I love my Mac Book Pro. It is shiny and pretty and does nice things. Also 'it just works'. Beautifully.
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Quote: oldcowgrazing @ April 20 2009, 1:04 PM BSTI love my Mac Book Pro. It is shiny and pretty...
The average Mac users says what?
Quote: Paul W @ April 20 2009, 1:06 PM BSTThe average Mac users says what?
Quote: oldcowgrazing @ April 20 2009, 1:07 PM BST
Just making a point OCG nothing personal.
Quote: Paul W @ April 20 2009, 1:08 PM BSTJust making a point OCG nothing personal.
Are you a Mac man or PC man, Paul?
Paul's making the point that us Mac users just like the design and aren't concerned with the functionality.
He is wrong of course. 
Quote: Nil Putters @ April 20 2009, 1:10 PM BSTPaul's making the point that us Mac users just like the design and aren't concerned with the functionality.
He is wrong of course.
No, it is a generalisation but I have known a fair few people in the past who have bought a Macbook because it's pretty, my IT teachers best friend bought one because it matched the colour of her room 
Quote: Nil Putters @ April 20 2009, 1:10 PM BSTPaul's making the point that us Mac users just like the design and aren't concerned with the functionality.
He is wrong of course.
Seeeeeen. Well he is right I suppose but to be serious for a moment I was never into Apple but I got fed up with my PC crashing all the time, so I decided to try a Mac and I haven't looked back. Best £1300 I've ever spent. That's a pair of boots and shoes I had to sacrifice.
It is also shiny and pretty and does nice things. 
Quote: oldcowgrazing @ April 20 2009, 1:13 PM BSTSeeeeeen. Well he is right I suppose but to be serious for a moment I was never into Apple but I got fed up with my PC crashing all the time, so I decided to try a Mac and I haven't looked back. Best £1300 I've ever spent. That's a pair of boots and shoes I had to sacrifice.
£1300!!!!! I could by an top of the range Laptop for that price I probably still have enough beer tokens to last me a month!
oldcowgrazing, Paul W is saying that typical Mac owners are shallow, attention seeking, wannabes who ponce around coffee shops with a computer they bought based on looks rather then how it works.
Of course, I would never even suggest that, but that Paul W is quite cutting and sarcastic (and mean to children). 
Quote: Paul W @ April 20 2009, 1:12 PM BST..I have known a fair few people in the past who have bought a Macbook because it's pretty, my IT teachers best friend bought one because it matched the colour of her room
*whines* but they ARE. You just don't get it.
Quote: Paul W @ April 20 2009, 1:12 PM BSTNo, it is a generalisation but I have known a fair few people in the past who have bought a Macbook because it's pretty, my IT teachers best friend bought one because it matched the colour of her room
Whoops, too late, he's just admitted what a judgemental person he can be. Never judge a Mac Book by it's cover.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ April 20 2009, 1:15 PM BSToldcowgrazing, Paul W is saying that typical Mac owners are shallow, attention seeking, wannabes who ponce around coffee shops with a computer they bought based on looks rather then how it works.
Of course, I would never even suggest that, but that Paul W is quite cutting and sarcastic (and mean to children).
I'll give you shallow and attention seeking wannabe, but poncing around in coffee shops? Nah. I only take my MBP with me if I need to. Sorry but too many nimble-fingered chancers around. I ponce around my house with it though, especially when visitors come round. I show them holiday snaps of Cuba on my MBP. It's all about the ooohs and ahhhhhs.
Quote: oldcowgrazing @ April 20 2009, 1:20 PM BSTI'll give you shallow and attention seeking wannabe, but poncing around in coffee shops? Nah. I only take my MBP with me if I need to. Sorry but too many nimble-fingered chancers around. I ponce around my house with it though, especially when visitors come round. I show them holiday snaps of Cuba on my MBP. It's all about the ooohs and ahhhhhs.
When you say 'visitors' do you actually mean 'social workers'?
I am, only joking, of course. I do think Macs work very well but I'm so used to my PC, then when I get on a Mac, I'm like 'who's doing what now?'. Does the mouse still only have one button? That would always freak me out.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ April 20 2009, 1:25 PM BSTWhen you say 'visitors' do you actually mean 'social workers'?
I am, only joking, of course. I do think Macs work very well but I'm so used to my PC, then when I get on a Mac, I'm like 'who's doing what now?'. Does the mouse still only have one button? That would always freak me out.
Yeah them [social workers] too.
I thought the same about Macs too-when I saw friends and colleagues using them they looked very alien to me and I didn't think I'd get to grips with all the short cuts etc. but they are surprisingly very intuitive.
I'm not an IT guru just a consumer who appreciates a reliable, quick and pretty to look at(!) piece of machinery.
Edited by Aaron.