geeky discussion with Shandra

I had an interesting discussion with Shandra on Macs vs. PCs… I thought I’d share it… and if anyone sees a part where I am wrong, please tell me… I wanna know!
Jeremiah Palmer: so, how goes it in shandra-land?
Shandra Boland: it goes ok talking to Diana bout watching the kids tonight
Jeremiah Palmer: oh, well, i guess i don’t need to talk to you about that then…
Jeremiah Palmer: cups, movies, and food… gotcha
Shandra Boland: lol that’s what I was just typing
Jeremiah Palmer: i’m psychic
Shandra Boland: I am probably gonna buy another sippy cup and a couple movies and stuff but no money right now
Jeremiah Palmer: have you, like, been advised yet?
Shandra Boland: nope
Shandra Boland: lol
Shandra Boland: I did ask for a surplus check though
Shandra Boland: I want to get my laptop with it but I didn’t get as much as I wanted and Jeremy needs car insurance
Shandra Boland:
Jeremiah Palmer: awe… poor thing…
Shandra Boland: That seemed sarcastic
Jeremiah Palmer: well, d’s got one in hock… it needs an HD…
Shandra Boland: yeah you were telling me about that
Jeremiah Palmer: i think she had mentioned the idea of selling it to you… i laughed at her…
Jeremiah Palmer: if she didn’t want to get anything for it, it’d be about 300 bucks… 200 to get it back and 100 for the drive…
Shandra Boland: Well want does it have? I’m wanting at least a gig in memory and I’ve been looking at dual core processors….
Shandra Boland: what not want
Jeremiah Palmer: it ain’t that awesome…
Jeremiah Palmer: um, lemme search for it… i can’t remember what all it had…
Jeremiah Palmer: 5.28lbs, AMD Turion 64 MK-36 @ 2.0GHz, 14.1″ display, 1280 x 800 resolution, 1GB ram , 80GB HD, DL DVD±RW/RAM, b/g wireless, svid out, Vista Home Basic
Jeremiah Palmer: i think it also had an svga out, and sd/xd card reader…
Shandra Boland: eh I was wanting premium and a 15.4″ display
Shandra Boland:
Jeremiah Palmer: for that, you’d have to get mine, and i ain’t parting with it…
Shandra Boland: lol
Shandra Boland: well I wasn’t asking lol
Jeremiah Palmer: the reason d loves hers is the small display… small display, means smaller keys… she got used to that from that compaq…
Shandra Boland: ah
Jeremiah Palmer: i like the feel of the keys on a 15 inch display…
Jeremiah Palmer: but, if i had my dream notebook, i’d honestly get one of the latest macbook pros…
Jeremiah Palmer: huge freaking display… huge freaking keyboard…
Jeremiah Palmer: and they’re now intel based, so i could get a boot loader to run windows and the mac os…
Shandra Boland: sweet
Jeremiah Palmer: yeah, with the release of the intel macs, apple released a program called boot-camp which will allow for the running of PC OSes
Shandra Boland: well that’s sweet
Jeremiah Palmer: info on boot camp is at http://www.apple.com/bootcamp
Jeremiah Palmer: i’ve always loved the idea of a mac, but the prices had always been high, and it’s a windows world… switching to intel has made macs even more sexy…
Shandra Boland: I have no clue what the difference is
Jeremiah Palmer: honestly, not a whole lot… especially now… apples have run on motorola processors since they were born… they had a closed architecture until the iMac.. everything was proprietary until then… then, with the iMac, they brought in USB and Firewire and PCI… hardware was no longer proprietary… Now with the intel chips, the core languages are nearly identical… they still do things a bit differently, but their world is opening up…
Jeremiah Palmer: The Mac OS is honestly a “better” os, they’ve been doing programming in a world similar (note similar) to XP for a dozen years… similar in the sense that it is all loaded as a gui running damn near straight, rather than loading a huge program on top of another huge program (like win95 was still a windows on top of a DOS)
Shandra Boland: Aha…ok
Jeremiah Palmer: and the mac os is even better now… a few years ago, with OSX, they relied even more heavily on UNIX… so, in a sense, the Mac OS has been, for a few years now, a PC OS… Unix being a PC based OS – they just modded it to work on the motorola chipset… now, there’s no need to mod..
Shandra Boland: ok
Jeremiah Palmer: i just wish that i could have found the sources for all of this information… i would have loved to do the pc/mac thing, but could find any good sources… so, i am doing the 9/11 thing…
Jeremiah Palmer: sad, considering it sounds like i know what i am talking about…
Shandra Boland: this is true
Jeremiah Palmer: oh, i like this… something apple wrote on the boot camp page… “Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.”
Shandra Boland: huh
Shandra Boland: interesting
Shandra Boland: brb gonna get something to drink
Jeremiah Palmer: they pretty much said, “remember, windows’ security sucks”
Shandra Boland: yeah
Jeremiah Palmer: oh… here’s something to laugh at… http://youtube.com/watch?v=oc4oP_ITqMc
Jeremiah Palmer: all of the spoofs from that director are hilarious…
Shandra Boland: I’ll watch then I have to make some lunch
Shandra Boland: lmao!!!
Shandra Boland: well gotta go
red_minx_1981’s status is now “Idle”. (8/14/2007 12:02 PM)