Both MacBook Pro and iMac were upgraded from base 4GB of RAM to their maxes of 16GB and 32GB using 3rd party RAM from Crucial.com

All of my Macs are maxed out with 3rd party memory and all are running Yosemite just fine.

Upgrading isn't the issue. It's installing fresh with certain third party ram. Which is what I said and posted, had you actually bothered to read :winkwink:

This thread is funny!


I think both Mac and PC hardware both have the same life spans. But with my expirences I noticed Mac has Zero software or hard ware compatibility issues.

If shit is not working right within your system, it might as well be broken in my opinion. Not being able to get to work immediately when you turn on your machines, equals broken to me. Im not trying to trouble shoot and search the net to find missing dll files to make shit work, when I have work deadlines.


The great thing about Mac is everything just works together seamlessly. That bad thing, is that its not as customizable as a PC, closed system and platform, very expensive, Way less bang for your buck and the fan boys are way annoying. lol


The great thing about PC is that you get a lot of bang for your buck, its very customizable, and lots of software and hardware is available for it. The lame thing is that all of that PC customizing, great paper stats, don't always work well together, the software and hardware isn't all uniform and isnt guaranteed to work with your custom setup. Lastly, if you have a PC, all of your buddies will come ask you questions on how to fix it. lol


It comes down to whats important to you as a User.


For me, I need it to work 100% of the time when I turn it on. All of my Macs and phone work very well together. I will pay more for reliability every time.




I had a Mac G5 break down 4 years after my 2 year warranty expired. Took it to the Mac store, got quoted $600 to get it all fixed and back to where it was before break down.


Did not care what it costed, was editing a shit ton of stuff and was crunching video for 3 weeks straight all day all night long. I worked that thing over. I had a deadline and more footage and content that needed to get out. Didn't have time to customize and tweak another system.


3 days later I came in to pick up my machine and when it came time to pay, I didn't get charged. I was like WTF!!?? Really?? Why? I was told that what happened was not suppose to happen. And was further told that because it wasn't suppose to happen, they would fix it for free.


Cooling system pretty much blew up and fucked up everything inside except the hard drive.


That G5 still works. I don't use it anymore, but I'm about to whip it and give it to my 6 1/2 year old daughter this week.



Brand loyalty and a company that stands behind their product is what keeps me buying apple. The only failed Apple product I have had fail, got fixed for free, when I really needed it.



To PCs defense, I have heard that the newer PCs and operating systems do work better than when I made the switch. I have one PC laptop with Windows 7. It seems to work when I turn it on 4 times a year.


Just Dave

THIS
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If most of your work is writing, HTML, surfing, blogging, photoshopping, designing etc, get a Macbook Air. They are super light and portable, with batteries that a good 8 hours of real use, a beautiful bright high res screen and an SSD drive. Fantastic machine.

The Macbook Pro's are bigger and more expensive, and have faster CPU's so they are better suited for video & rendering I think. If you don't think you need this, save your money and go for the Macbook Air. I have one myself and love it.

And if you had bothered to read, you monosyllabic, half-witted, neanderthal, knuckle dragging fuckwit I didn't say whether I had upgraded or installed fresh.

Seriously CandyFlip, if you were handed an extra brain cell it would die of abject loneliness.

I've had

3 Macpros
1 ibook
1 white imac (fucked up twice and needed repair)
mac mini
2 imacs (24" silver ones)

Every iphone but the 5s/5c and 6... I have the 6 plus now and it's great.

Only the 1 has had a issue.

Well I'll be doing some video editing (not much), Visual Studio (coding etc.), and the usual surfing, blogging and things that don't need super power. I have more powerful desktop machine for the heavy things to do. Just my laptop is old already and I want to get thin and light machine.

Its easy for an OS to be wonderful when you only support 12 pieces of hardware you also made. :2 cents:

Fun fact: Apple doesn't make hardware. It picks what it wants to put in it's devices and only supports it.

That's a downfall of Windows. It tries to support everything and it just fails.

Fun Fact:

Just set up of the new Macbook Pro I just got.

1) Turned it on.
2) Entered iCloud password.
3) It just worked.

Bookmarks, Mail Accounts, Passwords, WiFi connection, you name it, it all worked. Gone are the days of setting up all your shit when you get a new machine. I literally had to do nothing and I was right back where I left off with the Macbook Air.

I did have to download some of the third party apps I like though of course.

Apple for the win!

I disagree. I have had Air's since day 1. I'm a product guy, so I am doing all the above that you mention and the memory pings out. You need a Macbook Pro if you want to feel like you're driving a Ferrari work station at the office. I gave my Air to my GF so she can go on Facebook with it. I wouldn't want to use an Air for work ever again. They're still good machines, just not suited for web mastering duties. I would tell any traveling sales person or equivalent to get one though. Great for email and just general browsing the web, etc.

:2 cents:

win 8 does all that however I don't want to be in the cloud

I had a few dell laptops and an alienware m15x that broke more than it worked. Been using macs for the past 4-5 years and havent had a single issue.

Yes, but it's still windows unfortunately. Cooties. Yech.

LOL.

FYI guys. I purposely start shit on Apple hate threads. Truth told, I have Windows machines that I have to run a bunch of softwares on that I need for different things. They just aren't available for Mac.

Carry on.


Just for giggles here is Apple the cat, hanging out with Windows the dog.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1780253/th...EN-980x645.jpg

Notice how tired Windows is. Poor boy.

Apple is so excited and ready to take on the world.


LOL.

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As long as it works I'm cool with that.



Thats all I want! My shit to work with zero effort, so I can get to work on what makes me money.


Just Dave

why do you suppose me asking silly conspiracy questions for fun are hate threads? you have a shitty negative outlook on life? just sayin you know? :winkwink:

I am free from all restraints from evil corporations, I display this by repeating the latest sales pitch of other corporations instead.

I am Jack's ignorant hypocrisy...

I can get onboard with that.

Everyone should. It doesn't matter to me what OS you use, what phone you use, or what car you drive. I don't understand why people get their panties in such a bunch over what someone else buys or spends their money on.

All that matters is be happy with what you have. If you are happy as a Windows or Linux user, awesome, more power to you. But get off my dick about being a Mac user.

you're the guy upset about being a 'macky' we don't give a fuck, you've done nothing but try and justify your mackyness this entire thread... why the shame??? :2 cents:

Yet, here you are in other threads being upset about us "mackys" :upsidedow:upsidedow

GrapeSoda just gets bored and then tries to figure out ways to get people fired up. If talking shit about Mac boys will do it - he's happy to engage. I think he's addicted to conflict personally. He can't go a day without either starting it or being involved in it. I wish he'd get out of the woods before all that boredom gets the best of him :winkwink:

dude, look how much trouble you went to trying to alleviate your shame... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

just such an easy target :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

GS and I do the same thing. Stir the pot.

If Mac users could SHUT THE FUCK UP about how Apple's shit doesn't smell, then I bet not many people would have a problem with what they're using. :)

that's exactly it...

if mac users were fanatical about their cars instead of computers, it would go something like this:

"I went to pick up my kids from school in my chevy"
"so I was driving in my chevy, and this guy almost crashed into me"
"Hey, I'll be late, I'm stuck in traffic in my chevy"
"oh? you are going to get your oil changed? I have never changed oil in my chevy and it still runs great!"
"I'll pick you up at 8, in my chevy"...
"I turn the ignition, and my chevy 'just works'"

or if they were fanatical about tools:

"so I was fixing my kids bike with my craftsman tool set"
"I put together some furniture today, with my crafstman screw driver.."

etc. etc... :1orglaugh

just think about it... would a normal person EVER mention the fact that they used a craftsman screw driver when putting together furniture? then why would anyone EVER mention they used a mac when sending out an email?

Well said, fine sire :thumbsup

:thumbsup:1orglaugh

Makes sense. If your existence is challenged by using inferior equipment, attack the base that uses superior equipment. You just solved PC vs. Mac. Why didn't anyone say this before. Could have ended this whole thing 20 years ago.

:1orglaugh

Blue Pen Owner: I don't like your red pen because it sucks.

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Red Pen Owner: I can't wait for my red pen volume 16516516851. Its going to be the best ever, it comes with all these gadgets and it JUST WORKS

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Blue Pen Owner: Public discourse has a bad habit of inviting public discourse..

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Blue Pen Owner: You're right. I don't get it. But for shits and giggles, apple sucks

Blue Pen Owner: http://media.giphy.com/media/10gJ56utzyJPYk/giphy.gif

Red Pen Owner: I just bought a red pen and I love it, anyone have any good suggestions on clips that are made for it I can buy?

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