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« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2009, 04:12:25 PM »

I used to really hate Apple because I thought it was for pretentious bastards who sit at coffee bars in turtle necks with their hipster beards. The glasses on their face is something the won in a who's less of a man contest with Lisa Lobe and anything you do with a computer has to be done in public so people can see your Apple logo and know you are better than they are while you write the next big novel or edit some sort of graphic art project for some company called "N".

Haha.  You just described me exactly!  Except that I just paste an Apple logo on my HP laptop and the beard hangs off my ears.  Grin

Reminds me of the time someone accused me of writing an article in a Starbucks in a turtleneck with a smug look on my face just because I praised the iPhone.  In reality, I've never been to a Starbucks, I use a desktop PC with Windows XP in a dark cave of an office with no one else around, and I don't even have a face.  But Apple hardware is pretty awesome most of the time.  Would that we could all afford it. Smiley




 
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« Reply #16 on: November 01, 2009, 09:48:45 PM »

I feel the success of the iPod and iPhone have taken the steam out of the perception that Mac users are a bunch of beatniks.  The "Get a Mac" campaign also paints an image that Macs are cool, yet not "too cool" for the average Joe.
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« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2010, 02:55:05 PM »

I have an Acer Aspire One that i got for christmas when my desktop computer went out. It originally came with Windows 7 Starter. I LOVE this computer however, I don't love 7 Starter. It allowed almost NO customization (didn't allow me to change the BG image, it was slow..) I later Wubi'd Ubuntu on it. Runs SO much better.
And recently, I got an external DVD drive so I could go full blown Ubuntu. Bye bye, starter.  laugh
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« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2010, 03:33:53 AM »

During the later days of my netbook, I used Ubuntu Netbook Edition on it.  It was SO much better than XP, due to the fact that it was optimized for netbooks and other such portable systems.
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« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2010, 06:55:59 PM »

There's a neat tool called Unetbootin that allows you to put a linux install ISO onto a thumb drive.  I'm mentioning it for those who don't have an optical drive available.
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« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2010, 11:51:59 PM »

There's a neat tool called Unetbootin that allows you to put a linux install ISO onto a thumb drive.  I'm mentioning it for those who don't have an optical drive available.

I wish i had known that when I went and got an external CD drive :c
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