Do many people really HATE Apple that much?

[the_randomizer]

The most expensive Mac. Period. Blows away the IIfx (US$10,000)

http://www.ebay.com/...ht_17992wt_1190

It just jumped up to $99,995.00 USD. I think people are a little desperate to make that much money off an old computer. If someone is foolish enough to splurge that much money, and then have the machine end up not working at all, well, best of luck to them.

 

[finkmac]

The most expensive Mac. Period. Blows away the IIfx (US$10,000)

http://www.ebay.com/...ht_17992wt_1190

It just jumped up to $99,995.00 USD. I think people are a little desperate to make that much money off an old computer. If someone is foolish enough to splurge that much money, and then have the machine end up not working at all, well, best of luck to them.

It is kinda overpriced... But it's a prototype... Only full-cased one known to exist.

 

[the_randomizer]

It is kinda overpriced... But it's a prototype... Only full-cased one known to exist.

Meh...I guess so. The guy said it doesn't even boot up to an OS, but it does give you bragging rights.

 

[Wizerzak]

It is kinda overpriced... But...

Kinda sums up Apple fanboy's excuses for buying Apple products.

Spoiler

 

[finkmac]

It is kinda overpriced... But it's a prototype... Only full-cased one known to exist.

Meh...I guess so. The guy said it doesn't even boot up to an OS, but it does give you bragging rights.

Little history, Around '82, Apple restructured, and added a "Disk Division". They produced the "twiggy" Disk drives that offered more space than normal floppies, but were notorious for their unreliability... The Lisa 1 shipped with 2 built in... The Mac was intended to have one of these drives, but they switched to Sony diskette drives... Which were more reliable... Of course, it's virtually impossible to put anything (apart from Lisa software) onto a "Twiggy" disk... So, obviously... There isn't a way to get the operating system onto it... Unless the floppy expansion port works...

 

[shamiko_]

Apple Fanboi's are the hipster scum of the tech world

I thought Apple products are mainstream?

 

[the_randomizer]

I thought Apple products are mainstream?

They are, but like a retrovirus that hides from your immune system, Apple's popularity spreads faster than it can be controlled.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Oh god, this thread has reached 8 pages. I hope you got your answer Op, this shit is gonna keep going in circles until somebody locks it.

 

[Rydian]

I feel this warrants a mention, given an earlier discussion.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=24451
No viruses, but plenty of bad shit.

Anyways yeah, most tech forums I've seen outright ban "x vs x" threads. XD

 

[Just Another Gamer]

I thought this was covered a few pages back.

 

[Rydian]

I figured a current-event sort of thing would help since some of the "that doesn't count" arguments were because some named infections were archaic.

 

[Foxi4]

I figured a current-event sort of thing would help since some of the "that doesn't count" arguments were because some named infections were archaic.

There's no point in trying to prove that water is wet - every OS may fall victim of viruses and the amount of viruses is directly connected to the size of the userbase of the system. Windows has been the dominant system for years thus it has the most malware of all sorts released for it. There really is no reason to prove what is obvious. Some people will not change their opinion even as they face overwhelming evidence.

 

[finkmac]

Apparently, The latest Java update removes most variants of "Flashback"... No doubt more variants will pop up in the following days.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

Meh...I guess so. The guy said it doesn't even boot up to an OS, but it does give you bragging rights.

"Hey gang, I just bought a $100,000 old, broken computer off the internets!"

Everyone else: / / / /

I hope dunking $100,000 on old piece of broken tech is worth the bragging

Kudos to the auction winner

 

[finkmac]

Meh...I guess so. The guy said it doesn't even boot up to an OS, but it does give you bragging rights.

"Hey gang, I just bought a $100,000 old, broken computer off the internets!"

Everyone else: / / / /

I hope dunking $100,000 on old piece of broken tech is worth the bragging

Kudos to the auction winner

It's a freaking PROTOTYPE...

However... I just heard that this one might not be the only one that exists....

 

[Janthran]

I just don't like how madly overpriced they are.

 

[marcus134]

Meh...I guess so. The guy said it doesn't even boot up to an OS, but it does give you bragging rights.

"Hey gang, I just bought a $100,000 old, broken computer off the internets!"

Everyone else: / / / /

I hope dunking $100,000 on old piece of broken tech is worth the bragging

Kudos to the auction winner

you're forgetting the 1.5k$ of shipping fee

 

[Just Another Gamer]

I just don't like how madly overpriced they are.

I doubt anyone does.

 

[finkmac]

Meh...I guess so. The guy said it doesn't even boot up to an OS, but it does give you bragging rights.

"Hey gang, I just bought a $100,000 old, broken computer off the internets!"

Everyone else: / / / /

I hope dunking $100,000 on old piece of broken tech is worth the bragging

Kudos to the auction winner

you're forgetting the 1.5k$ of shipping fee

Hey, you're spending a hundred grand on a computer... You don't want it to be crushed in transit

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

Meh...I guess so. The guy said it doesn't even boot up to an OS, but it does give you bragging rights.

"Hey gang, I just bought a $100,000 old, broken computer off the internets!"

Everyone else: / / / /

I hope dunking $100,000 on old piece of broken tech is worth the bragging

Kudos to the auction winner

It's a freaking PROTOTYPE...

However... I just heard that this one might not be the only one that exists....

It's a broken prototype of an old computer then

But I see you're point though. It's very rare and should command an exorbitant price. But that doesn't change the fact that it's broken and unserviceable. At the least, the auction winner would hope to sell it off at a higher price