The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part three- Page 344

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 4:52pm

My brother's laptop is a Mac. My mom was thinking of taking it to the Apple store in Soho, but she heard you have to wait in a really long line to get help, so she's probably going to wind up making me take it to the place where we bought the laptop.

wickedrentq, now I'm remembering the old Macs they had in my kindergarten classroom. The only color the screens displayed was green, and the computer wouldn't do anything unless you inserted the big floppy disk in the drive before you hit the power switch. I don't think they even had mice. Wow, things really have come a long way.

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[camerangel]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 4:55pm

That's always a solution Em..

WRQ, I remember the days when the computers had green screens and green font..

**is old**

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 4:56pm

I dunno - I've had many problems with mine - and now my monitor is going - it has two bright streaks across it - some internal wiring is messed up.

Sometimes I want a mac - but they are so complicated for me . Plus, my dad works with PC's for a living.

I dunno.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 4:57pm

Yes, it's an IBM. Which is why IBM can eat my fist.

I remember the green computers!

Billboard Girl, take it to the Apple store; it's probably worth the wait to get better help.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 4:58pm

I have a Dell. It must be me. I must suck at using computers.
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[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 4:59pm

Billboard Girl, you can sign up for an appointment at the "Genuis Bar" (thats the place with the really long lines) on the apple website. They're really great at the store...they really fix anything and everything.

[camerangel]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:00pm

Computers can tend to suck in general.. regardless of brand..

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:00pm

Fantabulous, you have a Mac?

BSo, I pity you and your Dell. They're awful laptops.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:01pm

Em - don't I know it!

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:02pm

no I don't have a mac. after seeing everyone at school with their macs I wish I had one. I have a sony vaio. but I went to the apple store for ipod help.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:03pm

Do you like the Vaio? I'm looking into that, too, but I think if I'm getting a new computer I should just get out of PC Hell forever.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:03pm

BSo, I didn't find the switch to a mac hard, if you want when you're home for winter break, you can come over and practice on my mac and I can show you little things, I really don't think it's hard.

The green apples! OMG! They used to have games...facemaker for one, though I think at times those screens were white...monster math and I had some kind of game where you had to like...chop...like...all the squares let's say, something like that. But the biggest memory I have of those old old comps is when I was 4...we were at somebody's house who had it, and i went on to "play." Somehow I got on this program which taught me to add...so I added. They taught me to carry the 1 so I did and I remember running in the kitchen and being like Mommy I can add! And shes like oh thats great Amanda thinking maybe I added 1 + 1 but instead I added like 79 + 24 and she was pretty amazed. I was very proud.

Ooh and on the IBM computers, remember touch typing for beginners? I always played the games on there.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:05pm

"BSo, I didn't find the switch to a mac hard, if you want when you're home for winter break, you can come over and practice on my mac and I can show you little things, I really don't think it's hard."

Now, if that's not a disgustingly down-right, sexually charged line I don't know WHAT is!
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[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:07pm

Hey, don't knock the typing thing. That's how I began learning to type! Got me on my way to my 9739483984379 words per minute.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:08pm

I have a Dell, and I haven't had any major problems with it, aside from it being incompatible with the router at my house (but that was easily fixed by buying a new router).

I remember this game on the green Apples called Logo Turtle or something, and you drew stuff by typing in numerical commands.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:09pm

Without typing games, Em would never be able to post like she does!

We are all thankful for those games, huh?

::rolls eyes and eats chow mein::

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:10pm

yea...I had a pc at home and didn't know whether to buy a pc or a mac. the mac's seemed (from what I'd heard) to be pretty virus-free which was really comforting since my pc at home had so many problems. I ended up getting the VAIO because I wasn't sure how the transition would be from pc to mac (ofcourse now I'm smacking myself in the head because everyone says it's a piece of cake)

But the VAIO has been great. No problems at all. I'm pretty thorough with my virus scans and I'm a bit careful about what I put on the machine - but that's partially because I know that if there were a problem, Tech services here isn't the greatest. I don't ever want to get stuck without a machine. The only thing not the best about the VAIO is the kinda wimpy battery life. I've never taken my laptop to class and I usually always leave the battery charging in my room. If you have any other questions, ask away.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:13pm

BSo...Oy...gavolt...just oy. Not even gonna comment on the fact that i have a real full house and there tends to always be someone else home which is just wrong on so many levels, but I think it already is w/o that aspect..

Dells used to be the big thing too, the first PC I got that was "mine" was a dell. It worked well for a while but got a virus and crashed. It was a smart virus, it put itself into ppl's profiles so when I clicked on my friend's away message it would say view my pictures and you clicked on it, got a virus, and it put itself into your away message.

I wasn't knocking touch typing, it was fun! Though I only played the games, didn't actually touch type...I always typed w/ my two pointer fingers but was pretty fast for that, my teachers used to say I type faster w/ my two fingers then they do w/ their whole hand. Didn't learn touch typing until 9th grade keyboarding, caught on very quickly...honestly typing fast for me isn't much different from playing clarinet fast, it's all about moving your fingers so I think that helps me to type pretty fast.

Interesting though...I know you type fast b/c I can get the quickest PMs back from you...and you're one of the few ppl I know who talks as fast as me...interesting...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:15pm

Thanks, Fantabulous. Since my computer's problem appears to be hardware related, when I started looking into other options, I found things saying stuff like that Dells were highly prone to just start falling apart, basically -- one thing would go at a time. My Dell desktop at home has been GREAT, until recently, because my brother f*cked it up. So, anyway, I've been looking into other types of PC's and the Sony ones seem, so far, to be without major complaints.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:17pm

yea I bought mine in August and have had 0 problems. The battery is definitely the only negative that comes to mind.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:18pm

"I wasn't knocking touch typing, it was fun! Though I only played the games, didn't actually touch type...I always typed w/ my two pointer fingers"

Heh, that's what I do. I'm pretty fast at the actual typing, but I always seem slow when posting or IMing because I'm always double-checking to make sure I spelled everything right. My best friend always likes to tease me about how our IMs are sorta like that sequence in the pilot episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show where Lou Grant is interviewing her for the job and she's about 3 questions behind him in her answers.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:19pm

It's such a shame that despite all the speed and accuracy they teach, people still have atrocious grammar.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:26pm

I'm big on checking my typing when I post, because I know LOTS of people are going to read it, and so much of how people percieve you online -- well, actually most of it -- comes from -- how you type. I'm a lot lazier on IM.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:26pm

Ramapo BSo.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 5:30pm

Ugh, now I have to go and work on a stupid group project. It's a 15-minute Powerpoint presentation that's worth 30% of my grade in the class, my group is presenting tomorrow afternoon (the very last group going, so the professor will probably have ridiculously high expectations), and not only have we not rehearsed yet, the group member in charge of the intro hasn't even told us what he's doing.