We are trying to cure LittleSisterCrow of this affliction
She already has an ipod and iphone. When looking to replace her laptop, we asked her what sort of thing she might want in a computer:
"Ooh, I want a Macbook."
Why?
"They look cool."
You do realise that you'll pay about twice as much as you would for a PC of similar spec just because it's got a fucking apple stamped on the front of it?
"Oh."
We're getting there. One electronics purchase at a time.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:15, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

buy her a PC and a sticker of an apple
jobsagoodun.

I want a Mac just so I can have that Iron Man sticker to go on the front.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:17, Reply)

*facepalms*

(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:22, Reply)

there is also a Yoshi one where he's eating the apple logo.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Gaah...
I have talks to go and listen to now. You have approximately an hour and a half to grow up before I get back.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:26, Reply)

OHGODOHGODOHGOD
www.etsy.com/listing/63360900/street-fighter-macbook-decal?ref=sr_gallery_22&ga_search_query=decal+macbook&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&order=&includes[0]=tags&includes[1]=title&filter[0]=handmade
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( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:34, Reply)

yes. but in 3 years time it will still perform exactly the same as the day you bought it.
Whereas your PC will have given up the ghost entirely, or at least will have the speed of the peruvian quadraplegic swimming team. So you'll have to replace your PC twice as often. Horses for courses.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Apple vs PC slanging aside...
Why do they do this? Is it just the famous degeneracy of Windows as an OS, or is it something about the hardware?
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:25, Reply)

There are some hardware reasons, but mostly as far as I know it's because apple are software Fascists.
so, unless apple give you the go-ahead, your software won't work on their OS. This means they can tightly control compatibility and hence software clashes and also prevents random downloads etc from the web fucking things.

A decent techie can keep a PC running optimally by cleansing it properly and not installing certain thing, but most people can't be arsed so eventually your PC just keels over because of all the shit on it.

I dunno. I use both. Apple also completely pisses on anything else as a user interface too, and that's enough for me for certain things.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:30, Reply)

It's because people can and will install lots of crap on their PCs
but if you reinstall windows it pops back to being fast as lightning again.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:31, Reply)

and what i done said above.
I'd also like to add that macs never, ever, come pre-installed with Fucking Norton(TM) which is also a major bonus.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:35, Reply)

But you have no right button
which is the biggest drawback with useability I've ever come across.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:42, Reply)

they've had right buttons for years, Al.
trackpad works with one finger for left click and two for right. Magic mouse just knows left from right by where you touch it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:43, Reply)

That is still unbelievably retarded, they should just add a second button underneath like on good computers.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:47, Reply)

lolwut
If I click towards the right hand side of the trackpad, it brings up the right-click menu.

Add to that
- Pinch to zoom
- Stretch to zoom out
- Two fingers to scroll left/right/up/down
- Four fingers left/right to Alt+Tab
- Four fingers up/down to jump to a desktop
- Two fingers spinning to reorientate

I'd say the mac's mouse or trackpad has _far_ more features, and does it all with one phsyical button.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:57, Reply)

Personally, I just use a mouse and a keyboard
but I'm clearly a computing luddite.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 13:08, Reply)

I'm sorry, I presumed when you said "But you have no right button", I thought you were implying that the mouse on a mac has less functionalty, and that was your complaint against them.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 13:11, Reply)

The tracking pad on my friends mac had a single button below it,
and I needed to access the kind of menu which is normally called up using the right click, but I was unable to work out how to do it. Sadly, despite it being her computer, my friend was unable to help either so we had to find someone else who knew how to use a Mac.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 13:13, Reply)

That's 'cus you've been bought up doing it one way, so when it changes, it takes time to get used too.
It's not a matter of OSX being more complicated, it's just different.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 13:19, Reply)

I think it's because with Apple, only apple decide what hardware goes into their machines.
And therefore everything is optimised to work in congunction with all the other components and there are very little unexpected combinations of equipment.

Where as with Microsoft, there are so many combinations of hardware, that it's impossible to get every combination working correctly.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 13 Dec 2010, 12:37, Reply)