arrghh.. how do you reason with Mac users!

[aidanjt]

After reading your sig, I'm not sure you are allowed to comment on anything from reality.

Pardon?

[nightkhaos]

Just a thought!

Maybe they are right......

Mac users like macs.

Heavy game players like graphics cards that with a picture of a bloke/lass with an unusable sword and some kind of urination reference.

Without being rude,

After reading your sig, I'm not sure you are allowed to comment on anything from reality.

Pardon?

Ignore him aidanjt. He's not posted anything remotely relavent or helpful to this thread.

Abaxas, I take it you're a Mac user, and one that is unfortunately not in contact with reality. I pitty you. I have nothing against your choice of operating system, in fact I use Mac OS X on occasion, only your attudite to those, whom you consider to be, less enlightened than yourself.

I hope that in time, and with serve backlash from the less symptheic members of this forums, you learn tolerance and respect towards Windows and Linux users.

[abaxas]

Ignore him aidanjt. He's not posted anything remotely relavent or helpful to this thread.

Abaxas, I take it you're a Mac user, and one that is unfortunately not in contact with reality. I pitty you. I have nothing against your choice of operating system, in fact I use Mac OS X on occasion, only your attudite to those, whom you consider to be, less enlightened than yourself.

I hope that in time, and with serve backlash from the less symptheic members of this forums, you learn tolerance and respect towards Windows users.

Why bother, as I use OSX for work, windows for games and linux to run my 'server related' tasks.

My point is that a gentoo user or windows gamer is not going to be able to comment on macs. As their requirements and not 'mac'.

Take a look round this forum and you'll fine zelots of all types. If anything the people who replied in this topic are just as bad as the OP's work collegues.

[aidanjt]

Why bother, as I use OSX for work, windows for games and linux to run my 'server related' tasks.

My point is that a gentoo user or windows gamer is not going to be able to comment on macs. As their requirements and not 'mac'.

Take a look round this forum and you'll fine zelots of all types. If anything the people who replied in this topic are just as bad as the OP's work collegues.

It might surprise you, but I don't need a Mac to read news articles on the internet (hell, I can do that over SSH, or in a tty). I'm perfectly qualified to speak about substandard hardware that has a not so uncommon habit of exploding or bursting into flames.

[nightkhaos]

Why bother, as I use OSX for work, windows for games and linux to run my 'server related' tasks.

My point is that a gentoo user or windows gamer is not going to be able to comment on macs. As their requirements and not 'mac'.

Take a look round this forum and you'll fine zelots of all types. If anything the people who replied in this topic are just as bad as the OP's work collegues.

If that is so, why are you taking a strong offensive against the so-called anti-Macs instead of providing reason as to why a Mac might be better for some purposes? Just because you also use Windows does not mean you are tolerant.

Disrespecting a well established forum member with a considerable rep is not a way to gain respect from the forum as a whole. It will in fact cause the opposite. Defend Mac OS X, by all means, but try not to step on everyone's toes as you do it. That is what the OP is annoyed about with the Mac fanbois at his education insitution.

He has not said anything bad towards the operating system, only the users, who tend to be, unfortunately, ignorant.

[MaddAussie]

Getting a Mac is like getting Religion for some, and as much as I cant stand evangelical Christians I find the same with evangelical Mac users. If you wanna believe in sky pixies and the all conqueringness of your over priced shiny box from Apple then fill your boots, just don't expect me to get as excited.

[aidanjt]

Just to be mean: http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-channe...ml#post1801741

[abaxas]

He has not said anything bad towards the operating system, only the users, who tend to be, unfortunately, ignorant.

That is probably true. But then the opposite arguement is that, unfortunatly, most windows users are even more ignorant. Due to larger userbase etc.

[shadowmaster]

There is only one way to deal with a mac fanboy

[nightkhaos]

Just to be mean: http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-channe...ml#post1801741

On great. I was trying to keep this civil and dipomatic and now you've reduced it to cheap-shots? What's ironic is not two minutes ago I was planning to send you a PM to tell you to cool it.

[pollaxe]

Time for a

[nightkhaos]

That is probably true. But then the opposite arguement is that, unfortunatly, most windows users are even more ignorant. Due to larger userbase etc.

Okay, this is true, but there is a diffence between being ignorant, and being ignorant and intolerant. A Mac Fanboi, as distinct from a Mac user, is an ignorant Mac user intolerant of the other operating systems on the market and feels it is important to convert non Mac users to Mac OS X.

Mac users are fine, generally intelligent, creative, and usually fairly civil people. Mac Fanbois on the other hand are annoying, and trainish the Mac image. They make me ashamed that my family owns and users a MacBook and a Mac Mini.

[abaxas]

On great. I was trying to keep this civil and dipomatic and now you've reduced it to cheap-shots? What's ironic is not two minutes ago I was planning to send you a PM to tell you to cool it.

This is an unwinnable argument for both sides.

However can we all agree that Vista is the worse OS since ME? Or that os 10.5.2 (I think) was awful was it broke X11 support?

I love my mac as it does what I need it to do, quickly. I love my pc becasue it allows me to play the occastional game.

[nightkhaos]

This is an unwinnable argument for both sides.

However can we all agree that Vista is the worse OS since ME? Or that os 10.5.2 (I think) was awful was it broke X11 support?

I love my mac as it does what I need it to do, quickly. I love my pc becasue it allows me to play the occastional game.

No. We can not all agree. We are human, we have unique experiences, and thus unique prespectives. It is therefore impossible that a group of people, once it exceeds a crtical mass, can agree on any concept.

[Zak33]

what's a Mac?

This is a Mac


What is PC?

This is PC


Is it worth fighting over?



Do I use a Mac?

No.....

why?

Cos I don't have a huge beard with squirrels in it, and I don't smell of stale wee wee.

I like nothing better than building my own PC with a dizzying array of components that may never actually work properly together, and eventually have to come here to HEXUS and ask Agent to mend it all for me.

So... if anyone choose to disrespect Agent, even via someone else's Sig... expect a slap.

[aidanjt]

Aye, Vista wasn't even as remotely as bad as ME was. It sure had a lot of niggles, but that's to be expected when you move from one architecture to another and pump in a lot of driver architecture changes at the same time. Most of them have been ironed out at this point.


....But it didn't zap everyone's C:/User directory, so it's ok.