I know eh? Seriously, an ad boasting about their product to increase their profit? Pfft, thats the fourth dimension!mastertang said:
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I can argue that that's not entirely true, about the Mac Pro not being that great a workstation. I'm sure you are aware that the point of a workstation is not necessarily to do any single task very fast but to be able to do many tasks without slowing down. If my work-flow is focused on a single task, say applying a filter in Photoshop, then I would agree that it is much better to get a desktop PC and put a high-end card into it. However, if your work-flow involves performing many different tasks simultaneously and you can't afford stalls in that work-flow, then you definitely want a true workstation class machine. By your own admission that a Mac Pro is cheaper than other similarly specced workstations, then it doesn't make such a bad buy if it is able to do the job. Plus, there are other consideration people may have when purchasing a Mac Pro system, other than the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Marketing Field?.Eggo said:Unfortunately though, with its lack of support for Nvidia's latest and greatest Quadro CX and FX5800 workstation cards, the Mac Pro isn't even that great of a workstation for some of the biggest applications around. But I guess that goes back to your first sentence
If you have a three-button USB mouse lying around, you can plug that in and use that. If you want more buttons, say a 5-button mouse, the only one I know that has mac drivers is the DeathAdder by Razor(I have one, and it's a very nice mouse, in my opinion).pantsoffdanceoff said:
I hear this complaint about macs not supporting more than one button on a mouse all the time. It's actually not true. The mac does support up to a 3-button mouse, with scroll wheel. I have several such mice(two of which are track-balls) that I use on my macs.
On graphics intensive tasks, certainly, but not all tasks are such. It's a trade-off consideration. I can buy a machine that is adequate to the task and use the money for other things, or I can buy the über-machine.Eggo said:
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to convince you, or anyone else, that you should buy a mac(you as well as others are clearly dead set against ever doing that). I'm just trying to make the point that there are valid, intelligent reasons why people buy one. It's not just stupidity, insanity, or herd-mentality that make people buy macs. However, the condescension of this thread, with the exception of a few, seems to be that only complete brain-dead idiots or the hypnotized would ever buy a mac.
Potato Potatoes. Looks the same, means the exact same thing (basically) and really doesn't change the meaning. They bash and boast, sounds like a Christmas feast eh? They put down the PC for being a nerd, and they boast about being way better in "this" or "that/"Bored Tomatoe said:
I didn't realize that having a battery designed to shit itself after a year and resetting twice in 30 minutes for no conceivable reason constitutes "working properly".Rusty Bucket said:
The iPods are the biggest sham foisted by Apple upon the masses since their "Mighty Mouse" where they attempted to claim they had invented a two-button mouse with a scroll wheel despite that being around since the late 90s.
And I hate these ads so much, they do no advertising about Mac OSX anymore, instead spending time bashing Vista. The ultimate irony being that my roommate who got a Mac has to use his Windows partition to do his modeling in 3DS Max.
Way to be the failboat of suck, Apple. Oh and by the way, no I don't think your feature to hide all the windows in the borders of the desktop every time my mouse cursor gets within the remote area of the corner of the screen is helpful, especially when I'm trying to click the fucking Apple logo.
well, i've had my ipod video for just over a year now and nothing has ever gone wrong with it. It's worked perfectly all the time.AceDiamond said:
Oh man, that's rich.y8c616 said:
"Forget you and your facts and your evidence that backs up your reasoning. I'm right because I said so. Case closed."
Could you please stop misrepresenting college students as elitists tools who can't hold an argument? If you've been proven wrong at least have the dignity to bow out with some grace instead of falling back on "because I said so" logic.
I thought 'collage' students were better than that.y8c616 said:
The ads are genius for the following reason.
People who like them will be impressed with the humor and ultimately base their purchase off of something so fascille.
People who dont like them often have prior knowledge about the real differences of macs and pc's and definately wont be swayed either way.
People who dont care might get a foolhearty laugh out of it.
People who like them will be impressed with the humor and ultimately base their purchase off of something so fascille.
People who dont like them often have prior knowledge about the real differences of macs and pc's and definately wont be swayed either way.
People who dont care might get a foolhearty laugh out of it.
I dont know about you but if they made the mac vs pc ads more like this I think I'd watch them more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLbJ8YPHwXM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLbJ8YPHwXM
I think they're biased, but make for good parodys. (Truenuff films, for example)
A personal favorite of mine, which I'm not 100% if I made it up or subconciously remembered it was:
Mac "Hi, I'm a mac"
Pc: "Hey, mac, played any good games lately?"
Mac: "Shut up".
Yes, the ads bug me, but it makes for good discussion with the weird linux kid who sits next to me. He's completely unbiased between the two OS's, he runs Linux.
A personal favorite of mine, which I'm not 100% if I made it up or subconciously remembered it was:
Mac "Hi, I'm a mac"
Pc: "Hey, mac, played any good games lately?"
Mac: "Shut up".
Yes, the ads bug me, but it makes for good discussion with the weird linux kid who sits next to me. He's completely unbiased between the two OS's, he runs Linux.