Apple owners richer than Windows users

Are you an Apple user or Windows user?

  • Apple

    Votes: 8 13.6%

  • Windows

    Votes: 38 64.4%

  • Both

    Votes: 7 11.9%

  • Neither

    Votes: 6 10.2%
  • Total voters
    59
If I swapped my pc for a mac today I wouldn't be able to do anything until I install windows... (not because I don't know how, because the stuff I use isn't available on mac)

Edit: come to think of it, the web browser should at least work, then I can go troll internet forums in mac vs pc debates :D
 
Twinkler said:
That's like saying you'd prefer to drive an old skadonk because it has an orange on the aerial and a nodding dog on the dashboard as opposed to a luxury German vehicle. More features! :sick:
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If that's what God gave me so be it. It gets me from point A to point B. Why buy something that is over-priced, guzzles gas and is a target for hi-jackers?

Ohhhh, wait... cos it has a fancy logo on it. Isn't that what I said in the first place?
 
Twinkler said:
'They' got rich because they used their heads and bought a Mac in the first place. On the Mac it took them half the amount of time to do a job that would take forever on a PC. As a result 'they' could take on triple the amount of work that a PC user could and because they were in a really good head space from working on such a beautiful computer, they also got even more work because they weren't as uptight as the PC user trying to do the same job.

The real truth is that anybody with half a brain cell would gladly chuck-up their PCs for Mac but are afraid to admit it.
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haha... fanboy much? Dude, you are reek with it. What?? did they stick one of those fancy logos on your forehead as well? :D
 
This will stir things up..... help me MAC users


Do you agree/disagree with the points here? Tell me why -- but make sure your points are solidly argued, and make sure you read the whole article before flaming me. There's an important bit right at the very bottom.

1. Reliable sleep mode
2. Extremely fast boot times
3. Apple uses good quality parts.
4. Less blinking lights.
5. OS X + Windows is better than just Windows
6. Easier to troubleshoot Macs.
7. A culture of good quality community software
8. More useful apps out of the box
9. Neat and contained system settings.
10. Apple doesn't load the system up with crap.

http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm
 
Antybubbs said:
This will stir things up..... help me MAC users


Do you agree/disagree with the points here? Tell me why -- but make sure your points are solidly argued, and make sure you read the whole article before flaming me. There's an important bit right at the very bottom.

1. Reliable sleep mode
2. Extremely fast boot times
3. Apple uses good quality parts.
4. Less blinking lights.
5. OS X + Windows is better than just Windows
6. Easier to troubleshoot Macs.
7. A culture of good quality community software
8. More useful apps out of the box
9. Neat and contained system settings.
10. Apple doesn't load the system up with crap.

http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm
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I just like the logo. :)
And yes, they're way overpriced in SA.
 
On balance, though, Macs just let you get stuff done, whereas Windows computers constantly find ways of annoying you.
 
You have to be well off to afford a mac.

You can bet the $100 laptop aint ganna come from a Apple.
 
Antybubbs said:
This will stir things up..... help me MAC users


Do you agree/disagree with the points here? Tell me why -- but make sure your points are solidly argued, and make sure you read the whole article before flaming me. There's an important bit right at the very bottom.

1. Reliable sleep mode My PC doesn't sleep, it waits
2. Extremely fast boot times My PC doesn't need to be rebooted often enough for me to notice
3. Apple uses good quality parts. So do I, and so does Lenovo, HP:sick:, Dell, and so on.
4. Less blinking lights. :confused:
5. OS X + Windows is better than just Windows And OSX + Windows + Linux + PS/2 is better than just OS X + Windows. Point is, man cannot live on OS X alone.
6. Easier to troubleshoot Macs. What trouble?
7. A culture of good quality community software A bigger community of PC shareware/freeware developers.
8. More useful apps out of the box Perfect for luddites.
9. Neat and contained system settings. More customisable systems
10. Apple doesn't load the system up with crap. Neither do I.

http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm
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Edit you're right, the best part is at the end of the article:
# I'm not saying a Mac is a remotely good choice if you're a career gamer, though there are enough games and adequate performance to satisfy a casual gamer (someone who likes to play a game once a week, isn't involved in the gaming scene and wouldn't know what LOLZ actually meant.)
# I'm not saying Macs 'just work' and never have problems, because like any computer, they do.
# I'm not saying hardware compatibility is the same with Macs. There are endless hardware devices that don't have Mac drivers. It's just that there's enough good ones in every category that do have Mac support for it not to be a problem.
# I'm not saying Macs are for people who like building systems from scratch, or having maximum opportunity to chop and change parts at will.
# I'm also not saying Apple is a nice company to deal with -- it's not. Its whole corporate ethos seems to be "be smug and arrogant; turn your back and pretend everything's fine, oh and also, polished plastic never gets scratched" as often as possible. (Though frankly, the superior hardware and software goes some of the way in actually allowing them to get away with this, and mostly, the front-end customer service is very good.)
# I'm not saying that Apple is always good at admitting faults. While it is generally good with warranty if it admits a problem, if it is in denial about a problem, it will sometimes make people wait a year before they will begrudgingly accept the cost of fixing it across the board.
# And finally, I'm not saying Apple's DRM (which it refuses to share with anyone else) is anything other than a repellant policy, from a company that has a monopoly position.
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Datura said:
The Pink Rand.

Nuff said.
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Apple uses better quality parts?

WTF they use intel cpu's is their intel cpu better than my intel cpu? Memory is pretty much the same as well, what hdd's do they use? Some really good quality that makes seagate and WD look poor?

Motherboards? Hmmm guess they got better quality than the likes of asus and gigabyte.

Damn now i want a mac cause with the better quality they use it must be awesome, i mean to be better than intel, asus and WD must be quite something amazing.
 
killadoob said:
Apple uses better quality parts?

WTF they use intel cpu's is their intel cpu better than my intel cpu? Memory is pretty much the same as well, what hdd's do they use? Some really good quality that makes seagate and WD look poor?

Motherboards? Hmmm guess they got better quality than the likes of asus and gigabyte.

Damn now i want a mac cause with the better quality they use it must be awesome, i mean to be better than intel, asus and WD must be quite something amazing.
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Not sure about the quality, but they get manufacturers to build according to their specs.
And they like using laptop parts for iMacs, so it adds to the price.
 
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