I hate to agree with you Zuke, just because of the simple fact that I would be agreeing with you, but. . .
Recently, my friends whom I am staying with, wanted to listen to music on their iMac. Okay, a little older computer and all. They had been complaining that disk space on it was almost full so they went ahead and threw all their music and photos on their external hard drive. Okay. That’s fine. It’s exactly the same set-up I have for my PC. All my music on my external. So. . . I go to open up their iTunes. It is a Mac, after all, and they do have an iPod, which they had previously plugged into the Mac to suck out lovely music in the past. . . blah. blah. blah. Their iTunes wouldn’t allow them to pull music from the external drive and put it on the play list. Older Mac. Yes, I know. I fiddled around with it, to no avail. Ellen, whom was sitting at the computer, I kept telling her, “You should be able to just click and drag from the other drive. . .” Should. You can access the other drive, sure no problem. Could not click and drag. I finally gave up, frustrated.
Using my PC techie knowledge, I told her that we should go through her computer and try to see if there are any programs that she has on there, that we could delete, therefore giving her some more free space. She found one and proceeded to drag it to the trash can. I, dumbfounded, asked what she was doing. She informed me that it was how you delete a program. I went, “Uhhh. . ” and asked about all the components and extensions. She thought for a moment, and then ran a search for anything by that file name. I told her that it wouldn’t cut it. She was baffled by what I was asking her to do. She then informed me that if the program had extensions, it probably would have an uninstaller program, and since it didn’t, obviously she could just put it in the trash.
This is obviously short hand of the incidents. Her family has been Mac users forever. I hope the newer Mac OS has an add/remove program feature. It just seems bizarre to me to NOT have one. . . .
I have been told that I over-think it. I reply that I just am used to, you know, thinking, and since I know how to use a computer, I don’t think I will ever be able to un-learn to use how to use a Mac.
I’m a Mac hater. This just confirms what I’ve been feeling all along. Sure, they do have a purpose if you’re into film editing or art stuff but other than that, I see no purpose to own a Mac. (Unless of course your company buys it and then you get to keep it when you quit.) Mac owners think that their farts don’t stink but, in reality, as you pointed out, they smell worse than those of Windows users. Mac farts do have pretty colors associated with them though. Of course, so do mine when I’ve eaten at Betos.
A few years ago I was helping my dad set up his computer to connect to my sistwireless network. He had a Windows PC, she used a Mac. Because she used a Mac, she had all of the Mac accessories including a Mac wireless router. The thing cost $250 and did less than my $60 Netgear router! That’s some awesome marketing on Apple’s part though to convince their mindless horde of cultists to spend money like they do. Poor fools…
I will say this though about Apple, their devices are pretty. OS X’s GUI is very slick and the iPhone is a nice device. However, I prefer functionality over looks in my computers. Windows allows this. If Windows crashes, I fix it, not reformat. Reformatting is Gateway tech support talk. It doesn’t sit well with me.
One more thing, Apple’s marketing is a lie. Instead of saying “I’m a Mac.” “And I’m a PC.”, they should be saying “I’m a PC with a Mac based OS.” “And I’m a PC with a Windows based OS.” THEY’RE BOTH PC’S! Both computers use Intel chips, either OS will load on either machine, and they’re both personal computers. Again though, it goes back to their marketing. Freaking geniuses.
Zohner, look back for my post “I’m a Mac, no you’re not”.
Halley, actually that IS how you uninstall programs. Wanna know how you install programs? You drag them into your applications folder. That’s it! It’s a very special type of interface (by which I mean “stop eating the paste!” special). Each program is a self contained system, while the OS simply needs to know how to handle such systems. This is the Mac OS’s greatest strength; programs don’t negatively effect each other, it’s very easy to kill rogue process threads, and it’s hard for a virus to take hold. It’s also the OS’s greatest weakness, as there is NO interoperability between programs. (BTW, to update the iTunes library, you first need to blow away the old database. It’s somewhere in the iTunes options, though I forget where. If you aren’t careful and simply tell iTunes where your music is, it will assume you put it there on accident and “import it” back to its original location.)
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I hate to agree with you Zuke, just because of the simple fact that I would be agreeing with you, but. . .
Recently, my friends whom I am staying with, wanted to listen to music on their iMac. Okay, a little older computer and all. They had been complaining that disk space on it was almost full so they went ahead and threw all their music and photos on their external hard drive. Okay. That’s fine. It’s exactly the same set-up I have for my PC. All my music on my external. So. . . I go to open up their iTunes. It is a Mac, after all, and they do have an iPod, which they had previously plugged into the Mac to suck out lovely music in the past. . . blah. blah. blah. Their iTunes wouldn’t allow them to pull music from the external drive and put it on the play list. Older Mac. Yes, I know. I fiddled around with it, to no avail. Ellen, whom was sitting at the computer, I kept telling her, “You should be able to just click and drag from the other drive. . .” Should. You can access the other drive, sure no problem. Could not click and drag. I finally gave up, frustrated.
Using my PC techie knowledge, I told her that we should go through her computer and try to see if there are any programs that she has on there, that we could delete, therefore giving her some more free space. She found one and proceeded to drag it to the trash can. I, dumbfounded, asked what she was doing. She informed me that it was how you delete a program. I went, “Uhhh. . ” and asked about all the components and extensions. She thought for a moment, and then ran a search for anything by that file name. I told her that it wouldn’t cut it. She was baffled by what I was asking her to do. She then informed me that if the program had extensions, it probably would have an uninstaller program, and since it didn’t, obviously she could just put it in the trash.
This is obviously short hand of the incidents. Her family has been Mac users forever. I hope the newer Mac OS has an add/remove program feature. It just seems bizarre to me to NOT have one. . . .
I have been told that I over-think it. I reply that I just am used to, you know, thinking, and since I know how to use a computer, I don’t think I will ever be able to un-learn to use how to use a Mac.
I’m a Mac hater. This just confirms what I’ve been feeling all along. Sure, they do have a purpose if you’re into film editing or art stuff but other than that, I see no purpose to own a Mac. (Unless of course your company buys it and then you get to keep it when you quit.) Mac owners think that their farts don’t stink but, in reality, as you pointed out, they smell worse than those of Windows users. Mac farts do have pretty colors associated with them though. Of course, so do mine when I’ve eaten at Betos.
A few years ago I was helping my dad set up his computer to connect to my sistwireless network. He had a Windows PC, she used a Mac. Because she used a Mac, she had all of the Mac accessories including a Mac wireless router. The thing cost $250 and did less than my $60 Netgear router! That’s some awesome marketing on Apple’s part though to convince their mindless horde of cultists to spend money like they do. Poor fools…
I will say this though about Apple, their devices are pretty. OS X’s GUI is very slick and the iPhone is a nice device. However, I prefer functionality over looks in my computers. Windows allows this. If Windows crashes, I fix it, not reformat. Reformatting is Gateway tech support talk. It doesn’t sit well with me.
One more thing, Apple’s marketing is a lie. Instead of saying “I’m a Mac.” “And I’m a PC.”, they should be saying “I’m a PC with a Mac based OS.” “And I’m a PC with a Windows based OS.” THEY’RE BOTH PC’S! Both computers use Intel chips, either OS will load on either machine, and they’re both personal computers. Again though, it goes back to their marketing. Freaking geniuses.
Zohner, look back for my post “I’m a Mac, no you’re not”.
Halley, actually that IS how you uninstall programs. Wanna know how you install programs? You drag them into your applications folder. That’s it! It’s a very special type of interface (by which I mean “stop eating the paste!” special). Each program is a self contained system, while the OS simply needs to know how to handle such systems. This is the Mac OS’s greatest strength; programs don’t negatively effect each other, it’s very easy to kill rogue process threads, and it’s hard for a virus to take hold. It’s also the OS’s greatest weakness, as there is NO interoperability between programs. (BTW, to update the iTunes library, you first need to blow away the old database. It’s somewhere in the iTunes options, though I forget where. If you aren’t careful and simply tell iTunes where your music is, it will assume you put it there on accident and “import it” back to its original location.)
Hi, my name is Alexander, and I’m a PC.
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