Thread: Advice for Apple

Just my personal preference but I prefer Windows, mainly because I know how it works. Another thing that drives me against Apple is their bullsh*t adverts.

"Hello I'm a Mac,"
"And I'm a PC"
"I'm cooler than you, look see how I play iTunes and iMovie"
"Wow that's so true, I am only good for spreadsheets and other boring grown up things."

As per the laws of the internet ...

Apple's Mighty Mouse, which has TWO buttons (plus a scroller and some not-so-useful stuff) has been included with their desktops for at least a year. By the way, you can still "right"-click with the old mice; just hold down control (not command) when you click. Neruo, if you don't like control-clicking, you could always bring your own mouse to the university.

Originally Posted by goldney

Just my personal preference but I prefer Windows, mainly because I know how it works. Another thing that drives me against Apple is their bullsh*t adverts.

"Hello I'm a Mac,"
"And I'm a PC"
"I'm cooler than you, look see how I play iTunes and iMovie"
"Wow that's so true, I am only good for spreadsheets and other boring grown up things."

Lol, I love those ads. They make me laugh

Um... doesn't the mighty mouse come standard with Macs now? It has two buttons and a scroll wheel.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Um... doesn't the mighty mouse come standard with Macs now? It has two buttons and a scroll wheel.

See my post ...

Macs are great and quick to set up when you get them. But they're a nightmare to troubleshoot and their harddrives last about 5 days.

Originally Posted by Squall

But they're a nightmare to troubleshoot

I find troubleshooting Mac OS X to be much easier than troubleshooting Windows. The former usually involves trashing .plist files or even a simple restart, whereas the latter often requires booting into Knoppix to back up the entire hard drive, running a virus/spyware/trojan/other malware scanner, and sometimes even erasing the entire hard drive and reinstalling from scratch.

Originally Posted by Squall

their harddrives last about 5 days.

What makes you say that? I've never had a hard drive problem in my 5+ years using Macs.

But they're a nightmare to troubleshoot and their harddrives last about 5 days.

I've had this mac for 7 years. never a hard drive problem...

Mac=secure. Windows=spyware, viruses, etc. I don't use the security on this mac. I can go to any site and know I will not get any viruses from it. No cleaning the volume or whatever when you start up the computer. No spyware scans. I will admit the advertisements are a bit irritating and childish. But the computer is superior, especially for media stuff. Factory default wise, windows is far better for gaming though. By a long shot. But, I'm not a gamer anymore, so I'll stick with mac.

Originally Posted by dsr

I find troubleshooting Mac OS X to be much easier than troubleshooting Windows. The former usually involves trashing .plist files or even a simple restart, whereas the latter often requires booting into Knoppix to back up the entire hard drive, running a virus/spyware/trojan/other malware scanner, and sometimes even erasing the entire hard drive and reinstalling from scratch.

What makes you say that? I've never had a hard drive problem in my 5+ years using Macs.

Haha I meant hardware wise they are a nightmare. It takes about 3 hours to open up a mac to check the RAM and only about 2 minutes in a PC. I have a part time job fixing student's computers here at school and most of the time when a mac comes in with a problem, it's probably the hard drive that died. Looks like you were lucky.

Originally Posted by Squall

But they're a nightmare to troubleshoot and their harddrives last about 5 days.

They're UNIX, tech people would always prefer to troubleshoot a UNIX platform than Windows. Lots of errors in Windows come from the registry

I've had my iBook for 2 years and I've not had one drive error, I have a System 8 machine at home that I've had for 10 years and it still runs fine. Maybe you're thinking of the iPod battery?