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Kaiser, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:26, archived)

Lovely.

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Tart Monkey, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:28, archived)

heh heh
though is that not what they're like now?
= )
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evil pixie, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:28, archived)

ha!
while you sit tied to the hulking tepid grey PC in the corner of your room i lie here laughing whilst using my sleek titanium apple powerbook

laughing i say
(vork and burlap, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:30, archived)

yeah..
..but you aint got solitaire!...(err...ok, point taken)
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mikenco, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:31, archived)

i have
but it's not microsoft

another bonus
(vork and burlap, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:33, archived)

I have a G4 at work
it is hateful! (fookin 400MHz!) are the latest REALLY much better?
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mikenco, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:41, archived)

The ads say they're the fastest
computers available...

..TV wouldn't lie...would it?
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Kamikaze Stoat balanced for lean, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:43, archived)

I don't get it.
I used PowerPCs and iMacs for design work at College. They crashed all the time, they never had enough memory- and yet people still swear by them- which part of the Mac experience am I missing?
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Kamikaze Stoat balanced for lean, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:34, archived)

the wonderful stuffit
bollox.
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Tart Monkey, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:35, archived)

the bit where they stopped crashing
once os x came out our crashing days were (mostly) over

the one i used to use where i used to work was an absolute arse, granted
(vork and burlap, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:36, archived)

But by the same token,
Windows XP doesn't crash for me either...

so what else you got?
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Kamikaze Stoat balanced for lean, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:38, archived)

only one mouse button
to worry about...

the XP on my pc doesn't like me though
(vork and burlap, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:39, archived)

that is
by no means a benefit
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evil pixie, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:41, archived)

It's OK
More recent Macs support mice with more than one button, but they still sell old-stylee one-button mice for the ~~snobs~~ traditionalists.
(Astatine, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:44, archived)

I'll admit that more than three
is a bit much, but the scroll button is a bit class, no?
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Kamikaze Stoat balanced for lean, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:41, archived)

well...
i use a 2-button mouse with a scroll wheel :)
(vork and burlap, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:46, archived)

the scroll wheel
is the third button.
for me at least.
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Sir Sand GOBLIN dreary cunt, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:51, archived)

me too
well spotted
(vork and burlap, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:53, archived)

If more than one mouse button worries you
you need some sort of anti-stress medication :)
(Astatine, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:42, archived)

i use a 2-button mouse
and i'm a heavy smoker
(vork and burlap, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:47, archived)

The smiley icon when it boots.

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whelkboy has not been here for a while, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:41, archived)

I don't like my computer to be too happy.
It makes me insecure.
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Kamikaze Stoat balanced for lean, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:42, archived)

The fact that it's orange?
Or (and I run a PC software company so I kinda know about this) that fact that when I build an application, I don't have to register loads of dlls and stuff and have files all over the place. And there's no registry.

on the other hand, I have no idea as to the inner workings of OS X. OS 9, yes - back of my hand type job but not with OS X
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whelkboy has not been here for a while, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:55, archived)

almost!
:)
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Kaiser, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 0:30, archived)

Wonderful.
But does it come in Tangerine colour?
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