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PC | 59 | 76.62% | |
Mac | 18 | 23.38% | |
iphone or other apple products | 0 | 0% | |
PDAs (Blackberrys and such) | 0 | 0% | |
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June 15th, 2009, 04:58 PM | #1 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Howard
Location: Cypress, So. Cal.
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I just have to know, are you a Mac or PC?
I don't want to cause any battles, but I am curious of what kind of users we got here.
And if you have converted either way, could you explain why? Oh and to let the Mac people know, PCs can also run OS. |
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June 15th, 2009, 05:06 PM | #2 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Tin
Location: NJ
Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): 08 black 250r (sold); '09 black zx6r Posts: 903
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PC here. Don't get me wrong. Mac is probably better than PC. However, the price range is out of reach for most of us or we choose not to pay the extra premium for basic computing.
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June 15th, 2009, 05:11 PM | #3 |
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Name: Rick
Location: Alexandria, Louisiana
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Well I guess I'm a PC.
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June 15th, 2009, 05:16 PM | #4 |
ninjette.org member
Name: P
Location: FL
Join Date: Jun 2009 Motorcycle(s): Red '09 250 Posts: 48
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PC. Macs have irritating advertising.
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June 15th, 2009, 05:17 PM | #5 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Howard
Location: Cypress, So. Cal.
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): '09 Candy Thunder Blue Ninja 250R Posts: 618
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June 15th, 2009, 05:33 PM | #6 |
ninjette.org guru
Name: Deb
Location: Philly
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): '09 ninja 250 (blue) Posts: 295
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PC AND BlackBerry
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June 15th, 2009, 05:35 PM | #7 |
dirty old man
Name: Chris
Location: Hazel Green, AL
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): Blue '08 Ninja 250 Posts: A lot.
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Mac all the way. I switched from a PC back around 2002. We switched because I been hearing about macs for years but had never used one. Now, 'cept for work, I won't go back to a pc. I am used to it and I like the way it runs. Along with the higher initial cost, there is a lot of programs that you can't get for a Mac, esp games, but for the most part, there has only been 1 or 2 times that I was rather upset that I couldn't get a program in mac. Before apple switched to intel brains, you could get a pc emulator and now you can have a mac run both mac and windows, and at the same time. Plus I'm just different, gotta go my own way.
To quote someone else on a different thread, "PC's are like bellybuttons" just my 2c nb
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June 15th, 2009, 06:55 PM | #8 |
motorcycle rider
Name: Bruce
Location: Victoria, BC
Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): '14 Yamaha V-Star 650 Custom (silver) Posts: A lot.
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Full of lint?
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June 15th, 2009, 07:22 PM | #9 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: don
Location: Port Elgin NB Canada
Join Date: May 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2009 blue ninja 250R Posts: 742
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First Mac was an SE bought in '88. Taking inflation into account it cost about the same as my 250r did this year. I wonder which was the most fun?
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June 15th, 2009, 07:30 PM | #10 |
ninjette.org member
Name: Matt
Location: Keller, TX
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): 2008 Ebony Ninja 250R Posts: 137
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I have a PC and an iPhone. My next laptop will be a MacBook, especially since they recently dropped the price.
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June 15th, 2009, 08:13 PM | #11 |
Generic User Title
Name: Nick
Location: PA, USA
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): Green 2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250R, Slate 2009 Triumph StreetTriple R Posts: 110
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PC and BlackBerry. Cause I like things that actually do something and not just sit there and look good. The one and only thing that Macs used to be good for was graphics since Adobe was obsessed with them. Now that Adobe changed their focus to the PC market for performance reasons and the fact that business do not want to have a different platform in their graphics department from the rest of the company, there is no practical reason to have a Mac that is less compatible, less productive, and less capable than PC's that are half the price.
If you have a sense of humor...folllow these links. If you get offended easily...don't follow these links. The real difference between Macs and PCs: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse....gi?u=macs_cant The iPhone: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
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June 15th, 2009, 08:29 PM | #12 |
Green!
Name: Tyler
Location: S. Florida
Join Date: Nov 2008 Motorcycle(s): 08 Ninja 250R, 04 Honda CRF230F, 94 Honda XR80R Posts: 505
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PC
Macs look great, but that's about where it ends. My ex-gf bout a mac for school because the professors went on about how great they are... -She paid almost 4,000 for a MB Pro while I paid just over 1000 for my notebook that had higher specs (with the exception that she had a 17" screen while I had a 15" screen) -After paying 4000 for a notebook, she then had to go out and spend another couple hundred to buy windows to put on the mac to run most of the architecture programs. The thing that gets me about macs is that they bash windows so much (while half of there bashing is not even close to the truth), but every mac owner I know has put windows on their mac through dual booting or bootcamp. They are build great and they look great. but they are WAY over priced, and they trash an operating system that a lot of mac owners end up having to put on their computer anyways to run the programs they need.
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June 15th, 2009, 08:29 PM | #13 |
Sarcasm: Yea that'll work
Name: Andy
Location: Essex Jct, VT
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): '08 Ninja 250R Posts: 330
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PC....BUT, I abhor vista. It makes me want to jump off a bridge into a pit of hungry baby alligators.
XP is where it's at. I use my computer for absolutely everything, including all my games, and I don't feel like paying more than $1k for a computer, so I'm a PC.
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June 15th, 2009, 08:35 PM | #14 | |
Sarcasm: Yea that'll work
Name: Andy
Location: Essex Jct, VT
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June 15th, 2009, 10:49 PM | #15 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Howard
Location: Cypress, So. Cal.
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): '09 Candy Thunder Blue Ninja 250R Posts: 618
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Horay for Windows 7! too bad it still has some bugs =/
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June 16th, 2009, 03:15 AM | #16 |
Newb..... on a steeek! :D
Name: Mike
Location: Windermere, FL
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2012 Harley Davidson XL883L Sportster Superlow Posts: A lot.
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Well considering that it's still in beta and has less bugs in it then vista did when it went retail, I'd say things are going better so far for Windows 7.
I'm most definitely 110% a pc. I'm a gamer and sorry, but MAC has NOTHING on a custom built PC for gaming performance. In order to get close to the gaming performance of my current pc (not even top of the line mind you) I would probably have had to spend nearly 4x the amount. I just don't see it as worth it to get less for more. I use windows xp pro since vista sucks especially for games (sorry but directx 10 isn't worth the cons of vista). I'm waiting to see how windows 7 progresses and if it's going to live up to all the reviews I've read so far. |
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June 16th, 2009, 03:30 AM | #17 | |
I'm lovin' it.
Name: Mike
Location: Melb, Australia
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): '09 Black 250R Posts: A lot.
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Good thing about Macs for me is that you cannot get viruses, but bad thing is that you can't play games! I'll NEED MY GAMES WHILE IN UNI!
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June 16th, 2009, 04:57 AM | #18 |
old git
Name: Steve
Location: Geneve Switzerland
Join Date: Mar 2009 Motorcycle(s): BMW K1300S Posts: 479
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PC running Ubuntu
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June 16th, 2009, 05:34 AM | #19 |
Livin' the Minimoto Life
Name: Mark
Location: Riding around in TX
Join Date: Mar 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2022 Honda Navi, 2018 Z-125 Pro Posts: A lot.
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My mac laptop has been the best experience ever. I have owned several PC laptops, desktops and PC based PDA's, but the mac is the best interface I have seen.
I like PC's because I can build them very easily and cheaply, and XP is a dang good OS. I totally refuse to purchase anything that has "Vista" even near it. In short, right now, I have a PC for photoshop/audio editing, a PC that I need to pull files off of, another PC that I need to erase and sell, another PC that my wife uses for her iTunes storage (and it fails at that), a busted PC laptop (HD died after 1.5 years), and my mac laptop. I am going to build a quadcore gaming computer that is PC based. I would install OSX on there, but my wife doesn't want to "need to learn something new". It isn't like she is a geek, she just wants to put stuff on iTunes and such. Oh well, XP is cheap right now, so I'll go that route. Vista can kiss it!
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June 16th, 2009, 05:37 AM | #20 | |
Livin' the Minimoto Life
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On the bright side, PC's are dirt cheap...
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June 16th, 2009, 05:39 AM | #21 |
ninjette.org member
Name: John
Location: Lebanon, NH
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In my mind, I don't find it practical to spend $3k+ on a Mac, when I can spend under $1k and build a PC that outperforms it. Hell, my laptop that I bought a year ago for $1100 would still cost $2500 today from the Apple store (just checked their site), and my laptop is in many ways still superior.
My home PC's run Vista or Windows 7 beta (except my netbook which runs Ubuntu). I think people's hate of Vista is largely image related, people without any experience with it seem to be the people most vocal against it. I've been using it since it came out without any problems whatsoever. |
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June 16th, 2009, 05:41 AM | #22 |
ninjette.org member
Name: John
Location: Lebanon, NH
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June 16th, 2009, 05:50 AM | #23 | |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Matthew
Location: Toronto
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June 16th, 2009, 09:41 AM | #24 |
ninjette.org guru
Name: Becca
Location: Clearwater, FL
Join Date: May 2009 Motorcycle(s): 03 Ninja 250, 02 CBR600 f4i Posts: 253
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I'm a sysadmin, and if Apple would just stay the hell out of the business world I'd be perfectly happy. Windows/Linux is a pretty happy mesh for me. I'm fine with Macs for home users- Apple just doesn't have the mindset that supports user management in the way it needs to be in a business environment.
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June 16th, 2009, 10:00 AM | #25 | |
Sarcasm: Yea that'll work
Name: Andy
Location: Essex Jct, VT
Join Date: Dec 2008 Motorcycle(s): '08 Ninja 250R Posts: 330
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to 7. Unfortunately it won't come out before I go to college. I'll just have to endure the first few months without laptop, something that I am not looking forward to, lol.
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I'm also simply more familiar with the XP platform, which obviously makes me biased towards it. Vista, to me, seemed to try way to hard to be "user friendly" if you follow what I mean. They have a wizard for everything and everything is dumbed down, which really pisses me off, because I actually take the time to figure out all the advanced settings myself. Also, some things just seem really hard to get to in Vista, as if they don't want you to mess with them. This is just my two cents.
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June 16th, 2009, 10:01 AM | #26 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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Here are the OS stats for people visiting ninjette.org:
And the browsers they are using:
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June 16th, 2009, 10:02 AM | #27 |
ninjette.org guru
Name: Becca
Location: Clearwater, FL
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That chart scares me ><
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June 16th, 2009, 10:16 AM | #28 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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It gets scarier when you look at the details behind the summary. There are as many people visiting this site with IE 6.0 or earlier, as there are with 7.0 or later. I've had conversations with some folks still on 6.0 about what a bad idea it can be for so many reasons, but it hasn't changed anyones behavior so I gave up.
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June 16th, 2009, 11:08 AM | #29 |
ninjette.org member
Name: Matthew
Location: Minnesota
Join Date: Jun 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2008 Ninja 250, 2006 honda Ruckus Posts: 31
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I have a mac, a PC, and an iphone, so I can't really answer. ;-P
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June 16th, 2009, 11:21 AM | #30 | |
ninjette.org guru
Name: Becca
Location: Clearwater, FL
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June 16th, 2009, 12:02 PM | #31 |
ninjette.org certified postwhore
Name: Sean
Location: Mary Esther, FL
Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2008 Ninja 250 1998 HD Road King Posts: A lot.
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PC & XP Pro. I can't even stand using my daughters ipod so I don't think I be switching over to a mac anytime.
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June 16th, 2009, 12:03 PM | #32 |
ninjette.org sage
Name: Howard
Location: Cypress, So. Cal.
Join Date: Feb 2009 Motorcycle(s): '09 Candy Thunder Blue Ninja 250R Posts: 618
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wow, those charts are amazing alex. hey, I was wondering what kind of server set up you have for your two websites.
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June 16th, 2009, 01:24 PM | #33 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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Ninjette.org is currently run on a very large shared server at an ISP, along with a large number of other websites (not mine). I believe they are using CentOS, a Linux variant that is optimized for web and application services. We don't have nearly enough traffic to warrant a stand-alone server as of yet, but that certainly may change at some point.
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June 16th, 2009, 01:31 PM | #34 |
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what happens to ninjette content if your shared servers were to go out of business today?
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June 16th, 2009, 01:31 PM | #35 |
ninjette.org dude
Name: 1 guess :-)
Location: SF Bay Area
Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much.
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Don't worry about it.
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June 16th, 2009, 02:27 PM | #36 |
- beyond titles -
Name: Matt
Location: Vancouver Island
Join Date: Jun 2009 Motorcycle(s): '09 Ninja 250r (Black) Posts: 19
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I switched to Mac about 3 years ago. Made the switch because Mac is the industry standard in my business and not knowing it puts you at a major disadvantage.
Now I just like Mac for it's ease of use and (relatively) low maintenance requirements. Plus I hate Microsoft for a whole slew of reasons, but they're more about IE than Windows or Vista... |
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June 16th, 2009, 02:45 PM | #37 |
ninjette.org member
Name: Jason
Location: Federal Way / Spokane
Join Date: May 2009 Motorcycle(s): Looking For 2008 Ninja 250R Posts: 84
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Gotta stick with my PC. Mac's look amazing...but my wallet just can't handle that sort of investment!
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June 16th, 2009, 02:52 PM | #38 | |
Livin' the Minimoto Life
Name: Mark
Location: Riding around in TX
Join Date: Mar 2009 Motorcycle(s): 2022 Honda Navi, 2018 Z-125 Pro Posts: A lot.
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"I can spend 1k and build it myself..." I can spend roughly the same amount and build an awesome computer that runs OSX. Comparing a top flight, brand new, Mac Pro to "something I build" isn't apples to apples. I can go to best buy and lay down hard cash on a $3K PC, and they will be comparable. I can build a mac for far less than what apple charges and it will be a quad-core setup as well. I like both PC's and Mac's, each for different reasons. Mac is more stable, overall a cleaner OS and more user friendly. PC's are nice because of gaming options, people very willing to offer freeware and all kinds of extras for them. If you want a super cheap setup, then PC is the only way to go. There are too many variables to say "this is better than that". They each have pro's and con's.
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June 16th, 2009, 03:26 PM | #39 |
ninjette.org member
Name: P
Location: FL
Join Date: Jun 2009 Motorcycle(s): Red '09 250 Posts: 48
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so roughly 5.5% of ninjette.org users use Mac opposed to PC.
15,833,927 people can't be wrong! But who the hell uses windows 3.1? |
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June 16th, 2009, 03:44 PM | #40 |
motorcycle rider
Name: Bruce
Location: Victoria, BC
Join Date: Apr 2009 Motorcycle(s): '14 Yamaha V-Star 650 Custom (silver) Posts: A lot.
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I also noticed that there were many visitors running Windows 3.1!!! My God, that came out in, what, 1991? I'm amazed that it can even run a web browser...
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