’t so. I got my G4 Mac (not that old, from the NYC filmmaker) for $800. Sure, I could have gotten a PC for a “fraction” of the price, but it wouldn’t run OS X or some of the other apps I want to tinker with, so it wouldn’t have been what I wanted, even though it was cheaper.
Other Mac users have pointed out the benefits and value of Macs, and why we think they are worth the price. All I know is, they aren’t that much more, they are well-made, and can run software that PCs can’t. (Most importantly for me, OS X.)
Bottom line is—if you really prefer something, and can save up the “fraction” of extra money it costs to get it, you’re gonna get it, right? No matter how apparently offended those around you are, at your seeming audacity to buy something that does not meet with their approval? Right? So, what’s the big deal? Are we not allowed to use whichever computer we want without getting crap from the PC contingent?
Fools! Submit to the power of the One True OS
50,000 monkeys at 50,000 typewriters can’t be wrong.
Bah. Back at my old job, our most important machine ran on OS-friggin-2!! It kicked ass!
Whenever we rebooted, it asked us if we wanted to register our copy of OS/2. I always wanted to click “Register” just to see what would happen. I bet some lowly functionary at IBM would have been blown away.
not to highjack a thread or anything but i agree. lame advertising is just that, lame. why the hell would you buy a COMPUTER that is apperantly made for morons? well unless you ARE a moron I suppose.
kinda like those credit card ads that offer “customer Rewards”
yeah right like I am not fully aware that every single reward is bought and paid for by…THE FUCKING CUSTOMERS! you never “win” an award, you PAY FOR IT.
you want to sell me a product? make me laugh or convice me that a real person, a professonal in their field would use this item. don’t insult my intelligence and don’t hammer me with annoying as hell, played way to often ads that weren’t even funny the first time I saw them.
While I agree that some of the ads are lame, to be fair, there are a lot of “professionals” there too. Some musicians, at least one writer, professionals in the computer field, etc. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is one of the people featured in an ad. Is he not “professional” enough for you?
I was able to peruse the “Switch” ads more thoroughly (yay broadband!). There seem to be more than a few “professional” type people featured in these ads. Here’s a sampling:
Richard Ziskin—small business owner, (“the only umbrella manufacturer in the USA”). He runs his business on Macs.
Jeremiah Cohick—a student and former Mac hater whose C++ teacher dared him to deviate from his MS Visual Studio World. He loves OS X.
Theresa McPherson is a lawyer, who decided that she didn’t want to hire an IT dept when she started her own business. She chose Macs because she was able to troubleshoot them herself, and get them to communicate. They got the job done for her.
Then there’s Aaron Adams—(can’t find his video, but he had one) who is a Windows LAN administator by day, enjoys his Mac by night.
Fabiola Torres is a college professor. She likes iMovie.
IT Director Gianni Jacklone has been working with Windows for 10 years and Unix for 7, and he’s hated Macs all that time. Until OS X came out… “It’s the bomb”, he says.
De La Soul (whoever they are, but apparently they are professional musicians) love their Macs.
Mark Gibson has switched to all Macs in his veterinary practice. He feels like everything runs more efficiently and smoothly in his 12-Mac, 60-person office.
Gautam Godse is a software projects manager who loves working with iPhoto.
Lawyers? Professional musicians? Windows LAN and IT Directors? Geeky students who are studying C++? Vets and College Professors? These people don’t strike me as morons, they strike me as folks who want to get the job done, and for whatever reason, they decided that Macs helped them get the job done a little better.
Not all of them are computer experts (Yo-Yo Ma especially) but so what? They are not morons. If they can “get the job done” on a Mac better than a PC, than a Mac is going to be what they use.
For instance, Yo-Yo Ma is a brilliant cellist. I have some of his recordings. He’s not an idiot because he happens to be a “technophobe”. His talents lie with the cello, not with figuring out Windows. So what’s wrong with that?