Zeonix said:
Thats all you had to say. Like I said, I don't know much about any of this. I don't know how Mac runs and I don't know why people prefer it because Mac users are never able to tell me why they like it better than Windows other than "Windows sucks and it crashed all the time and it sucks man".
Apple's move seems more like a defensive manuever than an offensive one.
Quoted for truth.
I have worked extensively with both machines and I can tell you about a million stories about Macs and why I hate and loathe them. But I'm not going to go into any of it--the asinine design, the piss-poor software implementation, even the fact that they have had to put out more than a dozen versions of their OS in the time Windows has only done 5 or so. There are about ten bajillion reasons behind my dislike of Macs, and as someone who is equally able to use both I can clearly say I will always prefer PCs. The mac is a BS machine, especially the newer ones. Their OS has a nice framerate while you work and comes with better hardware for their displays--so it 'looks' like it's better then the default 60hz PC OS motion. This is enough to fool the uneducated and helpless people it's marketed towards--mainly people I work with. Mac users tend to do the same thing--rant about this iilusory perception of the PC as a 'slow' and 'clunky' machine that's crash prone (I have had this computer for two years and haven't EVER had to do a cold reboot...whereas my mac in work, I don't think has ever successfully made it to the point of being shut down properly). This perception, I believe, comes from nothing more than the stupid framerate on the OSX menu, and nothing more.
To answer your question, Zeonix, the alleged advantage of this, is that you would be able to set up your machine to dual boot on the Mac's hardware (which is allegedly superior--though any computer where a txt document can cripple it to complete lockdown, or that crashes so suddenly and brutally that even the frigging OFF button doesn't work and you have to yank the plug out, doesn't sound very superior to me). The idea would be to eliminate the main hangup people have about Macs--that buying one is a death sentence for compatibility. Now, with this new trend, you can allegedly have both, which would maximize compatibility.
No doubt the Macintards will be blaming the windows crashes Overlord mentioned to Microsoft's 'terrible programming', and not to the fact that their hardware is designed by incompetents, the complete lack of a driver infrastructure, the lack of a hard-coded file registry, etc etc.
Zeonix said:
Stop turning this into an argument. Im the last person you want to argue with.
Also quoted for truth. I don't want to see any arguing, and though I may not want to side with Zeo, he is right--he was only asking the differences. But I think Zeonix has a good idea for a thread--"Share Your Mac Horror Stories." I'm sure it'd be cool to compare notes. I think we'll all come to agreement, at any rate. Anti-Mac sentiment could be deposited there without derailing any pro-Mac topics that might come up (though I haven't seen one of those in...my entire membership here, heh).
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