Good point, for PCs, you can upgrade any few components that aren't compatible with a new OS, but with Macs, you have to buy a whole new system, usually one that you can't customize yourself (at least from what I've seen).
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It's those fanboys cutting across 3 lanes of traffic in their new (insert foreign big richard car name here), to make a right into the Apple campus that piss me off. I mean really, you know the turn is coming up, that lane is mostly empty, why you gotta speed around me, cut me off to get in that lane!?! This happens EVERY day!
I had this exact argument with my MACFanatic friend...
macs and pcs are like slavery. youll need a civil war to finally settle the issue
freakin Mac diehards (NOT a bad thing)
The whole "right click" thing is completely untrue anymore. You can connect any regular old usb mouse and the right click is actually pretty functional. Even the apple mighty mouse or whatever its called has a right button. Not to mention two side buttons and a scroll ball. Its kind of wierd though. The side buttons are pressure sensitive and it doesn't feel right to me. Ill get a link up for those who may not have seen it. Its pretty old. On the other hand... i have no clue why apple still hasn't implemented a right click on their laptops. ctrl-click gets so annoying after awhile.
Edit: mighty mouse Its kinda funky. It has some nice tech in my opinion but im not going to say its the greatest mouse ever.
On the laptops all you need is to have two fingers on the pad and then click like normal. two fingers to scroll, two fingers+click to right click, hitting Ctr all the time got annoying so I looked around and found it.
Ah, thanks i forgot about that. I never enabled it because I thought it seemed weird at first but its not that bad.
Still. I think a good point is to be made...
Multiple mouse buttons is crazy and to complicated yet trying to memorize ridiculous and sometimes asinine hot keys is PERFECTLY acceptable lol 8)
Although in all fairness the most common hot keys are pretty easy to remember and sometimes mirror their PC counterparts.
Mac is sorry. They come with great hardware, but they don't utilize it to the maximum extent. They don't allow for overclocking of any kind, and there isn't a BIOS. Windows was great up to ME, which was MSes screwup. Then shortly after, a nicely styled GUI called XP came out. All XP does is take up RAM to load all the pretty features. I think the only legit OS is Ubuntu. Looks nice, fast, and utilizes the system to the maximum extent.
Not easy to pick up and learn; and it's murder trying to install and run applications on linux, especially to a noob. That's why OSX and Windows are so damn popular.Quote:
I think the only legit OS is Ubuntu.
-Dave
I had Ubuntu for about a week or two. You _quickly_ realize why its free and why others are not. Thats why I don't take sides with micro or mac anymore. Cuz at least they aren't Linux based. ;)
Actually OSX _is_ linux based. (FreeBSD is a linux variant). Apple has just done a _really_ good job of reworking all the user interface and the overall experience for the end user.
BTW I was talking with my MACfanatic friend last night at the Hockey game and I asked him how easy it was to upgrade his system (the new one he just bought), He looked at me and answered: "Not really sure if you can upgrade it. I think the cpu is hardwired into the mobo (not sure if this is true or not), but since it works fine for me, why would I want to upgrade it?" My only answer was "More power!" He mentioned that he had not opened up any of the last 3 mac's he bought, including his laptop, he just bought a new system.