Thriller RiZzle said:
On a side note: MasterP, you have no clue what you’re talking about on the subject of macs. You have to be the biggest moron alive to crash a mac, I’ve been using them for my development for years, and all 3 of my macs own.
That’s nice. I’ve been working directly in IT for 5 years now and it’s extremely rare to be able to actually fix a serious OSX problem. Any Windows problem is easily recoverable and you never lose files, even after a full format, but when a Mac dies it dies hard and typically takes all the user’s files with it.
Here’s an example: Unmountable boot volume / corrupt partition
For Windows – toss in any Windows disk and run chkdsk. Still doesn’t boot so you do a fixboot/fixmbr or repair install/SFC and it works.
For Mac – toss in an OSX disc, realize you’ve got one that doesn’t work on that newer version of Macbook. Call user, wait for them to bring in discs. Put disc in and repair disk and permissions. Still doesn’t work. What do you do now oh genius of Mac? How do you get the machine to boot again WITHOUT reinstalling the OS?
Hint: You can’t. So you do a non-destructive reinstall, only the partition is still corrupted because the mac chkdsk doesn’t fix that. So not only do you have to reformat and lose all the user’s files but you also just lost this argument.
Thriller RiZzle said:
Macs aren’t “75%” more expensive. Not if you know how to buy them.
So you do admit they are if you buy them from Apple… what was you’re argument again?
Btw Mike, think about it. The base 17″ Macbook Pro costs $2500 while the equivalent Dell Studio costs $1300.
When you add 90% of $1300 back into $1300 you get $2470. Thus the Macbook Pro is 90% more than the Dell equivalent. QED my friend.
Thriller RiZzle said:
Buy only the skin and bones from apple themselves, than by your extra FBDIMM RAM at macdeals or some *edited* to save a load of money.
Thanks for telling us you don’t know what type of RAM is used in the current (or last) generation of Macs. FBDIMM? That’s DDR2 dude. lol
Thriller RiZzle said:
Macs are still a little more expensive, but for a superior and more stable OS, which takes better advantage of your hardware to develop I have no problem paying for it.
So you’re telling me the $1200 price difference between the 17″ Macbook Pro and 17″ Dell Studio is worth it because the OS is better? I know Canadians are different but *edited* if that’s not just stupid.
Thriller RiZzle said:
Shame….after all this time, there’s still that one PC fanboy who keeps throwing the price card and the “their not as stable as you think” card….shame on you…just…shame on you.
Go work in IT a few years then come lecture me about which OS is better. Until then just keep quiet because you really don’t know wtf you’re talking about.
k thnx