Ninja vs Penguin

mac's rule, pc's drool

People on NvP are civil. We don't get flamers :)

-Penguin

Oh wow... i would have thought i'd be flamed by now. Isn't it strange Penguin? Where be ye flamers?

Ninja,

I know you're not. I don't consider you a mac fan girl ;)

You're totally right. In my humble opinion all computers suck equally.

Hi Jeff,

I'm not saying that my Mac can do no wrong. And I do mention (and sometimes post) my frustrations (ie the repeated awful spinning beachball of death). Both Macs & PCs have their own set of problems. I've had my Mac crash several times; I've even encountered the blinking folder with a question mark upon startup. Then again, I've had booting problems on my old PC & seen the blue screen of death a few times. (shrug) Not worth getting all worked up over this. ~___^

Play nice in the sandbox, kiddies,
Ninja

It's all about the Steve Jobs Distortion Field. It's crazy how powerful it is.

Danng... You know (being completely honest here)... The general public has weighed in on Macs as the most reliable laptops on the market. They always top the list in PC Magazine and lots of other rating lists out there. Yet from the reports I've read of things breaking very quickly and issues with Apple service and the Apple Store, and the Apple fan boys and girls I've talked to, I've come to realize they're really no better or worse than anyone else. The difference to me is that when a Mac breaks, the users don't complain about it; they roll with the punches I guess. If anything goes wrong with a PC, anything at all, even something minor, the user throws a tantrum.

If I had to guess, Mac fan boys and girls want us to join their club, and their way of doing it sometimes is to grossly stretch the truth regarding the reliability of their products. I can't tell you the number of people I've talked to who wanted to own a Powerbook solely because they believed it would hold up better than a Toshiba, Dell, IBM (Lenovo now), or Gateway laptop. That said, Apple does make some awesome products, and there are other compelling reasons for buying them.

On a side note, I once had someone tell me that their PC-based 3D graphics software ran faster on a particular Mac under Parallels than it did on a particular PC. I proved that was impossible because all of the specs of the Mac were much much slower than the PC it was being compared to; factoring in that Parallels is a virtual machine that slows things down even more, and it was just absolutely impossible. Apple has this way of changing user perceptions (even their perception of how much time it takes to process something). It's really a credit to their marketing.

Grrr, stop picking on my mac! >___<

Ha! Score 1 for PC! They don't show THAT on the commercials.