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this post is for you if you are like me, a pc user, and are curious or hateful of macs.
i've been a pc user my whole life. i've rarely used Mac's, and when i did, they were older than the cheesy, nacho like stain on my carpet, though slightly less tasty. i used the one's we all did to play where in the world is carmen san diego and such, but nothing modern. nothing past a g3 actually. even then, it was some piece of shit 233 mhz g3 or whatever. i dont know apples hardware and i dont care. i didn't buy this mac because of its specs.
but i HAD to experience a modern mac, a brand new one that i would be using for the first time. not some dog-shit hand me down. i loaded apples website and used the horrifyingly easy to use shopping cart. within 10 minutes i had a mac on the way. i lay in the fetal position, muttering profanities and bordering on hysteria having just blown 500 dollars on a whim. the specifics of the box are
G4 @ 1.5ghz
1gb of memory (i upgraded it when it came. a bit difficult to do given the size of the box its self)
radeon 9200 (but its not as pitiful as you may think)
a cdrw/dvdrw superdrive (its slot loading.. and shit on balls does it grab that cd or dvd, it nearly took my arm off)
it has 2 usb 2.0 drives, a firewire port, and an audio out, as well as a modem and ethernet card.
3 days later, a discreet brown box arrived. with the joy of a 10 year old at christmas, i grabbed the package and read the label: "OptimRX penis enlargement pills". i swallowed several of them and waited for my new macintosh.
the next day, i once again grabbed the box and opened it. my brand new mac mini lay inside, wrapped in a delightful little lunch box. i opened it, and there it was. i expected it to do something cool like say hello or fondle my balls but it did neither. it just sat there. but it did turn on when plugged in, and the "apple" sound was so loud (it includes an internal speaker, but no keyboard, mouse or monitor) i nearly shit my pants. in fact i think i did. but it was no matter, because the beautiful os x operating system greeted me with a simple set up. 2 minutes later i was gazing at a foreign landscape of OS X, 8 minutes i was browsing the more familiar halflife2.net through "safari". so basically, its easy to set up.
the software included in the mac mini package is outstanding. a 30 day sample of microsoft office (which is kind of gay, i just use openoffice for free), garage band, itunes, quicktime, a mail client which takes a huge shit all over outlook, the safari web browser (basically firefox), several great dvd creators and viewers, and more picture shit, as well as calendar and address book. all things you could easily get with windows, but all of these are really high quality programs - its not a big deal, but a nice plus that they are included. interestingly, apple also includes the actual OS X cd's... i begin to see the benefits of having apple make the computer for you.
setting up my wireless network was pitifully easy. i didnt even do anything, it just "did" it. i just clicked on safari after it booted up (i used an old usb wireless ethernet adapter) and away i went.
the updater is really easy to use, and surprisingly, unlike xp which has literally hundreds of updates, OS X has only about 10, mostly software updates; only 2 were security updates. my updates were done in about 10 minutes.
being a pc user in a new environment, i decided to try games. i tried Americas Army and World of Warcraft. Both worked great. I installed starcraft for mac, and it works great as well. everything looks a little different on my apple cinema display: much ****ing nicer looking.
and of course its easy to wirelessly stream music and files from my xp equipped pc.
the main reason people dont want to get macs are these
no games: its true, there arent as many games, but they are definitely out there. especially from blizzard. they play as well as any similar pc (or better)
price: isnt an issue really, the mac mini is only 500 bucks starting and is a great way to explore macs without herniating your ballsack
stigma: **** you
i used to think that apple users were just tools who enjoyed steve job's emaciated penis in their butt. but i really cant say that anymore, because apple has really impressed me. this review is semi-serious, and written in an alcohol induced stupor, but everything is true. i actually have "switched"... i can, from first hand experience, say that osx is better than windows. the only place apple falls behind is in hardware, and that will hopefully be changing when they adapt intels processors. until then, i'm always going to have a pc to play games. because i play source games.
so come my pc brethren, dont fear or hate macs, embrace them.
+ low price
+ looks sexy
+ good software suite
+ very reasonable power
- few i/o ports
- no agp slot, so you cant upgrade the video card
- only one DIMM, so you have to buy a 1gb stick of ram. it can support more, as long as you have one stickive
i've been a pc user my whole life. i've rarely used Mac's, and when i did, they were older than the cheesy, nacho like stain on my carpet, though slightly less tasty. i used the one's we all did to play where in the world is carmen san diego and such, but nothing modern. nothing past a g3 actually. even then, it was some piece of shit 233 mhz g3 or whatever. i dont know apples hardware and i dont care. i didn't buy this mac because of its specs.
but i HAD to experience a modern mac, a brand new one that i would be using for the first time. not some dog-shit hand me down. i loaded apples website and used the horrifyingly easy to use shopping cart. within 10 minutes i had a mac on the way. i lay in the fetal position, muttering profanities and bordering on hysteria having just blown 500 dollars on a whim. the specifics of the box are
G4 @ 1.5ghz
1gb of memory (i upgraded it when it came. a bit difficult to do given the size of the box its self)
radeon 9200 (but its not as pitiful as you may think)
a cdrw/dvdrw superdrive (its slot loading.. and shit on balls does it grab that cd or dvd, it nearly took my arm off)
it has 2 usb 2.0 drives, a firewire port, and an audio out, as well as a modem and ethernet card.
3 days later, a discreet brown box arrived. with the joy of a 10 year old at christmas, i grabbed the package and read the label: "OptimRX penis enlargement pills". i swallowed several of them and waited for my new macintosh.
the next day, i once again grabbed the box and opened it. my brand new mac mini lay inside, wrapped in a delightful little lunch box. i opened it, and there it was. i expected it to do something cool like say hello or fondle my balls but it did neither. it just sat there. but it did turn on when plugged in, and the "apple" sound was so loud (it includes an internal speaker, but no keyboard, mouse or monitor) i nearly shit my pants. in fact i think i did. but it was no matter, because the beautiful os x operating system greeted me with a simple set up. 2 minutes later i was gazing at a foreign landscape of OS X, 8 minutes i was browsing the more familiar halflife2.net through "safari". so basically, its easy to set up.
the software included in the mac mini package is outstanding. a 30 day sample of microsoft office (which is kind of gay, i just use openoffice for free), garage band, itunes, quicktime, a mail client which takes a huge shit all over outlook, the safari web browser (basically firefox), several great dvd creators and viewers, and more picture shit, as well as calendar and address book. all things you could easily get with windows, but all of these are really high quality programs - its not a big deal, but a nice plus that they are included. interestingly, apple also includes the actual OS X cd's... i begin to see the benefits of having apple make the computer for you.
setting up my wireless network was pitifully easy. i didnt even do anything, it just "did" it. i just clicked on safari after it booted up (i used an old usb wireless ethernet adapter) and away i went.
the updater is really easy to use, and surprisingly, unlike xp which has literally hundreds of updates, OS X has only about 10, mostly software updates; only 2 were security updates. my updates were done in about 10 minutes.
being a pc user in a new environment, i decided to try games. i tried Americas Army and World of Warcraft. Both worked great. I installed starcraft for mac, and it works great as well. everything looks a little different on my apple cinema display: much ****ing nicer looking.
and of course its easy to wirelessly stream music and files from my xp equipped pc.
the main reason people dont want to get macs are these
no games: its true, there arent as many games, but they are definitely out there. especially from blizzard. they play as well as any similar pc (or better)
price: isnt an issue really, the mac mini is only 500 bucks starting and is a great way to explore macs without herniating your ballsack
stigma: **** you
i used to think that apple users were just tools who enjoyed steve job's emaciated penis in their butt. but i really cant say that anymore, because apple has really impressed me. this review is semi-serious, and written in an alcohol induced stupor, but everything is true. i actually have "switched"... i can, from first hand experience, say that osx is better than windows. the only place apple falls behind is in hardware, and that will hopefully be changing when they adapt intels processors. until then, i'm always going to have a pc to play games. because i play source games.
so come my pc brethren, dont fear or hate macs, embrace them.
+ low price
+ looks sexy
+ good software suite
+ very reasonable power
- few i/o ports
- no agp slot, so you cant upgrade the video card
- only one DIMM, so you have to buy a 1gb stick of ram. it can support more, as long as you have one stickive
it took me 2 weeks to write.
