but have you seen the repair bill on a MAC?
Its a fucking insane price.
but have you seen the repair bill on a MAC?
Its a fucking insane price.
Good to hear since this is what we bought ours for. My PC wasn't hacking it. It keeps locking up every time we try to make a movie or something.Originally Posted by Crazy Asian
I bought the Mac protection program. Seems cheap enough to me.
we have a whole floor at my school just about full of mac and pc labs, so it's not like I'm a PC fan boy who won't give macs a chance. I've used both and I prefer PCs. Macs just don't cut it for me. I almost want to drop a class if I find out it's going to be in a Mac lab.
sure... that's what they want you to think.
APPLE CARE FTW
The one and only time I had to have repairs done on my MAC, Apple bent over sideways and backward to make sure my computer was taken care of quickly and correctly. The problem wasn't even with my computer. The problem was faulty Edge memory installed by MacMall. Apple didn't charge me a singe dime for all of their diagnostic work.
If I can find the estimate of my friend's new G5 repair bill Ill show you way.
Total came out to $650.77. Just to repair a 250GB hard drive. He basically sold it for parts and bought a PC. WTF YOU PAYING 650 for a hardrive? when a pc is like 150 bucks?
If your friend is literate enough to part it out he was literate enough to fix the hard drive himself. Macs are creeping up into pc's territory.. even in gaming they are becoming a stronger force, especially since the transition to x86 processing and being unix based. Macs are taking off software wise, and once more developers realize you dont have to buy thousands of dollars of development packages and software to program them and also become more widespread mac is going to become more dominant. the only thing hurting mac right now imo is their expensive somewhat proprietary hardware, but once again since their switch to intel processors that argument is going out the window
Dude are you serious? Are you insane if you can fix a MAC...I want to see. I've tried and failed though I build 6 pc's so far...MAC's are extremely delicate and you litteraly have to know what your doing. I highly doubt my friend knew what he was doing.
You can replace the hardrive in a MAC for roughly the same price you would pay to do the same for a PC. I don't understand what his situation is about but, I do know my experience was much more pleasant. In trying to isolate the problem I was having, Apple replaced my hard drive, both processors, and the DVD-RW/CD-RW optical drive and I didn't spend a single cent.
I dont know Im tryign to look for the bill.
I've changed & added hard drives, added memory, upgraded processors, and added peripherals. I guess these weren't "fixes" because the MAC I've worked on weren't broken but, adding upgrades takes many of the steps as repairs.
Open a G5...it's a nightmare. HOW MANY FREAKING FANS....that's a mobo?
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SOUNDCARD!!!!???? Im scared mommy....
I must admit I was a little intimidated the first time I cracked open my G5 but, once you take the fans out (they just slide out/no tools necessary) everything is pretty much right in front of you.
Well considering that I'm not a big time gamer, but I DO go to school for design, the stability of the mac OS is what drew me to it... I wasn't necessarily looking for Microsoft Word in particular, just something that is a more powerful word processor than text edit... but I called PeachMac, pitched a fit, and now have iWork free.
And yes, my $600 cell phone did help me... cause I called PeachMac from it.
Fuck stance. Stance is for kids in skinny jeans with Justin Beiber haircuts. You don't need stance when you got swagger.
Next time youve got a broken one bring it to me. Ive done ALOT of mac work, ive fixed them since pre-powerpc days, powerpc & combos, g3, g3, g5 whatever i can do it. its not that hard. macs arent any more delicate than any other pc ive worked on. Ive built 30+ pcs without a hitch.
thats what i said in a long drawn out way haha.
but as an aside... if anyone isnt sold on macs, talk with someone who really knows the in's and out's of a mac and there is an infinite amount of things you can do, most of the new age of mac users just bought their mac because everyone has itunes and an ipod so why not a mac right. then they expect it to be like their pc but find out its harder to use. well they didnt get a mac for the extensive amt. of things it can do... they just bought it as an accessory to their ipod... those people owe it to themselves to learn their computer
my buddy has a brand new MacBook Pro. My desktop and laptop both:
a) boot faster
b) have more versatility (games, photo editing, video editing, audio editing)
c) run all editing programs better
d) have never slowed down in 5 years, no ridiculous firewall, I've never had to approve anything.
When are Mac users gonna learn that they don't get viruses because Macs only make up 10% of the market. That's not even worth a programmer's time (I would know, I'm a programmer and web designer)
I am good friends with many people in the web design business, not freelancers, businesses that have been around for years, and they all use PCs. Another friend's company makes music videos, all PCs.
The .mac storage is plain and simply a server (I have my own and I never need to delete things) Once again it is a gimmick.
If you bitch about PCs crashing or freezing, you don't know how to use them correctly. Macs are simply PCs with training wheels. Hell, they even use the same hardware now. The only difference is the OS.
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so yea.....
SR20DE-T or KA-T now THAT is the real question
quoted for truth and commen sense :[ something mac uses fail at.
Oh yea. I liked that I could buy a year class card for one on one instruction for an hour per week. That was $100. I thought that was a deal. So now I can learn how to use Photoshop and Final Cut.
the only people that bitch about macs are the ones that dont know how to use them.
^^ WOW or you could've bought a book for $20 and read it. because all they do is teach you basics like how to open/add files/make new documents. and that's it. you will by no means be good at either program, you'll just be well versed in sucking at it.
is this a joke?
for you i have this:
Ever notice how most Mac users are skinny? It's because of all the calories they burn because they can't shut the fuck up about how great their Macs are. What is it about Apple that makes its users unable to shut their mouths? Everywhere I go, there's another asshole with a Mac preaching about how much better Macs are than PCs. They regurgitate lines directly from Apple's marketing campaign, like "it just works." I have the following rebuttals to this argument:
1. If everything on a Mac just works, then why does a website called "Mac fix it" exist, assholes? Here are a few choice topics on macfixitforums.com:I don't know why Mac users get so defensive when you call them idiots. I mean, Apple is a company that has built its entire user base around the fact that its users can't do simple things like turn their computers on. Hell, most Mac users can't even talk without using their hands, which ranks their intelligence somewhere between a simian and hog shit:
-Login window stuck!Waaaah, boo hoo! I can't drag and drop! Dumbass. Looks like your Macs aren't perfect after all, which leads me to my second point:
-lower caSe "S" key not working!!
-Menu bar keeps flashing
-I can't drag and drop!
2. Fuck you.
No need to be snippy!I do better when I can have someone show me things. I'm a hands on kind of gal. Either way, they said they will help you with projects. I know the basics of both programs, so I will just bring my projects in with my questions and go from there. Have you ever taken a class or is this speculation? I don't have an opinion really right now on what I like better. I haven't gotten my Mac yet, so I haven't used it. I haven't taken the class yet, so I don't know if it sucks or not yet. I will let you know once I get it.
Actually, I'm pretty damn proficient with a Mac, as that's all I had over the summer for school (used my buddy's) I know all the shortcut keys and other than that, it's the same as windows.
As I said before "If you bitch about PCs crashing or freezing, you don't know how to use them correctly. Macs are simply PCs with training wheels. Hell, they even use the same hardware now. The only difference is the OS."
So you just switched "PC" and "Mac" in my argument in an attempt to make your own. You should think about hopping off the bandwagon.
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What's this?
sorry i just get irritated that they sold you on another $100 of worthless, you could literally figure out the things they teach you in that class after about 10 minutes of fiddling around with either program. I know people who have taken the class and thought they learned something, come to find out they got gyped once again by MAC selling them on something completely worthless such as their computers.No need to be snippy!
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I never said anything against PC's... I've never used one. I've been a Apple user since the Apple IIGS, and never had a problem with mine, never. In 15 years of computing, Mac has stood the test of time for me. Definitely not a knock against PC's, I'm just saying ppl who bitch about Macs just dont know how to use them.
I mean, Apple is a company that has built its entire user base around the fact that its users can't do simple things like turn their computers on.
I dont know if you read that, i was stating that a 1 month old can use a mac, their OS is made for retards, if you can't use a mac, you should kill yourself. it's so simple thats why it sucks, because it only performs SIMPLE THINGS and at an extremely slow rate at that. your argument would be golden if youd ever used a PC and realized that people who can't use PC's bitch because you have to have a brain to use them.
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The macs are great for those just getting in to computing, all the pretty icons and menus. But once you hit the top of the learning curve (after 30minutes) you're up to basic Windows functionality. Windows has a steeper learning curve, but once you really learn the ins and outs, Macs don't stand a chance.
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damn duke, youre more defensive about PC's than most mactards are over their macs. lol
im not pc defensive, i just hate macs, the main % of their users quote shit directly from their commercials like "it just works" and believe anything someone tells them. it pisses me off.
Shannon had a mac computer and a Apple I-pod, either of them work.
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I've owned my first MAC loooooooooong before the new Apple media blitz and it has yet to let me down. I do all of my office crap on my G5 as well as graphic design, web design, video editing, & music editing. I have yet to use a PC that can compare to it's speed and versatility. My G5 boots faster than some people can type their password. Being that I'm not a gamer outside of the PS3 & XBOX realm, I'm not concerned with that avenue of functionality. Speaking from the standpoint of someone who uses MACs & PCs on a regular basis, I overwhelmingly prefer my MAC.
Being that I've been using MACs for so long, lots of my friends have asked me if I would recommend one for them. As I've told them, I wouldn't get one if I weren't using it for heavy graphics, multi-media, video/audio editing, web design etc. Most people that by computers don't do any of these things so I usually suggest purchasing a PC with decent memory, speed, and storage space. Most of them don't even use software outside of web browsers & Microsoft office. If anyone does any of the work that I do and they ask me about computers, I always recommend a MAC. My experiences have been much more successful using a MAC for what I do. I know people that work in multi million dollar recording studios, build & maintain websites for huge corporations, and the list goes on...they all prefer MACs to do their various jobs. Once you get to a certain level in your profession/skill, it all comes down to preference. I can do a lot of my graphics & web design on a PC but, I much prefer the MAC.
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