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Mac vs. PC

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Obsy said:
Not disagreeing with you. But you think Apple is the only one charging more than 3rd party sellers? And those 3rd party guys are just sending you the board, not replacing it for you. Dell wanted $500 from me to replace a video card that I could've found for $250, and that was for a 2-yo notebook with a video card that was used in MANY other notebooks.

And how do you get your hands on propriety stuff anyway? Raid an Apple store or Foxconn facility and sell them online?
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i dont know how the 3rd party ppl do it, but ive gotten parts from some of them before and they are the same as new from apple. any time we have an out of warrenty mac come in the cust either doesnt fix it or goes with 3rd party parts, the labor rate is the same as if they went with apple parts.

also i haven't opened a windows laptop in forever, but they used to be such a mofo with layer upon layer of shit to get through to get to what you needed to replace that i could see a much higher price for someone replacing it for you, but a mbp? lets see... um off the top of my head 21 screws to release the top cover, 9ish connections to unplug and ~15 screws to remove the logic board including the fans. takes me all of 10 min to get the old one out and the new one in and connected rdy to test. thats with applying cpu paste

just stumbled upon a place selling the mlb for 570 while trying to find a pic to remember which mlb it was
 
HAL9000 said:
What I'm saying is, that all manner of things are possible. People can walk on the moon, people can own a Windows machine with no issues without av software and without issues.

Both are as rare as each other.
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No, I wouldn't say both are that rare.
 
Sa7aN said:
i dont know how the 3rd party ppl do it, but ive gotten parts from some of them before and they are the same as new from apple. any time we have an out of warrenty mac come in the cust either doesnt fix it or goes with 3rd party parts, the labor rate is the same as if they went with apple parts.

also i haven't opened a windows laptop in forever, but they used to be such a mofo with layer upon layer of shit to get through to get to what you needed to replace that i could see a much higher price for someone replacing it for you, but a mbp? lets see... um off the top of my head 21 screws to release the top cover, 9ish connections to unplug and ~15 screws to remove the logic board including the fans. takes me all of 10 min to get the old one out and the new one in and connected rdy to test. thats with applying cpu paste

just stumbled upon a place selling the mlb for 570 while trying to find a pic to remember which mlb it was
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They must have changed the mac designs because I once had to replace a CDROM in a MacBook which required you to REMOVE THE MOTHERBOARD! Talk about ridiculous.
 
HAL9000 said:
All that would show me is that you've cleaned your system.

It's the same as if a devout christian posted a photo of god on this forum and said "look... there's god, see proof!" both are as likely as each other.
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Also, I should remind you that if in the video I showed myself going to firefox and spybot websites, THEN running it, I should have something on my system just like you said you did.

So if this doesn't prove anything, then neither does your screenshot.
 
coreyb said:
neckbeard truly is a piece of shit. you lost the argument already, yet you keep going on with your bs.
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I love you too corey, I love you too. :wub:

Numenorean said:
Also, I should remind you that if in the video I showed myself going to firefox and spybot websites, THEN running it, I should have something on my system just like you said you did.

So if this doesn't prove anything, then neither does your screenshot.
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I don't understand...?
 
HAL9000 said:
OK.
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Let me explain so your small mind can attempt to grasp it.

1 - You post screenshot showing what is likely a cookie on what you say is a fresh VM install, visiting only the firefox and spybot site.

2 - You claim that this is somehow proof that my system cannot possibly be clean, even though you obviously don't have your system configured in the same manner as I do.

3 - I mentioned taking a video of booting, going to the websites you mentioned, and scanning.

4 - You said that this won't prove anything but that maybe I "already cleaned" the system, so the video won't be valid.

5 - If what you say is true, then by booting and then visiting the firefox and spybot sites that will cause my computer to not be clean.

6 - If the video isn't valid, then neither is your screenshot.

7 - You're a tool.
 
Numenorean said:
Let me explain so your small mind can attempt to grasp it.

1 - You post screenshot showing what is likely a cookie on what you say is a fresh VM install, visiting only the firefox and spybot site.

2 - You claim that this is somehow proof that my system cannot possibly be clean, even though you obviously don't have your system configured in the same manner as I do.

3 - I mentioned taking a video of booting, going to the websites you mentioned, and scanning.

4 - You said that this won't prove anything but that maybe I "already cleaned" the system, so the video won't be valid.

5 - If what you say is true, then by booting and then visiting the firefox and spybot sites that will cause my computer to not be clean.

6 - If the video isn't valid, then neither is your screenshot.

7 - You're a tool.
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Oh yeah sorry, you misunderstood, I wasn't trying to prove anything to you. I was making a statement, the screenshot helped to illustrate that is all.
 
Obsy said:
i think your cool. just sayin' :wub:
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I have the same story as Numenorean. Been running Windows 7 since it came out and havn't had a virus. I do run windows anti-virus though as a safeguard.
 
neckbeard, you get off on giving people a hard time don't you? you might want to get into that with your therapist.
 
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