Windows Vs Apple

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Windows Vs Apple

Windows are Male and Protestant. Macs are female and Catholic

First, from page 120 of the book “Microserfs” by DouglasCoupland: “As stated, Karla and I are working on the samethings, just in different formats. She’s Mac. I’m Windows.“‘Entirely appropriate,’ says Karla, ‘because Windows is more male, and Mac is more female.’ ““I felt defensive. ‘How so?’“ ‘Well,Windows is nonintuitive ... counterintuitive, some-times. But it’s so MALE to just go and buy a Windows PCsystem and waste a bunch of time learning bogus commands and reading a thousand dialog boxes every timeyou want to change a point size or whatever ... MEN arejust used to sitting there, taking orders, executing need-less commands, and feeling like they got such a good dealbecause they saved $200. WOMEN crave efficiency, elegance ... the Mac lets them move within their digital universe exactly as they’d like, without cluttering up their human memory banks.“I think the reason why so many women used to feel like they didn’t ‘understand computers’ was because PCs are so brain-dead ... the Macintosh is responsible for uppingnot only the earning potential of women, but also the feeling of mastering technology, which they get told is impossible for them. I was always told that.’”

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Unberto Eco wrote

The Mac is Catholic, he wrote in his back-page column of the Italian news weekly. It is "cheerful, friendly, conciliatory, it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach -- if not the Kingdom of Heaven -- the moment in which their document is printed."

The Windows PC, on the other hand, is Protestant. It demands "difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that not all can reach salvation. To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself: A long way from the baroque community of revelers, the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment."

R U a Mac or a PC.

I am a mac on both counts

Ëlfyn
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No it's not me. We are related, tho'.
Dan
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Sorry, wrong website. But surely you want to know how fast it goes, otherwise what's the point. Go on, download 3DMark and find out.
chooselife
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I'm Windows but I've often fancied being a Mac. Macs have more interesting bits to play with.
Mark Brown
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I'm probably a ZX Spectrum +2 128K of Ram, intergrated tape deck, 8 colours. Looked upon with nostaligia, actually crap, but the people's computer.
Tony Cook
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I am firmly in the PC stable - can't stand Macs (mainly 'cos I can't work them) - and they take weeks of our time trying to sort out their browser problems. So, I'm male and an atheist.
andrew pack
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I'm sort of with Mark, but in the original chewing gum format. It isn't a proper computer unless the keyboard gets red-hot after it has been on for an hour, because the heat-sink is too tiny; and it definitely isn't a proper computer if you don't have to have some programming skills to make it do anything. The words Cyan and Magenta (pronounced by every schoolboy as Mag-neeta) still make me grin.
Mark Brown
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I'm definitely a ZX Spectrum. You can do all of the right things, follow the instructions to the letter, and it still doesn't work. Ah, Cyan. So exotic sounding, like something that would have been traded during a game of 'Elite'. I think Apples might be a little New Agey.
Dan
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I'm a unix person. Did like the old dead-flesh 16k spectrum though, but I loved my Amiga 500.
andrew pack
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Spectrum coding was like a foretaste of proof-reading. You'd get the programme out of Sinclair User - twelve pages of dense type, and if you put a semi-colon where there was supposed to be a colon, nothing would work. It taught precision and care... (and now I'm bound to have made a really obvious typo that some smart-alec will gleefully point out)
mississippi
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I was a BBC 'B' man, in fact I still have it in the loft, and it still works. The first decent computer with a proper keyboard, 32k memory, 32k system, pain in the a.rse waiting for cassettes to load AND it cost me £3991 Was I really that stupid? Am I STILL that stupid? Now a PC man. Why? Because no one writes any decent programs for that wanky Mac itam. It's just a designers fashion statement, can't be upgraded very easily, has no bloody expansion slots or bays for extra hardware, in short a pile of expensive *****.
mississippi
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Seems to be an erroneous '1' on the end of that price!
Jeff Prince
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I agree with George. It's like Netscape vs. IE. When 95% of people are using (and creating stuff for) IE, why walk against the wind? Repeat this mantra: "Windows is good! Windows is good!" Try explaining the grammar in that to an Elementary ESOL learner.
justyn_thyme
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I had a Mac G4 for a few years and liked it a lot. I also had a Mac Classic in the early 90s...my first home computer. Of course, back then, there was actually more word processing software for the Mac and for the PC. Word was originally designed for the Mac. The G4 was great, but with the XP Operating System, there is really not much reason to have a Mac anymore. They are no more stable than XP, there is much less software available, the browser doesn't work reliably on all web sites, and it's expensive. Some of Jude's info is a bit dated. XP is a great OS. As for being better with graphics and video...used to be true, but not really anymore. Besides, it takes forever to get repairs and replacement parts. Not so with Dell etc for example.
mississippi
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Speaking of which, I'm sitting here using a PC I built myself from scratch. Abit AX7 MB with Raid, Athlon 2600XP processor, 128mb video card, audigy sound card, 1GB DDR memory, 560GB HD, 52x CDRW, 52x DVD, blah blah blah. It cost me £800 for the parts and has a spec that would cost £1500 off the shelf. I can upgrade whichever bits I want when I want. I have NEVER seen parts for Mac's on sale other than parts that work with either Mac's or PC's. I have never heard of anybody building a Mac themselves though I've heard about a guy locally that wears a dirty one. A gardening friend of mine has just ditched a Mac because their was no garden design program available that would run on it. (It's possible to run PC progs on them using an emulator, but if you're going to emulate a PC you might as well have one)
Dan
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Cooooollllllll. What's the Quake 3 fps?
mississippi
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I don't use my PC to play games Dan. Mostly music, cyber fighting and typos.
Ëlfyn
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I use Linux. What does that make me?! *looks confuuused*
Flash™
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How can you compare a pane of glass with a bit of fruit, i don't see the point.
mississippi
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From what I know about Linux, Elfy, I imagine it makes you a penguin. You ain't the one everybody's been slapping the crap out of for the last month surely?
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