is it a piece of junk

ok well here goes nothin. obviously i'm new to this site.i am unfimiler what post is soposta go where so i'm just going to stick this under general chit chat. My boyfriend bought me a mac a cupple months back because he thought i should get a new computer.now mind you i had never used a mac until that point and i saw them as pointless.from what i understood they are stricktly for artsy ppl which i am not, but he is so that's what he got me.Is there any little perks or tweaks i can do to this dam thing to actually make it fun, or is it just a piece of junk i should just smile to my boyfriend about and pretend it's the best thing in the world?

What do you want to do, you can do everything you want to do on a windows PC, i just don't like the menus on Macs....

Hi forgetvengence,

AUGGGGH! My Eyes! I must be going blind :D

Here you go...

http://www.eiu.edu/~philos/retro/mac/looknfeel.htm
Mac System Tweaks

Eg ;)

Hello forgetvengeance and wellcome to AO,

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And just because you cannot put it on your finger does not mean that it is not an engagement ring :D

Congratulations to you both!


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EDIT: In my case I made the foolish mistake of buying an engagement ringbefore the Apple :eek:

For future reference, as Egaladeist tried to hint at, please use default black when posting in the future, the only way I could read that mess was after I highlighted it ;)

I guess the main question is what copy asked you... What profession are you going after or what do you want to use this computer for? What would you use a windows pc for? Almost all applications are available on the mac just harder to find. If you have one of the newer OS's that apple has then its based off of a *nix platform and can be accessed via the CLI and is a powerful capability

well i'm hoping to eventually get into the journalism field.

you can pretty much do anything on a mac that you can do on a PC its just that (As mentioned above oit can be a lil harder to find the dif programs as there isn't as much demand for them I use both on a regular basis and it did take me a while to get used to the mac but now i am i don't really notice much of a difference :)

very funny valhallen

is this a new posting trend?

Dear god, i hope not.

HA! Try to read this! :D


Eg :p

poor forgetvengance,

we're having fun and we forgot about the guy.
hope his question was answered!

Let me get my sunglasses and night vision goggles..lol.. :cool:

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Ermmm.....

correction her

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DAmbed .. wot is wrong with a Mac?

I have 6300 for surfing suspect sites.. as for prgs.. well it is a little bit of hunt and capture.. bit like looking for any tools for PC's 7 or 8 years ago.. ahhhh when hacking was simple ;)

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If A gurl was to give me a PC I would definitly take it as a proposition.. (I would need to do a **** load of explaining to Mrs Undies as to how come the new PC.. dunno how I would have a hope to explain the peripherial )

I'd say your lucky, I wish someone would give me a mac, I know PC's like the back of my hand, I would like to know more about mac's, thing is their so god damn expensive...

Now that we're on the subject I found this today:

http://www.pearpc.net/comments.php?screenshot_id=460

Don't know if it's anything new but it seems pretty interesting. As you can see from what the site says it's still a little buggy, but it seems like a nice simulation a PC user can use to learn about mac...

" My boyfriend bought me a mac a cupple months back because he thought i should get a new computer."

"i can do to this dam thing to actually make it fun, or is it just a piece of junk i should just smile to my boyfriend about and pretend it's the best thing in the world?"


not for nothing but show some ****ing gratitude ... if not then give that thing to me and i'll send you a pair of Marc Jacobs shoes... maybe you won't consider those useless

I owned a Mac awhile back and it served it's purposes. It served them fairly well might I add, I just never got into studying the OS down hard enough (perhaps I should?).

I think that you have a very good point there Spyder~ the Mac is unfamiliar and different, but I see no reason why it should not be as much fun and use as a PC. You just need to get used to it.

I am sure that quite a few people would have a similar experience if I gave them a Windows 3.1x box, or a Linspire box?

:)

I don't know, I've used a Windows 3.1 (awhile back) AND Linspire before.. both seemed atleast somewhat familiar (as compared to a Mac atleast). But yeah, all it takes is some getting used to but if you fool around with it and take some time to learn it, you could probably make it into an awesome PC.