Quote: Godot Taxis @ August 11 2009, 12:42 PM BSTWhy?
Just find them more user-friendly. I didn't like all that balloons business.
Who on here uses a Mac? Page 5
Yeah, too many people use PCs to give a flying f**k about Macs anyway.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 11 2009, 12:46 PM BSTJust find them more user-friendly. I didn't like all that balloons business.
Balloons? What?
Quote: Paul W @ August 11 2009, 12:49 PM BSTYeah, too many people use PCs to give a flying f**k about Macs anyway.
And from a moderator!
Quote: Godot Taxis @ August 11 2009, 12:52 PM BSTBalloons? What?
Quote: Godot Taxis @ August 11 2009, 12:53 PM BSTAnd from a moderator!
Oh yeah sorry...
Errr I hate macs.
Better?
Much better.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 11 2009, 12:46 PM BSTJust find them more user-friendly. I didn't like all that balloons business.
I'm starting to wonder if many of the PC people who hates macs have been shown something else and TOLD it was a mac. Like a children's party.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ August 11 2009, 1:08 PM BSTI'm starting to wonder if many of the PC people who hates macs have been shown something else and TOLD it was a mac. Like a children's party.
It might have been a Victorian form of air travel now I come to think of it....
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 11 2009, 12:16 PM BSTAre you going to be making films?
Yes. That's my plan. 
I think we have a more solid argument, seeing as most of us would have used Windows for years and still forced to use them at work.
Actually having the chance for a proper comparison and choosing to use a Mac. Feeling that headache float away, and a slight thrill, release of endorphins when you click on something and it doesn't crash or take ages to load and AND being able to do that repeatedly with many applications without a seconds thought.
It's f**king stupid having Mac v Windows, because Windows is shit! I mean, what does it matter?
Quote: Godot Taxis @ August 11 2009, 3:24 AM BSTPC users for instance, genuinely don't give a f**k about how a computer looks. The hilariously disharmonious blue and green colour palette of windows xp doesn't bother them either. They don't even notice these things.
I like the green and blue. I specifically set it up when I first logged onto my uni network and they had that vile grey.
Fair point about Helvetica. But the family they produced for Office 2007 are far nicer.
Quote: Leevil @ August 11 2009, 12:16 PM BSTOh please let me use a computer that everyone is trying to write a virus for, please?!!!
So buy a Mac. Get their user numbers on the rise... 
Besides, a virus is only as likely as the machine's user is careless. They can't install themselves out of nowhere.
Quote: Tim Walker @ August 11 2009, 12:18 PM BSTSlags and whores have hearts of gold.
It's true. I learneded it in Respectable.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ August 11 2009, 12:53 PM BSTBalloons? What?
She probably means how ugly and bloated the GUI is.
Quote: Leevil @ August 11 2009, 1:17 PM BSTFeeling that headache float away, and a slight thrill, release of endorphins when you click on something and it doesn't crash or take ages to load and AND being able to do that repeatedly with many applications without a seconds thought.
That is the binary opposite of my experience.
Quote: Aaron @ August 11 2009, 1:59 PM BSTThat is the binary opposite of my experience.
Yes, but you are a binary opposite.
Quote: sootyj @ August 11 2009, 12:25 PM BSTThis one's good for info dumps.
So true.
Quote: Leevil @ August 11 2009, 2:03 PM BSTYes, but you are a binary opposite.
*munches binary opposite sandwich*
Quote: Leevil @ August 11 2009, 2:03 PM BSTYes, but you are a binary opposite.
The binary opposite of a stupid, superficial, image-conscious, gaylord Mac user, yes! 
Quote: Aaron @ August 11 2009, 2:10 PM BSTThe binary opposite of a stupid, superficial, image-conscious, gaylord Mac user, yes!
Are you telling me you don't like the look of your Windows PC and its UI? You haven't gone to any effort to make sure your desktop runs well and looks good?
That new phone you bought, do you have to type command lines into it to access your contacts and files?
Superficial is a lame argument as I can't imagine many mainstream computer users getting excited about a bulky 80s wood finish plastic looking machine. Everyone wants something that looks slightly worth what you paid for it.
When I use a cash point for example. I want the options to be clear and simple to use. I expect the same from my PC. Mac offers me this, unlike a Windows machine that would scare away any technophobe with its installation process. What's nicer than a drag n drop install?