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Offline stevewfl

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'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« on: November 28, 2011, 06:48:06 AM »
Just ordered a MAC

...and all the options such as 27" thunderbolt monitor, i7 quad processor, extra ram, serious graphics card.

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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2011, 07:07:51 AM »
And this is going to set you back how much?

Yes, that's an extremely nosy question! Thank you for noticing.  8)

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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2011, 07:30:20 AM »
I think you mean you are coming out of the dark side......don"t you??
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2011, 07:50:25 AM »
I think you mean you are coming out of the dark side......don"t you??

Thanks for putting it in perspective, I've been  avoiding Mac for so long I had it backwards  :D
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2011, 07:54:27 AM »
And this is going to set you back how much?

Yes, that's an extremely nosy question! Thank you for noticing.  8)

Not as bad as you think, I'm on the student discount program.  I'm a photography major at my local university.  Its sorta' BS because I'm NOT giving up my techie career, I'm just having fun and didn't care to start a masters program such as I perhaps should have
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2011, 08:08:41 AM »
You have my sympathy....      :'(



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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2011, 08:45:14 AM »
Just ordered a MAC

...and all the options such as 27" thunderbolt monitor, i7 quad processor, extra ram, serious graphics card.

Remember it's Left click for Yes, umm, Right click for ...

There you go, Steve, just think of all that unnecessary right clicking you will no longer have to go through.
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2011, 09:46:21 AM »
Remember it's Left click for Yes, umm, Right click for ...

There you go, Steve, just think of all that unnecessary right clicking you will no longer have to go through.
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Ya remembering all the new swipe gestures is much easier than right clicking and picking a command from a list.  :P

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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2011, 11:13:28 AM »
I got an iPad in September & now I can't live without it.  I like the Mac book pro & the air but still having a had time spending $1,700 for something Incan get at Best Buy for $450.

But I do like the look of the Apple.

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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2011, 01:29:56 PM »
Nice machines and they always have been IMO. My wife actually bought me my very first Mac back when they came out.... 128K of ram and a Motorola 68000 screaming along at 8 MHz. In my opinion the Mac interface has always been far more refined than anything Windoze has ever produced. The data / resource forks also make a lot more sense. Unfortunately real life gets in the way and any hard science or engineering tasks virtually have to be done on a PC as that is the only platform that will support commercial software and / or interface with industrial equipment.

A friend of mine and I got PCs back in the early 90's after some time using Macs and I think he hit the nail on the head when he said 'Boy, these machines are incredibly stupid'.

Of course, I am typing this on a PC....  ???

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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2011, 02:10:21 PM »
Nice of you to support the little guy.
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2011, 02:56:23 PM »
A few years ago I was working on a MAC here at work, I don't remember what the issue was.

I inserted a CD-ROM and the damn thing wouldn't give me my disc back. What kind of company does not include a hardware driven eject button on a computer?

Oh, you don't need one because the software driven eject button will always work right? Um, no.

No matter what I did that MAC would not give me my disc back. I had to open it up to get my CD back. I"ve hated MACs ever since then.
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2011, 02:58:50 PM »
Yes crazy, but I bet you have a similar story about a Windows PC.
I know I have a few.
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2011, 03:11:47 PM »
I inserted a CD-ROM and the damn thing wouldn't give me my disc back. What kind of company does not include a hardware driven eject button on a computer?

Oh, you don't need one because the software driven eject button will always work right? Um, no.

No matter what I did that MAC would not give me my disc back. I had to open it up to get my CD back. I"ve hated MACs ever since then.

I've come across some PC CD/DVD drives that didn't have a way to open them up either.  But, yeah, Apple put those into their computers intentionally.

I always make sure on the ones I buy now that there is that silly little hole for inserting a paperclip to open up the drive.
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2011, 03:56:10 PM »
Just ordered a MAC

...and all the options such as 27" thunderbolt monitor, i7 quad processor, extra ram, serious graphics card.

I understand completely.  I was also waiting for that arrogant SOB to kick over before buying anything from them.
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #15 on: November 29, 2011, 08:37:27 AM »
I hope the DVD player opens.  I want to be able to take Adobe LightRoom 3 disk out after loading so I can then load the Photoshop CS5.
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #16 on: November 29, 2011, 08:52:32 AM »
Funny... just ordered a Mac Air, first Apple 'puter product.  I have a iPad2, won that at EMC World earlier this year, great little tool... have an iPhone 4s being delivered today for work purposes to replace my Droid X, can't lock the security down on them like you can the iPhone. 

I've been avoiding the Apple cart for a long time, just costly products mainly compared to the alternative... but they always seem to be a great product.
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2011, 11:57:45 AM »
I understand completely.  I was also waiting for that arrogant SOB to kick over before buying anything from them.

Have we been better off feeding Bill Gates our $$$$
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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #18 on: November 29, 2011, 12:09:13 PM »
Have we been better off feeding Bill Gates our $$$$
No, however Bill Gates at least has some charity in him.  Jobs was a selfish miser who did his best to shut out his friends, charities and even the mother of his own daughter.  No doubt he was a genius, and possibly the most influential visionary in the last 100 years.  But as a person, he was dispicable, IMHO.   What amazes me is that he managed to live long enough to die at the hands of a disease. 

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Re: 'puters - I'm heading over to the dark side at last
« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2011, 12:10:34 PM »
+1 on Bill's philanthropy
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