On 10/17/11 11:14 AM, John Smith wrote:
On 10/16/2011 11:48 AM, Scout wrote:


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On 10/13/2011 8:16 PM, Tankfixer wrote:
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On 10/12/2011 11:37 AM, Alan Baker wrote:
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On 10/10/2011 2:30 PM, D Peter Maus wrote:
On 10/10/11 16:27 , Alan Baker wrote:
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Your post is an excellent example of what I have
found
about
"Apple
People", they have a religious devotion to the
platform
...

Your post is an excellent example of someone who
believes
that
anyone
who sees value where you do not must do it out of
religious
devotion...

Personally, the only reason I use a PC, and refuse
MAC's,
is
that I
write much of the software I use ... plus, I
private
contract
to
develop
software on multiple platforms (even though I am
retired,
for
the
most
part) ... while most of that could be done on a
MAC, it
simply
would not
make economic sense, for me ... I mean, I am in
the
business to
make
money -- NOT pay money to apple ... apple has
worked
hard
in
being one
of the most proprietary corps I have ever seen,
I think
they
can
do that
without me ...

In what way is the Mac more "proprietary" than
Windows
from
your
perspective? The fact that they've always sold
computers
with
their own
OS? You can write software for that platform just
as you
can
for
Windows
or for Linux.

Windows doesn't hold patents on the hardware, to run
their
software,
just for starters ... and, they don't have an
iphone, or
even
an
idildo,
for that matter! ROFLOL

So?

Apple's suddenly an evil empire because they make
hardware
and
Microsoft
doesn't?

Actually, you have missed the point, gotten off
track, the
conversation
I seen was focused on fools and overpaying for the
same
bang
less
buck
will do ...

It isn't that apple is evil for taking fools money,
the
fools
always end
up giving it to some one ... nor are the fools evil
...
evil
just
doesn't really apply.

If fools willingly give you money, I am not aware of
any
crimes
which
have been broken, nor evil criminals at fault ... I
mean,
like,
DUH!

Regards,
JS

As I said:

How arrogant to assume that anyone who sees value in
what
you do
not
must be a fool...

It's a cultural standard, today.

Hey, I am not the one into social standards!

I freely admit that a MAC can do anything a PC can do
... the
PC
can
just do it faster, cheaper and usually better ...

Really? Better in what way? Give a concrete example...

Snap in a high end NVIDIA or ATI card into our PC with a
high
res HD
monitor, sit in next to a MAC ... you will see what I
mean ...
do
the
same with audio ...

You mean, like this:


http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-4000-mac-us.html

No like this.


http://www.geforce.com/Hardware/GPUs...specifications

CUDA cores 1024 vs 256 for the Mac
Memory 3Gb vs 2 Gb for the Mac
Memory Interface 768 bit vs 256 bit for the Mac
Memory Bandwidth 327.7 Gb/s vs 89.6Gb/s for the Mac

snip

Like he said, Mac can't compete.

LOL

No, Scout: Nvidia has *chosen* not to compete... ...for now.

Last quarter, Mac sales were up to 13% in the US. Think
about that.

That can be easily explained for any number of reasons which
DON'T
substantiate the hardware and software of MAC being "better."

One which jumps to mind, immediately, a number of people
just as
ignorant as you have just went out and purchased new
computers and
have
skewed the statistics for a short period, causing a false
"blip" on
those statistics ...

Regards,
JS

For the Non-Techies : PC -vs- Mac

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...pare/pc-vs-mac

non-tech-r-i ~ RHF
.
.

LOL! MS for a non-techie, balanced comparison of the two! Ya
gotta
love it!!

But keep in mind, if you buy a Mac you have both a solid OSX
(unix)
machine as well as a great Windows box too! A twofer!

Or you can buy a bare drive PC and load whatever version of
Linux you
want and save a $1000 ...

Or, you can just grap the components, build your own for 400
bucks, or
under ... building your own, shopping sales, ebay, newegg, etc.
you can
put together a decent gaming computer for a grand!

I realize that the zealot in you will prevent you from grasping this,
but...

...most people have no interest in building their own computers.

However, they are often willing to buy component built systems
because they
are better or cheaper than named PC packages.

A very few people.

You keep saying that, but a simple check of eBay, nevermind the retail
sales of motherboards would clearly challenge that assertion.

So what exactly do you have to show that it's only "very few people"
that have a component built system?


Quite a few people make a living supplying people with such systems
customized to their specific desires.


--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg


In California, you can walk into any Best Buy, Fry's, etc. and ask them
how many PC's and motherboards they sell a day ... then stop by the
apple store on your way home and notice the employees look like the
maytag repairman (the most loneliest guy in town) unless they having a
new "iPhone rip off day."

Regards,
JS

LOL! I guess all those reports about the Apple Store's being extremely
busy that we see everywhere except from you, must be fiction huh?

Around here, BestBuy does fine selling PCs, but components other than
external HDs and such, not so much.


--
Lloyd