Poor Macbook users

[Dicer]

Those fags deserve it.

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[toymachine78]

OS/2 or GTFO.

Z/OS or GTFO

[BigusSchmuck]

My point is, what's the point in getting a mac if you are going to use it to emulate/remote into a Windows box anyway? Kind of defeats the purpose no?

A lot of the specialized software (scheduling, billing, medical records) that businesses used back in the day were for Windows.

Not sure if this has changed much.

Assuming they used their computers for other things, the doctors would still benefit from having a Mac.  It simply wouldn't be 100% of the time.

Not in a clustered Windows Server 2012 R2 remote desktop environment, it's half assed at best. Macs have problems connecting to a clustered environment, so the work around is to have them connect to a single RD host that may or may not work half the time due to load balancing issues. Sure you can run Microsoft Office on a Macbook. Great. Try to find clinical or lab software to run on a Mac and it simply doesn't exist. I know Macs are great for video editing and such, but attempting to use them for health care seems pointless. Now if you use a Ipad that's a different story (lots of mobile apps, remote desktop actually works in a clustered environment). I didn't mean to make this into a Mac bashing thread but dealing with the end users at work who stubbornly want to use Macbooks to do their work when the company offers them free of charge to use a high end Windows machine that will allow them to get on 99% of the time (assuming they aren't dumb about using the vpn and have a solid connection) to their remote desktop environment. Even if they were able to do their work locally, I don't think HIPPA compliance allows for any patient information to be stored locally hence the push in the industry to use remote desktop connections (kind of a throwback to the IBM days).

[ClodBuster]

OS/2 or GTFO.

Hah! I had both OS/2 and Win 3.11 on my first own computer.

[Arkhan]

All computers are full of bullshit. 

What is funny to me though is, OSX has become a synonym for Mac computers.

OSX itself is fine.  I just don't like the hardware that comes with it since it's overpriced and kind of retarded looking.

I also don't like the cult-douche mentality.

Anyone who uses like, FreeBSD or something and then makes fun of OSX, is basically just being a dipf*ck.

[Dicer]

All computers are full of bullshit. 

What is funny to me though is, OSX has become a synonym for Mac computers.

OSX itself is fine.  I just don't like the hardware that comes with it since it's overpriced and kind of retarded looking.

I also don't like the cult-douche mentality.

Anyone who uses like, FreeBSD or something and then makes fun of OSX, is basically just being a dipf*ck.

Well, OSX is BSD easy mode...it's a bit deserved and a bit jealousy...plus who the f*ck runs just BSD these days?!!?!

[GreatBlueSwirlof99]

"The exploit is especially troubling because now a phishing email or click on a link on a malicious site could compromise the computer."

It sounds to me like the macbook is still pretty safe if it's not owned by a moron.

Problem is, most mac users are owned by morons (no offense Joe or any other mac users on this forum). lol Case in point, I have doctors who want to use macs to remote into a.... *drum roll* WINDOWS PC to do their work. About the dumbest thing ever. And yet they still want to use them even though it doesn't work half the time (the remoting in part). I guess they fall into the mindset its expensive so it must be better right?

And there are no moronic Windows users?

If that's the case, this forum must be about %50 MacMorons because we have all sorts of great morons here.

And doctors! Oh shit, what idiots. What, with their 11 years of college and countless lives saved. Retards! I bet cjameslv must be a doctor. That guy is the dumb for sure. Probably a goddamned neurosurgeon  with a degree in bioethics or some such foolish thing. f*ck. When will they learn?

If you really want to dredge up played out as hell bullshit dichotomies, please do so in new and interesting ways. Bring something fresh to the table. We've all heard what homo spend thrifts Mac people are. We were hearing it in 198-f*cking-4. Please change the record.

My point is, what's the point in getting a mac if you are going to use it to emulate/remote into a Windows box anyway? Kind of defeats the purpose no?

It sounds to me like the macbook is still pretty safe if it's not owned by a moron.

The problem is that a lot of Mac users have a feeling of invincibility. There's very much a "I'm using a Mac, so I can't get infected" mentality that causes them to take risks the same users wouldn't if they were using a PC.

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[SephirothTNH]

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That's it.  I'm changing my vote to Hate.