3/4 UVA students have an iPod, 1/4 have an Apple computer. iPod’s aren’t cool anymore. Apple computers… well… I would make the switch if they weren’t so friggen’ expensive. What computer system are you on:
What computer/operating system do you use?
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why do you say ipods aren’t cool anymore?
It’s not cool to have something everyone has. I have an ipod. I am uncool.
I use Linux. I bought my laptop on ebay a couple years ago when I was better off, and it came with a pirated copy of windoze. So I formatted it, installed Kubuntu, and I am much happier.
i switched from a partitioned windows/linux desktop to a macbook over the summer and haven’t looked back. yes, it was expensive, but so completely worth it. i didn’t know it was possible to love a piece of machinery quite so much as i do my mac.
i am, however, one of three people left in the world without an ipod. i’m okay with this, because it’s just another thing for me to drop into a toilet and break.
I don’t have an ipod either, buster. I wonder who the other person is?
I’m the other person. No ipod here.
And I run linux.
funk Macs and Mac owners
In undergrad they had both Macs and PC’s available to the students. I used whichever was available in the labs when I went. Side by side comparison on a daily basis for 4 years. They both were unequivocally equal on every score that mattered to me.
Yet still, Mac owners somehow believe that their beloved Apple product is better. Every single time I’ve asked someone to tell me why they’re better, they bliss out and look off with blank stares. Then when I pimpslap ‘em, they descend from Nirvana and give me arguments that are all easily rebutted with “PC’s do that too.” Until they give up with something vapid like “Macs are just cooler.”
What matters most to me is how often a computer breaks down, and in my time using both Macs and PC’s, they both crashed or failed me somehow with equal frequency.
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Uva, you spelled “fuck” wrong.
Give in to your anger, grape… feel the power of the dark side.
What’s an iPod?
grape, you funking prink! (i keeed, i keeed!)
my mac has crashed on me exactly zero times whilst in my possession – and i know that now i’ve said that, i’ll get home and it will have exploded somehow – whereas every PC i’ve ever worked with made it at least a bimonthly habit. i fully admit that i was lured in by apple’s terribly slick marketing combined with testimonials from friends, but will i go back? certainly not. i’m okay with being vapid about my shiny toy.
i still won’t ever buy an ipod, though.
/shutting up now.
I almost got a Zune cause it had a FM radio but I lust for the itouch ipod. If the Itunes goes to an all you can listen services (which was rumored this week) the choice would be clear.
Then of course it’s time to buy the iphone and be done with it
I should say, I don’t hate Macs, because they are fine computers that I enjoyed as much as PCs. But they are not better, no matter how many cool commercials they have.
Busta, the PC I came to college with was 6 years old by the time I replaced it, and it never crashed either. The ones in the labs, though, they crashed on me sometimes. And I have a friend with a Mac that is currently crashing once monthly. To add to his frustration Apple makes it hard to find service and parts outside of their own stores or website.
Belmont: If I’m Cvillain’s Skywalker of Anger, you are certainly its Emperor.
/counts down to how long it takes for someone to reference the line “There…is…another…Sky…wal..ker..” 10, 9, 8…
I really like the Commodore 2000. And I refuse to get an I-Pod until my 8-track breaks.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen…
The problem with Apple is that if they ever grew larger, they would be destroyed by anti-trust cases. They use a TPM security chip to lock users into buying overpriced Apple hardware if they want to use OS X. OSx86 can be used to install it on third-party hardware, but if you know enough about computers to get it working you probably won’t be comfortable with an OS as restrictive as OS X anyway.
i despise my macbook. the hard drive died 15 months after i bought it so i had to buy a new one. two months later, the clicky button got stuck down right when i sat down to take an exam, & when finally i got to an apple store, i had to buy a whole new keyboard face for $250, it took them weeks to replace (& they wouldn’t let me just buy it & do it myself), & the “genius” who diagnosed it inexplicably took out my memory & played with it, which apparently is not good for the computer either.
@12 I went for one of the 30 gig old-school origi-Zunes, when they were sellin’ ‘em off cheapily-like. It is my favorite-ist thing in the world. I hug it and squeeze it and call it “George.” And podcast-watch my life away.
once you go mac you don’t go back.
No crashing and no stupid viruses every ten seconds.
/owns three macbooks
my G5 is the bomb!!!
@20 My G5 is the bomb
good pick up line. does it work?
you tell me lolo… it has a HUGE hard drive
i just don’t know what you’re talking about.
OK lolo, don’t play coy with me :0
This Mac vs. PC is starting to look like the mascot vote all over again. Mac are nice but a 4-3 lead?
BTW what about that mascot contest, Thor?
This isn’t even close. Clearly BYo should be the mascot, but only if he’s wearing M.A.C. makeup.