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Old 10-01-2004, 10:14 AM   #21 (permalink)
Willravel
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Originally Posted by Lasereth
1. Macs are way too expensive. I can build a PC for $1000 that would cost $2000 or more for a Mac of the same performance.
It's a myth that Macs are more expensive. An eMac with a 1.25 GHz G4 processor, 17-inch flat CRT display, 40GB Ultra ATA drive, 256MB of 333 MHz DDR SDRAM, combo drive (cd burn/dvd read), ATI Radeon 9200 graphics w/32 DDR video memory, two firewire 400 ports and three USB 2.0 ports, 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet and 56K V.92 modem, and AirPort and bluetoothe ready for $799 is one hell of a deal. And I didn't even have to build it.

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2. I want a right-click. When using MacOS, every single time I want to modify a file or open a file with a different app or see file info I can't unless I do 3 or 4 absolutely useless steps. Why should I have to go through 4 windows to choose a different app to open a file? With a PC, I right-click and choose the program. Simple. I see file info with a right click. I copy and paste with a right click. Simply put, right-click adds more functionality to an OS.
The response to this above bears repeating, as it is also a myth. Just because a single button mouse comes with the computer, does not mean
you cannot simply use a three button mouse in it's place. I can right click, left click, scroll, and go forward and back pages on my mouse on my mac with OSX.

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3. Software. I use a ton of programs on PC. Not all of those programs are on Mac, and frankly, I need them. Why use an OS that has limited software?
You mean like MS Word? You have to present a list for a claim like this. What are the top 10 programs you use on windows? I'll show you mac versions that are on the same level and can communicate with windows.

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4. Gaming. I'm a hardcore PC gamer (console too though!), and Macs are severely limited in their gaming libraries. Oh, and I CAN'T RIGHT CLICK TO JUMP IN BATTLEFIELD!!! Playing a game without right click would be like playing a game with one arm. Not to mention a Mac that will play the games at the settings I want would cost more than my car.
I sure love playing Unreal on my computer. I love Warcraft. I love a lot of games that my video card does not have troubles with. Actually the list of games not available for mac is much shorter than the list of games available. It's roughly 1/12 the size. An if my computer costs more than your car, you must be driving something made by mercury before 1984.

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5. I've never used a Mac that I can navigate quickly. Like I said about the right-click, PCs and their dreaded Windows are simply more easy to navigate if you're a hardcore PC dork. I can't blaze through tasks on a Mac like I do on a PC. This is for many reasons: no right click; the fundamental basis of the OS is different from Windows (and inefficient if ya ask me)...you gotta use the Master-Bar (or whatever it's called) at the top to do everything. Using a PC with Windows, the taskbar and application options are second-hand to the mouse and keyboard. It seems that the mouse and keyboard on a Mac is second-hand with the Master-Bar being the primary input device. This slows down the ability of Macs when compared to PCs.
We don't need to revisit your right click mistake. Master bar is at bottom on PC, and top on Mac. We also have the dock, if you are using OSX.

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6. I have yet to use a fast Mac. I don't mean hardware fast, I mean OS fast. Everything I do in MacOS is sluggish and lagged. When I try to turn the volume down, I have to "grab" the bar with the mouse twice because the lag prevents it from going to 0. When I open two browsers at once it basically has a brain aneurism. These are really expensive Macs I've used as well...Macs capable of running an OS smoothly. When a Mac of over 1 GHz CPU speed is running slower than my K6-2 at 400 MHz with Windows, something is wrong.
This is unfounded. Of course there are fast Macs, just as there are fast PCs. If you grabbed the bar on the volume, you are using OS 9.2 or older. Get a new machine and try it.


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Simply enough, I've used a PC extensively and a Mac extensively and I've simply been limited in how I use the OS on a Mac. The OS isn't as polished as Windows and is very inefficient in the way simple navigation is handled. There are useless steps throughout the entire OS that Windows bypasses with a really easy solution.
You have not used Macs extensively. I am not sure you have used Pcs extensively.

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Now, some Mac advantages:

1. They look cool. Really cool. I like the LCDs that you can turn wherever ya want.

2. That's about it!

-Lasereth
This is a wonderful exapmle of bias and lack of information. I am sorry you have chosen to have an unfounded bias towards Mac, but there's no need to spread it.
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