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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 5:33 pm 
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Zad, the Hadron people use linux and you know it.

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If MAC truly appealed to stupid people, it would have been #1 a long time ago.

On a side note, I discovered Rockbox http://www.rockbox.org/, a really good open source music player firmware replacement. Installed it on my Sansa e260. Kind of makes the hardware irrelevant as it works on an iPod as well.


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That is very true. But, for the people who aren't scientists who just want a computer to function without ANY issues, MAC is the way to go. I've had this thing for 2 years and it still runs like new. I have not had 1 issue with it. Battery life lasts forever, it is light and easy to carry around the house (or to a coffee shop :P ), it holds a shit ton of music, and it is extremely user friendly.


But you have to ask yourself, does it run like new because nothing has been corupted or changed since then, or because the software is superior.

Personally, the ability to use regedit to completely break an OS install is an option I would like open, not put in a glass box that I can not open.

I think BG was right, with a little modification. 99% of Windows failure is due to operator and vendor error.

My 10 year old laptop would obviously run just like new also if I put the factory install disc in it and reloaded windowsMe.

The problem with windows is the basic freedom to allow broken drivers, bad code, terrible OS mods and the like to be programmed into it to begin with.

A lot of people have been assuming for too long as long as it has an installer the program was written competently, which is almost always wrong.

So yeah, the bottom line is Windows will do anything, but the responsibility of such falls on the user. It is pretty simple, assign yourself a non-admin username and such priviledges if you don't know what to do with MS.

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So true. I always complain about my laptop running slow at times but then I think about all the shit I've fucked with and it just goes to show how personalized/how much I can alter in the OS. Actually going to install 7 today so pretty psyched about that.


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FrigidSymphony wrote:
Zad, the Hadron people use linux and you know it.


Still a PC.


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The_Voice wrote:
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Zad, the Hadron people use linux and you know it.


Still a PC.



And so is Mac these days. They have been using Intel chipsets for quite some time now.

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zad, you should really try an iPhone.


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It blows my mind that people don't see what a shitty, greedy company Apple are.


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But their products are genius! I got an iPhone 4 and it's just fucking awesome!


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But their products are genius! I got an iPhone 4 and it's just fucking awesome!


Got flash? their shit is so closed. The ipad doesn't have usb ports or any way to connect it to anything.... except apples internet stores...


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You know what. No, Apple is not genius. You can buy a device that is the size of the palm of your hand that has full-featured windows XP installed. TWO YEARS AGO. We all know where this is going too. A replica of your desktop computer in your cellphone, which is gonna put Apple out of commission, maybe for good this time.

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yeah, I had a HTC with Windows mobile, and you know what? It was fucking terrible.. The iPhone is ridiculously much easier to use, and haven't crashed on me yet. The HTC fucked up pretty fast.

The iPad is supposed to be a replacement for laptops I guess, and come in pretty handy once in a while. Not that I will ever get one but. Other than that, yes Apple rocks.


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yeah, I had a HTC with Windows mobile, and you know what? It was fucking terrible.. The iPhone is ridiculously much easier to use, and haven't crashed on me yet. The HTC fucked up pretty fast.

The iPad is supposed to be a replacement for laptops I guess, and come in pretty handy once in a while. Not that I will ever get one but. Other than that, yes Apple rocks.
That doesn't address how greedy they are. Monopolies over options suck or did they not have that game in Norway when you were growing up?

I'm not saying they have a monopoly in the market but if you invest in one of their products you essentially are immersed ah fuck it I'm not getting into this.


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metal_xxx wrote:
yeah, I had a HTC with Windows mobile, and you know what? It was fucking terrible.. The iPhone is ridiculously much easier to use, and haven't crashed on me yet. The HTC fucked up pretty fast.

The iPad is supposed to be a replacement for laptops I guess, and come in pretty handy once in a while. Not that I will ever get one but. Other than that, yes Apple rocks.


What does windows mobile have to do with windows XP? I meant windows XP because they have computers the size of phones running it, and running it as well as any laptop. If people can't use a windows XP setup at this point, they need to hang it up and go get a jitterbug phone. The only complaint I read about the XP-loaded micro-computer phone thing is the screen resolution, which is a hardware and driver issue, not MS's problem. My point is that it has been done with much less and much less compatible hardware than we have now. So what is MS waiting on? \

I even have the ad campaign they can do. show a bunch of Apple store apps that do useless crap. Name the amount of apps available for the iphone. Then mention that a dos-based windows machine (they claim they don't use dos anymore, which is bullshit, but they do, they just run it in protected mode where you can not access it from the GUI anymore) which can run about 1000 times more programs that aren't the modern equivalent of the dancing hamster website.

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Yeah I don't care to be honest. My experience with Apple is that it never fails, hence, I'm using their products. Won't get into any hardware-arguments because I don't have a clue.

Trapt: I'm not sure what you mean, but Apple definitely don't have a monopoly here, and I don't really care about their status in the rest of the world (US). Works like a charm for me, I got one dirt cheap, and it's bloody easy to use. That's all that matters to me.


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Monopolistic might be the wrong word. Controlling, greedy bitches would describe it better insofar as you're locked into going through their online stores and the closed source aspects.


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That is the only problem I have ever had with Apple. If you wanna make mediocre quality expensive stuff to be an alternative to Windows, great!, the competition makes both companies better. But not so fast, unfortunately Apple has this extremely tight controls on what you can actually do with something you have the right to own and use forever. what advantage is that? Yeah, Apple works until you decide you'd like it to do something it wasn't originally programmed, or think it was, to do.

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Zad should really get an iPhone.


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Even itunes on my computer constantly tries to fuck me over by moving folders around :lame:


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Even itunes on my computer constantly tries to fuck me over by moving folders around :lame:
WMP does that too though. Although it is a setting in Windows. Can you not turn it off in itunes?


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