Lepers of the tech world rejoice!!

[strangestranger]

Who are you talking to exactly?

 

[belial2k]

I found the title of the thread funny because most people buy Macs to be cool, not lepers. You pay a huge 2x - 3x price premium for the Apple logo on a computer...so I don't know why you would do that if you really think it is socially unacceptable (as the word leper implies) to buy and own a Mac.

 

[strangestranger]

Are you accusing me of owning an apple product?

 

[belial2k]

RELAX....IT WAS A JOKE...I'm not accusing anyone of anything. If the OP was sarcasm, I'm with you and we agree... I've already tried explaining the comment, so I'm not going to do it again...either you get it or you don't. It was based on the fact you called the Mac forum a place for lepers. Nothing to be offended by, so sorry if you took it the wrong way.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

SS owns a Mac? Whoooaaa, wait til word of this gets out

 

[Onus]

Maybe it was a Big Mac, and he already ate it.

 

[audiovoodoo]

Including the 'special sauce'...

 

[strangestranger]

What dish is complete without home made special sauce?

Oh and I wouldn't put it past you to be a mac user. I have my eye on you, oh yes.

 

[audiovoodoo]

There are two G4's within 3 meters of me at this very moment. [/True]

 

[strangestranger]

Do you feel dirty?

 

[audiovoodoo]

They are both in locked rooms, both used for music making by respective housemates. I'm sure I told you I lived with a couple of musico types, one of whom does lots of music therapy workshops with some heavily disabled kids.

 

[strangestranger]

I am sure you never told me they were dirty lepers. Have you not tried to play mugs and cure them.

 

[audiovoodoo]

When the last G4 came nicely loaded for less than £40 to the door I don't see much point. It was bought for running iWeb (yes, I hate it!!) as the guy knew how to use it. As he is self employed taking the time out to find another solution would have cost him more than that. The amount of fscking around I would have to do to get similar SW running on Windows or Linux means I'll just leave them to it.

For the Mac users the only support I've had to give in ~2 years of living here is advising on how to recover a formatted partition, google + $15 solved that one in under half an hour. The guy that does the disabled music work does also use XP on a nice second hand think pad. Runs ableton and a few other bits very nicely thank you. There might be room for an Ubuntu Studio install there to at some point, but again it's all time and money.

 

[djcoolmasterx]

If anything this is a leper colony, to stop you infecting the general population.

 

[strangestranger]

To stop them, infecting the general population.

As the OP of this thread I feel people are always referring to me when they say you as if I am a filty leper.

 

[audiovoodoo]

Where as those of us unfortunate enough to know you can see you as plain old dirty ginger jock with a fetish for donkey sex videos.

 

[strangestranger]

Don't forget the skirt wearing.

Apart from that pretty much bang on.

We won't go into where you get your kicks from. No amount of darkness or paper bags will help with those.

 

[audiovoodoo]

I got my last set of kicks from Footlocker.

 

[amdfangirl]

Argh, just stop insulting the mac.

I mean like some of us need one for work etc.

 

[strangestranger]

Mac for work?

Please.

Also, you don't work unless you have child labour over in convict land.

Are you born part of a chain gang over there?

 

[amdfangirl]

Nah, my entire school uses Macintoshes and the default office suite is iWork '09 so you literally can't use anything else.

 

[Zoron]

They must heavily discount their computers for the educational sector... because why would any school pay more money to use what amounts to niche hardware? After all, it's better to teach on the platform that dominates the market.

Unless it's one of those things at which they claim Mac is superior... desktop publishing or photo / video editing. Of course, when the same software is available on both Windows and Mac, then there is no such thing as a "superior" platform.

 

[Ijack]

Australia is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

 

[audiovoodoo]

Australia is a foreign country; they do unspeakable things to poor Koalas there.

Fixed.

 

[strangestranger]

Ye, but them dropbears make them pay for it.