12/19/2009 8:58:32 AM

macs suck

12/19/2009 8:59:22 AM

today we are all macbook pro!

12/19/2009 8:59:23 AM

^^ you shut up sir

12/19/2009 9:00:37 AM

^^^
you shut your whore mouf!

12/19/2009 9:01:04 AM

i sad now. it turns on, but that's pretty much it. we had nearly 4 good years.

12/19/2009 9:03:01 AM

good night, sweet prince

12/19/2009 9:05:00 AM

time to upgrade sir!

btw lemme know if you find any good deals on a pro....i am looking for one

12/19/2009 9:05:19 AM

macs suck

12/19/2009 9:08:21 AM

yeah... i wasn't really expecting to buy a new laptop so soon. sigh.

12/19/2009 9:11:31 AM

AppleCare? :|

12/19/2009 9:13:51 AM

it left AppleCare in Feb. it's nearly 4 yrs old at this point, so no luck there.

12/19/2009 9:14:45 AM

good night, sweet prince

12/19/2009 9:26:23 AM

Macs are for wanna be hipsters and metros.

12/19/2009 9:43:16 AM

now you have a chance to buy a lenovo

12/19/2009 9:50:43 AM

absolutely not. when lenovo builds a laptop that isn't loaded up with crapware, i'll reconsider. until then, lenovo can keep their shitty computers.

12/19/2009 9:57:05 AM

i had a Mac before Macs were cool

then I swore off Macs forever when they got hip

12/19/2009 10:00:20 AM

Quote :

"good night, sweet prince"

12/19/2009 10:02:12 AM

^^ cool story bro

12/19/2009 10:06:39 AM

take it to the store and let them have a look, if not there is a company you can mail it to that will pretty muc hfix anything for $250-400

12/19/2009 10:11:10 AM

the funny thing is that I'm kidding

Macs should only be used by graphic designers and lesbians

12/19/2009 10:11:58 AM

please continue

12/19/2009 10:13:15 AM

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"take it to the store and let them have a look, if not there is a company you can mail it to that will pretty muc hfix anything for $250-400"

i've gotten most of the value out of this laptop that i think i'm going to get. the issue that's causing it to turn on but not boot is a hardware problem. i'd just as soon spend some extra money on a new machine, instead of repairing an older, beat-up one.

12/19/2009 10:17:17 AM

anybody got a torx 6 screwdriver? i need to take this sumbitch apart.

12/19/2009 4:05:31 PM

when my (HP) laptop died, i just went to best buy and bought a HD and an OS. $200 and an hour later i was back in bidness. twas a heck of a lot cheaper than buying another laptop.

12/19/2009 4:08:57 PM

I do, you can pick up a set for like $10 from lowes. Worth having around if you take your laptop apart

12/19/2009 4:10:18 PM

oh yeah, i bought a set of tiny screwdrivers too. i figure the pocket knife technique wasn't such a great idea.

12/19/2009 4:12:01 PM

This makes me nervous.

I've owned Mac desktops my whole life, and they never died. I kinda assumed the same would go for my MacBook.

I mean, this one's a year old, and I need it to last way more than two more years.

[Edited on December 19, 2009 at 4:13 PM. Reason : I can't afford one every three years! That's crazy!]

12/19/2009 4:13:25 PM

i got my macbook in 2006 and it is still doing fine!

no problems (cept for ones that i've caused)

12/19/2009 4:15:02 PM

MACs are for pussies and poser emo people. PC for life.

12/19/2009 4:17:10 PM

^^WOOT WOOT!

12/19/2009 4:18:02 PM

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"MACs are for pussies and poser emo people. PC for life."

i'm sure you think you're tough and clever here. unfortunately, you're wrong.

12/19/2009 4:41:18 PM

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"i got my macbook in 2006 and it is still doing fine!"

same here. got mine in april 2006 and we're still going strong. i did replace the hd (with a larger one, not because i had problems) and upgraded the ram and put snow leopard on it. whole thing cost ~$300 to do and i anticipate several more years of good use

12/19/2009 6:22:00 PM

Let me guess Optimum. You drive a volkswagen...with an apple sticker on it. Please. Nothing is more disgusting to me then seeing non-conformists conform to the whole "apple/vw" bullshit emo trend.

12/19/2009 6:39:29 PM

nothing? wow, maybe you should re-evaluate your priorities dude

12/19/2009 6:45:37 PM

^^ Actually, I drive a Honda Civic. Pretty standard car on American highways these days. You got any other questions, chester? If not, kindly leave my thread.

12/19/2009 6:56:53 PM

You say it turns on? What does it do then?

If you have an Apple Store around, take it to them. They'll look at out of warranty laptops for free and give you your options.

And LOL at the idiots posting "Macs suck." If you're using a Dell, Lenovo, HP (including Compaq), Acer (including Gateway) or Sony, you really don't have any room to say that an Apple sucks. Because the laptops I just named are either shitty (Dell, HP/Compaq, Acer/Gateway) or as expensive as a Mac (Sony) without offering anything over any other computer manufacturer or they're just flat out unreliable (Lenovo).

http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/laptop-reliability-1109/

If you have an Asus or Toshiba, good show. They're offered at a reasonable price and are the most reliable laptops you can buy.

12/19/2009 8:07:28 PM

Whew, I've told everyone I know to buy Asus (sorry sumfoo1)

12/19/2009 8:09:13 PM

macs suck

12/19/2009 8:24:30 PM

My Powerbook from 2003 still runs like it did when I got it, and the original battery will even last a good half hour.

12/19/2009 8:26:28 PM

^^ go pad somewhere else

This MacBook Pro was one of the first off the line, when they started switching to Intel processors. it's been all over the country with me, and I dare say that I was a bit rough with it. I don't think it's really worth fixing, since the repair is very likely to cost upwards of $500. I'm pretty sure that something on the logic board is fried. I've already taken the hard drive out now, so I'll have that when I can get my external SATA connector back.

12/19/2009 8:34:22 PM

I pad where I want bitch !!!

ok not really

but I mean, we're in chit chat

not srs chat

12/19/2009 8:34:59 PM

Power Mac 800DP: 2002-current. Hi.

What a beast. It's like a car with 250,000 miles on it and still chugging along. Might piss off some people on the interstate, but it pretty much works for me.

12/19/2009 9:45:33 PM

I thought this thread was gonna be about:

12/19/2009 10:11:00 PM

12/19/2009 10:11:59 PM

well, i took the RAM and hard drive out. i guess i'll be going laptop hunting tomorrow. :/

12/20/2009 1:06:07 AM

when my contract runs out and i'm able to get a new phone, i'm definitely gonna use this piece of shit one i have now to sight in a rifle.

12/20/2009 1:08:41 AM

What is up with this misconception that macs are better for graphics people?

In fact since late CS3 and into CS4 PC's running 64bit (and if you're doing graphics you should be) are noticeably faster than their mac counterparts. Why? Adobe doesn't support 64bit in mac. Just to test we put After Effects CS4 (I mean, that's really the only program that taxes a fast machine) on OSX and a bootcamp Vista64. The gain? ~9%. Which on a production taking 60-90 seconds per frame that's a dang good gain on equal hardware.

Here's a quick google quote from adobe:

Quote :

"However, normal users could see an 8% to 12% performance increase when using 64-bit versions of Adobe's software compared to 32-bit copies."

Again... don't get this common misconception...

12/20/2009 1:58:00 AM

^ for most graphics people, it has more to do with preference. and the fact that Macs have traditionally been much better for people that publish. the rest has just been an extension of that.

12/20/2009 2:01:26 AM

^... I still don't buy any of that. Our graphics office when I interned for one of the largest firms in town had 5 macs and 2 PC's (one pc for editing - FinalCut HD is joke slow these days - one for Maya.) Needless to say we kept a network storage for all the graphics files produced on the macs and kept a weekly tally to see who could crash their macs more. The PC's rarely crashed.

That POS iMac I worked on (which was only 5 months old when I got there) crashed HARD. Every freaking day. I couldn't do common multitasking without bringing it to it's knees. Honestly when running 1-2 programs at once without really taxing the processor the experience wasn't that bad. Tended to connect up with network stuff easily, booted quickly, nice form factor. But good gravy when you're trying to render After Effects, work in Photoshop and heaven forbid do some disk I/O heavy tasks all at the same time.

Next I worked editing video all freaking day on a Final Cut HD system on a 4 core mac pro. Holy crap that was slow like molasses... Coming from SpeedEdit or even Premiere it was like pulling teeth. Why do I need to render everything before I can edit it? Why am I staring at a blank screen when trying to scrub? Why is your transitions pulling in frames I deleted already? Why do you crash when there is a timecode change on DV tape - JUST FREAKING MAKE A NEW FILE. Or that true pisser, the black screen of nothingness after dropping in a simple transition or something.

[Edited on December 20, 2009 at 2:13 AM. Reason : spelling]

12/20/2009 2:12:24 AM