Do you Hate Ipods/Apple/Macs?

[Shadow703793]

^ :lol: :lol:

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[Shadow703793]

My 2 favorite things are:

1) Having relations with a super hot chick.

2) Building a computer with TOP NOTCH components, the kind of stuff that makes your palms sweat when you are unboxing them.

Now, these being my 2 favorite things, I would not want anybody else to do them for me.

Mac owners want someone else to build their computer, now if they need someone to take care of their wives and girlfriends too...

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[spaztic7]

I am not a ipod hater but my girlfriends dog certainly is

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1127/ipeidonw3.jpg

Outstanding.... Simply OUTSTANDING!

 

[sunny27]

hate is too strong a word!
i don't like apple for the following reasons:
1.too expensive compared to what other competitors offer--mac book pro -check out the hardware and then try customizing a dell laptop online and see the price difference.
2.they prefer being a niche product - they could do much better than what they are doing if they ventured into the mainstream--macs and pcs.
3.the apple ipod is an overly glorified protable media player.there are better players out there.

i like apple for:
1.their operating system.

i don't own anything made by apple.
i did load osx tiger 10.4.8 in my amd pc.it works perfectly.waiting for a proper patched version of leopard so that i could try it out in my amd pc.
i own a dell xps 1330 laptop.it runs osx leopard and tiger properly.
i have a transcend tsonic t-310 mp3 player(competitor to the ipod shuffle but way better!) i've got creative ep 630 earphones for the player.its rock solid and almost indestructible(it survived a motorbike accident at 40 kmph with combined weight of the bike and me.it took the impact and played on but the my pair of levis tore to shreds!)
as for the cell phone -i find the iphone too fancy and not that practical for the price it sells for.i use a sony ericsson w200i walkman phone and am happy with it.

 

[Shadow703793]

I think this needs a bump.

 

[nukemaster]

lol

 

[Shadow703793]

^ Well, I hate Apple users who buy them to show off $$$, Apple DRM, and the Apple OS.

 

[gondo]

Cowan, Creative, and Microsoft Zunes are all better players than IPod. I bought an IPod and returned it the same day cause I hated it.

I've used Cowan and Zune and like them both better. I currently own a Creative ZEN and love it.

 

[piratepast40]

I hate bullets, bombs, cluster munitions, landmines and depleted uranium munitions.

I happen to be a fan of depleted uranium kinetic energy rounds

 

[ohiou_grad_06]

Still as someone who works on macs for a living and having always been a pc guy, macs seem easier to administrate. I mean I don't worry so much about patches, antivirus, etc. It's great! I love Windows, but in an administrative environment, seems like so much more to keep track of.

 

[boner]

well i have a PSP just for music (a modded one with a "hard drive" of 8GB) and i love then sound quality, it's even better than the ipod and every psp owner that have listened to ipods will agree with me

 

[story4ever]

Apple patches patchy

Even Vole does it better!

By Nick Farrell: Friday, 28 March 2008, 9:22 AM

FRUIT-THEMED toymaker, Apple has been accused of over-marketing its ability to patch its software.

The advertisements might give you the impression that OS-X is jolly well written and secure, but it seems that the Cappuccino outfit is not quite as secure as the Umpire of Evil Microsoft.

At a recent Black Hat security conference, delegates were shocked to be told by boffins from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology that Apple’s performance on patches was, er... patchy.

The boffins looked at how many times over the past six years the two vendors were able to have a patch available on the day a vulnerability became publicly known, which they call the zero-day patch rate. They then took this number and divided by their shoe size and discovered that there were 658 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and 738 affecting Apple.

This might be OK if Apple ever bothered to patch them particularly fast. The boffins said that Apple was below 20 unpatched vulnerabilities at disclosure consistently before 2005 but these days Apple is always above that figure.

The net result is that the number of unpatched vulnerabilities are higher at Apple.

One of the reasons is that while Vole has been chummy with the security community, Apple keeps them at arms’ length. µ

L'Inq

Security IT World
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/28/apple-patches-patchy

 

[Topcover]

what annoys me about macs are not the computers themselves but the company and the users.

Number 1 mac are good for creativity.
So i ask what is the number 1 apple selling computer why it is the 13.3 inch macbook. So the mac user i know personally with this computer is always bashing my computer and windows about how his is so creative and how he can make movies and design music. He then shot a video for his college film course. The other day he was editing it and he could not figure out why it was going so slowly re rendering the frames and the pictures. Maybe because that computer has integrated graphics.


Also apple telling me what should be on the my system annoys me. The entire pushing safari through software update to windows users is the lowest thing i have seen ANY company do. Apple must be desperate to undermine all computer companies.

Macs are great for 3 things imo

They are great for people that do not know very much about computer s because then that person does not have to deal with the care and feeding of a normal computer like a windows user.

The professionals film editor or art enthusiast,WHEN they are used on a macbook pro laptop or powermac desktop with the right hardware.

In a school or work setting because they are resistant to many of the other networking troubles. That said i work on a network of Macintosh's and it is way easier to network windows machine due to the large number of tools and plugin available.

 

[EXT64]

I am impressed with their preloaded video editing software, but beyond that, I don't like them. I find it hilarious when people think their Mac hardware is special. I love to tell them it has the same processor as my "inferior" PC.

 

[Racktracker]

One of my favorite things that you hear the apple nuts say. "Who needs all the third party sofware, a Mac comes with everything you need."

Maybe some people don't mind others deciding what they do and do not need, but I think that I can decide for myself.

I had one experience with itunes which was more than enough for me.

A while back there was a pepsi/ apple promotion where they were giving away music via codes under bottle caps. A few friends gave me some of these caps so I thought what the heck. I went to the site only to find out that I had to install itunes to download the free songs. Ok no real big deal, so I download and install itunes. Then I find out the songs are mpeg4 and have all the drm crap. So now I can only play the songs via itunes on the pc that I originally used to download them. That was it for me. I made good use of that second mouse button and deleted the songs. Then uninstalled itunes, fired up bittorrent and downloaded the songs in a usable mp3 format.

So about a week goes by and I'm doing something (don't really remember what) and I open "my computer". WTF no optical drives listed anywhere. The only thing that I could think that I had done was to uninstall itunes! So I reinstall and then uninstall itunes to confirm that it had in fact removed my dvd drives when I uninstalled it. Thanks alot apple! I guess they figured that if you don't have itunes then what possible need would you have for a cd/dvd burner. Seems to go right along with the theme of them deciding what you need.

 

[Shadow703793]

^ [:turpit:2]

 

[EXT64]

Yeah, and people complain about Microsoft software "thinking" for you. Yikes, that's why I steer clear of all that Apple garbage. I like this good old fashioned stuff that you have to think to use.

 

[Shadow703793]

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/27/day-two-of-cansecwest-pwn-to-own---we-have-our-first-official-winner-with-picture
More secure ? :lol:

At 12:38pm local time, the team of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel from Independent Security Evaluators have successfully compromised the Apple MacBook Air, winning the laptop and $10,000 from TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative. They were able to exploit a brand new 0day vulnerability in Apple's Safari web browser. Coincidentally, Apple has just started to ship Safari to some Windows machines, with its iTunes update service. The vulnerability has been acquired by the Zero Day Initiative, and has been responsibly disclosed to Apple who is now working on the issue. Until Apple releases a patch for this issue, neither we nor the contestants will be giving out any additional information about the vulnerability. You can track the vulnerability on the Zero Day Initiative upcoming advisories page under ZDI-CAN-303.

Earlier, Miller said that he chose to hack the Mac because he thought it would be easiest target. Vista hacker Macaulay didn't dispute that assertion: "I think it might be," he said

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143962-c,hackers/article.html#

 

[nukemaster]

That can't be....Apple computer are so secure there is not need for patches or even a virus scanner. they are just that damn good. That must have been a windows machine 😛

 

[i_hate_flying]

Yes, I really hate them. But I seriously have no idea why.

 

[Shadow703793]

That can't be....Apple computer are so secure there is not need for patches or even a virus scanner. they are just that damn good. That must have been a windows machine 😛

I think It was a Mac running Vista :lol: 😛

 

[hotdogmichigan]

ipods sucks. as for apple macintoshes they're x86 machines now so it doesn't except for Mac OSX that sucks too

 

[nukemaster]

But vista took 2 days to break...and it was Sun java's fault so any os can get hit that way. They never died manage to break anything MS made this time around.

LOL 2 min to break into safari. priceless....

 

[vangvace]

A while back there was a pepsi/ apple promotion where they were giving away music via codes under bottle caps. A few friends gave me some of these caps so I thought what the heck. I went to the site only to find out that I had to install itunes to download the free songs. Ok no real big deal, so I download and install itunes. Then I find out the songs are mpeg4 and have all the drm crap. So now I can only play the songs via itunes on the pc that I originally used to download them. That was it for me. I made good use of that second mouse button and deleted the songs. Then uninstalled itunes, fired up bittorrent and downloaded the songs in a usable mp3 format.

You could've made a mp3 cd in itunes to get rid of DRM and... (drumroll) convert the songs to mp3.

I'm entrenched into itunes. Somedays I really want to switch to something else, but laziness stops me every time. Safari being bundled might end that laziness though and very quickly.

Edit: I soooo hate the apple selling team, oops I mean mac user

 

[Shadow703793]

--- NEVER TRUST YOUR COMPUTER DEALER, ---
-------- HE'S NOT THERE TO HELP YOU, ---------
--------- HE'S THERE TO MAKE MONEY! ----------
---- Ask on Tom's instead it is best advised. ---

hotdogmichigan That's priceless [:turpit:2]