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Puncturing the "PCs Are Cheaper Than Macs" Myth
jcatcw writes "The recently converted Scot Finnie went notebook shopping. At the high end of the notebook spectrum, in order to get comparable power and features, a Dell machine comes in $650 over the Apple, and it was clunkier and weighed more. Sony couldn't beat the Apple either. Midrange and low-end machines, though, turn out to be pretty comparable, with more choices in the PC arena but some good values if you happen to want what Apple has decided you need. So, if you're talking name-brand hardware, it's just no longer the case that PCs are cheaper than Macs."
I find this vain attempt to distinguish the modern "Macs" from the loathed "Peecees" as amusing.
Macs are PC's, in every sense of the word. Get over it. The difference is EFI, a logo and price markup. How very distinctive.
Apple still doesn't officially support more than 1 mouse button. The Mighty Mouse is not a true 2 button mouse, it's a 1 button mouse that can be clicked in 2 different ways. Humans have 5 fingers, so a mouse should have 5 buttons, and that is how many my mouse has (plus a scroll wheel).
Hahaha. All these years Mac users were made fun of the 1-button mouse and they would insist there is nothing wrong with it! They finally get a decent pointing device and they let years of supressed feelings come out at once: "HA! We have multiple buttons, suckers!".
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Thanks for the laughs man!
Oh, and all of my Windows and Suse machines are doing without any "infestations" thank you very much. Of course I only click on "nude.exe" attachments on the Suse machines
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Polar Scope Align for iOS
Gee. Of course, with such a vocabulary and that big a rant, you do nothing more than word processing and web browsing with your computer. I never offered my mom a mac, but I recommend one to my dad everytime he asks me about mine. Don't feel bad though, Windows will always be there for my mom to enter her recipes using WordPad and use Solitaire.
Of Code And Men
Aside from it's processor (which is admittedly good), and it's size (which is an upgrade-limiting gimmick that I'd rather not put up with), the Mini really isn't that good of a machine. I'm gonna pay $600 for a glorified laptop with no display and only 1 RAM slot that's already been filled? Don't think so. If they made it in a larger case (dare I say a mini-tower? If Newegg can sell them for $25 it can't raise the price of a mini that much), added another ram slot, and a darned PCIe slot that worked with STANDARD (read: PC) video cards, then they might have something on their hands.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
The calculator on my roommate's iMac (Intel-based) thinks that 117/2=58.49999, whereas my Windows PC, my calculator, and basic math tells me that 117/2=58.5.