A Confession
I've committed a crime.

After years of hatred and loathing I've finally got a shiny new MAC.

In my defence, I need one to test compatibility with various projects I'm working on and, also in mitigation, the first thing I did was load up Virtual Box and shoehorn XP onto it.

So now it sits there in my computer room looking all superior. Sneering at my my other machines.

Now it's very powerful (even more so since Apple fucked up the order and gave me twice the memory, twice the graphics card and double the hard disk) and it looks amazing but what does it actually *DO*?

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 1:01, 15 replies)

what?
looking good and being powerful isn't enough for you?
(woo who?, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 3:34, closed)

not to mention..
MACs are easier to use than PCs. I'd trade 10 PCs to get 1 MAC any day...even an old one.

Did I mention that MACs can run both PC and MAC programs? MACs are the best.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 15 Feb 2008, 6:40, closed)

a mac?
Can't believe you just outed yourself.



Use it as an ashtray or my infinitely superior (and fucking ugly) new hp will come and sit on it.
(i anglepoise, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 8:03, closed)

Easier to use?
What kind of drooling retard can't understand Win XP? As for powerful? Please...
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 8:06, closed)

Sir
you have made the mistake of knowing something about computers. You should be like me, and instead of answering the question "what spec is your computer" with a long list of impressive gobbledegook just be able to say "It's brill. It's all white and shiny!". Ignorance, sir, is bliss.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Fri 15 Feb 2008, 8:10, closed)

Given the proper software
It'll do anything a PC can, just more pleasantly.

Only problem is if you want to play games on it, as there are very few. But Macs rule for music production, which is why I started using them many years ago.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 8:39, closed)

My Hate Affair
With MACs started in about 1990. I was trying to get one to run TCP/IP when it smugly told me:

"You don't need to know how to do that!"

So I threw it across the room and refused to have anything to do with them from then on. I will *not* be patronised by a fucking machine!

And MACs can run XP? Yeah,right. Within 30 minutes of unpacking the MAC I ran Boot Camp Assistant and turned it into a fucking paperweight. Had to completely reinstall the OS. So now I run XP as a virtual system. Virtualisation rocks.

Still, I have to admit that with Leopard it's almost a proper OS. I got a console where I can run command line shit, the multimedia stuff is cool and once I loaded Firefox instead of that fucking abortion, Safari, then the Net is very usable.

Still poking around in the guts of the thing but I doubt it'll ever replace my PCs.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 10:22, closed)

It'll do anything a PC can, except play games?
You know what does exactly what a PC can, but also plays games too? A PC!
( OneSullenBrit *air sandwiches*, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 11:18, closed)

Not really a Mac anyway...
It's a modern PC in a shiny case, running NEXTSTEP.

I've got two of the things, dual-booting Windows XP and OS X - so they run PC games and UNIXy stuff just fine. They're like universal computers!
(Happy Idiot Talk now has an alibi for, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 11:36, closed)

Welcome
To the world of mac. I would never go back to having a PC. When I have to use them at work I almost end up getting violent.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 15 Feb 2008, 11:40, closed)

Anything a mac can do I can do better...

It can do anything a PC can do, other than right click?

Or are they the older ones? I think they're more retard friendly when they decide to mash their hands into the one mouse button...
(ubergingerspaceninjer last watched you sleep on, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 11:45, closed)

ooh, is it a flashy one?
And I hope you are still going to keep your best blue raincoat for the grannies...
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 11:51, closed)

^^
I just realised what you were talking about there... duh!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 15 Feb 2008, 12:58, closed)

Legless, I'm disgusted.
I'm all for a bit of windows-hatin', but there's a line. Remind me, how many mac emulators* are there for the PC?

(*VirtualBox-equivalent, not painting it a pretty colour, polyfillering all the available expansion ports, ripping off your right mouse button, ceremonially burning a grand and alientating all your friends)
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Mon 18 Feb 2008, 14:34, closed)

Bonfire
They burn quite well...
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Tue 19 Feb 2008, 9:08, closed)