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Your very own words tell me that you still don't get it. |
Your very own words tell me that you still don't get it.
It is a fact that iMacs are abominations. It is not my opinion, it is the objective truth. My personal opinion just happens to coincide with the truth in this case.
If you want to be like that about it, I'll make this argument:
You think God is an absolute Truth. Other people think it's your opinion. They, however, are wrong.
Suck it up, man. In this case, with the iMacs, you're wrong.
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Yes it is, Asher. You can plug an external drive into one of the USB/Firewire ports. And if you want, you can add even more drives by daisy-chaining them. |
This does not make the iMac "fully expandable". "Fully expandable" means that you can go into the machine, and add new components and modules. "Fully expandable" takes your notion of feature replaceability and potential upgradeability, as well as adding external peripherals, and then adds so much more.
It's the so much more part that the iMac cannot do.
Therefore, the iMac sucks.
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An iMac is not designed to be a computer in the conventional sense, Q^3. It is designed to be an appliance. |
it is billed as a computer, not as an appliance. it's about as offensive as those pentecostal churches which bill themselves as "catholic" to get converts.
if i wanted an appliance that could connect to the internet, i'd get this or this.
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"I'm gonna speak softly, but carry a BIG STICK!!!"
Mar 2002
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Originally posted by Q Cubed
Your very own words tell me that you still don't get it.
It is a fact that iMacs are abominations. It is not my opinion, it is the objective truth. My personal opinion just happens to coincide with the truth in this case.
If you want to be like that about it, I'll make this argument:
You think God is an absolute Truth. Other people think it's your opinion. They, however, are wrong.
Suck it up, man. In this case, with the iMacs, you're wrong.
This does not make the iMac "fully expandable". "Fully expandable" means that you can go into the machine, and add new components and modules. "Fully expandable" takes your notion of feature replaceability and potential upgradeability, as well as adding external peripherals, and then adds so much more.
It's the so much more part that the iMac cannot do.
Therefore, the iMac sucks. |
Sigh.
It is such a waste of time debating with someone with such a closed-minded attitute.
You know what. Don't bother replying to my posts and be sure to PM me when you're ready to have an open-minded debate. Until then, hasta la vista, baby! 
Last edited by Mr. Nice Guy on 06-09-2004 at 08:45
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Q Cubed
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t3h y3ll0w p3ril
Apr 1999
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Sigh.
It is such a waste of time debating with someone with such a closed-minded attitute. |
says the one who's a fundie.
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You know what. Don't bother replying to my posts and be sure to PM me when you're ready to have an open-minded debate. Until then, hasta la vista, baby! |
now you're trying to tell me when to post. does this not get any better?
it is an article of faith to me that the imac sucks. i see it as the truth, as you see god as the truth. i find it offensive that you refuse to admit that some people can have beliefs that do not coincide with your own.
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And Microsoft is the North Korea of computing. |
coming from a mac fanboi, i find this ridiculous.
anybody with half a brain knows that AOL is the North Korea of computing. Microsoft is just China.
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I don't see your point. The imac is designed as a consumer computer for people who want an all in one, easy to use machine. It's pretty good at that. |
Small, truly expandable computers can fit for that purpose.
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People like Q Cubed think that everyone should use computers for what they want. Sure... and everyone should have a 16 wheeler to go shopping in. |
false comparison. an imac is like a two-seater plymouth prowler with its hood sealed shut. it looks nice, it gets people where they want, but you can only change a few things, like color, maybe a spoiler or two, the rims, and, drastically, the whole hood section by taking it out and putting in a new one. even worse, it's not even that well-powered, having an anemic 4-cylinder engine.
so yeah, it's a "computer" but it doesn't do its job very well.
on the other hand, with a computer like a powermac g5 or an alienware box, you get a ferrari that you can replace and upgrade individually. that v8 engine not good enough? slap in a v16. the color and the rims not nice? change 'em. want a turbocharger? stick one in. want to add leather seats instead of the velour ones? put 'em in. hell, you could do that with even the yugos of the computing world, those retarded emachines, compaq, or hp boxes.
that's why those fit more along the lines of a "computer".
the choice is between a car that looks nice but sucks in service, or a car that can look nice, and can be fixed and updated.
btw, a sixteen-wheeler, if you're going to go by this, would be more like a RAID storage server, a SAN storage unit or something. again, something that's very useful, but only limited application to people. but not something that everyone gets
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