How Many here also use a mac

[smerf]

@ murple,

Hi,

Time to anger a few freinds. Please forgive me for I am the smerf!!!

I would never own an Apple because 90% of their users were complete computer idiots who didn't even know how to find the on/off switch on their own computer, most of them where rich and plastic and only turned on a computer to do office work or surf the internet.

This is my answer to all apple users, times haven't changed and neither did apple or its users, right Mr. Wilse, where is your canadian friend Glaucus.

Oh, its great to be back.

Anyhow, for all you people who haven't figured out how to use Linux,

I am using Ubuntu on a Gateway dual core 2 E6300 as my primary OS, and then Windows Vista (the reactivation OS) on a 2nd hard drive, as my secondary Os to play the new games.

Ubuntu is being tried to see if it can hold my data like my Amiga 4000, which has been doing a fine job since 1992 holding all my important data, Vista failed after 1 week, when I was told I would have to reactivate after a blue screen of death popped up.

Now my 2nd computer is a dell running a 2.6 gig Pentium with Kubuntu as an OS. Both Ubuntu, and Kubuntu Feisty Fox installed without a hitch. If you read the directions on the web site first, you should have no problems, install Ubuntu in the safe mode, then if you have a nvidia or ATI card install their restricted drivers to your system.

Linux is almost as much fun as the Amiga was, it is just that they have a bunch of nerds that think new comers are a bunch of idiots that don't deserve their system, they sort of get hot under the collar if you ask for help without trying all avenues to make it work before asking, in other words Linux developers and users are all arfus holes, but I think their system is fun.

By the way avoid Vista, having lots of problems with it, the system seems stable until you start loading some programs on it, I tried Quake (latest version) and my system blue screened, tried an old doom, and it blue screened, plays Far Cry, Castle Wolfenstein, and Call of Duty, really crashed with Amiga Forever 6.0, but seems ok with Amiga Forever 2006.

Amiga 4000, 040, 25mhz, GVP genlock, 18 megs mem & 1.2 Gig hard drive and Picasso II card.

Amiga 3000,  too many things to list.

Amiga 1200, 603e ppc 265 mhz ppc card, 030, 30 mhz card

CD32 with expansion chassis, (hard drive, keyboard etc.)

Amiga 500, plain jane

Amiga 1000, supra scsi card, 4 different scsi's, 8 meg of ram, 68010 accel.

Amiga 2000 Video Toaster.

Where is apple, rotten to the core, wouldn't own one, don't like them, can't stand their idiot leaders philosophy on how a computer system should be made.

smerf

[smerf]

@Wayne

Hi,

You are correct sir!!!

While I'm glad to be in the 10%, did you ever stop to think that there are people out there who just don't enjoy futzing around with computers trying to make them do stuff. Said crowd just enjoys a computer that works without all the headache nor hassle? This is what my Mac represents to me.

Thats just it, there are people who just want to turn a computer on and use it, no matter how much money it costs.
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and personnally I am happy for you, for if the suit fits than wear it, therefore if the computer works for you then use it.

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Time required to set up my last Windows PC from scratch (loading OS, loading drivers, getting it on the network, getting rid of spyware and crapware to make it usable) : 6 hours
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Kanknow what you mean, how could the worst OS in the world be the most popular?

Watch out for VISTA, if you make changes to your computer (like I am always doing (part of the Amigaian in me)) then VISTA comes up and asks you for reactivation, I made 2 hardware changes and one OS change and Vista used up 2 of my activations, according to Vistas screen the third reactivation will cost me $59.00, considering that I just bought it for $159.00 I feel like I have been robbed, by the way 6 hours for install, you really should update and get rid of that 8088 you are running.
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All the haters I'm reading here have obviously either never used a current Mac
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You are correct again Sir!!!

One thing I really despise is someone who draws out a plan on how I am going to use my computer, and because apple's are expensive, their software is expensive, and steve jobs lay out how you are going to use their stuff, I just don't like it, they control you more then winblows, and c'mon have you looked at the price of there software, outrageous I tell you, outrageous.

Thats what I liked about Amiga, cheap good software, excellent people in the community, and I could do with it as I liked. For me $99.00 is expensive for a program.

Thats why I love Linux, open source and free, I can install the OS on as many computers as I like, and I don't have to reactivate. So, Ubuntu has become my main system, it has the feel of the Amiga, trying to figure it out, but when I need it to do real work, it keeps my data (so far), I have only been using it for about 3 months now and no major crashes and it still has the data I put in it 3 months ago. Just think it only has 9 years and 7 months to compete with my Amiga 4000 for not losing data, and no crashes, not even lost hardware, so Amiga was the best bang for the buck.

So sorry if I angered anyone, but I am the smerf you know!

Comparing apples to Amiga's is like mixing water & oil.

Maybe we should rename this site to mac.org or apple.org

smerf

[smerf]

@everyone in Amiga.org

Hi,

WOW!!

The 10% of smart mac users are here

You are correct in saying that the really stupid ones are those people buying Windows machines, and you are probably correct in saying that Mac is the better of the two computers left in the world to compete.

OK after buying VISTA for my computer, I finally saw the light because VISTA really sucks. I had just bought a dual core extreme edition computer and thought well if VISTA keeps bonking out on me, what can I use?

I thought of the old days when I was using a Z80 Attache portable computer, yes Mr. Wilse, Attache was the name of the computer, it had a 6" green screen and was about the size of a carry on suitcase. I was using CPM at the time, then along came the 8088 and an adapter card for it, so I moved to DOS and ran it until that computer quit, it was back to my C64, then while I was shopping for a new DOS machine, there it was the AMIGA, I thought do I really want to learn a new OS with a brand new untested computer, so I bought an Amiga, the first 3 months I hated it, why do I have to type out such long lines of code just to copy a disk?    but after a while the Amiga just grew on me, now in this modern time, I had a choice, support microsoft again, which I did (big mistake) or go out and find another computer, so I took a quick look at the Macs, didn't like what I saw, and yes I am a MAC disliker, then when I was reading MaximumPC they suggested Ubuntu which is a Linux distribution, once again I thought, I had tried Linux several times before but it just couldn't do what even the Amiga could do,   but   I decided to give it a try, and guess what Linux Ubuntu could do everything I wanted   but     it was free, and then to top it off the software is free, and then to top it off for $60.00 a year I could join Cedega and play most of the games I wanted to play. So to all you computer users who decided to take the easy way out and buy a Mac, try Ubuntu Linux, its free, you can download it, and try the live edition on your system to see how it works, I made the change and now I have bought three books on Ubuntu Linux, and am slowly learning an OS just like I had to learn the Amiga OS. Linux is interesting, its fun, and reminds me of the days when Amiga first came out.

Now to make you all angry again for I am the smerf

Just remember that Apple is in bed with Microsoft, they accepted money a couple of years ago from Billy Gates in order to not go bankrupt, this suited old Billy Boy because if Apple went under, then the Gov't could declare that Micro soft had a monopoly, now ask yourself why do all the software companies support microsoft and not Apple? Why don't they make their software for Linux, OS2, OSX or whatever Apple claims it to be.


[color=ff0000]So you see all of you supporting APPLE are really in bed with Microsoft[/color]

Have a nice day

Try Linux, it might take a month or two to learn, but it gets more fun as you go along, you know, something like the old Amiga OS, the more people supporting this OS the more the software Co. might start producing software and games for Linux.

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

@Wayne

Kaknow what you mean about micrsoft licensing, or control
ware.

Glad your happy with the mac, because I know what you mean
about getting old and senile. Hope you got the new 30 inch
lcd monitor to go with it, because we know you thought you
were buying an Amiga because you couldn't see the name on
the computer, We do know however that Apple and Amiga start
with the letter "A" and they both have five letters.

By the way have you made that appointment with your eye
doctor after all we wouldn't want you to make the same
mistake twice.

smerf