Mac questions

Heavygain · 2006-12-20, 09:22 AM

I recently took my moms laptop and installed WoW on it, and frankly I love having a laptop that I can play a game I enjoy on. However, I do not know how to even uninstall a program on a mac, just move to trash from applications? What about checking the equivilant of a DXdiag? I am at school, I will add a few others I have when I get home.

Hamma · 2006-12-20, 10:05 AM

Unsure about the DXDiag but to uninstall all I think you need to do on a mac is drag it to the trash.

Ghryphen · 2006-12-20, 02:52 PM

But there are laws about putting electronics in the trash, however useful it may be to put a mac there.

tbdsamman · 2006-12-20, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by Gryphon

But there are laws about putting electronics in the trash, however useful it may be to put a mac there.

rofl!

Best thing I've heard all week.

Heavygain · 2006-12-20, 04:32 PM

Heh, I'm an avid microsoft user, this is some what sacreligous of me to be using this laptop. However it is widescreen, can play wow, and its very conveinent as well as comfortable. I think I might install windows on it, but its my mom's so I'm not sure how happy she would be with that. Anyone know if its possible to make it dual boot?

Ghryphen · 2006-12-20, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by Heavygain

Anyone know if its possible to make it dual boot?

Hehe, use the internets much?

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

The hardware rox, but the os sux so they now give you an option

wirrrrrzzzzzz *kink* *kink* *kink* *kink*

/me reels in trolling line

Infernus · 2006-12-20, 09:46 PM

To uninstall something from the mac you just drag it from the applications list to the trash.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to switch over to windows so that I can activate it, download the security updates, and install the drivers for my hardware.

Strange how such a shitty OS as OS X lacks the necessity to do all of that, can connect with my school's unix server without using SAMBA, and has yet to crash once since I got the computer in July.

The OS does blow, thats why microsoft copied so many aspects of it I guess...

And honestly, who puts out a new version almost annually, all the good OS's have billions of dollars poured into them over 5 years and get cut down to the bare minimum of what they were originally supposed to be. And I guess we might as well just screw all the experts that agree that OS X is actually better then windows in a great many respects.

And please, before you call me a fanboi, remember that for most of my life I was a fanboi for Windows not Mac, and when I picked up the mac I wasn't sure what to expect.

I as a mac-user recognize there are some things my computer can't do natively... but I as a former PC user recognize that there are a great many things it can do superbly better then any windows box. At the cost of it "just working" I lose the ability to configure my computer with whatever I want, but guess what, thats not so terrible a cost considering the hardware thats in the computer.

And after this Gryphon is going to give some reply about how windows is so much better, and not actually state anything at all.

But from this point on I refuse to argue, its not worth it anymore. I'm not forcing anyone to use OS X, and I don't see a reason why certain parties have to put something anti-mac in every thread, esspecially when their experience with the newer macs is limited.

Hamma · 2006-12-20, 09:49 PM

I work in IT, both OS's have their goods and bads. I have a rather large project coming up wher I have to integrate about 25 macs with our windows active directory, I will let you know more of what I think about OS X then.

I'd hate to break it to you though, Apple is not the holy grail of computers

Nor is windows for that matter.

To each their own.

Infernus · 2006-12-20, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

I work in IT, both OS's have their goods and bads.

I'd hate to break it to you though, Apple is not the holy grail of computers

Nor is windows for that matter.

To each their own.

At no point did I say Apple was any sort of "holy grail", but it is definately not as bad as people (rather blindly) make it out to be.

Hamma · 2006-12-20, 09:52 PM

Nope' it isn't hehe.

Hamma · 2006-12-20, 10:06 PM

I have to admit though they have grown on me quite a bit more since OS X. Macs really really sucked back in teh day with OS 9 and its previous versions.

When I was messing around with a couple over the summer I managed to make them talk over remote terminal, that was pretty fun.

Kind of looking forward to integrating them with the network and messing with apple remote desktop.

Infernus · 2006-12-20, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

I have to admit though they have grown on me quite a bit more since OS X. Macs really really sucked back in teh day with OS 9 and its previous versions.

When I was messing around with a couple over the summer I managed to make them talk over remote terminal, that was pretty fun.

Kind of looking forward to integrating them with the network and messing with apple remote desktop.

Oh, I'll freely admit that prior to OS X the only thing they had going for them was well... their ability to be used as extremely expensive paperweights.

But times have changed, and so has the operating system. People refuse to reliase that they are pretty far from useless nowadays, though.

I for one wouldn't trade mine in for any of the laptops that 9 out of 10 college students are using. It seems everyone on a college campus that owns a laptop is transfixed by dell's Inspiron 1600 or whatever it is.

I've shat better hardware.

Heavygain · 2006-12-20, 10:09 PM

In the last 2 days since I started using this mac, my opinion has definately changed on macs. The only thing that is killing me is the lack of xfire, other than that this is equal in my eyes to my PC since all I play is WoW anyway.

It definately feels nice. I like having this wide screen for the larger resolutions. The OS, after toying with it a bit, definately has some ups over windows.

Hamma · 2006-12-20, 10:16 PM

Yea I am not a fan of the Dell Laptops.

I like their workstations though, well for a corporate/edu enviroment they work well anyway would never buy one for home.

Infernus · 2006-12-20, 10:17 PM

Other cool thing about Mac, I have three OS's installed.

It's nifty.