Avenue Q FTW

I cant tell if you got ripped off, because you gave hardly any specs, but i doubt you actually knew what you were buying. as a mac fanboy, im sure the line of thought went something like:
“It is white and expensive! it must be the best!”.

for 3500$ CDN 8 montsh ago I got a core2 6600 quadcore, 2 gigs of OCZ heatpipe reaper (DDR2 1066), 2x 500 gig seagates RAID0, 2x 74 gig WD Raptors RAID0, geforce 8800GTX, a shitty soundblaster X-FI sound card and a 23 inch flatscreen samsung monitor, in a antec gamer900 case with vista ultimate.

It may not be the best machine out there anymore, but it can run Crysis on full detail on most levels.
with a mac, what do you even need power for? do you do 3D rendering or something? you certainly can’t play games :p.

Oh, and I’ll be upgrading soon. Last time I checked, the only mac you can easily open is the mac pro, and the hardware options are still limited (although apple does seem to be getting a bit better about that).

*sigh*.
I fail.
Im arguing with a mac fanboy on a comments page

or maybe this is a failblog fail?
… or probably my fail .

I’ll go ahead and copypasta it where it belongs.

mac OS is based off of someone else’s design, so they can’t take credit for it’s security. they can take credit for the choice, but not the design.
also: an OS is going to show its weak points the more it is used. There are more windows machines out there getting misused and abused than macs, so problems show face more frequently.
MS has, in the past been very concerned about backwards compatibility for the reason that many large businesses run windows and would flip out if their apps couldn’t work after an update. apple (although still concerned with backwards compatibility) has given it a less important place in design. Things that could potentially have fixes in windows (such as prevent self replicating viruses, perhaps) are not implementable because it would break existing legitimate software.

and since everyone hates MS, people would not say “oh, they are making it more secure so it is the software developers job to adapt their application to the update” everyone would instead complain and say “ms is stupid, they update and now my apps don’t work”.

Lastly, you definitely can NOT get an equivalent mac for the price of a PC. where do you shop for PCs? bestbuy? ripmeoff.com? apple is getting a bit better… but historically you have had next to no hardware choices in your mac, so you cant even really compare them if you wanted to.

I run vista (I wanted to be able to use DX10 properly), and honestly, i dont see what the problem is with it. a bit of a large footprint, but all those annoying warnings are easy to disable. and it provides nice interfaces to control services and has lots of integrated features.

ah well, you seem to be a mac snob, so I’m sure I’ll hear some kind of angry response to this.

Avenue Q win
foreigner fail
guy sitting at computer controlling billboard making sure this doesn’t happen EPIC FAIL

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097778/

Ignorance FAIL. Microsoft owns some non-voting shares of Apple as part of a deal because Apple used to be dependent on Microsoft apps, which they’ve now completely replaced: Office with iWork + Mail.app, Internet Explorer with Safari, Windows Media Player with the third-party Flip4Mac codecs.

“and the only reason they dont get as many viruses (they DO get) is because few people spend the excessive amount of money that a mac costs.”

Stupidity FAIL. There are no self-replicating viruses for Macs. Not one. People have written unwanted programs you can run manually, but that’s it. The platform is secure by design.

Most Macs, apart from the specialty Air and Mini, cost slightly less than a comparable PC, especially after a refresh. The only relationship between price and market share is that Macs don’t target the low-end junker market, so they don’t get high-volume injection into low-margin customer bases.

“People! get LINUX…. FREE – SECURE – FAST”

And a giant pain to set up and use in any graphical capacity. Yes, even Ubuntu, which uses GNOME, which at least has a HIG and some customization options, but is still modeled after the Windows 95 UI and the Windows XP paradigm of “never stop bugging the user about every little thing.” Until I got my Mac, Gentoo is the only OS I ever enjoyed using because I felt like I had some control over the machine and its configuration, but it wasn’t worth compiling all that crap and then recompiling when it threw unexpected errors.

Probably for starvation wages in the factory making the robots he designed.

Macs suck.

Speaking of Avenue Q, every other billboard in Seattle was advertising it when I visited there a month ago…