I enjoyed these ads because they did not make one seem vastly superior to the other. Some people like Macs. Big deal, let them like them and leave them alone. Yes, I know a lot of them can be pricks, but you getting irritated is just feeding their ego.
I own a PC and an imac. I even use dual monitors, because I’m in photography and design, to see what I’m doing on both an LED and LCD screen. And my LCD screen is sitting next to a PC tower, ready to be plugged in whenever I feel like it (or miss solitaire).
I just love computers and the internet. Macs are so stupidly easy that I actually felt like an idiot using it. My brain was screaming, “Erin don’t dumb yourself down just to please this computer, you’re smarter than this, find a way to push yourself to get better!”. Anyway, it feels good man, although it does make me feel a little dirty after so many years on a PC.
Also, I think the real argument isn’t PC vs Mac, it’s Mac OS vs Windows. Until Windows makes an operating system that’s colourful, easy enough for an old person who wasn’t raised on a PC to use, doesn’t eat memory and isn’t glitchy, Macs will always be there, being extremely overpriced for the hardware it possesses, but infinitely easy for pretty much anyone.
Most people can’t build a PC (or even know about them, so dudes need to settle down with the simple solution of ‘just build it’) they wouldn’t even know what hardware they need, no idea how much memory is needed or what it means, and for those in an actual business, time is money – they’re not going to fuck around getting a pc with custom specs. It’s only due to lack of knowledge/time as opposed to money and the demand for convenience. It’s like an auto vs a manual car, and people need to stop getting their panties twisted about it and think logically.
I bought a pre-built PC once, a HP, and it had Vista on it. There also was less than the required amount of memory to run Vista (which was a piss-poor OS), making the whole thing slower and glitchier. Pre-built PC’s have no standard of quality and the reliability changes from each different store you go to. They’re generally for those folk who want to just check email and facebook, because you’re surely not going to be able to successfully work large graphics programs, and you’re probs not gonna be able to game smoothly on it. The everyday idiot doesn’t post on MCS, you’re not going to find them on a forum, they’re people like my Dad, who keeps buying big monitors for his shitty computer, thinking it’ll make it better.
Makes sense though, once you upgrade your PC it rapes the Mac
And we’re done here.
I don’t hate you!
I enjoyed these ads because they did not make one seem vastly superior to the other. Some people like Macs. Big deal, let them like them and leave them alone. Yes, I know a lot of them can be pricks, but you getting irritated is just feeding their ego.
No purchasing the Mac fed their ego, you pointing and laughing every time their Mac won’t, “Just work” makes them feel like a fool.
The only people with Macs that say that, are the same ones that would say that with a PC.
Doesnt this insinuate that the slight push over causes your mac to flip out and die?
Push your pc over, see how long that lasts 😛
The PC is upgradeable, can be taken with you anywhere and can withstand a rocket blast to the face.
The Mac gives its position away with constant nagging and dies by tipping over.
I own a PC and an imac. I even use dual monitors, because I’m in photography and design, to see what I’m doing on both an LED and LCD screen. And my LCD screen is sitting next to a PC tower, ready to be plugged in whenever I feel like it (or miss solitaire).
I just love computers and the internet. Macs are so stupidly easy that I actually felt like an idiot using it. My brain was screaming, “Erin don’t dumb yourself down just to please this computer, you’re smarter than this, find a way to push yourself to get better!”. Anyway, it feels good man, although it does make me feel a little dirty after so many years on a PC.
Also, I think the real argument isn’t PC vs Mac, it’s Mac OS vs Windows. Until Windows makes an operating system that’s colourful, easy enough for an old person who wasn’t raised on a PC to use, doesn’t eat memory and isn’t glitchy, Macs will always be there, being extremely overpriced for the hardware it possesses, but infinitely easy for pretty much anyone.
Most people can’t build a PC (or even know about them, so dudes need to settle down with the simple solution of ‘just build it’) they wouldn’t even know what hardware they need, no idea how much memory is needed or what it means, and for those in an actual business, time is money – they’re not going to fuck around getting a pc with custom specs. It’s only due to lack of knowledge/time as opposed to money and the demand for convenience. It’s like an auto vs a manual car, and people need to stop getting their panties twisted about it and think logically.
But you can buy a pre-built PC, too. Not every PC box has to be assembled from the microprocessors all the way up to compiling your own Linux kernel.
I bought a pre-built PC once, a HP, and it had Vista on it. There also was less than the required amount of memory to run Vista (which was a piss-poor OS), making the whole thing slower and glitchier. Pre-built PC’s have no standard of quality and the reliability changes from each different store you go to. They’re generally for those folk who want to just check email and facebook, because you’re surely not going to be able to successfully work large graphics programs, and you’re probs not gonna be able to game smoothly on it. The everyday idiot doesn’t post on MCS, you’re not going to find them on a forum, they’re people like my Dad, who keeps buying big monitors for his shitty computer, thinking it’ll make it better.
Didn’t it take a few years for Portal to end up on Macs?
And since Intel makes the processors for Macs and most PCs now, and Valve makes the games that both of these are in…
“Makes me waana get a Mac”
There’s never any need for that kind of panic…
Speaking for just the turrets.
Good ol’ PC turret could be upgrade to level 3.
The Mac turret stayed like it was.
You can’t pick up the PC turret and dump it in a portal, or knock it over.
The Mac turret you could pick up, move, knock over and drop objects onto.
With the PC turret, you could fix it by smacking it with a wrench multiple times.
With the Mac turret, I don’t know how it gets fixed.
Again, I’m speaking strictly off the picture.
I own a Falcon Northwest Mach V for gaming, and a Macbook Pro for my graphic design stuff.
Kay, the 2nd turret is from Portal. What is the 1st one from?
really? team fortress 2. come now
Portal turret disarms you with it’s quirky chatter.
pc’s are sappable (FCUK), but macs are very instable
also: engineers use pc, sociopaths use macs
also: “spy’s sappin’ mah sentry!”, “who’s there?”
One word… UPGRADES!