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Never heard of Compal OR Asus, and no one has called me with one either. Maybe it's big in its own foreign lands, but not here in the states.
I'm only 17 turning 18 but I've used pcs since I was a kid and only then did I ever had problems.Quote:
Haven't heard of incompatibilities? Welcome to the Computer world, you clearly haven't been here long.
Sorry but you're the one who doesn't seem to have been around pcs for long. Although compal is a bit occult (I myself only discovered it recently despite it being one of the biggest notebook producers), asus on the other hand is very well known, not only in the notebook business but also as a motherboard and gpu manufacturer.
Before I made my decision about which notebook to buy I lurked around some forums, and even in those with US users the compal laptops were mentioned, the asus too (obviously). Everyone knows the gaming notebooks Asus G1 and G2 for example.
How you're supposed to be so sure about that I don't know. But you can't deny that either way popularity has a big weight. If macs were more widely used than pcs, the companies would have more profit selling software for it than taking bribes from microsoft.Quote:
No,no. You misread. Microsoft PAYS companies to only make their software for PC. Its not hard to program for Mac. Its called whoring the market. Microsoft is renown for being a corporate monopoly machine, and is the REAL greedy company. Also there is a lot of freeware written for Mac only, once again neutralizing your point.
See, the thing is, nobody cares about mac. The number of pc users HEAVILY outweights the number of mac users, it's obvious the target are pc users, mainly the ones with windows. The general hate for microsoft may also play a role here.Quote:
Cool, so I've heard this point before. So your trying to tell me there are more people writing viruses for PCs? And yet, Apple throws up big advertising campaigns about how they don't get viruses, even without AV. And you think they aren't a target? Sorry, your just making that up out of thin air. Maybe more people write viruses for PCs because it so easy.
The only thing I can say here is that there is a world outside of the US. And I can safely bet that statement doesn't hold true around the world.Quote:
And BTW, there is no question of popularity with Windows, but there is also no question that Mac population is aggressively catching up.
The ipod is popular because of "style", but "style" doesn't make your mp3 better.Quote:
Over pricing is an opinion. If they are so overpriced why is iPod the most popular choice of MP3 Player? Kind of wierd.. overpriced = popular? Microsoft is the biggest Market Whore in history, another widely known fact, so where do you get off calling Mac a Greedy company?
I bought a sansa e280, at the time it cost me the same as a 4gb ipod nano.
Guess what? It has 8gb, the screen is slightly bigger, it can be used as a mass storage device, the battery can be removed easily, has an micro-sd slot, it doesn't force you to use a certain app *COUGH*itunes*COUGH* and, excepting europe (some legal complications sandisk got into, unlucky me), it brings also a radio tuner. Oh, it brings a sleek "skin"-bag too, which I lost today.
The only "down side" is that it's a bit thicker than the nano.
FYI, I said apple is greedy but I never said microsoft isn't. The only difference between the two is that apple makes ridiculous advertisements.
Microsoft may have a big monopoly but it doesn't own "pc", I choose my hardware and choose if I want to use their software.
By the way, you shouldn't bother taking the windows price into account because nobody buys windows. =p
If you really want to go through the legal road there are a load of linux distributions for free.
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And by saying "whatever they do" only indicates your own lack of experience with Mac, and obvious denial of any evidence that they may be better.
Don't twist the meaning. I didn't claim lack of knowledge about mac's capabilities. It's true I lack experience with them, but I know for a fact there's nothing they can do that pcs can't. (well, I don't know if pcs can emulate OS X but why would I want to do that?)
You don't tire of claiming mac is better. Yet, up to now you failed to provide a good argument besides saying macs are stable and assuming pcs are always unstable.Quote:
Stupid PC Zealots grab hold of their self built little PC "Honda" and simply scream "IT CANT BE BETTER, IT CANT BE!!!" While never even trying it to find out.
Bottom line: I don't care what you experienced. The proof is in the pudding, PC sucks even if you save a few bucks.
Before finishing I would just like to correct: you don't save "a few bucks", you save a few hundreds of bucks.