Bad Mac

at 03:45 on 07 February 2006, Tyler wrote:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5566658286032643965&q=bad+mac

at 06:00 on 07 February 2006, David wrote:

This guy in the video is a moron. I've used a mac for 5 years and never had these problems.

at 06:06 on 07 February 2006, Ryan Brooks wrote:

This video is over five years old; if I remember correctly the first time I saw it was when I was 18 - I'm 23 now.

at 06:34 on 07 February 2006, David B. wrote:

ah this is great. anybody who has not experienced at least one of those thingshe talked about on a mac has not used a mac... period. now im not saying that you have not been on a mac, but i have used used both mac and pc for the last 8 years and have gone throught it all on BOTH systems. the noncraching mac is a myth, the ALWAYS crashing pc is a myth.

I would challenge anyone out there to do a survey of people who have used both mac and pc ( for a more unbiased response ) and see if the 'downtime' isnt almost exactly the same on both platforms.

they have gotten increasingly better as the OS's grow and more is know and understood through user interation but i just cant wrap my head arround people who 'hate' either system especialy when most times they havenot used to other for any extended amount of time.

at 09:20 on 07 February 2006, shotoshi wrote:

David B, I would have to disagree strongly with your main assertion that downtime for both platforms is equal.

I have used both platforms on a daily basis for the past 10 years (certain aspects of my work have required a PC, but that is about to change!). Still, to this day XP crashes on almost a daily basis. Back in the days when I had IE on the Mac, and a raft of other useless MS products for the Mac, I would say yes downtime on the Mac could be matched to that of the PC because the MS Mac products always crashed my Mac. Now I don't need them on my Mac downtime is virtually zero, although I am increasingly noticing that Firefox doesn't like Flash and my machine slows down.

at 15:35 on 07 February 2006, John G. wrote:

I honestly cannot believe that we're comparing the the quality of programming between Microsoft and Apple. It's not even a contest. Microsoft produces some of the sloppiest and buggiest code of any software company in the world. Internet Explorer embodies everything that is wrong about that company. My G5 iMac hasn't crashed in over 14 months of use. Try that on a PC.

at 15:42 on 07 February 2006, Bill wrote:

Isn't it just a little ironic that Apple's iTunes is probably the best piece of software ever written for the PC. Microsoft isn't even qualified to write an application of that caliber for its own platform.

at 15:43 on 07 February 2006, David B. wrote:

hahahahaha, listen to how you are talking: "useless MS products for the Mac", "certain aspects of my work have required a PC, but that is about to change". I'm telling you like there is no tomorrow, people ( and they have a right too ) have inbreed feelings toward the two platforms, and if you have an inlkination toward one you totaly shune the other in most cases. Im saying that on an indivudual basis sure one platform is going to out rank another. but for all of your daily PC crashes ( im sure most due to user error ;) ) I can find you someone-myself included- who has had the complete opposite experience.

hell i have used a Mac professionally for 8 years, i learned design on a mac, but because of cost i have a PC at home. I RARELY have a problem at home, but when i was at work the mac would crash on my at least once a week. - again most times to user error - user error being that i was trying to use multiple programs at once and doing things that simply exceeded machine specs

at 15:56 on 07 February 2006, David B. wrote:

http://forum.stylegala.com/viewtopic.php?p=14158#14158

hey guys lets take this to the forum where we wont be limited by the 1,000 words in here. and because i love this kinda bdebate:)

at 16:01 on 07 February 2006, Ed wrote:

This is the endless debate and I have to agree with David B on many aspects. I used to be a diehard PC user now I'm a diehard Mac user. I have both in my home and find both to be rather useful and rather annoying as well. Granted my Mac hasn't crashed on me yet (I just got a new one 2 months ago, but in time i'm sure it will). The PC has it's many problems and crashes. But it's ok it's sys specs aren't as good as my mac. If I upgrade the PC's memory and whatnot I'm sure it will run just as smooth as my mac.

Now a lot of the problems that guy was saying were kind of funny, but I've never encountered them in the years I've been running a Mac. But then again he is holding a very old Mac computer which looks like it probably had OS9 on it or something. ;) OSX is much better

at 17:37 on 07 February 2006, Bryan wrote:

Bill, your comment about iTunes on the PC is BS.

Maybe it's not this way for a mac, but for a PC about 2 times a month I get a stupid "Update" for iTunes that asks me to update my software.

Guess what. The fuggin update is a 40mb file that literally just removes the old copy and reinstalls everything, including Quicktime.

I love iTunes and use it daily, but that is the worst update option I have ever encountered.

at 18:29 on 07 February 2006, shotoshi wrote:

David B, user error, eh? Loading a simple program, and the sucker just hangs. Yeah, user error I guess.

at 20:06 on 07 February 2006, John G. wrote:

Here are a few plain and simple facts: All PCs crash and stink ("user error" or not). Mac OS 9 really stunk (big time). Yes, we all agree that Mac OS9 was crash-central.

...And "Mac OS X 'Tiger' is the best and most advanced personal computer operating system on the market. - Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal".

http://www.apple.com/macosx/reaction/

Mac OS X is by far the most stable OS these days, hands down.

Hey. does anyone remember that Windows 98 bug where the computer would crash after 49.7 days of continuous use?

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-222391.html

There were contests to see if anyone could actually keep their computers running long enough without crashing from some other problem to see the bug in action. You gotta love Microsoft...

at 20:09 on 07 February 2006, David B. wrote:

hahahaha like i said shotoshi, it just depends. I used to work for Caesars ENT. ( gaming company ) and we allused MACS and we all got the latest and greatedwhenever it came out and i swear and i have at least 10 other (designers) witness that will testify that a Mac has its own set of issues, i think the best think MAc did was lose OS 9 from the current OSX versions, I think that being the case OSX dominates WIN XP anyday, but all that said i have still had a MAC crash on my while doing nothing more that openning BBedit...

and I agree with Bryan on the itues deal, i stopped using quicktime because of it. keeps telling me that i need some part that it can never update, they should have keep quicktime MAC specific, media player is well equipedto handle mov files.

Ed is the type of person i would like to hang out with...openminded! one of best freind coworkers onece told me to my face " no self respecting designer uses a PC!" of course this was before he knew i had one ;)

at 22:29 on 21 January 2007, Monsteroids wrote:

The always crashing PC is not a myth. Its right here typing this. It crashes like 5-6 times a day! I just use Firefox, listen to some music, make a signature on Gale, grin, and bear it because I'll be stuck with windows anyway. I'm sure that Mac has its share of problems like not picking up the internet(the one I'm using, working) when its hooked up.

at 23:02 on 01 February 2007, michael wrote:

I have had my pc for 4 years, use it every day. Never crashed once. Macs are horrible and could be the death of many computers. Why? Mac is entirely privately owned by mac the make their own computers and accessories. Windows has many competing companies IE dell Ibm etc. If mac wins the computer conflict then what will stop them from raising prices and lowering quality . If Windows wins than this wont happen because there are hundreds of competing companies!

at 04:42 on 18 April 2007, Alex wrote:

Um, michael? you are a tard. Microsoft doesnt compete with dell and ibm. MS privately owns windows, just like apple privately owns mac. Dell and ibm make the hardware, and pay big bucks for microsoft to let them load their software(windows)onto it.

theres no competing companies for windows, besides mac and linux(maybe).

at 10:45 on 26 April 2007, Juan wrote:

I cant believe people fight over a bloody computer. Both are as good or as bad as the operator. Computers are tools not life styles. You saddos

at 12:35 on 04 October 2007, waldo wrote:

macs work great if u get the right stuff.a mac right out of the box is great.Thats not even counting all the hacks for it to make it better.im not saying this because i hate pc's.I own a pc as well and compared to it my mac is definetely working way better.I compared my almost 8 year old pismo with a brand new dell and my pismo still is better.plus y fite over stupid systems get an imac and have both systems on it.NOOBS!!

at 00:48 on 18 February 2008, james wrote:

I have been using a PC for pretty much my whole life and the only one that crashed continuously was my dell inspiron and that was because it didnt have a big enough powersource so it kept blue screening

but i got a new powersource and it was fine.

i have never used a MAC OS before so i dont know what they r like

but im running XP and it seems pretty stable to me

at 09:56 on 09 June 2008, BadApple wrote:

Yeah, well, I agree with the guy in the video. See www.macisbad.com for more fanmail...

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