Mesa and Apt you guys can be haters all you want to be. I just want to let you know that there are a few exceptions to every rule.
Apple computers are typically for people who don't care how a computer works and don't ever want to know, but it fits their specific job to par.
Notice how I used the word "Typically" ...so you guys have no right to call BS. Just because you guys know a lot about your Macs doesnt mean that the other xx% of Apple users do.
I never called Mac users stupid, I just pointed out that most of them just want a computer that works.
In my experience every single person I know that does Web developement ...uses a mac for there work. Whether it is web design, clothing design photoshop, sound editing, flash, etc etc etc they all use a mac because it does what they want it to do and it meets their applications specific needs. Now only 1 of the 16 people actually knows a lot about computers and that one person recently switched over to PC.
but still i think thats too much of a broad generalization of mac users.
It's not a generalization unless I say something like "All mac users know nothing about computers" I basically said "They are TYPICALLY for peeps who don't care how they work...but they do the job just fine."
You have no right to flame me over this because I didnt make any stereotypical generalizations. You got offended for not noticing the word "Typically"..and you know this is true because even the Mac commercials point this out (Some of them are true, and some are not)
PC's have there fair share of people who know nothing about computers as well...I used to work at Circuit City and believe me, I have met the most stupid PC users in the world....but you'll also notice that there are hundreds of websites with people like you and I that know quite a lot about computers.
On average I'll bet people that use pc's have a lower iq because Macs are typically used for people that have completed college and have jobs that rely on macs (ex:web developement). Pc are for people (old folks especially) just have a pc for solitare, msngr or email or games.
But again there are a few exceptions to that rule such as game developement. And probly over 75% of the people that are usual posters on the THGFZ actually know a vast amount about computers... ex:wusy is freakin brilliant
Don't use it for more than 1.5hours in a single session.
-Dont play games on your Macbook it will just die prematurely
You cannot call bs on that either because your playing old games like quake 3....which inn't nearly as graphically intense as World of Warcraft with almost max settings or UT2004 with low settings and lots of bots. Even Apple doesnt recommend playing a game for more than 2 hours on there notebooks (said the guy from Mac Mechanic)
When my gf played Wow for ~2hours the computer would randomly shut down due to heat issues. But even after the shutdown all the heat is trapt in the plastic shell and if you turn it on it shuts off 5min later so the notebook is then useless until it cools down(this is just my experience, the results may not be the same for all the other Macbooks out there). Like I have said we have had many issues with it.
Apt is one of the more fortunate Macbook users because even he is smart enough to realize that there are issues and he is lucky enough to have not experienced any of them.
All I did was simply point out my past experience with Macs and I even ended my original post with
Of course I could be telling you all of this information and you may not experience a single issue with you new Macbook and you may just live happily ever after...
...but I'm the kind of guy that tells it like it is;
If I see a lot of issues (like Apple computers) I will let people know.
Best of luck Square_Head
~3lfk1ng
Flame me only when I make fun of someone or something, but don't flame me until you have actually experienced it 1st hand like I have.
I'm not here to create enemies....I'm here to learn as well as educate, so let us all get along please.