[sdiy] Bootcamp . Parallels/ off patch over priced Mac rubbish

[Jason Proctor]

sorry are you still trying to wind up the fanbois? of course your 
perspective on Macs is going to be quite limited if you only deal 
with broken motherboards ;-)

i've been 100% Mac for ages, dipping into Windows and Linux where an 
app or job required it. i used to work for Insignia, the SoftWindows 
guys -- Windows on your 68k, PPC, Sparc, HPPA, Clipper, MIPS, 88k, 
etc... so it's not like i've not used Windows. but using it is like 
going back in time to when the user was the enemy. in fact i often 
run into Doug McClure in the bureaucratic diseased-mind swampland of 
Windows.

Steve-O rushed the initial MBP release and wouldn't let the hw guys 
bugfix. fair enough. if you read your email and did what they said, 
your machine would be fine. i didn't bother and mine has been 
bulletproof. it's been through hell and back with me and still a 
faithful servant. oh and btw the recent gen of MBPs have a 
liquid-proof keyboard. we tried it. it works.

i see that you pay a premium for using a Mac. but what is your time 
worth? i can either do work, or fight against the biggest make-work 
time-waste of human history. Windows is designed to waste time.

a friend was considering converting recently. he said "how often do 
you reinstall the OS?" and i said "oh, never. i mean, i upgrade when 
i want to, but that's all." he was amazed enough at that, but then 
when i said i didn't even reboot for months at a time, well...

Windows doesn't even ship with a half decent command line! bwahahaha.

(and i'm not even a fanboi. i went to Android because i didn't like 
Apple censoring the app store. the fact that AT&T can't plug a phone 
into a switchboard was only a minor part of that decision...)


At 6:44 PM +0100 9/14/10, Paul Burns wrote:
>Sorry Barry it is all the MoBos that I have are dead hence not cost
>effective to repair .. loads of ancillaries though...
>
>Some great shiny aluminium (Brit) to tit about with and create something
>exotic... Frac or Euro ? Who knows...?
>
>I have had arguments before in that that " Why on Earth would you possibly
>buy a PC .. We Buy Macs"... Why? Because Macs don't break...seriously they
>don't .. they use very special components that just don't ever break...
>
>
>I should laugh , but mostly I cry, one born every minute when it comes to
>buying Apple stuff...
>
>regards
>
>Paul
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Barry Klein [mailto:Barry.L.Klein at wdc.com]
>Sent: 14 September 2010 18:22
>To: Paul Burns
>Subject: RE: [sdiy] Bootcamp . Parallels/ off patch over priced Mac rubbish
>
>Let me know if amongst that crap is a good A1181 13" macbook motherboard...
>My son dumped a drink on his and somethings dead in it.  I have the
>schematics but am not looking forward to trying to figure out what is dead
>to cause it not to charge the battery or run off AC power.  Runs off battery
>power fine.  Can't seem to fool it to run off AC by jumpering
>voltages/fets...  Seems to be a common problem with all Apple stuff - not
>very water safe. And no one fixes em.
>
>
>Barry
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