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NivenHuH writes "Bill Noll, an independent photographer, took some interesting pictures of his new PowerMac G5. Talk about Mac Zealot!"
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Mac zealots are sad, so very very sad.
Hey, Verne, yew ever bin in an Apple store? Miles and miles of empty space, Vern! I'm tellin' ya, couple o' funny looking kids in matching tee-shirts and earrings, surrounding by... what kin ah say?... lots and lots o' nuthin'!
Kind of like apple.slashdot.org, Vern!
Yet apparently you were stupid enough to buy a .us domain. Way to go homos.
Also, your Dell is slower than the G5.
" To mac lovers like myself raw processing power does not matter."
That speaks volumes right there.
"The thing is that the mac allows you to get your work done without crashing every 30 seconds"
If you're talking about OS9 and earlier legendary instability, then yeah, this is a huge improvement. If you're taking a swipe at windows users, Windows has been very stable since Win2000. And I KNOW you weren't dumb enough to aim that at Unix users.
"And it looks sexy too."
Someone kill me now. ITS A FUCKING COMPUTER.
"I think that the fact that mac users find their computers sexy telling"
You have no idea...
"they love their machines, which is something that most users simply do not do."
Mac users attachments to their machines borders on the psychotic. It's a computer, no more, no less. It may be a very capable computer, in an attractive case (and beauty is definitly in the eye of the beholder here), but it's a machine that does a job. You don't admire it like the Mona Lisa. You don't fuck it. Listening to some of these posters, I get the impression that thousands of slashdotters are sitting on the can, spanking the monkey to MacMall catalogs.
I'm going to get modded -1 troll, but what the fuck, let's go a little further. Since the iMac, Mac case design has been getting progressively less impressive. The colored iMacs and iBooks were truly original and groundbreaking, and saved the company. So what does Jobs do? Chuck that idea out the window. While we're at, lets make the next iMac a table lamp. And now we've got the G5. Impressive hardware. And a case that would look at home on a GM assembly line. It looks like stamped industrial stainless steel. If you like it, fine. But quit making it out to be a piece of fine art.
Jobs is slipping down the same path he trod at NeXT, when he was more concerned about how his office furniture looked than the company. Same slavish devotion to post modern fashion. And you all are paying almost two grand a pop to wank with him. Meanwhile, unless you're using a dual G5, Xeons beat the G5 in almost all real world tasks.
OSX is the only saving grace of that company.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac G5 for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this G5 at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.