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June 7th, 2005, 08:43 AM
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| There is only ONE Reason to buy a Macintosh I may get flamed for posting this. Flame me if you must. There is only one reason to buy a Mac. To have vast superiority over the IBM-PC-AT-Clone / now Windows-Intel Industry Standard. To go to the dark side of computing by placing an intel chip inside a Mac is a putrification of the Macintosh and an action of gross disrespect to the entire Macintosh community. Shame on you, Steve Jobs.
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June 7th, 2005, 08:49 AM
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There has always been only one reason to buy a Mac: MacOS. Hardware is just metal, it's the software that allows you to actually do something.
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#3
June 7th, 2005, 08:53 AM
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| As shocked I was by this as you are, remember one thing. Only the CPU is changing. The CPU changed from 68000 series CPUs to PowerPC CPUs back in the mid 90s, but it was all still Apple. Atari and Amiga also had 68000 series processors under their hoods, but did that allow them to be like the Mac?? Heck no. So the CPU has changed...big deal, I'm over it. Apple will have the final say as to how it will all be integrated, and it will STILL be better than any other PC using the same processor...so we will be looking at some interesting hardware coming down the pike.
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June 7th, 2005, 08:56 AM
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| We already have Darkside-Industry Standards in our Macs for quite some time. Harddisc, ram, graphic unit, optical drive... What Mac stands for is not Motorola/Freescale or IBM but MacOS, as Lycander mentioned.
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#5
June 7th, 2005, 09:01 AM
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| I'm going to wait and see what the end result is rather than denouncing the new machines before they're even out. Also, I only recently bought a Mac and the main reason for me doing so was the OS and the software available. |
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June 7th, 2005, 09:11 AM
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| I'd like to think Mac users aren't as shallow as that. But maybe not, maybe it really was an elitist thing all these years after all...
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#7
June 7th, 2005, 09:13 AM
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| Also, some "PC" hardware is on-par with Apple for QA, etc. HP workstations aren't bad, and I use a new HP Compaq 8230 laptop at work (i am an IT tech covering ~360 desktops over 8 campuses) and i love it.. the big let-down is Windows. sure, the "average" pc is nothing compared to a mac, but the hardware can be of the same quality and style. it's the OS that makes the big difference.
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June 7th, 2005, 10:56 AM
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