Mac people irritate me

The BBQ Pit
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Excellent rant. As a former Mac Tech, I’ll let you in on a little secret that some of us already know. They are glorified, underpowered, beautiful on the outside shit on the inside pieces of crap. We had more of those things in our store being fixed than Compaq, IBM, Sony, and HP combined. Not only that, but the customers were ALWAYS assholes. They expected to have it done 15 minutes before they brought it in and they usually smelled of BO, drove a beater Volkswagon and were wearing some goddamn hippie hug a tree shirt with their fingerpaint all over it. That and they were always right. Well if you’re such a fucking smart Mac user, FIX IT YOUR GODDAMN SELF!!! If we had to order a part for a Mac, say a hard drive, and within 90 days if that computer broke again, for ANY reason, we (or anyone) would not get paid by Apple to fix it because there is no possible way that a mighty Mac could have something go wrong twice within 90 days. The only reason we kept servicing them is even with all the free work we gave them, we fixed SO MANY of them we would have been stupid to drop our Apple Partnership.

That and they’re lying sacks of shit for claiming to have the first 64-bit desktop and the worlds fastest desktop. Yeah, maybe the fastest when they compare their product that wont ship for another month to a 3 month old Intel with the hyperthreading disabled.

Fuck Apple, I hope Steve Jobs and his loyal ass kissing, holier than thou, fucking hippie customers burn in hell.

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Yeesh, Tezmac, some issues there? (I can just see how well he’d go over in a Mac message board.)

Just wanted to pop in to say that I (as the angelic Mac user that I am) have not behaved like that in PC threads. But I don’t shy away from mentioning Mac, since I do love it and am most pleased with my G4 running OS X. However, since I have a new PC (that I had put in a fabulous purple case) I don’t break out in hives discussing the PC side of things. I know that some people will never switch (especially if they are gamers) and that’s OK.

I also want to point out, Cnote, that what you witnessed has been done, over and over again, to Mac users. Oh my word. PC users are no angels when it comes to this.

You should have been a fly on the wall when I decided to “switch” to Mac a few years ago. The crap I heard. The “preaching” I heard. It was as if I’d slapped some of the PC-users in the face because I decided I preferred my Mac. They acted as if it was their business, or something.

As Daisy Cutter said, the percentage of PC users far outnumbers the Mac users, so overall, the Mac users get more grief and shit from Mac users. Trust me on this one.

So, it would be just as accurate (or far more accurate, if we went by numbers), to say: PC people irritate me.

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Yack. Typo: It should be: the Mac users get more grief and shit from PC users.

No, nothing Freudian there, I just type too fast.

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I’m going to chip in with the OP in regards to the thread he referenced.

The guy in that thread was having trouble getting his call-waiting modem to work with his call waiting. That means that his problem was either in the initialization string of the modem, the modem’s hardware itself, or his ISP not supporting that feature. Guess what, the OS he’s running has jack-all to do with any of that.

Macintoshes don’t magically solve hardware or compatibility problems for you.

-lv

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Just about the only interesting or relevent thing in the entire OP.

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Platform-change suggestions also do not help if doing so would also mean buying several hundred dollars worth of software to do the same on the new platform as one was doing on the old one. Assuming sutible replacement software can even be found.

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Another amen for Cnote. I hate this in PC threads and wouldn’t dream of crapping in a Mac or Linux thread like a few Mac (l)users have shown such a proclivity for doing on these boards.

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You think only the Mac users crap in PC threads? You think that PC users never crap in Mac threads? Please.

This is not to say that Cnote’s rant was misplaced in this one instance. However, this sort of thing has been going on for a long while, so it seems appropriate to link to Fenris’s thread, “Platform Hijacks—last resort of the pathetic loser?”.

It’s not new, and it’s not just Mac folks who are doing it.

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Macs never crash? I have to use a Mac in my new job, and it crashes ALL THE TIME. In fact, it’s recently crashed itself into inoperability and refused to start until it is fed the original system disks, which of course are in the hands of an administrator who may or may not ever get around to bringing them to me. I don’t know anything about them in general, but I really hate mine for reasons that seem entirely practical to me.

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I just heard that reliance on windows as a huge national (worldly) security risk.
Can someone help me with a link? Thank you.

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Wow. What the heck are you doing to that poor Mac?

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Security updates are a different part of maintaining your Mac/PC… although sometimes related to an exploit caused by a virus, they are usually what’s called a “patch” for a particular part of the OS software or firmware/bios.

Patches keep hackers from exploiting a particular flaut in the coding of a piece of software. (this is the best example) Programs sometimes have buffers used in the imput of commands that can be overrun… and this overrun allows for the injection of code that can execute a command or virus that expliots the program and or OS/firmware/bios.

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Exposing it to a slight breeze?

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here’s a review link: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/24/HNwidespreadms_1.html
I read the report yesterday from an internal mail. Basically, I would sum it up as there is a security risk because if Microsoft fails and so many people globally use Microsoft, then that is a giant risk. That the cornerstone of a secure system is simplicity, therefore Microsoft by definition is too complex to be secure.

This would be a topic better suited in another thread. I personally wasn’t impressed with the arguement, level of discussion, rationale or content. YMMV

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I think each one of us can cite a Mac or PC that was a lemon or got totally screwed up. Doesn’t mean that all computers of that platform are screwed up.

For instance, I have a PC that overheats and “beeps” (heat sensor) all the damned time. My sister had a PC that never worked right. But, we both have new PCs, and for the most part, they work OK. I never let my “beeping PC” turn me off of PCs (well, not enough to stop using PCs) and I never blamed all PCs because my one PC beeped.

And, on the other side, I have had many Macs, and they’ve all been dandy. I love my Macs. However, it is not beyond the realm of comprehension that the occasional Mac will be a lemon, or be a dud. It happens. They are computers. Sometimes they fail.

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I agree with your post Cnote!

One cool thing about PCs is that you can build your own PC pretty damn cheap.

A case and power supply here, a video card there, etc, etc… I don’t know of any Mac users that can (although I have been known to be wrong before) that can easily get parts from all over the place and build a computer on a limited budget.

Macs are “cute” I admit but when it comes to “cuteness” I am turned off. My machines are not there to be cute, they are there to serve a purpose but then again I am not exactly stylish in the rest of my life either.

And while we are here in the Pit discussing comments that don’t help because simply changing an OS or whatever…get to the point already.

A few days ago (or maybe a week or more) someone asked a question in GQ about a problem someone had with AOL. Some asswipe came in and said something to the degree “Your problem is you are using AOL.”

WTF? Now how in the hell is that going to help the person figure out what is wrong with the sound? Nadda, zero, zilch. Just because it’s AOL doesn’t mean the problem always stems from AOL. I wanted to say a good “fuck you” to the person that did this but kept my mouth shut.

I used AOL from 1995 to the BYOA plan through 2001 and rarely had problems with their software. Same with my PC and my Windows platform, I have rarely had a problem. But then again I used to work in the industry.

But in either case, if someone asks a question about their computer and you don’t have a resolve for it, shut the fuck up already as telling someone that the reason you have a problem is because: you have a PC, you have AOL, you have Microsoft… you aren’t helping with the problem at hand so fuck off.

BTW, for those snobby MAC users (not the cool ones) that think your machine is the shits…good on ya. My PC runs Photoshop, Illustrator and other graphics software just fine thank you including altering those that were worked on a Mac…My PC works just fine thank you.

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I have a G4. I have a fast PC. When I’m using them, I really don’t notice any difference. I don’t have to pledge allegiance to Bill or Steve, do I? Who gives a fuck? Truth of the matter is, it’s both their faults for tricking stupid people into thinking they could operate computers without bother to learn anything about them. “My Pentium II seems to be very slow. When I bought it in 1997, they said it was quite fast I don’t understand. What you say? Have I run defrag in the last five years? What’s a defrag?”

Now why isn’t the fucking cup-holder on my PC working?

  • PW
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See, I’m jealous about this. For my job, I have to write and design a newsletter, and I do it on InDesign on a Powerbook my company bought me. Unfortunately, our IT department refuses to support Macs, and so I (and the designers, who use their Macs for everything) are/am stuck pooling our collective resources whenever one of us has a problem with our Macs.

I know that InDesign and Photoshop are available for a PC, but our production guy has told us that documents created in InDesign on a PC do something wrong at the printers, and so I’m pretty much stuck with a machine that no one can really help me with if something goes wrong. Does what he said about working on a Mac vs. a PC sound right to anyone?

Also, Anamorphic?

Word.

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linux.

linux, linux, linux.

You fools!

{Just wanted to balance things out :wink: )

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How’s Mac doin on the gaming front? You guys must be up to what…9-10 games by now, eh? :wink:

http://www.wiredvideo.com/clips/#applegamer

Go down to the video clip called Apple Gamer, it’s hilarious…a bit dated, but still funny as heck.