Allow me to defend the honor of PCs with a rebuttle...
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Originally Posted by **********
If you want to talk about comuters, holy shit - Apple Macs are far and beyond the best, fastest computers available. The Macbook Air boots from power-off to desktop in 9 seconds! Batteries last for 8 hours. The 2 imacs on my desk NEVER crash, and screen quality and resolution are unparalleled.
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They aren't the fastest computers available. They are usign regulr PC hardware now. I just bought a very nice samsung ultrabook that's lighter then the macbook air, more powerful, and also boots in a few seconds. Alot of the new ultrabooks have comparible screens to the new retina stuff too (not mine unfortunately, didn't wanna dump that much money into a laptop I won't use that often). The fact stands though - you will get FAR more processing power for the same money from a PC then a Mac. Even the build quality...my girl has an asus zenbook. It's made of aluminum, light as fuck and tapers down to 3mm thickness...
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Originally Posted by **********
This past summer I sold my Macbook and wanted a new Macbook air. I walked into the store and walked out with the new machine 5 minutes later.
I took it to an outdoor pub, unpacked it and turned it on. FULL BATTERY CHARGE right out of the box. I was online in seconds, and downloaded the tools I wanted such as Skype, CuteFTP, Editors, as well as our own software because we wanted to do a live broadcast from the pub. 9 MINUTES AFTER I UNPACKED THE BOX, I WAS UP AND RUNNING AND BROADCASTING. 9 MINUTES!
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It took you 5 minutes because you didn't exactly have a choice of 500 different laptops. You went in knowing you want a macbook air and you came out with a macbook air...
My laptop came with all the drivers and everything installed too - I could have easily done the same there in a few minutes.
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PC users call Apple Users "hipsters" because deep down they feel excluded from the club when in reality Apple are PC users who have simply taken the chance to buy a product that they discovered to be better. Who the fuck wants to put up with 2 hours of installation, updates, blue screens of death, anti-virus updates, Pop-ups, shitty tech support and endless TSR programs pre-loaded for you that suck every bit of memory you have all while trying to deal with underpowered hardware and completely shitty operating system like Windows?
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You don't need to install windows on new laptops, apple releases updates for their OS too, I can't remember the last time i've seen windows blue screen, and the only reason that windows gets viruses is because it has a larger market share then apple and it's not as profitable making viruses for it. I agree that laptops do come full of all sorts of bloatware that must be uninstalled though. Regarding underpowered hardware - that argument from the Mac side of things has been gone since they switched to Intel cpus. It's basically all the same hardware as is available in a pc. An i5 in a macbook isn't faster then an i5 in a pc. 8gbytes of ram in a macbook is still 8gbytes of ram.
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Originally Posted by **********
The only thing I've had to pay for was for the new version of the Mac OS operating which cost me.... wait for it..... $20.00. How much is Windows now? $300? Give me a break.
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We pay about $100 here for Windows 7. Your $20 Mac OS is all fine and dandy, but what you are saving you paid 20 times over when you bought the hardware. That *exact same* cpu, ram and harddrive are all available for a pc - and you paid more for it.
If you like OSX - power to you. I've used it, and I don't like it. You might argue that OSX is better then Windows - but you cannot argue that "Macs are better then PCs". Macs *ARE* PC's now. I could probably find you an ultrabook that has identical cpu, ram , harddrive and weight - and maybe even screen resolution - to your macbook air at a much lower price. If you were able to install OSX on it (which you can't - because it would hurt apple's bottom line to do so), you'd have a macbook.