Comments on: Windows vs Mac, ‘n’ all that

By: presidentbaltar

presidentbaltar — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:31:16 +0000

PS the PC’s name is John Hodgman. He’s now a contributor to the Daily Show and has written a very funny book called The Areas of My Expertise

By: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee » Microsoft vs. Everything Else

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee » Microsoft vs. Everything Else — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:06:06 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:31:37 +0000

My home computer (PVR/web/mail/ssh) crashed today, well, it turned off at 12:47. Strangely my laptop battery went from “charged” to “discharging” for 45 minutes, starting at 12:47. When I got home my clocks were all flashing too.

That’s the only crash I’ve had. It’s a PC, as I can’t afford an equivelant mac (a mac mini would probably be fast enough with a USB DVB tuner though).

Both my laptop and my PVR run debian though. Laptop is having backlight problems though, and it ‘s a couple of years old. I might look at a mac for my next purchase.

By: Roland

Roland — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:40:37 +0000

Nope the Ads are not showing hee in the UK, becaue they make direct comments about other products and we know it is a no no in the UK.

I know your loving your mac experiences and i know yuor going to see the light soon Geoff

All those I’ve told you mac is best

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:02:18 +0000

Well I’ve got a shitey old PC – Pentium 3 450MHz with mildly upgraded RAM (it’s got 320MB, did have 128MB), and I tend to keep it constantly on, and it’s been on for weeks now without crashing. Funnily enough though, when I’ve had service pack 2 installed it used to crash now and again (blue screen o’death) telling me about some sort of memory parity error (I’ve since reinstalled, which I do after I need to first turn it off after 30 days after installing it, as it’s marginally less than legit, and I haven’t got around to buying a proper copy….). I used to think it was something to do with the fact that I used cheap RAM off ebay, which might not be properly matched to the existing stuff, and conflicting in some way, but as it’s been absolutely fine on SP1, I’d put it down to SP2 being shite.

But it seems fine other than that, and I just put up with the popups that SP1 doesn’t get rid of.

By: Dan Crocker

Dan Crocker — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:06:41 +0000

Neither. Linux is better, although less user friendly. If it lost a lot of the exclusive geekiness and acronyms, Microsoft would be up the swannee without a paddle.

Having said that, I’m running Windows XP, and haven’t had a BSoD or needed a reinstall for about two years now. Absence of crapware is definitely the way to go. Although The Child running Microsoft software (IE, MSN) has infected the computer with a small shedload of viruses and malware. Grrr.

By: Ciaran Byrne

Ciaran Byrne — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:37:47 +0000

The thing you have to remember about Apple is that the vast majority of people who use them have in fact got the personality of an apple.

FACT.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:21:41 +0000

My Windows XP Pro machine has only just started to go doo-lally after 2 years of abuse by me, which I consider to be fairly good.

It only took Windows 98 18 months to need reinstalling, so things are definately improving.

By: Johnny Alpha

Johnny Alpha — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:39:36 +0000

That’s just a pile of bollocks. I just rebooted my old W2K machine at home, and it had been up for around 6 months. Would have taken a screen grab if I’d read this thread first.

I set up a brand new G5 at work once. The very first time I ran up the DVD authoring program (no doubt called iDVD … how cutesy wutesy poppity pie putting “i” in front of everything huh?) it crashed and bombed out.

First time. Nothing else installed. Never, ever, run. Before that. And. It. Crashed.

Mac … “Crash Different”

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/crash-different

By: JC

JC — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:47:35 +0000

You might like these spoofs of the the mac adverts that VH1 made

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/07/07/bwe-mac-ads/