Dell complaints

lexi · Discovering Dellhate Joined: 26 May 2009 Posts: 2

Hillarious isn't it that everyone (majority) on this site, including myself and 7 other people I know all say this is my last PC and I'm switching to MAC can anyone disagree as to why not?

I can't think of one....but I can think of almost 100 reasons why..... Laughing

incident_man · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject:

Well, ever since Apple switched to Intel processors, I don't want one. Sorry, but I don't see the logic in buying a PC that costs a lot more for what you get, compared to other Intel PCs, and what you get isn't all that much comparitively speaking. Plus, it seems that stories show up every now and then on tech news feeds like www.dailyrotation.com on how yet another person has compromised Mac "security" features, and I'm sure it isn't because people are trying like mad to do it; most likely it is that the Mac's so-called "immunity" is more based upon their market share versus their being supposedly immune to attacks.

Macs look nice and they're great for graphic designers, but I left Apple behind the moment they switched away from the PowerPC platform. It seemed as if, while Macs were PowerPC-based, one didn't hear nearly as often on the shortcomings of Mac security features compared to now. I understand the reasons why they switched, but still believe it was and is a bad move. I have two PowerPC-based Macs and do whatever I can to keep them running. When it comes to another Mac, it'll be used and a PowerPC Mac.
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poormanq45 · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:41 am Post subject:

People dont dislike PCs. They dislike the issues that windows sometimes gives them.

Even though Vista is really dumbed down, it still. gives you more access then Mac OSx.

With Mac you arnt really given any choices by default. So its hard for you to screw it up.

Windows gives you the advanced options right up front. This allows for people, that arnt smart enough, to screw it up.

If I presented you with an image that I created I can guarantee that the only time you'd have an issue is if a piece of hardware failed. The key is to not let the end user do anything more then open and close a program. You cant install, you cant delete, nothing!!!

Windows is fine, its the end user the effs it up

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 11:34 am Post subject:

Windows is not friendly and not competent.

'Help' hardly ever does.

Opening and closing programs WILL crash Windows. Windows has a known (to Microshaft) defect called 'memory leak'. Memory is never completely released from closed applications. Eventually, there is no memory left and Windows screeches to a halt.

I know one engineer who discovered memory leak, in the process of testing SCSI hardware. He informed Microshaft. They sent him a coffee mug. And released 2 more versions with the same problem uncorrected.

Assuredly, an enduser can blunder into Windows settings that will make it marginally- or un-usuable. Windows can do that to itself too, for reasons nobody can explain or correct.

Windows isn't alone in the world of incompetent software. If you have a strong stomach, look at Adobe Flash some time. It has rendered both IE and Firefox unusable on my system, more than once, and taken an entire afternoon to straighten out. Stuff like, you can't just install 'the new version' that they crank out every 6 months and insist you have. You have to uninstall the old version. And you can't just uninstall it, you have to download the specific uninstaller for that version. Rolling Eyes

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incident_man · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:30 pm Post subject:

I can say one thing about classic Mac (OS 9.2 and earlier) that I like: you can move the os from one hard drive to another, if you have two drives or more, without having to reformat the volume it was on and doing a full install on the other. You just move the system folder from one drive to the other. However Mac OS 9 and earlier will allow you to throw away your system folder by assuming that you know what you're doing, lol.
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poormanq45 · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:21 am Post subject:

incident_man · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject:

Here's yet another report of a Mac exploit using a security vulnerability that hasn't been fixed for over 6 months:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/052709-analyst-mac-java-hack-signals.html

"Apple has until now gotten away with a lackluster response to security largely because Mac OS X (and Safari browser) flew under the radar of many hackers, he says. But as the platform rises in popularity, says Oltsik, hackers will soon take dead aim if they haven't already. "

Apple getting as bad as M$.....well, maybe. I just love the smugness of the new Mac vs. PC adverts. If things don't change pretty soon, they'll have to change that bit about being safer on the internet, etc. I used to be a big fan of Apple, but not anymore; ever since they switched to Intel processors and started making the product in China, they're nothing but a glorified PC.
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Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 12:11 am Post subject:

The engineer worked for Adaptec. He found the actual phrase in the reverse-compiled OS where the error was. No, it's not always sloppy apps leaving crumbs behind them.

BTW, the same exact error exists in MS C++, so anything written with that will do the same thing.

And that's just the one error in Windows that I know the etiology of.
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