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Why you should buy a Mac.
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After seeing all the threads about Vista sucking it up I decided to create this thread; This summer I bought a refurbished Powerbook G4 for $600 off of Ebay. This computer is over 5 years old, considered obsolete by many and with less than preferable RAM and processor. I run Garage Band, Final Cut Express, Itunes, etc.. and use a 1TB external hard drive hooked up hogging computer resources. In these 2 months that I have had this I haven't experienced a single freeze up yet (Now Karma is going to get me and will probably blow up or something) But I currently have Final Cut, Itunes, Windows Messenger, Safari, and Task List running and its not a bit slow. Consider this when thinking about purchasing a PC, my Mac is fully compatible with the newest Mac OS and runs smoothly even though it is 5 years old and considered obsolete. Here are the specs:
1.33 Ghz G4 Processor, 768 MB Ram, 60 gig hard drive
I would like to point out that if it were a Windows PC it wouldn't have half enough RAM for Vista
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xp wasnt bad its just vista thats fuckin.....horrible..
but after a while once they start realeasing service packs and shit it will get better
but if i hadnt just spent 4 grand on my laptop id be buying a mac now...
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i had no clue vista was a ton different!!!
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thats true, i converted from xp to mac. my point was that an obsolete machine can outperfom a new computer running vista i wonder why people would want vista and why microsoft can't get their os right the first time without all the service packs... maybe they were to busy copying macs os to worry about things like performance and system stabilty
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My powerbook is 4 years old now and still trucking. I've spilled vodka and shit into this thing and it still keeps up with the big guys. I run dual monitors, its fucking pimp.
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most likely
and even with the service packs i dont think theres a way to stop vista from taking up like 40% of your system memory just to run
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it's called business.
Microsoft and Intel have deals where Microsoft keeps putting out a slower OS and Intel keeps developing faster processors. Intel is losing a lot of business because computers are fast enough and people don't need more speed. This is where Vista comes in.
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My PowerBook G4 has only slightly better specs that your 'obsolete' machine and is exactly 3 years old. It's an awkward feeling because after 3 years it should be time to buy a new machine, but I can't find ANY reason to. Everything still runs smoothly. So now I'm just gonna wait for it to fall apart until I get a new MacBook.
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my 6 year old ibook g3 i bought in first year of university still fahken rips.
never had a single freeze.
only person i know with a faster computer is my old roommate with a macbook
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i got my powerbook g4 in fall of 2004 and after 3+years of blatant music downloads and tons of other garbage the thing still runs as well as the day i bought it. the battery life is a little weaker and the keyboard is a bit squeaky, but the thing fucking trucks. ill never buy a pc again. ever. fuck windows.
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it is a rip off of the mac os
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ive got an 07 macbook pro, its the shit
buy one
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Lets see. I've had my mac for 2 and a half years and the hardware has failed once and I've had to reinstall the OS twice. It runs considerably slower than it did when I first got it and it only recognizes one of my ram slots so instead of the 1 gig of ram I'm supposed to have it thinks I have 512mb. It rarely freezes but becomes unusably slow after about a week of not turning it off. Its still a perfectly acceptable computer but I'm afraid to turn it off because sometimes it just doesn't turn back on.
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i would complain to apple about it, it sounds like you have a faulty machine
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so does my old roommate, his ex girlfriend, a few other people I know. My powerbook is out of warantee anyway. Theres nothing they're gonna do.
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i've known nothing but mac my entire life. the first computer i used was the first mac ever put out. my dad got into laptops and had a g3 powerbook, which still runs, and its almost 10 years old. (noone uses it). i've never ever, ever had a problem with mac. EVER. i have a 20inch iMac now with 250 gig hd, 2gigs memory, and it fucking rips. (its the silver one). my dad has a macbook pro 17 inch and its amazing. i love apple.
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Some of the laptops have had issues over the years, but I would say overall they're still much more bombproof both in hardware and software than most windows boxes.....
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well i had a 4 year old emac, and this year the graphics card or something went, it freezes anytime i try to do somethign visually intense.....but it can handle super hard things as usually like..opening huge files or whatever, its just anytime somethign moves too fast or shit it freezes and dies.....so i bought a new imac cuz i really wnated it. Anyways in 4 years thats the only problem i had with the computer....and it still runs normal shit.
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You shouldn't buy a mac, they're horribly overpriced. What you should do is buy a PC with similiar specs and then install a cracked OSX on it. For less than half the price of an Imac you can buy a PC and dual boot XP and OSX on it.
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macs are the shit
i love the video editing software
and like garage band
legit
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ive had my macbook for just over a year and it has been through so much shit and has not changed the tinyest little bit this thread makes me feel happy that this guy is gunna be with me for a while
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a pc with the same specs is going to be damn close to the same price
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yeah man this is the other side of the story thats often hidden by apple fanboys.
should always get the 3-year apple care program cuz apples are fuck expensive to repair. BUT most students can get the apple care program for free + a massive reduction.
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im on my brand new imac now
it pwns
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I've had my MacBook Pro for 4 months now and its treated me very well so far
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captain _t's moms co worker ran his 17 inch macbook pro over with his car, and it was fine. he needed a back plate for the screen, but it was fully operational
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EW i would never get a macbook biggest pieces of shit we had them at my elementary school and they were fucking senile or some shit.
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unless you are like 13 you didnt have macbooks in elementary school
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