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Stormy · Feb 19, 2014 4:28 AM

Yeah, there are programs that will take them, I'm sure. I don't have anything I'm ready to get rid of yet, but when I do I'll look it up.

Swaffy · Feb 19, 2014 5:23 AM

Honestly, they might give you a dollar for it. Might as well keep them for nostalgia's sake.

Spyrorocks · Feb 19, 2014 7:42 AM

You can write malware just as easily for osx as you can for windows. Users will click through the warnings and allow the app full privileges on either system, it doesn't matter.

Clock-la · Feb 19, 2014 10:41 AM

Rurikredwolf wrote:

Why a mac. Whyyyyyyyy. Shiny pieces of glass that shatter at the slightest thing.
anyay I have two computers; Custom one for games, and Acer for my Laptop. Windows 7 all teh way

Well, macs tend to sit on desks all the time.

Unless you are planning on playing basket ball with it, I think it will not shatter.

Flapjacks · Feb 19, 2014 11:01 PM

Spyrorocks wrote:

You can write malware just as easily for osx as you can for windows. Users will click through the warnings and allow the app full privileges on either system, it doesn't matter.

This. Macs are not less prone to viruses, there are just less viruses directed towards them. But maybe there should be more, so they'll see the light and buy a Windows machine HEPH HEPH HEPH HEPH

Rurikredwolf · Feb 20, 2014 4:00 AM

Clock-la wrote:

Rurikredwolf wrote:
Why a mac. Whyyyyyyyy. Shiny pieces of glass that shatter at the slightest thing.
anyay I have two computers; Custom one for games, and Acer for my Laptop. Windows 7 all teh way

Well, macs tend to sit on desks all the time.
Unless you are planning on playing basket ball with it, I think it will not shatter.

By shatter I mean if a driver goes out or whatever, you can't replace it. You need to have it sent in to repair, or get a new computer. With Windows you can just frankienstien the thing. You relaly can't do anything with macs. They're good for about a year, but then the technology gets really, really dated and bad. I know someone with a mac who was telling me this.

Stormy · Feb 20, 2014 7:34 AM

Really didn't want this to turn into a Mac vs. PC argument, but I suppose it was inevitable. hmm

I'm aware that it's pretty much impossible to replace the hardware (I assume that's what you meant by drivers? Because drivers are software, and I'm sure those have to be replaceable). It's the same with laptops, but people keep those for years and they're fine. I didn't get the computer so I could update the graphics card every few months; I got it so I could have a decent work machine for a few years. We already have a PC in my household that we can continually upgrade if we want to.

Wouldn't constant hardware replacement even out in price with buying a new computer every few years, anyway? It would like you're buying a new computer but over a longer period of time.

Also, you know how after a few years of using Windows it can get slow to the point where you can barely do anything unless you reinstall? From what I've heard this isn't nearly as big of a problem with Macs. There isn't a registry like in Windows with keys being added and removed constantly, so you won't have that problem where it gets gradually gets slower and slower with every installed program and every update. (Edit: after looking into this more, it looks like the consensus is that it does still happen, but generally not as badly as it does with PCs. Really depends on how much stuff you install in both cases.) I had a computer where I just had to wipe Windows completely and replace it with Linux because it just got unusably slow. I'm extremely careful about what I do with my newest laptop, and even it is starting to have that problem after only a couple years.

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NeoReaper · Feb 20, 2014 8:41 AM

Get hold of a registry cleaner in that case. I have had the same installation of windows for 2 years and I have replaced pretty much every part inside my PC (Including CPU and motherboard which is supposed to bugger up windows 80% of the time) And its still as fast as ever.

RangerOfIthilien · Feb 20, 2014 1:31 PM

Macs and Windows (and computers running a Linux distro) each have their own advantages and disadvantages, and their users learn their ways around them and ways to put up with them. If this weren't true they wouldn't have as many users as they do. It's pretty arrogant and rude to answer "Any tips on getting used to Mac?" with "Go back to Windows" =/

I dunno, maybe I'll end up being wrong and we'll hate the machine but I honestly doubt it.

o-danny-o · Feb 20, 2014 2:49 PM

I have a friend that has a MacBook but uses Linux on it. Also, i had a tour on a University where They used MacBooks with Windows XP. Do not ask.

Stormy · Feb 20, 2014 4:07 PM

Yeah, my college's computer science department staff had Macbooks, but whenever I saw them using those Macs they were running Windows. tongue

NeoReaper wrote:

Get hold of a registry cleaner in that case. I have had the same installation of windows for 2 years and I have replaced pretty much every part inside my PC (Including CPU and motherboard which is supposed to bugger up windows 80% of the time) And its still as fast as ever.

I know about registry cleaners. I run one all the time on my Windows laptop. They are far from perfect and can't possibly detect everything that needs to be cleaned. Windows deterioration over time is inevitable, no matter how well you take care of it; anyone will tell you this. Yours is probably still "just as fast" because you're replacing the hardware.

Let me just make this clear: I'm still just as much of a "PC person" as I was before getting this computer. I like PCs. I would never try to argue that they're horrible or that Macs are superior. I'm just also enjoying this nice, new computer I got as a gift. I'm not going to go all fangirl and tell everyone that PCs are garbage just because I wanted to try something a little different and now have one Mac. Really, guys, it's no big deal. XD

Swaffy · Feb 20, 2014 5:37 PM

Don't worry about it. You'll learn how to use it and it'll be another toy for you to mess around with. Kind of like buying a new car, you gotta get a feel for it first.

It was a nice gift.

Spyrorocks · Feb 21, 2014 2:07 AM

Stormy is going to hell for owning a mac. Her cats will also get sick, and I will beat her continuosly at mariokart.

Latias fan · Feb 21, 2014 2:47 AM

Spyrorocks wrote:

Stormy is going to hell for owning a mac. Her cats will also get sick, and I will beat her continuosly at mariokart.

I would purposely shoot cars to start hordes of zombies so that they can kill whomever Stormy is playing and then I'll leave her for dead in L4D2

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