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When Ralphie May, a stand-up comedian who rose to fame on "Last Comic Standing," criss-crosses the country to entertain audiences, a Mac is usually at his side. more

[macwilf]

It is actually a bit weird; ever so often I try my best not to be the typical Kool-aid drinking Mac-fanatic. PCs can't be so bad, it is a question of choice after all et cetera. This occurs mostly after I have had the inevitable problems which one may be confronted with on Macs as well. Nothing is perfect as we all know.
I am cured by having to use a PC, though. Last time it happened was a week or so ago when I had to scan in a drawing on my brother's not-top-of-the game PC, but with AMD-processors clocked in at 2 ghz, at least, 1 giga RAM and running XP. It was a 600 dpi RGB-image, A4 size and boy, did that take forever!
Waiting for the opportunity to bring up my iMac G5, I work now on my iBook 1,33 ghz and although the same operation is not lightning fast on that, either, it is nothing compared to that PC - and you all remember the clock speed-myth? And while I waited for it to be scanned, I read the news using Newsfire and Safari and read a couple of mails in Mail. I think iTunes was downloading a podcast, too, but won't swear on it.
Then one reads about people who have been using Windows forever and shunning the Mac and my suspicion grows: who are the real Kool Aid drinkers? Who are actually living in a Reality Distortion Field?
The funny thing is that, as most of us know, it is next to impossible convincing a die-hard Windows-user that he or she might benefit from trying out the Mac. Of course, some do and a few of them even decide to return to Windows and feel fine with it. Still, although Macs have their quirks from time to time, isn't it often like this with the crashing? When Windows-users hear that a Mac actually can crash, they howl in glee: Ahaaaaa! It crashes, too!
But according to these people, crashes on a Mac are not like crashes on Windows.
Well, I just began to muse over this after reading this article.
Again; who are the real Kool Aid drinkers. Is the PC just a computer? Who are actually victims to a RDF?

[radnuf]

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...who are the real Kool Aid drinkers. Is the PC just a computer? Who are actually victims to a RDF?

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I'm a skeptic. Trust but verify.
My IBM Thinkpad (1.3MHz Pentium M Centrino, 2GB RAM, 100GB 7200RPM HDD, 32MB graphics RAM) has been my basic computer with a Canoscan Lide50 for a while. I don't think it has ever crashed. I can't even recall a crash since W2K and XP. I do keep it offline (Linux plays on the internet) and quit playing with system files. Playing with system files and crashes do go together. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Now I use a PB (1.67MHz PPC, 1GB RAM, 100GB 7200RPM HDD) with that scanner. I just did a letter size 1200dpi RGB and I was pleased how fast the PB scanned. The only delay was the screen draw with just 64MB graphics RAM but it was faster than the Thinkpad. The 20in ACD is really nice with the PB.
I've used video editing on both notebooks as well as graphics editing.
For me, the PB is an easy pick over the Thinkpad for any graphics.
Of course, my Pentium 800MHz Linux box will easily handle anything I type. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
It's Apple in the workplace that takes a beating. I would think that the nice Apple growth is from the home segment and iPod users. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Allerbe]

Where do these 'fluff' pieces come from? Does Apple disseminate raw material, that MacWorld then works into an article? Or is it all 'original reporting'? Who tells MacWorld they should talk to Ralphie May? Does Ralphie May get goodies (or money) in return for his testimonial?
Maybe I'm too cynical.

[brycesteiner]

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I am cured by having to use a PC, though. Last time it happened was a week or so ago when I had to scan in a drawing on my brother's not-top-of-the game PC, but with AMD-processors clocked in at 2 ghz, at least, 1 giga RAM and running XP. It was a 600 dpi RGB-image, A4 size and boy, did that take forever!
Waiting for the opportunity to bring up my iMac G5, I work now on my iBook 1,33 ghz and although the same operation is not lightning fast on that, either, it is nothing compared to that PC - and you all remember the clock speed-myth? And while I waited for it to be scanned, I read the news using Newsfire and Safari and read a couple of mails in Mail. I think iTunes was downloading a podcast, too, but won't swear on it.

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It's probably a poor driver or you are connected at USB 1.1. I have a scanner here and I can scan about 30 pages in 1.5 minutes at 600 dpi to a windows computer.

[Philbert]

I think Ralphie and Lahna need a new web person - someone who knows a bit more than making a colored background.

[fribhey]

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I think Ralphie and Lahna need a new web person - someone who knows a bit more than making a colored background.

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what are you talking about? there is more then a colored background.......

[zarmanto]

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Where do these 'fluff' pieces come from? Does Apple disseminate raw material...

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I seriously doubt that any reputable company (much less Apple) would be all that interested in intentionally linking themselves with a guy who flicks you off as soon as you enter his website. Rather, Apple tends to veer towards people who demonstrate some sort of a humanitarian quality, such as Lauren Greenfield.
That said... while it may at first seem a bit odd to see an article of this type generated by an entity outside of Apple's advertising department, I would suggest that the oddity is only because of the companies involved. If it were anyone but Apple and MacWorld, you probably wouldn't be the least bit surprised... How about Microsoft and Times magazine? Or Subway sandwich shops and Readers Digest? Or Colonial Williamsburg and the Smithsonian Magazine?
I'm not actually referring to any articles which I've read, mind you... all I'm saying is that it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find articles in the same tone as this one, in each of those cases, and hardly anyone would even think twice about it. Just something to ponder.

[roadwarrior]

It''s a switcher story...it just happens to be from someone who some people may have heard of (I personally have not, but I have limited exposure to standup comedy).

[Peter Cohen]

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Maybe I'm too cynical.

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Yep.

[Schneb]

This is not the first time that Ralphie had been ripped off by PCs. The PC people who voted Dat Phan the winner of that season's Last Comic Standing were suffering from a severe Politically Correct bias.
Glad to have you aboard Ralphie May. Get on that Mac and "Light em up!"
BTW - Ralphie's tribute to his dad was the most incredible presentation I have seen onstage to this very day. I'll never forget it.

[steve333]

Dat Phan was so unfunny that his win tainted the show for me. The last season also was bull. They did not pick the funniest people to be on the show, they picked a variety of personalities they hoped would clash. It was so obvious. And what happened to Mohr?
Ralphie is a funny guy but how the heck did he end up with that chick? Good for him.