*yawn*

^ No one forced you to read it

@luckee26 not a good idea to publicly ask for an illegal copy

I d0nt know deh warezorz

It's too late. I already called the FBI.

Poor, poor luckee...

But honestly, there are even warez forums. Luckee is safe

i have to disagree mgoeclipse, apple is a trend.

The next trend is "low-cost" small laptops.

which apple will never make...

ummm where's the poll?

^it got lost in the poll universe like yours did

mctommy, i'm also tired of apple's overpriced shit.

lol i havent committed a crime yet >_<

lorna, i know you love your mac, just don't become a fangirl

Apple isn't really overpriced tho...

The thing is, apple doest sell cheap shit. so if you want a cheap price, get a crappy acer travel mate or some other cheap brand.

if you take a look at the specs on apple computers you'll notice that they're all high performance, they don't sell shit.

for me... if it was a laptop i'd get a mac... as for a desktop i'd choose PC anyday.

but it could be because i game and i overclock... building a high performance desktop PC on my own allows me to get a great priceerformance ratio which I wouldn't be able to do buying a Mac --- i enjoy the raw power i can get from PC parts which i can immediately void the warranty of once i get up and running to get all my components running way faster than they should (geek in me)

but a laptop for me is just something to compute with on the go. i don't need all the graphical and processing power i can get, and i really like mac laptops. clean, simple and are definitely powerful enough for everyday needs. all i'd do on a laptop is music, surf the web, photoshop, and chat so mac can fulfill all my needs in that area

wrong, i went back.



Mac's are great and all but I liked being able to get into the guts of my programs easily on my PC

I am, despite what people may think, rather neutral on macs in general. I'm also hardly a Microsoft booster, their O/S has its problems too and yes to keep it working well you need to put in a small amount of effort and learn about threats. But as far as I'm concerned this is just an example of the saying "a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing" - if you're going to buy a computer no matter what kind you should take the time to really learn how to use it. Even many mac users don't bother with this...

What pisses me off about macs is the unbelievable (and IMHO not justified) fan-boy-ism that they generate. The majority of mac users are such evangelists for the Mac platform and typically for the wrong reasons. My actual complaints about apple:

- Overpriced. Say what you want, but given that apple machines are now essentially built upon an intel-based platform and we can compare them more or less apples-to-apples with PCs, these machines typically cost more than a comparable IBM-clone PC for the same amount of hardware.

- Limited configurations. What if I want 4GB of ram in my laptop. Nope! Too bad, apple offer 4 configurations and 4 configurations only. To say nothing of video ram, additional hardware, etc

- You're limited to apple support, apple hardware, etc. Not all Mac users have great experiences with apple support, and if you have hardware failure you often have to send the machine back to apple for week at a time. Dell provides 3 or 4 year on-site tech support. Nuff said.

The thing that REALLY sets apple apart in terms of user experience is the operating system. Now I will say up front that although MacOS is less susceptable to virii and to a lesser extent spyware, it is HUGELY vulnerable in terms of security holes. Our security group at work have personally found 2 security holes in MacOS (10.4 I think it was) that would allow a remote user to get complete access to your machine remotely without your knowledge.

In addition, MacOS _still_ does not have even remotely close to the number of software packages available as windows does. Of course Mac adherents will say "just get parallels or bootcamp and you can run windows on a mac" but then why not just buy a cheaper, more configurable, PC? Sure you can get MS Office and Photoshop etc but there's way more interesting homebrew and shareware packages out there for windows or linux than MacOS.

I know lots of people like Macs, and I like the fact that it's based on unix, but the fact of the matter is there are even better versions of unix out there.

Anyways, buy what you want. If you like the MacOS platform and you're ok with shelling out the money, fine. But PLEASE don't become one of those holier-than-thou mac fanboys.

^i endorse this post

Mac is for North Americans , and PC for Europe and rest of the World ! No ?

I used to love having windows but i got so annoyed with the crashing, freezing, constant annoyance of it i now have a mac and il never go back to windows, i wasnt sure at first cause it was so different but i love it Mac forever now!

that poll would have been easy if you'd had a Mac

lolwut

Search for CS3 on demonoid. Most torrents on Demonoid are the full enterprise versions and don't even require an app patch :P

IMO, OS X is better for both the developer and the end user. Core audio, animation, and image let's developers do things on OS X that would take 3x lines of code it would on Windows. XCode and Interface Builder have are the best tools for developers for years, and with 10.5 and 10.6 on the way (WWDC – Apple's developers conference is next week), developers will be able to integrate apps better, quicker, and make them prettier (and let's face it, UI is everything these days).

What does this mean for the end user? Stable apps that integrate with other applications you use, a better interface that sticks to the user interface guidelines, and an overall better experience.

OS X is the way to go