dracx619

July 10, 2009 at 3:11am

ugh, i was hoping to not come to this, but here we go.

 first, this is a site thats called maximum PC which is dedicated mostly to windows and linux with an apple tidbit every so often. if you are so enraged towards msft, then like i said, what the hell are you doing here? ive never seen posts from you and it appears you just joined the site and are just starting a flame war you cant win, ergo:troll.

i havnt done it personally but i've heard and read from other users on other forums about booting a machine through an external drive, if you could boot from a usb drive, i dont see why not a hdd. also, you are running off an external which somebody paid for so why is it ridiculous to think that someone cant pay for a less expensive internal drive? and again, in the case of the mini, some can consider it cheap enough to just get  new netbook and with newer and better ones, why not?

 i can run any os you can think of, and yes, if i really wanted to, i could install osx, thers an article on this site that tells you how. and linux is also based on unix and in my opinion is way better than mac in the fact that like windows (but moreso) you can customize the crap out if and make it look and perform way beyond anything mac can do. im not hardcore into it cause i dont have to time and patience to really learn it, i know it, just not like many linux gurus.

in terms of "superiority," nothing is trully superior than anything, its all about preference. on the programming side of things, sure, macs may be stronger on that end, but i have to wonder why windows has way more programs, a way, way, bigger userbase, and more of anything available for it than mac. not to mention the vast open sourceness that linux offers.

with vista and now 7, basic defrag is done in the background so you really dont have to worry much about it, if you are very control oriented like myself, i like to go with a more thorough defrag just for the hell of it. with windows 7 coming out, the driver support is much better and automated process. you plug something in, windows finds you the driver and bam, you even have an applet with all the features for your new device. and windows is always searching for the latest drivers. while not perfect, its still young and even in betat (and now rc stage) it works very, very well.

windows has more malware etc because of its huge userbase, switch those numbers around and windows people would be touting their "security." macs are not secure because its "superior." they are secure because their userbase is so small that hackers and evil virus creators dont care about you right now. but as your userbase grows and more of you morons think you are fine, you will eventually be hit with something big and you are all going to be crying. and if there were no viruses, malware, etc for macs, then why did some of my friends and one of my professors macs took a crap and when diagnosed they found nasty bugs? not to mention the many known cases of hardware failures (that ive seen and heard about from said friends and a few professors) and im sure there are more out there. and you also failed to address how i said that a mac was hacked the fastest at the latest hacker expo thing.

you, are an idiot. if msfts patches caused problems, sp1 by your logic would have destroyed vista when in fact it made it a very good and stable os. with sp2, its even better. unfortunately because of its horrible start, people dont give it a chance;it is a very good os and the only reason i dont use it anymore is because 7 is a million times better. and yeah, if apple didnt need updates, what the hell was whole thing about its safari exploit that had to be patched. and at least we dont pay for service packs. YES snow leopard is a service pack.

this whole "macs just work" and "quality vs cheap" is the lamest and stupidest mac argument. i can build a machine way more powerful than a top of the line mac pro and be a third of the price (i did it once to see it with my own eyes) and i can make it look iiek a mac to by putting it all in a shiny lian li case. with windows 7, it also "just works." once installed, it does everything for you and you are ready to go. plug in a printer, it sees it, installs the driver on its own and bam, god to go. cell phones, mp3 player, camera. its all quickly becoming an automated "just works" process. and we can at least customize the way it looks way more than you can a mac. and for manufactured systems, many vendors offer a variety of cheap and powerful machines and the aesthetics are getting better.

FYI i make movies, edit raw images, design logos, mix and record music, author dvds, play games and your basic computer stuff all on my custom (already almost 3 yr old) computer and its till runs like a champ. any hiccupsi experience are my own fault for trying to push it a little farther techincally with software or hardware mods and tweaks.

so go suck a toe and get out of here. there is a sister mag and site for the mac so go rot over there.