Ed: Welcome to this week's edition of The Pixel Project: a weekly comic from Diesel Sweeties' Rich Stevens on Apple, technology, and everything in-between. Today: Macs are free from PC bloatware, right?
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Comic: Preloaded with pain
This has comedy gold in it, while it makes fun of everyone and everything.
But is anyone actually seriously literally trying to dissect a joke about music software (being accepted by both people on "opposite sides") being bloatware? Sure, why not discuss how magic works while we're at it.
This is dumb
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So... I love iTunes. I have never seen the beach ball using iTunes. In over 10 years...
Lucky you! What version are you using and what is the size of your library?
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Latest version. My favorite one so far. I have 13 songs, I keep my library on a external hard drive.
Ouch!
iTunes, just sitting there, downloading your podcasts, playing your lists, and then Rich comes over and smashes it right in the spinning beachball with a Hulk fist.
Wait, your podcasts actually download like you told them to? Does the Played & playback position info actually sync across your devices? Can you actually delete the played podcasts and have them actually move to your trash? Can you actually download app updates without 5 minutes of "processing file" time for each app? Maybe I need a new Mac. Do you have a spare you're willing to donate to a new father with not enough room in the budget to upgrade? :-D
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You don't have to pixel art everything. Looking at this cartoon makes my eyes bleed. You should display them smaller.
I'd argue way more stuff should be pixel-arted. Like baseball.
Baseball and soccer should really get the pixel-art treatment, that would be salutary.
No, what I really meant was pixel art is cool, but I like it the best from a distance. Here I find it too close, pixels are too big to easily recognize expressions. If you look at this cartoon with a smartphone, you'll see that lines and edges become blurry, which renders the whole picture easier to interpret for the brain.
You may not like iTunes, but it is no windows grade bloatware.
This cartoon is incredibly misleading. You don't have bloatware if you build from scratch, you can build a gaming PC for scratch more powerful than an iMac for considerably less than an iMac, and you really just need one good antivirus program that automatically updates and scans on a weekly schedule on its own to keep your system safe. I know this is an Apple fanboy site, but Christ try and not distort the truth as much as you do.
If you notice, the comic's not talking about building a PC, it's talking about buying a PC off-shelf. Perhaps alluding to some problems with PC bloatware that came up last week...
Most GAMING PCs come installed with little to no bloatware and still can get better specs for less than a similarly priced Apple computer (look at Falcon Pro or Razer, for example). ONE OEM puts malware on a non-gaming PC and iMore blows it out of proportion that all OEMs do this. Besides, MS already updated Windows Defender to revoke the certificate for Superfish so it won't work and again if you are that concerned about bloatware, build, install Windows fresh, or buy a Microsoft Signature computer from Microsoft Store or their site and you have a bloat free experience similar to Nexus on Android. iMore wants to blow this out of proportion though to please fanboys who do not understand this stuff.
price comparison is not something I would do when using a device I will use for the next 8 years.
Are you using a MacBook Pro from 2007?
Late 2006. Right after they switch to Intel processor
Are you suggesting my 2013 Razer Blade Pro with comparable/better specs for less $ than the then-offered (still not updated?) MBP will not perform as well as that MBP in 9 years? From my past experience with Apple computers (2001 PowerBook Ti, and 2006 Mac Pro) their support life is shorter than "standard" PC's. The PowerBook was painful to use by 2005, and I couldn't even install mountain lion on my Mac Pro. Windows drivers USUALLY have a better "shelf life" than Apple's. In my experience.
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I'm suggesting that I don't care about the price. I do not buy computers often enough to care about price. I care about long years of support and enjoyment of the product. And price difference disappears after some time of use
Wish it was funny
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I'm not sure I understand the first comic about the gaming PC. The $1999 iMac packing a now 2 year old GTX 775M is more expensive and will have far worse gaming performance than a Windows machine that's likely to actually have a current gen GPU. Not to mention, many PC gamers build their own rigs and save even more money versus the prebuilt gaming PCs. Unless you weren't talking about price and were suggesting that PC gaming itself could consume 40+ hours per week...
I took it as maintaining windows is a full time job.
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Exactly.
Well, you bought a gaming PC instead of building one which is the issue. Gaming laptops tend to be light on bloat (you generally get anti-virus, and a lighting engine.) Built PC's have zero, and don't take a second job. A great $1,500 build will play most of anything for you. Sounds cheaper than some Macs I can think of.
Also, uninstalling anti-virus is in no way difficult. I don't get this comic at all.
"I'm da Blur boys!" - Me with 1200 ping. Fiber in Nashville? Save me based Google.
It was written for smug, ignorant Apple fanboys.
And for haters with nothing good to do with their own devices than they come scroll on an Apple oriented website.
I can smell the smug coming off you right now
I can feel the hate in you.
Idk, man. My Razer came with ZERO bloatware. Just windows and the software to configure the SwitchBalde trackpad and buttons. And I built my tower from scratch, with fresh, full installs from 7 to 8, 8 to 8.1 (& a few other fresh full installs of 8.1). I still have issues with both machines. Explorer itself crashes from time to time. Startup services sometimes don't launch at startup. Waking up from Sleep/ hibernate usually screws things up. I shutdown every night / backpack stash. AutoCAD contextual extensions screw things up. Various Applications crash unexpectedly. Wifi issues with the laptop. Bluetooth issues with the laptop (both were windows' fault, not Razer) The list goes on.
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Having said that-
MAC OS X IS IN NO F'N WAY MAINTENANCE FREE!!!
Applications constantly hang onto RAM after quit causing system wide slowdown (never had RAM issues with my WinPCs). I have to run a little RAM scrubber app. Connection to my NAS constantly drops (never a problem with my WinPCs) and oh dear lordy jesus, iTunes and iPhoto- the two reasons I even have a Mac... So horrible.
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Ah ok, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. I guess that wasn't clear to me since that wouldn't be something that's specific to a gaming space. Also, the way the comic was formatted (at least in my browser), it was hard to tell whether that frame was part of the rest of the comic or separate.
Except it’s not. Not even close.
Having said that I’d love to play an all singing, all dancing games machine to compare against my daily driver.
I mean, how much difference is there really?
Ha, so true!
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