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To: bolobaby

You might as well not waste the effort, mate. Just like that one graphics chipset programmer I knew a few years back was adamant about how the whole world would be so much better if they simply adopted his favoured graphics chipset instead of concentrating on everyone else’s main CPU families, you will never convince the macophiles that their enhanced-graphics boxen are not the be-all and end-all of the universe.

You only need to look at posted pics of some people using macs as dumb terminals at NASA and then view the posts of the macophiles’ near-orgasmic responce as some sort of validation of the greatness of their goddess and you can not help but see that there is no way to convince them that their semi-computers are not anything but perfection in action.

Sad, really.


55 posted on 02/20/2015 1:37:30 AM PST by Utilizer
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To: Utilizer
There are graphics cards selling on NewEgg that are the equivalent at the very least of any macophile's favourite machine -and you can verify that simply by clicking on NewEgg's latest sale ongoing.

Here you display your ignorance of apple products. I use a variety of devices, Windows, Droid, and I finally bought Apple items.

I purchased a Samsung tablet after MUCH research, and it has massively better specs, more powerful processor and graphics processor, bigger, more vibrant screen. Apple tablets blow it away in performance. I compared it to the iPad mini, which should have lagged far, far behind using your "newer GPU" analysis, but the iPad is far far smoother, opens and closes apps far more quickly, and the samsung is just flat out clunky to get around.

I've had laptops from a variety of manufacturers, all windows based, with a variety of speeds and abilities. My Macbook Air simply smokes them in performance and user friendliness. That glossy Mac is more than how nice the screen is, or looks. It's the feel of using it, when it's so well optimized, I didn't have to tweak a thing. EVERY laptop I've ever had I've had to tweak even basic things like freaking mouse pointers, and turn things on that I want on all the time, and turn things off I never want to run. Not the Mac. I opened it up, and started using it. It's perfectly set up.

My windows gaming machine is a monster, great processor, great GPU, water cooled, and it still regularly loses a browser tab, crashes a program, etc. It's great for my game, but my little Mac runs every bit as well. I bought the Macbook air with the slowest processor, too. It's less than half the speed, half the processing cores, and runs just as well. BUT, I don't game on it, it's not it's mission, so I don't even try to compare here. I'm not a Mac "bow down and worship" kind of guy, I spent a lot of years in Linux as well, but just objectively studying these things in use, versus comparing specs, Mac is an outstanding platform for the vast majority of what people actually use a computer for. Is it better than your Newegg GPU? Depends on how you use it.

59 posted on 02/20/2015 3:43:41 AM PST by Big Giant Head
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