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step 01 > open up your case
step 02 > rip out the mac components
step 03 > slap in pc components
step 04 > get dirty looks from mac fanatics…
bwahaha. coo article from marisol about g5 killer, a kid who got a g5 for christmas, decided that he’d rather have a pc, gutted the g5 case, installed pc components, and earned the hate of the entire mac community. ha! first, a foreword. those who know me know that im anti-mac (hi betty!). not (primarily) because of its performance, which rocketh much…except gaming, which sucketh much. and not because i have an undying love of pcs and microsoft. i dont use macs because ive been using pcs since people still had to decide between xt and at, because i like my pc and am quite adept at using it, and shit…because people expect me, as a graphic designer, to automatically love and use macs. people should never “expect” me to do anything. before i was a graphic designer, i was a computer geek…and i was proficient enough to manipulate and enhance my computers. old habits die hard, and i still sport a pc that eats comparable macs for breakfast. but you know, macs are quite pretty…their design is very very swishy, and apples ideology is actually quite honorable. macs even blaze thru many (but not the majority) of the programs i use. you know what does it in for me tho? its the mac fanatics that make me not want to use macs. ironic, no? fanatics of anything turn my stomach. fanatics in the sense of just blindly following and praising the glory that is whatever it is theyre following. pish. as for pcs, i think its their “fallability” that make people want to continually enhance and customize their pcs. open useability.
which brings us back to g5 killer. the whole thing about gutting the g5? it was actually a prank that he played on a mac-lover friend. before the admission tho, he received thousands of hate-mail from the aforementioned fanatics about hanging him by his testicles and setting him on fire. how eloquent. gotta love them mac fanatics…
btw, i always thought it was funny how macs were originally targetted towards the masses of everyday computer users (and pcs were the realm of computer geeks)…and now apple commands an intimidating 3% of the market. odd how that worked out.
see. everyone likes the pretty shit! ha!
that’s the coolest shit ever! puhahahahahahahaahahha! OH my god.
PC’s rock!!
First off, the above article was a joke. (He got a case, not a whole G5)
We all know how the market share got how it is (IBM supported MS, who robbed from Apple etc, etc.)
The only reason its the way it is now is price. If you can’t afford quality, buy what you can get.
Think about the car market:
MS PCs = Ford/GM/etc
Apple = Rolls-Royce/Bently/Maybach
Not everyone has their own Limo…..
Yes if you’re a mechanic, you can build your own Honda Civic to rival a Ferrari for speed (at a fraction of the price too) and add most of the bells and whistles, but its still a Civic….
Why do so many PC users hate Macs? (Understanding why Mac users hate PCs is obvious- look at Manchester United – if you’re not a fan, you probably hate them)
Well only people who care/know about computers bother to hate them.
This usually puts them in two categories:
Gamers (Who are stuck with wintel for the most part, whether they like it or not because they can’t get their games on Mac or Linux) and
IT ‘Pros’ (who are also mostly stuck with wintel, but also know that they’d probably lose their network administrator job if they installed Macs instead, because they wouldn’t break down half as often. If at all)
Why do some people who can afford a Mac buy a PC?
Well familiarity plays a part. You buy what you’re used to. Because even though you might not be impressed, you probably won’t be dissapointed. (Lots of people stay loyal to car manufacturers when upgrading)
Many PC users say they have ‘tried’ a Mac (Usually in a shop for 5 mins – but I realise you’re not likely to get access to a borrowed Mac for long enough to get used to it) and “don’t like it”. Like I say, they don’t usually have time to get properly acquainted with it. But even if you do use one for a while and still don’t like it, chances are you’ve heard how easy it is to use but can’t seem to get it to do all the things your old PC has been doing for years.
It is easier to use, but you can’t expect to learn a completely new system overnight. Not to the same standard as a system you’ve been using for years.
I’m not saying the Mac is for everyone (I’ve learned more about computer hardware in general from tinkering with my two PCs in the last year or so, than in 5 or 6 years of using Macs. and I enjoy learning and taking things apart etc, so I understand that a PC may be preferable to you.
I think the people who miss out most are those who have a computer for email and web and word processing and nothing else, so buy a complete PC from Dell or Compaq or Time or whoever. Chances are people like this will spend the the difference in price (between their machine and a Mac) on phoning up tech support becasue the DVD ROM drive won’t take VHS.
Whichever machine they get will be obsolete before they get it home, but I reckon a PC would date faster than a Mac.
My newest Mac is a 5-year old Powerbook G3 and it still looks more modern than many brand new wintel notebooks. With a few upgrades it does as much as most brand new ones too (just not as fast). It has days of music on, can burn DVDs, has wifi etc. It runs the latest version of OS X and I don’t remember the last time I came across a file it couldn’t deal with (except application specific ones like Mathcad for example).
So rather than slate the Mac for being different, think about the things that Apple has given EVERYONE (They pretty much invented the PC you’ll recall), they’ve had a hand in many technologies, hardware and software (Quicktime, Firewire, many I’m not even aware of, I’m sure).
Maybe they are “pretty”, but you know there’s nothing wrong with that, PC cases have been copying Apple for years now, and you KNOW you want an iPod.
Take a top of the line Powerbook G4: Its using an aging CPU, and compared to a P4 laptop (like the Alienware one for example), it can match it for some features, but I doubt it can beat it at any (Except its the first laptop with a 17″ screen). It runs at half the speed.
But the P4 is a desktop squeezed into a smaller box. By all accounts it will drain its battery in under three hours, and if you actually use it on your lap, don’t expect your lap to be entirely intact when you try to remove the laptop from it. I gather there’s a good chance it will fuse itself to your trousers or even melt clean through your entire lap(!).
The G4 is a real laptop. It was designed to be a laptop. A portable. You can take it out with you, with no danger of snapping the tendons in your arm if you have to carry it further than the car. You can take it out for most of the day without having to to recharge it or plug it in. You can use it on your lap (without injury).
Its a different philosophy.
A PC is (usually) made by many different companies (Eg: MS OS, ATI/nVidia graphics, other hardware by up to a dozen different manufacturers) The Mac is made by just one. Think of it as a holistic PC.
Remember that many Mac users are not technically inclined in the slightest and this is why they love their Macs. Others just like that they are simpler to use (usually more stable) and more secure than windows machines.
Others still buy them because they look nice (Check out CTU HQ in 24). People will always buy things that look nice.
And those of us that don’t (always anyway) buy them just because they look nice, can scoff for now, but a Mac is far more likely to be a collectors item 50 years from now than any PC on the market (probably ever on the market). So maybe they’ll have the last laugh.
Many Mac fans think that everyone should use Macs (we only want to spread the joy….), but instead I offer you this:
The computer industry simply wouldn’t be where it is without Apple.
You don’t have to love the Mac. Just respect it.
dude, learn to summarize.
That Was a Moving piece…
Maybe peter jackson can make a movie about it.