Convince me to spend $2,500 on something other than an iMac

I don't know of a single reason for buying something not running OSX. Why someone would want a big fat inefficient OS (Windows 7) over one that's faultless is bizarre. ["I saved me $500 dollars on my $2,000 'puter and I can sell it for $100 in 1 year" vs "I sold my $2,500 iMac after 1 year for $1,500"...)

And LOLZ at anyone who wastes their time building and tweaking Windows shit. \:)/
 


-God- said:
I don't know of a single reason for buying something not running OSX. Why someone would want a big fat inefficient OS (Windows 7) over one that's faultless is bizarre. ["I saved me $500 dollars on my $2,000 'puter and I can sell it for $100 in 1 year" vs "I sold my $2,500 iMac after 1 year for $1,500"...)

And LOLZ at anyone who wastes their time building and tweaking Windows shit. \:)/
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Get lost n00b, PC != Windows. OSX can't even cut and paste a folder by default.

root@boost [~]# uptime
04:35:17 up 100 days, 15:48, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

root@wise [~]# uptime
04:39:01 up 189 days, 3:08, 1 user, load average: 0.77, 0.59, 0.53

[root@crusader ~]# uptime
04:32:56 up 241 days, 7:45, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.16, 0.17

[root@mang ~]# uptime
04:39:09 up 79 days, 12:02, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.18, 0.22
 
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Insomniac said:
Get lost n00b, PC != Windows. OSX can't even cut and paste a folder by default.

root@boost [~]# uptime
04:35:17 up 100 days, 15:48, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

root@wise [~]# uptime
04:39:01 up 189 days, 3:08, 1 user, load average: 0.77, 0.59, 0.53

[root@crusader ~]# uptime
04:32:56 up 241 days, 7:45, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.16, 0.17

[root@mang ~]# uptime
04:39:09 up 79 days, 12:02, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.18, 0.22
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^^ making fun of yourself? i reboot my servers every day to keep uptime low
 
Insomniac said:
Get lost n00b, PC != Windows. OSX can't even cut and paste a folder by default.

root@boost [~]# uptime
04:35:17 up 100 days, 15:48, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

root@wise [~]# uptime
04:39:01 up 189 days, 3:08, 1 user, load average: 0.77, 0.59, 0.53

[root@crusader ~]# uptime
04:32:56 up 241 days, 7:45, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.16, 0.17

[root@mang ~]# uptime
04:39:09 up 79 days, 12:02, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.18, 0.22
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[root@boomshakalaka] ~ >> w
08:20:28 up ∞ eons, 23:29, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.36, 0.37

I see your boosted wise crusader, mang - and raise you a BOOMSHAKALAKA!
 
I'll will stay with a Mac for the foreseeable future.

-Yes I could get a system with higher specs for cheaper.
-I guess I could fuck with hackintosh if I wanted to and installed the right stuff.

But at the end of the day it's just a fucking measly extra $1000 for something that I spend a great deal of my life on. My time and energy are better spent other places and macs are just easy, simple, intuitive and don't fuck up.
 
-God- said:
I don't know of a single reason for buying something not running OSX. Why someone would want a big fat inefficient OS (Windows 7) over one that's faultless is bizarre.
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You're just buying into the marketing spiel. How is Windows 7 inefficient?

Calling Windows 7 big and fat is ridiculous and completely false. A clean install of OSX Lion takes up around 10gb, a clean install of Windows 7 also takes up roughly 10gb while supporting almost every combination of hardware on the planet. Fucking amazing if you ask me.
 
Insomniac said:
Get lost n00b, PC != Windows. OSX can't even cut and paste a folder by default.

root@boost [~]# uptime
04:35:17 up 100 days, 15:48, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

root@wise [~]# uptime
04:39:01 up 189 days, 3:08, 1 user, load average: 0.77, 0.59, 0.53

[root@crusader ~]# uptime
04:32:56 up 241 days, 7:45, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.16, 0.17

[root@mang ~]# uptime
04:39:09 up 79 days, 12:02, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.18, 0.22
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Yeah, windows is great, I mean it's just so convenient to do the simplest things like CREATE A NEW FOLDER.
 
Insomniac said:
Get lost n00b, PC != Windows. OSX can't even cut and paste a folder by default.

root@boost [~]# uptime
04:35:17 up 100 days, 15:48, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

root@wise [~]# uptime
04:39:01 up 189 days, 3:08, 1 user, load average: 0.77, 0.59, 0.53

[root@crusader ~]# uptime
04:32:56 up 241 days, 7:45, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.16, 0.17

[root@mang ~]# uptime
04:39:09 up 79 days, 12:02, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.18, 0.22
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I felt a disturbance in the Admin and rushed over. Why, for all that is holy, are you running as Root?

yunoSUDO?
 
johnmatrix said:
You're just buying into the marketing spiel. How is Windows 7 inefficient?

Calling Windows 7 big and fat is ridiculous and completely false. A clean install of OSX Lion takes up around 10gb, a clean install of Windows 7 also takes up roughly 10gb while supporting almost every combination of hardware on the planet. Fucking amazing if you ask me.
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what's 10 gigs of hard drive space go for nowadays? $1? $1.25? Who cares
 
johnmatrix said:
You're just buying into the marketing spiel. How is Windows 7 inefficient?

Calling Windows 7 big and fat is ridiculous and completely false. A clean install of OSX Lion takes up around 10gb, a clean install of Windows 7 also takes up roughly 10gb while supporting almost every combination of hardware on the planet. Fucking amazing if you ask me.
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Lets compare a few things here before you jump to conclusions.

First, a default install of OSX includes language packs for just about every language on the planet, as well as some of the sweetest accessibility tools on any system (for the disabled). 8.2gb installed (I just clean installed Lion a few weeks ago).

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise are the only versions of Windows that can even install Language packs. Home, Home Premium, etc... can't even use any other languages. So we take a Windows 7 Ultimate clean install, then install ALL the language packs and any Windows updates.

Now our nice 9gb Windows 7 install is up to 14gb, and that's on a 32-bit setup. Expect a few more gigs if you're running 64-bit.

Now if you want to compare apples to apples (no pun). We do a Lion install, with no language packs installed. That same install is now 6.1gb (did it 2 weeks ago).

But I digress, hard disk space is cheap, conserving it is a moot point nowadays. Even RAM conservation is moot when you can buy 8GB of DDR3 for $50.

The biggest reason I don't run Windows anymore? The registry. That shit-fest is the worst way I have ever seen to organize an Operating System. Gimme flat config files please.
 
Trying to convince an apple guy that they are paying way too much for an inferior machine is like trying to convince Christians that there really is no god: It may be the truth, but they are never going to believe it.
 
cheshire said:
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise are the only versions of Windows that can even install Language packs. Home, Home Premium, etc... can't even use any other languages. So we take a Windows 7 Ultimate clean install, then install ALL the language packs and any Windows updates.

Now our nice 9gb Windows 7 install is up to 14gb, and that's on a 32-bit setup. Expect a few more gigs if you're running 64-bit.

Now if you want to compare apples to apples (no pun). We do a Lion install, with no language packs installed. That same install is now 6.1gb (did it 2 weeks ago).
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[root@boost VirtualBox VMs]# du -h --max-depth=1
17G ./Windows XP (Other)
21G ./Windows XP
26G ./Windows XP (RE)
11G ./Large Vista (Base)
13G ./Windows Vista (Other)
17G ./Large XP (Base)
8.7G ./Windows 7 (Other)
7.0G ./Large Windows 7 (Base)
21G ./Windows XP (Visual Studio)

I highlighted the important lines for you. A base install of Windows 7 with ALL the updates, takes up 7G total, not much diff to your 6.1G lion install. (The XP base image size doesn't count for offtopic reasons).

Also, having your two finger scroll inverted is seriously not fucking cool. Going to help someone on their Mac, and having to adjust for their inverted settings is fucking irritating.
 
I love mac for the simplicity, but if I had 2500, I would build my own monster PC. But if you have just 2500 to play around then go ahead, get the mac, its still pretty damn awesome.
 
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