Doesn’t everybody realize that if your a mac user, you go to hell?
I have absolutely no interest in defending a product that I would never conceivably use. Mac Pros aren’t good on the value for money front. Fine. I don’t care. Nor should you. Trying to say that ALL Macs are bad because ONE Mac is bad is ridiculous. Either comprehensively dismiss the product range or don’t do it at all.
There’s a lot of love in this thread :’) sniff
I agree, the OS is awesome but all of the computers themselves are overpriced apart from the mac minis, laptops and imacs.
Can just feel the love…
Not long ago I got myself a £1.4k pc; within a year it was completely useless. Ran slowly, virus ridden; needed a replacement motherboard within a month or two, then the graphics card and PSU fried. Cost me well over £300 for repairs and AV software, which of course didn’t help because it ended up virus ridden anyway… The screen died too; had to switch to a backup CRT and then get a new LCD… More money pouring into it; maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. The operating system, Windows XP, was fairly clumsy and my filing systems are so screwed up I could never find anything. Made it fun to manually back up because it needed more repairs.
Around the time I got really tired of this, and having used Macs at school for music and animation work, I decided to buy myself a Mac. It cost me £1.4k. It was a 15" MacBook Pro. That was well over a year ago, and it still works. It’s also still very fast, and I find the OS more intuitive and many of the programs easier to use. Generally, things do what you want them to do and you do not have to wrestle with them (which is often the case with Windows programs). I have not had to pay any maintenance costs or upgrades to keep it running smoothly - it started working straight out of the box and kept working. The battery life is good and I can do what I want, where I want and when I want. I am no longer chained to a desk or a power outlet.
The mouse discussion… I find it amazing people are still not aware of this. We have two button mice. The mighty mouse has 4 functions. Left and Right click. Centre click (scrollball) and what is generally referred to as exposé. The scrollball itself doesn’t click, but if you press it down and click the mouse it recognises it as clicked. You can assign any of the three buttons to be your primary, secondary or 3rd buttons, or attach them to a different function altogether, such as the dashboard overlay, exposé all windows/this program’s windows etc. You can even link them to a custom or prebuilt script, without installing new drivers or hacking the OS. You can, if you wish use your own mouse, but I generally find myself trying to squeeze the sides to get exposé when I do this. Then there’s the Magic Mouse. This actually only has one button; technically. It uses a touch sensitive interface to determine whether you are using left or right click, and you can scroll with one finger and use 2 finger swipes for fwd/bck navigation.
Back on topic, there have been ways of running steam on a Mac for a good while, Crossover games, VMWare Fusion, Parallels, Boot Camp etc. Either running windows and running it there or by running it in an emulator. It’s nice to finally get some proper support.
Oh and out of interest, if you build a Mac Pro with all options set to the most expensive it will come out to over £14k. Which is a bit steep really, and you generally do not need that sort of power anyway. And if you do, you’re probably editing HD video in HD on the fly, or running NASA, or both at the same time. And why are we a touch behind on hardware in that department… that would be because we wait for the server versions of the stuff you’re using.
Just my two cents
(Though in Apple money, that’s about $400)
The magic mouse on the other hand
, that is just wierd, it uses the same tech as an iTouch/Phone, but on a mouse. It is wierd.
I’ve used mac os 10.5 on my PC for long enough to find out that mac doesn’t have shit on linux.
We were talking about mac v windows. I have never used Linux so I would not know, but I hear that it is only really useful for programmers?
Mac is essentially a form of linux. more specifically, linux is a form of unix, and mac is also a form of unix. the difference is that mac doesnt show the unix side of things at all. you can open a bash terminal in mac and do almost everything you can do in a bash shell in linux. that being said, about the virus thing, people who write programs for unix-based systems, tend to program for linux systems and open-source projects. A kid would be able to write a virus in windows with how simplistic the operating system works and the many different ways you can. linuxes architecture makes it very difficult to get viruses to work properly. But if someone were to actually try, a suitable virus could be made to infect macs and linux users alike. From a programmers “Evil” side, it is just more logical to write a virus for the larger user-base which most of them dont even know how to use the system properly. Trust me, i work for an IT department… the world is full of people that dont know how to even work a mouse that are required to use computers on a daily basis.
I personally hate the idea of the mac vs PC… it all comes down to preference… i prefer windows because of the flexability in the OS, mac users tend to like mac because it is straightforward on how things are done on it. its like trying to compare a tractor to a racecar… a tractor is better at farming than the racecar but the racecar is not built to farm… so how can you make that comparison… I hate it when people come up to me and say “Your a PC guy so you hate macs”… its not that at all, it is just that PC’s are more applicable to my needs so I am more apt to use a PC than a mac…
The sentry is upgradable, the turret isn’t.
It’s a warning sign of autism (aspergers) to hate an OS because you use a different OS. It’s disturbingly commonplace, I hope they find a cure for it eventually. I heard Ibogaine is a promising treatment.
Linux is only really useful if you’re not mentally challenged.
I can be productive in Windows, Mac and Linux, the only operating systems I’m not familiar with are OS/2, unix or BeOS.
How do you know? An engie update is in development 
And how do you know the rocket turret isn’t an upgrade
Nice job turning this into a Mac vs. Windows thread, faggots.
I love you too babe.
[color=’#212121’]Rage some moar
You’re lying to me James, and you always have 
There is no code for the turret to upgrade. If you wanted to upgrade from boolat sentry to rocket sentry you’d have to get a new one.
Why did daddy hit mommy again!
This is such a brilliant observation of the pic, and yet so simple. You sir, win.