I HATE APPLE

that's weird: the only remotely useful CS dude i've dealt with recently was a bloke called ryan in the states somewhere.

plus ca something-or-other, or something.

Based on the (admittedly) small sampling of laptops and work environments I've run across, I'll give you even odds that most MacBook Pro users are only using Microsoft Office - specifically Entourage, Word, and PowerPoint. Most of them don't care how much RAM they have, they only care that it's not the "low end" model, it runs PowerPoint, can connect to an Exchange server, will output to some sort of LCD projector, and connect to an iPod.

Even in graphic, video, film, audio freak central here in LA - most of the users I run across are Office people and that's it. The geek crowd are already going to max out their RAM from Kingston or Crucial so there's no incentive for Apple to put more RAM in it - especially given the constant volatility of the RAM market.

They "heard it was better."

Seriously, that's the reason they give. I wasn't going to argue with them since they were paying me to set things up, but in a few of the cases the client bought an iPod at a Apple store (because iPods are an It Item) and then decided to buy a new laptop while they're at it.

Meanwhile, they want to connect it to a corporate network via some weird VPN protocol, connect to an Exchange server, sync to their Blackberry, blah blah blah. To be fair, I like these types of clients more than the OS jihadists though.

it's this amazing new invention called "choice".

sorry, kyle, what's your point here? i'm not exactly a power user. should i not be allowed a mac either? fuck's sake, we should be happy people are buying the bloody things ... ten years ago i'd have bet good money apple was on the way out.

But then, nowadays they have a hugely bloated OS. My PC runs fine in 512M, and has quite a lot more stuff running on it than your average Mac.

I've always been appalled that Macs don't come loaded to the gills with more RAM.

Also, grimley, I'm fairly certain his point was "Why purchase a more expensive machine if it will only run Office?" and, quite frankly son, your answer needs work.

ps the real answer is that theoretically the damn things should work better than that, kyle.

The video shows Ellch and Maynor targeting a specific security flaw in the Macbook's wireless "device driver," ... While those device driver flaws are particular to the Macbook -- and presently not publicly disclosed -- Maynor said the two have found at least two similar flaws in device drivers for wireless cards either designed for or embedded in machines running the Windows OS. Still, the presenters said they ultimately decided to run the demo against a Mac due to what Maynor called the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security."

"We're not picking specifically on Macs here, but if you watch those 'Get a Mac' commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette or something," Maynor said.

nah, that's a "they" meaning "they", not, er, "they".

kyle?

and hey, i think keeping a major corporation alive is a dandy reason for buying a mac. i mean, it's apple! lookit the little stripy logo and ... it smiles when you turn it on! and you have to hug it to find the switch! and ... HEY, HANG ON, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FUCKING MACS I KNEW AND LOVED?

cunts.

A) Get another Genius appointment and take this [still kernel-panicking for no reason even with brand new motherboard iMac] back to the Store for more warranty-enabled service work, or;

B) Call Applecare as soon as they open at 9am EST and ask how to exchange this "build-to-order" POS for another "build-to-order" iMac without paying some goddamn restocking fee, or how to get my $2000 back.

Results 1 - 10 of about 295,000 for Intel iMac faulty motherboard. (0.55 seconds)

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,840,000 for Intel iMac logic board replaced. (0.35 seconds)

u hve probably tried this, and it's basically the same as running disk utility, but have you tried starting up in single-user mode and running "/sbin/fsck -fy" ? if that comes up clean then it definitely is not your HD (bad sectors, etc.) .and must be some borked NON-motherboard piece of hardware on the thing but it's like the time i got hives after taking dayquil, i went to the doctor and they're like "well you're allergic to dayquil" and i'm like "yes, but what specifically am i allergic to?" and they're like "we don't know, dayquil has like 14 things in it."

Honestly I'll do that and run DU out of a sense of diligence and optimism that perhaps it really is some kind of trivial issue but I'm so, so sick of fucking with this thing already.

boot from a CD, then fsck a couple of times and see what comes up

Today's WWDC keynote was really insulting. There's not a single thing mentioned that's of any interest to me (or most mac users I know) at all. Gotta love that Steve's big deal was explaining that all these years after Outlook made us hate getting e-mail, you can now replicate that awful experience with Mac OS. If I can't get this iMac's issues worked out it's fucking newegg.com for me.

For me, core animation is pretty goddamn cool. If you hate Mail, then switch to Thunderbird already and stop crying.

Yeah, I think that was the argument just being made re: stfu about your really piss-poor Outlook rip off and its ability to turn into a to-do list!

The most exiting thing was moving the graphics slot so a double width card didn't block a slot and a novel way of mounting hard drives.