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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 02:32 PM
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Mac users have second computer - usually a PC
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we can do it Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 02:37 PM
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1. Most Have Another Mac or a Dusty Sucky PC
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 02:39 PM
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2. For the pron?
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 02:42 PM
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3. Heh. We do have a Mac desktop for my work and a PC laptop for Mr. Brickbat's games.
We bought a PC built for gaming and it's still frustratingly crashy and buggy. I'm betting our next laptop won't be a PC.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 03:06 PM
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4. My only PC is inside my Xbox 360.
It's Macs for everything else.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 03:11 PM
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5. both in my house
All work related. Both have their pros and cons so I don't understand the mac vs pc wars. There's no such thing as a perfect computer.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 03:35 PM
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6. The real story here is that a great number of PC-using pr0n fans...
...also have a squeaky-clean Mac fetish.
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 03:40 PM
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7. I have a second computer, a 4 year old Mac Book Pro. Both that and my brand spanking
new iMac are both fabulous. My husband switched from PC to Mac this year. The only reason we'd fire up his PC is to see how a website we'd be designing looks on an old clunky PC.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 04:24 PM
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8. When we had a Mac, we also had a PC in the house
However, once the Mac crashed & burned a few months after the warranty expired, we went back to PCs only.

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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 05:34 PM
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31. My Mac crashed & burned also months after the warranty expired.
I'm still using the 8 year old PC that the Mac was to have replaced.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 05:15 PM
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9. Thing is, not every program can run on a Mac
And sometimes we need a good PC that won't take up HD space.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 05:33 PM
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10. One Mac I bought my Sweetie which goes unused, a gazillion PC's
So much for Mac superiority. If you can't right click, you must quit.......
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chillspike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 07:59 PM
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14. You can right click
There is a way to set the mouse in preferences so you can right click with it. The one click is just the factory settings.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 08:16 PM
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15. You right click by putting two fingers on top of the mouse and clicking.
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 08:28 AM
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24. don't you have to also hold down the control key?
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chillspike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 08:32 AM
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25. i have a mighty mouse and i don't have to hold dwn the ctrl key
Edited on Tue Sep-21-10 08:35 AM by chillspike
i can right and left click without a problem just like a regular mouse.

p.s. everyone stop stereotyping apple mice. they are just like other mice. some of these comments sound very mousist.

;P
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warrior1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 09:31 AM
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30. wow thanks
I have MM too. I didn't have that feature turned on.
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chillspike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 06:41 PM
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33. my pleasure
took me about a year to discover it myself. enjoy.
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 08:54 AM
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27. Im using an old G4 right now
Running Leopard 10.5.8 and I'm using mouse just like I did with the pc, right click and all.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 06:50 PM
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11. Uh, no
3 Macs here.
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MajorChode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 07:11 PM
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12. So you do your porn on the mac?
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 07:51 PM
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13. No pron for me
It haunts you forever.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 08:41 PM
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16. We keep the old pc after buying a Mac that can run both Mac and pc programs
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 08:42 PM
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17. Both of mine are Macs.
Though I've retired my eMac. Finally boxed it up and stowed it in my storage locker after keeping nearby while I made sure everything transferred over to my new iMac. It did.

My Logitech mouse with two buttons and a scroll wheel is now on its third computer - Old PC, eMac and iMac.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 08:53 PM
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18. Mine>
Processor:
Intel®Core™i7 900 Series with Intel X58, Intel®Core™i5 & i7 900 Series with Intel P55 Express, AMD Phenom™ II Series with AMD 790FX
Graphics:
NVIDIA SLI™ Support, NVIDIA 3-Way SLI™ Support, AMD/ATI CrossfireX™ Support Memory :
24GB DDR3 max for X58 chipsets, 16 GB DDR3 max for P55 chipsets Hard Drives:

3 Optical Drives:
6 External bays
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pinstikfartherin Donating Member (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 09:03 PM
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19. iMac, MacBook, and iPad here.
iMac and iPad are mine, MacBook is the boyfriends (formerly mine too)

Only use a PC at work because they don't use macs. I have Parallels with windows xp to play diablo 2 on, but that's not been for a long time. I haven't cranked it up in at least a year.

I don't need no stinkin' PC!
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mtowngman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 09:29 PM
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20. iMac,pc laptop&ipad n/t
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 09:34 PM
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21. I have two mice plugged into one of my macs
Does that really make me a bad person? or is it just sort of slutty-cute?
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Generic Brad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 09:45 PM
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22. iMac, iPod, iPad
No PC's here. Once again I find myself in the minority.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-20-10 11:20 PM
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23. Not this mac user
anyway, why bother with a second machine, when you can use dual boot?

Unless you're a big-time gamer, in which case it makes perfect sense
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 08:51 AM
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26. Is mac still in the computer business? I thought they were just doing music players and phones now.
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 08:58 AM
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28. It's still sitting over there
But I haven't turned it on since my friend gave me this cool old G4. It kicks ass and I really haven't found a reason to turn the PC back on since I've had it. :)
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 09:31 AM
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29. We need SOMETHING that will play video games! nt
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-21-10 06:11 PM
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32. Nice source: "Onan-online Magazine"
Uh, appears to be a spoof... faux Onion style story.

Yeah, I have a bunch of outdated machines I can't give away... Mac 6100 anybody? Free to a good home!
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