Re: Best comment yet on Intel-based Macintoshes
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dood, I've been into the computer field for about 25 years, it's a mac, get over it
on a side note, I would just like to say that I have a new Keyboard and I can't type for @#$@$# on it yet.....after reading my last post over again it's painfully obvious I need more practice on this thing
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Re: Best comment yet on Intel-based Macintoshes
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Dood, it still ain't going away. Get over that.
Also, do you expect to see *nix go away in favor of Windows? I just don't see it. There's plenty of room for multiple OSes in the marketplace. A couple of % of the marketplace is still a lot of machines...
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Re: Best comment yet on Intel-based Macintoshes
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dood, I've been into the computer field for about 25 years
Then you should know that competition is good and not everybody like to use what you use. Apple has plenty of customers. They don't need a huge market share to be successful. I actually think they don't want a huge market share.
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I actually think they don't want a huge market share.
They're a niche market... the "cool kids", videographers, hipsters and newbies. Bro's a Mac guy, I'm not... it will be interesting to see how MacOSX runs on the avalanche of 3rd party hardware, out of the gate it fell on its face and lay there jibbering for a while, but to insist that Windows hasn't had the same issues (NT 3.51 and WinME) is ludicrous.
While you've been a computer d00d for 25 years, I'm really not that far behind... owned my share of 6502 Motorola-based systems... and now, they're just tools... a carpenter swings a hammer, I boot a computer... the last time something truly excited me about them was the announcement of sprites on the new C64.
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Re: Best comment yet on Intel-based Macintoshes
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it's soooo easy to get you "MAC" guys going....hee...heee
I'm finished play'n now...carry on.
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Re: Best comment yet on Intel-based Macintoshes
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Why is this significant?
Macs are finally on the x86 architecture. What does this mean? We can hack the Mac OS X and get it on PC's.
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Re: Best comment yet on Intel-based Macintoshes
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Macs are finally on the x86 architecture. What does this mean? We can hack the Mac OS X and get it on PC's.
To what end? Hacking an OS onto different hardware won't make it any MORE stable. I'm not a huge fan of the OS itself, "why are there traffic lights in the title bar?" Maybe for the apps? Photosh... no, wait, that's been on Win for a while. After Eff... no, that, too. Final Cut? Maybe, since most people will warez it (and ProTools) because they think they need it (and will create a webcam collage of fart sounds set to them dancing)
Wait, Marathon... that was Mac only, wasn't it? Yes... eat your heart out, id Software circa 1991!
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Re: Best comment yet on Intel-based Macintoshes
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newf, the primary complaint about using MAC when you mean Mac is that it is confusing to real computer geeks who know that MAC is an abbreviation for Machine Access Code, more commonly referred to as the ethernet hardware address.
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It's easy to tell from the context of the sentence which Mac is being referred to.
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