http://apcmag.com/ http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment29223 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:52:22 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment29222 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:50:10 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment29122
Additionally, my Win 7 machine sleeps and wakes just fine. In fact I've had my main Win 7 Pro 64-bit up and running for over a week in and out of sleep mode with fully functioning remote wake-ups.]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:24:35 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28855 Quoting Fraxxure:
and I've been a dedicated Mac user for 6 plus years.

Wow, you sure must have lot's of crosses on your "dedicated mac user badge".


Quoting Fraxxure:
I ran World of Warcraft over a virtual machine

Wow, you surly are skilled at running programs. eh?


Quoting Fraxxure:
Just because he knows some switchers who have certainly liked it doesn't mean he exists in a limited circle of association

Odds on it does, OS converters are worse than reformed smokers when it comes to telling others how they should live.


Quoting Fraxxure:
and bash him

It's a forum. Are you sure you know when you've turned your virtual reality off?


Quoting Fraxxure:
Can I stress how arrogant you sound?

You can give it a go? But it'll probably end with you sounding foolish.


Quoting Fraxxure:
It's almost as if every word mac users utter are filled with lies and deceit.

You confuse Users with the fanatics, the latter are in a word tiresome.


Quoting Fraxxure:
Get a grip on yourself you ego-maniac and control your slandering of light-hearted comments

no ego about it, I am just good at pointing the stupid things people say. Just like in my replies to your rembling, here.


Quoting Fraxxure:
If you feel the need to take offense and let the dog loose on someone

Simply not enough dogs for that to be possible in every instance. :>


Quoting Fraxxure:
but expect some static

Yeah I bet those bri-nylon Mac fanatic skivys on carpet could crack arcs sufficient to clear the plugs of a small car.


Quoting Fraxxure:
and a LOT of sarcasm

There just isn't enough sarcasm in the universe to adaquately reply to your dribble.


Quoting Fraxxure:
hypocrite

No I am native of the wide brown land - Australia, looks like your wrong again sparky.


Quoting Fraxxure:
He never said anything about Macs being impenetrable

He probably did, but unlike yourself, I'd rather not trawl through an old thread to run off some much over-done argument.


Quoting Fraxxure:
He was just stating the claim that Apple values security

Was that written on the box of your Macbook? Must be true then, eh.


Quoting Fraxxure:
which is very true

as opposed to just a bit true, maybe true, true perhaps, could be true and "I'd like it to be true"?


Quoting Fraxxure:
Stop twisting people's words

No need in your case, your doing an admirable job og becoming mac-fool of the month, all on your own.


Quoting Fraxxure:
you manipulative creep

Aww Sparkie are you feeling manipulated, have the ironed creases in your track suit gone flat? Quiver away, or if your feeling very brave you can troll through many more of my old posts and be offended by them too, you silly young herbert. :>
]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:22:28 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28854 Quoting Fraxxure:
if someone wishes to switch to a Mac it takes a fair amount of teaching and explaining

Kind of flies in the face of the suggestion a MAC is simplicity in itself dont you think?



]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:50:21 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28853 Quoting Raindog:
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Quoting McBanjo:
Whether it be trying to change every one's old PC habits

Last time a religious fanatic tried to change my habits I set the dog on him, sort out your own habits, and stay the hell out of everyone else's.
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I think what he's trying to say is if someone wishes to switch to a Mac it takes a fair amount of teaching and explaining for them to adequately get used to the Mac operating system.

Quoting Raindog:
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Quoting McBanjo:
while Windows Explorer decides it wants to hang

Ah yes Safari hanging is a so much better experience, I think its all that goodness.
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Safari has only done that once or twice for me and I've been a dedicated Mac user for 6 plus years.

Quoting Raindog:
Try doing that on your Os-X VM! Good luck?

I ran World of Warcraft over a virtual machine (parallels) on my osx leopard standard macbook ($1000)

Quoting Raindog:
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Quoting Papa-Raboon:
I seriously do NOT know a single person that prefers to run Windows who has switched from a Windows machine to a Mac (and I know quite a few switchers).

So you exist in a narrow and limited circle of association, you practically never see a windows fan at the Mac store right? Reality check time.
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Just because he knows some switchers who have certainly liked it doesn't mean he exists in a limited circle of association. He's only listing an example and you took advantage of it just like any other opportunity you did on this forum to twist the meaning and bash him.

Quoting Raindog:
Yep there is that reality biting in again.

Can I stress how arrogant you sound? It's almost as if every word mac users utter are filled with lies and deceit. Get a grip on yourself you ego-maniac and control your slandering of light-hearted comments and statements. If you feel the need to take offense and let the dog loose on someone with a different opinion than you please do so, but expect some static. All you're full of are a few little windows facts and a LOT of sarcasm rubbish. Go troll somewhere else.

Quoting Raindog:
So rather than provide some substantiation you chose to behave like a toad and make rude replies. suit yourself.

You seem to be doing that yourself quite a bit in this thread, hypocrite.

Quoting Randog:
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Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
If you think that Apple doesn't value security, you are sadly mistaken.

Oh we dont think that at all, we think smug toads fooling themselves that OS X is totally inpenetrable are the ones that are sadly mistaken.
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He never said anything about Macs being impenetrable, which they aren't. He was just stating the claim that Apple values security, which is very true. Stop twisting people's words you manipulative creep.]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:34:13 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28837 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:35:40 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28821 Quoting mattrix:
ghghg

Heh heh :) I see that you've been shocked by the statements on the subject here "matrix" and really can't defend either option which is as it should be by the way :) To each his own I reckon.I really don't care what I use as long as the blasted thing works the way I want :)]]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:32:36 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28810 when you say "Apple uses good quality parts." you know pc does as well in fact you can customise and change brands and standards at will if you have the money. to customise a mac on apple. com is extreemly expensive.. adding an extra 4gb of ram to a 4gb core 2 duo will cost u $300 extra.. worth it i dont think so.]]> Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:25:08 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28809 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:06:22 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28797 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:07:44 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28778 oh silly me! that 90% of the OS choice must have been for someone else.......

aside from linux for a second, [who we all know is the number 1 choice in a power house OS anyways..] i will tell you this....macs commercials are flawed, and stereotypical. not to mention what the media has made an effect on it. I don't know how many movies or TV shows where i've seen a mac in the background instead of a PC. mac brainwashes people with the idea that PC's suck, and therefore, since they're the only other OS choice besides linux, they must not suck as much. i personally never had any problems with windows, i don't buy store made computers any ways....and it doesn't help much when you're when of those daft people who just waltz around the net visiting "inappropriate pages" [ahem] thinking that they would come out of there without a scratch or SOME form of trace or damage. as for windows loading there OS's with crap, i have nothing to reply to that other than it is also, stereotypical. sure maybe windows did once load there software with crap [such as windows 95] but as for windows xp and beyond, unless it was, say, and illegal copy or you bought it from some random guy down the street, i strongly disagree that windows loads up on vaporware. as for virus's and macs not getting them.....c'mon people.....THEY SPECIFICALLY MADE AN ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE FOR A MACINTOSH. macs do and can get virus's. the people that make them just choose to write them in windows format because thats the OS that almost everyone has nowadays. crashing? you bet, say hello to Mr. kernel panic. hacking? ive heard a story where a guy hacked a mac in about 30 seconds and won $10,000....user friendliness? self explanitory....

oh and BTW, i saw a mac mini on sale for about $600....with about 1GB of memory and built on video. or you could get one with about 2-4GB of memory similar of that price of a regular mac. I about i about died of laughing.

so in my opinion...windows is just as good as a mac if no better. your just getting screwed over for trying something that resembles a silver box with a picture of an apple on the back and paying over $1000 for it. don't forget to flush kiddies.]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:08:22 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28777 oh silly me! that 90% of the OS choice must have been for someone else.......

aside from linux for a second, [who we all know is the number 1 choice in a power house OS anyways..] i will tell you this....macs commercials are flawed, and stereotypical. not to mention what the media has made an effect on it. I don't know how many movies or TV shows where i've seen a mac in the background instead of a PC. mac brainwashes people with the idea that PC's suck, and therefore, since they're the only other OS choice besides linux, they must not suck as much. i personally never had any problems with windows, i don't buy store made computers any ways....and it doesn't help much when you're when of those daft people who just waltz around the net visiting "inappropriate pages" [ahem] thinking that they would come out of there without a scratch or SOME form of trace or damage. as for windows loading there OS's with crap, i have nothing to reply to that other than it is also, stereotypical. sure maybe windows did once load there software with crap [such as windows 95] but as for windows xp and beyond, unless it was, say, and illegal copy or you bought it from some random guy down the street, i strongly disagree that windows loads up on vaporware. as for virus's and macs not getting them.....c'mon people.....THEY SPECIFICALLY MADE AN ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE FOR A MACINTOSH. macs do and can get virus's. the people that make them just choose to write them in windows format because thats the OS that almost everyone has nowadays. crashing? you bet, say hello to Mr. kernel panic. hacking? ive heard a story where a guy hacked a mac in about 30 seconds and won $10,000....user friendliness? self explanitory....

oh and BTW, i saw a mac mini on sale for about $600....with about 1GB of memory and built on video. or you could get one with about 2-4GB of memory similar of that price of a regular mac. I about i about died of laughing.

so in my opinion...windows is just as good as a mac if no better. your just getting screwed over for trying something that resembles a silver box with a picture of an apple on the back and paying over $1000 for it. don't forget to flush kiddies.]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:04:14 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28768 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:31:37 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28736 As far as Apple lowering their prices, it's never been a price war, in fact, Apple has a differerent philosophy, they upgrade their quality, while keeping their prices the same, therefore giving consumers more for their mooney. They can charge more, because we are OK with paying a bit more for a quality product. They just released a new line of products, so I'm not sure when the next version of Mac will be out, but, last week they pretty much doubled the power of the Mini, and completely redesigned the laptops, as well, again, keeping the pricing the same.
As far as window's flexibility, it is it's strength, as well as its major downfall. With all the flexibility, comes all the incompatibility, and endless flow of BUGS.
So, blue food or green food .. I prefer food I can swallow, and doesnt make me sick, no matter what color it is.]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:47:58 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28735
windows has been here for long so we are used to it.
Mac is new and its the new thing it's marketing every where and since it was made by apple Ipods helped it get its rep up.
but soon i think there will be some pros and cons of Mac which will cause people to go back to the "PS3 vs 360" console war where both are kinda even. and now i cbf typing any longer and hope that i have not wasted my time.
-Sythine]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:48:32 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28672
Same reason so many people like Rap Music!
Like Tommy Lee Jones said to Will Smith in Man in black after Will asked "Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it".... "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

So, just because more people like something, that doesnt make it the SMARTER or BETTER choice. It all comes down to preferences. I like FAST, I like Less crashes, I like no Viruses, so far, I like MAC, and I have been using Personal Computers since 1986!!! TI994A And this is the first time I have purchased or even USED a Mac, because I tolorated the garbage of windows/MS all of the MS BS, believing th's what EVERYBODY uses!!! Everybody's dumb, then ;)]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:27:18 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28671
Ridiculously fast! After years of conditioning to make coffee while waiting for my PC to boot up, or even recover from Hibernating, I almost get whiplash everytime I start this up! Amazing that we dont HAVE to wait forever for our Computer to be ready for input!!!

Still many incompatabilities! I needed to purchase a new Scanner and Web cam, since the mac didnt recognize them, nor were there any drivers out ther wi allow them to be used on a Mac. Add to that hald the Musci and Video files I have been using for years are also no longer compatable. This was the reason I waited so long to convert to MAc in the first place. Add to that the very different user interface, standard keyboard shortcuts like ^c and ^v now use their unique key, it is taking some getting used to. Although I can use the Right-Click on my mouse, it is virtually useless, since most of the common menu items do not appear upon Right Click, and I find myself hunting down the losction of simple commands like Print, or PrtScr, or even Properties.

All in all, once I get through the painful process of learning my way around, which is kind of an adventure, and converting all my files to compatible formats, AND replacing what ever other hardware might need replacing, I believe in the LONG run, I will be infinately more pleased with the MAc Experience, than I have EVER been with MS.

Just one NewBee's observation....]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:56:57 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28650 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:29:24 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28649 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:26:28 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28477 Quoting Rod Rye:
I now sleep every time I go out and it hasn't missed a single beat in 2 years. It's instant.
:):)"Instant Sleep" God i wish I could get some of that :( I think a caffeine and bourbon lifestyle has wrecked my body but hey,"You're only here once"




]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:56:59 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28475 Quoting The Big Baboo:
Oh dear :( Another one of those people who use one paragraph for a 35 minute diatribe of drivel they not nothing about.
I was referring to the "Ubiqitous Geek" there you know :) Sorry about any misunderstanding.





]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:46:50 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28473 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:32:28 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28472 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:24:01 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28470 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:22:26 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28310
And to your comment about "cheap" hardware, well the majority of the market want cheap PC's, the small manority which you belong to that know how to make a PC etc don't really matter.]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:47:33 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28298
so, I'm ready to make the move from the Dark Side ;)]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:58:27 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28213 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:39:20 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28177 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:38:08 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28165 Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
"After owning and using a Mac every day for five years without a single malware infestation, I'd say that I have a very realistic sense of security."

After living for 25 years without a tiger attack, I'd say my tiger repellent is working. In other words, you have nobody trying to hack your stuff.

Exhibit A:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1495591/security-experts-mock-mac-security

These people have a more realistic view of security than you. Also, while I've never had anyone hack into a windows PC, I HAVE have the old IT guy at the company I work at log into my Mac at change my hostname (to log onto the domain), as well as other things, WHILE I WAS ON IT. This guy hacked my Mac rather than hack the Windows PCs he set up? Hmmm...

I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but I think I do have to point out that Microsoft's response to exploits is often significantly less geared towards garnering the proper publicity than Apple's response is.

12% is still a piddling pile of crap in terms of market share. When Firefox had 12% market share, everything was rosy. Now that it's around 25%, we're beginning to see stuff. Talk to you in another 5 years?
]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:49:55 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28156 Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
was, well, pulled directly from your ass.

So rather than provide some substantiation you chose to behave like a toad and make rude replies. suit yourself.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
OS X now has 12% of the U.S. home market

US huh? that makes your ass pulling claims erronious at your 1st utterance.

Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
Why would you take advice about computer security from a company who's sole purpose is to make money selling security software?

Yeah why trust professionals when you can get schoolyard advice. And why trust car manufacturers advice either, who needs oil?


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
We have a false sense of security?

We do? oh yeah, by we you are actually referring to yourself.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
After owning and using a Mac every day for five years without a single malware infestation

Like the guy who cancels insurance becuse he'd driven 20 years without an accident. Not the wisest move, is it?


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
Of course, there are preventative steps that anyone should follow, but I don't worry about it

Pretty much sums up your false sence of security, its not a matter of if but more a matter of when.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
You people don't seem to understand

You people? Only think us people don't understand is where you got the mistaken idea you held a clue?


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
It's not about market share.

Market share is a major factor, equally as important as the lax security of windows workstations.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
There are very real and technical reasons why OS X isn't plagued with malware.

And there is very clear examples of how superior security has also been breached.

Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
If you think that Apple doesn't value security, you are sadly mistaken.

Oh we dont think that at all, we think smug toads fooling themselves that OS X is totally inpenetrable are the ones that are sadly mistaken.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
There have been new security features in every version of Mac OS X.

There have been new security features for windows appearing on an almost daily basis. That new security code is being released strongly indicates that all code is susceptable to varying defrees of attack.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
OS X warns you when you're about to open an application for the first time that was downloaded from the internet.

Fat lot of good that is going to do when your mistaken belief is that OS X cannot be compromised. You'll just click anyway.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
If anything attempts to write to a system folder, you're prompted for the administrator's password.

And when not mistakedly believing that your inpenetrable you'll provide it, in the hpe of seeing new porn or thrills.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
but you should

I decide what I should, not you.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
It explains exactly

something your rudeness and demands are not achieving.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
I couldn't explain it

Clearly.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
OS X will see malware as market share rises. Well, I'm still waiting.

waiting for a rise in market share and/or waiting for a rise in reported infections.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
where's my malware?

with an attitude loke you hold its only a matter of time


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
Where's the malware on my iPhone?

they are called applications.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
Real world usage speaks for itself.

Is this your real world of one? or the real real world?


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
Let's browse porn/warez sites for a few hours

You can start without me, thanks all the same.


Quoting UbiquitousGeek:
Here's a hint

Your full of hint's aren't you? I'll take my hints from someone with a more realistic outlook and some actual know-how, thanks all the same.
]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:35:47 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28155 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:22:54 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28148 This argument is flawed. The reason there are few viruses on macs has to with issues of user share. Less than 2% of people use mac compared to over 90% for Windows. This is a matter of logistics rather than security. Symantec (makers of Norton Anti-Virus), a leading computer security provider, states that OS X is less secure than Windows XP. Apple gives its users a false sense of security. Apple users often neglect basic security practices, such as running a firewall, using caution when opening emails, and running antivirus software. Apple computers ship with the built in firewall disabled, while Windows XP ships with in on by default. Widows also advises users to run security software. As the Apple user share grows, there will be more and more threats and mac users will not be prepared.
]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:48:51 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28147 This argument is flawed. The reason there are few viruses on macs has to with issues of user share. Less than 2% of people use mac compared to over 90% for Windows. This is a matter of logistics rather than security. Symantec (makers of Norton Anti-Virus), a leading computer security provider, states that OS X is less secure than Windows XP. Apple gives its users a false sense of security. Apple users often neglect basic security practices, such as running a firewall, using caution when opening emails, and running antivirus software. Apple computers ship with the built in firewall disabled, while Windows XP ships with in on by default. Widows also advises users to run security software. As the Apple user share grows, there will be more and more threats and mac users will not be prepared.
So OSx is actually much more unsecure. That's why macs fail.]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:43:07 GMT http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm#comment28146
HP pavillion:
680 GB of memory (added 220 GB)
2.3 GHz (this was a toughie, had to hire a techie to get things right)
4 GB RAM
Really cheap graphics card that works,
It runs exactly like the mac, with a few issues. Though the legality of this is questionable, I don't want to pay apple money for the finish.
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