Please help me fix this BS
cannedsarcasm:
Pretty much what Seqkat said. Like one of my favourite lecturers likes to say, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
jezzer:
From some of the comments I've seen from Mac users, I don't think they were aware that it wasn't a good choice for gaming when they bought it. Apple doesn't exactly highlight that feature in their advertising.
saraswati:
Quote from: jeromycraig on 2011 April 19, 14:18:04
From some of the comments I've seen from Mac users, I don't think they were aware that it wasn't a good choice for gaming when they bought it. Apple doesn't exactly highlight that feature in their advertising.
cannedsarcasm and seqkat, I would point out that there are many Windows users who go into Harvey Norman and buy a machine because it looks shiny as well. You only have to look as far as the BBS, there are generally no end of computer users with many different kinds of systems who don't have a clue what they're doing. An illiterate user is an illiterate user, regardless of what type of system they've purchased.
There are large numbers of doctors and allied health professionals (some of my user base at work) who buy Macs, purely because they find them easy to use. I've worked out why this is, you will often hear them say that they love their Mac because "they just work". They're intelligent people, they're just not all that interested in computers, their whole lives are people focused and in the half an hour or so a day they spend on their machine, they don't want to fight with the machine to get it to work.
Most Mac users I know swap information because you want to get the most out of your system. I started thinking about getting a Mac a while before I went out and bought the machine. I was warned by friends who've used Macs for years to run XP from Boot Camp and install the Windows version of the Sims because trying to install a game through the Mac OS doesn't work too well. Mac users know the limitations of their Mac, we put up with it because we get so much more out of it in other ways. For one, the Apple versions of Photoshop and Office (Aperture and iWork) are far more user friendly than the equivalent Windows product.
Again, people should be talking to someone who they trust and getting advice to buy a system that suits them and which is in their price range. It doesn't matter much whether that's Windows, Mac, Linux or even a crappy ex-Government machine, as long as it suits your needs.
cannedsarcasm:
You're obviously passionate about the subject matter. To put it bluntly, I'm not. I'm pretty sure that we aren't even disagreeing about anything major - but I didn't really finish reading your post. I know that there are plenty of people out there who make informed decisions about what they buy, I said that at the start. There are a lot of people who don't. That's how humans are, the end.
Feel free to write another bunch of paragraphs on the topic, though. It's possible that someone around here has a remote interest.
soozelwoozel:
saraswati wasn't laying into you or getting on a soapbox. There's really no need to respond like that, cannedsarcasm. If you want to contribute to a conversation, then you should actually read what you're replying to. Otherwise, we don't fancy listening to your lazy, I'll informed replies. If you don't care about a subject, why chime in? Or were you just showing off your edumacation, in which case *golf clap*.
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