Jim <Jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote in
news:slrncuvp33.1gob.Jim@odin.magrathea.local:

> In article <41efe2fa$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>, Gactimus wrote:
>
>> Jim <Jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote in
>> news:slrncuvo3p.1ggb.Jim@odin.magrathea.local:
>>
>>> In article <41efd786$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>, Gactimus
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It might be better but why the hell would anyone buy one? The Mac is
>>>> cute, but not very functional.
>>>
>>> Please describe how it is 'not very functional', otherwise people may
>>> just think you're a troll.
>>
>> So, what can a Mac do that a PC can't?
>
> Stay connected to the internet without getting infected?

Sorry, but that's weak at best. It's like saying the Commodore 64 is better
because I'll never get a virus.

In article <41efe2fa$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>,
Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote:

> Jim <Jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote in
> news:slrncuvo3p.1ggb.Jim@odin.magrathea.local:
>
> > In article <41efd786$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>, Gactimus wrote:
> >
> >> It might be better but why the hell would anyone buy one? The Mac is
> >> cute, but not very functional.
> >
> > Please describe how it is 'not very functional', otherwise people may
> > just think you're a troll.
>
> So, what can a Mac do that a PC can't?

Interesting how quickly the "argument" changed from an assertion that
the tool is "not very functional" to an innuendo that it doesn't do more
than an alternative tool. You changed the argument _and_ downgraded the
strength of it.

What can a Mac do that a PC can't?

Run OS X.
Run software that requires OS X.

Any further discussion requires knowledge of what OS is running on the
Mac and PC under consideration, since there are choices for both each
with their own strengths and limitations. But then since this message
came from an advocacy group (and somehow slipped through my
filter...sigh) I don't expect anything resembling discussion to take
place.

--
Change account to gw when responding by mail.

Gactimus wrote:

> So, what can a Mac do that a PC can't?

Make a fool of the RIAA...

http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/8133

Sorry about the political site, I couldn't find the story they had on
TheRegister.

In article <41efe552$0$73866$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>, Gactimus wrote:
> Jim <Jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote in
> news:slrncuvp33.1gob.Jim@odin.magrathea.local:
>
>> In article <41efe2fa$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>, Gactimus wrote:
>>
>>> Jim <Jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote in
>>> news:slrncuvo3p.1ggb.Jim@odin.magrathea.local:
>>>
>>>> In article <41efd786$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>, Gactimus
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It might be better but why the hell would anyone buy one? The Mac is
>>>>> cute, but not very functional.
>>>>
>>>> Please describe how it is 'not very functional', otherwise people may
>>>> just think you're a troll.
>>>
>>> So, what can a Mac do that a PC can't?
>>
>> Stay connected to the internet without getting infected?
>
> Sorry, but that's weak at best. It's like saying the Commodore 64 is better
> because I'll never get a virus.

Ok, I'll turn your question around: what can a Windows PC do that makes it
functionally superior to the average Macintosh?

Jim
--
Find me at http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk
"Brace yourself, this might make your eyes water."

Gactimus is a gimp and uttered without thinking:
> So, what can a Mac do that a PC can't?

Run PhotoShop on a couple of *high* res images without turning into an
unresponsive slug.

OK so get a PC with 192TBytes of RAM and that will be better,

Just what is so great about PC's. They're cheap. end of story.

Serving Web, checking email blah blah blah.

You want to actually *Do* something, then get the right system for the job!

The fact that this was posted to a.o.l.slackware was just plain ridiculous as
slackware isn't really a cross platform distribution. Not on mac at any decent
level at least.

Idiot

Give me a Sparc anyday

Rob

--
Rap it up for the common good
Let us enlist the neighbourhood
It's OK, I've overstood
This is a wordy rappinghood. OK, bye.

Tomtomclub, 1980.

"Gactimus" <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote in message
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> Jim <Jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote in
> news:slrncuvp33.1gob.Jim@odin.magrathea.local:
>
>> In article <41efe2fa$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>, Gactimus wrote:
>>
>>> Jim <Jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote in
>>> news:slrncuvo3p.1ggb.Jim@odin.magrathea.local:
>>>
>>>> In article <41efd786$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>, Gactimus
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It might be better but why the hell would anyone buy one? The Mac is
>>>>> cute, but not very functional.
>>>>
>>>> Please describe how it is 'not very functional', otherwise people may
>>>> just think you're a troll.
>>>
>>> So, what can a Mac do that a PC can't?
>>
>> Stay connected to the internet without getting infected?
>
> Sorry, but that's weak at best. It's like saying the Commodore 64 is
> better
> because I'll never get a virus.

Someone should fire the teacher responsible for you being so ignorant with
respect to "analogies".

"Gactimus" <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote in message
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> "Keyser Soze" <chrisv@BadgirlsRule.com> wrote in
> news:2g35c2-b6p.nsi$h1t@usenet.dk:
>
>> "Gactimus" <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote in message
>> news:41efd786$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl
>>
>>> It might be better but why the hell would anyone buy one? The Mac is
>>> cute, but not very functional.
>>>
>>> The war is over and Microsoft won -- sorry, Apple.
>>
>> Mac is for faggots
>
> That's why their computers have all those pretty colors.

Sure, and the entire fuckin' grey-scale belongs to the linufux, right?

Here you go bollock-brain, you can have back what you snipped:

"linux is for faggot cunts"

--
Some Big Cunt

In article <41efe2fa$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl>,
Gactimus <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote:

> So, what can a Mac do that a PC can't?

I am reminded of an old line from back when we had several of the
original Macs (with the tiny screens) here at work and also had a bunch
of Sun workstations with 21" monitors. Slightly modifying the old line
(and turning it around), we have...

Q. Why is a PC so much better than a mini mac?

A. Because the PC makes a much more satisfying crash when you throw it
down the stairs.

:-)

--
Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience;
email: my first.last at org.domain | experience comes from bad judgment.
org: nasa, domain: gov | -- Mark Twain

"Harri Mellin" <atz02-NoSpAm-@netscape.net> wrote in message

> I'm a grey-scale meatball and proud of it.

Keyser Soze wrote:
> "Gactimus" <gactimus@xrs.net> wrote in message
> news:41efd786$0$54563$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl
>
>>It might be better but why the hell would anyone buy one? The Mac is
>>cute, but not very functional.
>>
>>The war is over and Microsoft won -- sorry, Apple.
>
>
> Mac is for faggots like linux is for faggot cunts.

Thinking that your choice of computer is what makes you a man is why
you'll never be one.