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"Muslims go to Mecca. We come to MACca."

It's got to be a wind up. No one can be that much of a cunt.
 
Can anyone explain to me why Apple is seen as more 'right on' than Microsoft? Microsoft are utter cunts but atleast they don't force you to buy an overrated and overpriced piece of hardware to run their shit on.
 
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The Mac Vs PC bunfight thread is over there ---------->


Probably don't need another one, they all go exactly the same way each time.
 
No I'm genuinely interested in how Apple developed a kind of 'counter culture' image, it baffles me.

If anyone could shed some light on how it happened I'd be very grateful.
 
revol68 said:
No I'm genuinely interested in how Apple developed a kind of 'counter culture' image, it baffles me.
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I am not so sure they are considered that way these days (except by the most rabid of Mac users)......and I speak as a late Mac convert and fan!

Their origins as a company and their historical ethos could certainly be seen in a more "cool computing for the people maaaan" light but I think today, anyone who views them as anything else other than another big Software/hardware company is deluding themselves.

That isn't of course to say that I don't rate their products very highly and indeed although they could never be said to be flawless, I certainly prefer Apple stuff to the competition on the whole.

:)
 
revol68 said:
No I'm genuinely interested in how Apple developed a kind of 'counter culture' image, it baffles me.
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A fantastic marketing department. They've got to spend the money somewhere, and it certainly isn't on sensible hardware design.
 
revol68 said:
Can anyone explain to me why revol68 is seen as more 'right on' than other anarkids? Anarkids are utter cunts but at least they don't force you to read an overrated and windbaggy piece of text whenever apple or macs are discussed.
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Fixed it for you...
 
Just one example of how sadistically difficult macs are to work on. On most laptops an HDD swap is a 5 minute job, but for Macs you have to take the entire thing apart - or more likely you have to pay Apple to do so. The same for a battery replacement on a MacBook Air or iPod, or RAM upgrade on a mini. Quality control often leaves a lot to be desired too
 
editor said:
WTF?! What a bunch of freaks!

It's a joke, right? Please say those people aren't real.
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It's real as far as I can tell, very strange stuff. "I've never knowingly slept with an windows user" I mean wtf!?
 
Swarfega said:
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The Mac Vs PC bunfight thread is over there ---------->


Probably don't need another one, they all go exactly the same way each time.
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This isn't a Mac Vs PC bunfight, this is an unadulterated 'Let's laugh at Mac zealots' thread! :D
 
ExtraRefined said:
Just one example of how sadistically difficult macs are to work on. On most laptops an HDD swap is a 5 minute job, but for Macs you have to take the entire thing apart - or more likely you have to pay Apple to do so. The same for a battery replacement on a MacBook Air or iPod, or RAM upgrade on a mini. Quality control often leaves a lot to be desired too
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Do you always speak so much bollocks? Everyone's welcome to their preferences, but I don't know why you'd go onto a thread about another platform and spread grossly inaccurate information? There was the 'willing to spend $500 more' nonsense on the Macbook Air thread and now this exagerrated bollocks about having to take the 'entire thing apart' now.

FWIW, it seems as though the battery replacement for the Macbook Air requires little more than a phillips screwdriver and a minute or two. Battery replacement on the ipods is a fiddly, but far from arcane, process of popping the metal back off and replacing the battery.

We could probably spend all day posting similar tales of technical issues and poor system design for pcs and macs. In general, however, I think it's fair to say that macs benefit from well designed, clean system architecture - contrast the user friendly inside of a MacPro to many other towers for example. Complaining that a compact unit, where user servicing isn't recommended, is a bit fiddly to work in, strikes me as a bit of a deliberately daft criticism
 
Kid_Eternity said:
It's real as far as I can tell, very strange stuff. "I've never knowingly slept with an windows user" I mean wtf!?
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:D that my son sounds like a challenge she's clearly a yank so i'm thinking of starting a site called www.fuckamacuser.com where people can buy pixelated apples in a 100 by 100 square @ $1 a piece and when the page is full i'll have the cash to get over there and shag her then film the resultant but i have used windows woohahahahahaha fall out... eithe that or film during it and do it doggy style so it become a mac bucking bronnco when i stop yelling osx osx and say boot ini :D :D have some dos you slag.... you love that paper clip don't you you filthy minx.... call me zune baby... ZUNE....
 
tarannau said:
We could probably spend all day posting similar tales of technical issues and poor system design for pcs and macs. In general, however, I think it's fair to say that macs benefit from well designed, clean system architecture - contrast the user friendly inside of a MacPro to many other towers for example.
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Yeah, but that trailer is full of absolute fuckwit knobheads though, isn't it?
tarannau said:
FWIW, it seems as though the battery replacement for the Macbook Air requires little more than a phillips screwdriver and a minute or two.
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And kiss your warranty goodbye!

Most laptops have simple, slide-in, slide-out batteries. Much better.
 
Couldn't be arsed to look to be fair - bit geeky to look at films of geeks I guess - but I'm definitely certain that there are some right saddos out there!
 
editor said:
Yeah, but that trailer is full of absolute fuckwit knobheads though, isn't it?And kiss your warranty goodbye!

Most laptops have simple, slide-in, slide-out batteries. Much better.
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I don' know about that - Apple's more than capable of shooting itself in its own precious (branded) feet, but sometimes they're more flexible that I'd first believed. The first wave of flat screen G5 imacs were pretty user serviceable, with Apple publishing instructions on how to replace hard drives, for example, without losing their warranty. I'd like to think they'd do the same for the Air, but we'll wait to see.
 
editor said:
Most laptops have simple, slide-in, slide-out batteries. Much better.
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all laptops (and all computers for that matter) should have auniversal socket system which means that the Ram cpu HDD cards etc etc etc all slot into everythign else it's gotten better with DDR2 / DDR3 layouts etc and also with Sata connections and the new lower me down type heat sinks but it's still an unesscerraly fiddly job with minimal space for fingers at all the key points...

equally would it cost Mother board manifaturers too much not to sitation delcate tiny diodes near the click down clips for ram and cpus ... ffs I've lost count of how many times i've nearly ripped one of the fuckers out when pushing in ram or chaging CPU it's fucking riddiculious...
 
tarannau said:
The first wave of flat screen G5 imacs were pretty user serviceable, with Apple publishing instructions on how to replace hard drives, for example, without losing their warranty. I'd like to think they'd do the same for the Air, but we'll wait to see.
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They haven't done it for the iPhone in a year, so why should they do it for the Macbook Air?
 
editor said:
Yeah, but that trailer is full of absolute fuckwit knobheads though, isn't it?And kiss your warranty goodbye!
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Not necessarily.

Unless you damage something or screw something up, Apple will usually honour warranties even if they know that you had the back off the thing.


Still - I do agree with you on the battery front; I don't like this trend towards devices with built in batteries which are not designed to be easily replaced, if at all.
 
tarannau said:
exagerrated bollocks about having to take the 'entire thing apart' now.
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Remove the following 15 screws:
o Fourteen 3 mm Phillips.
o One 5.5 mm Phillips in the upper left corner.
 
Swarfega said:
Unless you damage something or screw something up, Apple will usually honour warranties even if they know that you had the back off the thing.
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Their "brick it" attitude towards people daring to unlock their iPhones suggests that they might not look so kindly on such things these days.
 
Well done again on relinking to the same poor quality example as before - a laptop that's not billed as user serviceable, proves - cor bleeding blimey - tricky to disassemble to replace a HD, invalidating the warranty in the process. Blow me down with a feather.

I note you didn't explain why you felt it so necessary to bullshit and lie about the ipod and air replacement procedures for example.

Do you want a biscuit or something for echoing the same inconsequential, fatuous point. Special ' inconsequential geek smartarse' badge?
 
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