I, myself, have a really nice Antec p190 case - it doesn’t look awe inspiring, it’s just a black case that is really quiet. Look I’ll be fairly blunt here - I buy my PC case based on functionality before looks.. Taste doesn’t really come into it… See, the difference between a PC user, generally, and a Mac user is that PC users will say “look how fast my PC is it can run this game/program/os/whatever x times faster than yours”. A Mac user points to his/her mac and says “isn’t it pretty! I know it has a POS 256mb video card but it’s so pretty!”
I’m sorry - I have no desire to hump my computer - even if you want to hump your mac.
@robertsjoe said:
“Because Windows is inferior. Lots of people buy it. It just shows that a lot of people don’t know any better and buy cheap crap. People like you, Mike and Paul and ….”
Where is your logic? Are you telling me that Mac users are simply the chosen ones? They have some how deciphered some code and understand “Mac is better”? Cause I’ll be really honest with you and say that the Mac users I know AREN’T technically minded. They don’t know the “new OS features”, they don’t understand what “Multicore CPUs” are and they definitely don’t know the shortcut to make the OS run in 64-bit mode.. The Mac users I know are graphic artists who have funny hair and militantly explain the workflow is better on a Mac (even though Photoshop CS4 is exactly the same on a PC) and they are school teachers who had their laptop supplied too them because the school purchased one for every teacher and student.. These aren’t people who “choose” Mac because it is superior - I can guarantee that there is a good portion of Mac users who couldn’t tell me the specs of their machine off the top of their head and an even greater number that couldn’t explain the underlying technologies in the OS or on a hardware level AND an even LARGER number that couldn’t give a solid reason as to why their mac is better than a PC other than “it doesn’t crash” (and even that is a mute point - I haven’t had a crash on my Windows Vista or 7 machine for as long as I can remember - applications may fall over once in a blue moon but the system itself is solid).
And here’s the point:
PC users understand one thing better than any Mac user will ever understand. I want you to listen closely here:
….Operating a computer is something that you invest time in….Learning the skills to understand how to be safe on the internet, how to configure and install software, how not to destroy OS installs and so forth - these all are something that should be learned.. Learning HOW a computer works and WHY it works, so that when a problem arises you can face it - this is part of being a computer user… Most long time PC users have at one point or another built their own PC or upgraded a component.. Am I saying it’s a virtue to have done this? No, of course not because there are just as many people who have never touched the hardware and just ordered from a vendor but I am saying that there are lessons to be learned from doing this…
These sort of things are foreign to mac users - all they know is that the pretty box does cool things when you click it…and I’m sorry - if you can’t tell me more than that and if you can’t give me a better reason than “it doesn’t crash” (because macs crash too - I’ve seen them do it..lol) then please, don’t bother me with your opinion or thoughts - they aren’t valid.
If you want to argue the merits of a really nicely designed lounge/couch set - go ahead, talk asthetics and how it’s softer and fluffier than the competitor. But if you want to talk to me about computers - please, learn enough about computers to actually discuss COMPUTERS. Tell me why a DDR3 system on 1066mhz (MAC) is better than my i7 system with 2200mhz DDR3…Or tell me why I would want a 27” monitor on a computer that has a 256mb video card - how is that thing ever going to refresh the screen, especially under load, at high resolution - I’ve seen a 22” mac with the 256mb video card struggle to get 15fps on World of Warcraft - how is this thing going to cope? Talk to me about things that matter in computer… Talk to me about how this is going to improve my computer experience… Tell me how this is going to keep me on the cutting edge of technology (well, not on the mac side..but sure)..
I’m sorry - Mac fans, you have conversations about all the wrong things.. You discuss paint colours whilst we discuss room sizes..
