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Why can't you build a Mac? All the parts are available for individual sale and can be put into a standard tower. You can buy a Mac motherboard and a PC motherboard together in one tower if you want. One of my friends did that and he actually got it working. People rarely build Macs, that is most certianlly true. It can be done. Just the same as you can build anything else. It takes the right expert experience and knowledge.
Some people on here know what they are talking about. Bendsley corrected a mistake I made at the end of page 1. I was being sloppy and put PC when I meant Windows. It happenes that a lot of people don't know what they are talking about. They assume that because they know Windows and PCs backwards and forwards, they know Mac. They are different animals. They have some similarities, but they also have some big differences. Not knowing that a multi button mouse works on a Mac is a perfect example. Several people thought that one button was it. This is a basic mistake and usually signifies a true lack of familiarity with Mac. The thread asked why people hate Mac. People said because of the mouse. This isn't fair. That's like me saying I hate Hondas because they don't have a carbon fiber shift knob and you can't add one on later. You can get one on there, and it can go on so easily that it souldn't be a factor. These are the myths that nee addressing. I can appreciate brand prefrence, but not knowing the other brand and bashing it with things that aren't true is much different.
My interpritation of this thread is that brandon, like myself, is sick of Windows people bashing Macs for no reason. I have never bashed Windows, or a person who uses Windows. It's silly to me. I hear things like "Mac's don't have any games" and things of that sort on a weekly basis from someone who really knows about PCs. I don't know where this bad information is coming from, but it's not from experience.
All back and fourth aside, there has to be a bottom line to all of this. My bottom line (i.e. my last post on this thread) is that I love Macs. If I were given a choice between a Mac and a PC, I would choose a Mac. If you were to choose a PC from that selection, that's all well and fine with me. Both have their goods and bads. Don't pester me for my decision, though. Leave me to my decision, as I have left you to yours. It is simply a matter of what you want in a computer. It is not about telling other people how their choice sucks. I don't want to hear about building a computer instead of buying it whole. I don't want to hear about Halo not being available for Mac yet. I know what my computer is capable of and what it's not capable of. It is the people who constantly have a snide little remark to say whenever they hear the word 'Mac' on the wind that ruins the whole thing. CUT IT OUT! In my experience, the people who know the most about computers say to each their own and leave it at that.
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