1. Macs are SOOOOO cute! They're just like real computers only much more friendly to consumerism! And no pesky "needing to know how to install new devices and take things apart"! Just throw out your machine when it's out of date and buy a new one! Brilliant!!

And why bother with the confusion of "having different companies' products" to choose from?! You just need to go to the Mac store and they have everything you're allowed to use...I mean everything you need!

Plus they totally match Volkswagens, Elements and Scions!

Think Different. Just Like Everyone Else!

;)

Posted at 7:34PM on Oct 19th 2007 by SqueezeOne Pow

2. I think they did it just to freak you out.

It would be kind of neat if they did a pack in like that, but I don't know if it would also be a good thing. Though I do think that SL is too, shall we say... "open" and not "shiny" enough for APPL to put anywhere near their pretty new Dock.

Posted at 10:50PM on Oct 19th 2007 by Shini

3. Yeah, my poor two-year-old G5, spending its days searching for gravity waves , left on unless I go away for more than two weeks because heck, I know it'll keep working. Where's the fun in that? Where's the excitement in a computer that never crashes, never gets any virii or spyware or whatever? Getting free software updates and upgrades every week or two. And you're right-- I just plug stuff in, and it works! Terrible. Never paying for security software and Geek Squads. Of course, I did have to drop my three-and-a-half-year-old PowerBook three times before it started to fail and I could justify this nice shiny new one.

And then there's the pain of having bought Apple stock at $10.83. Which allows me to buy all these nice shiny computers and spend my days in SL...

Posted at 10:55PM on Oct 19th 2007 by kullervo

4. Yeah, my poor two-year-old G5, spending its days searching for gravity waves , left on unless I go away for more than two weeks because heck, I know it'll keep working. Where's the fun in that? Where's the excitement in a computer that never crashes, never gets any virii or spyware or whatever? Getting free software updates and upgrades every week or two. And you're right-- I just plug stuff in, and it works! Terrible. Never paying for security software and Geek Squads. Of course, I did have to drop my three-and-a-half-year-old PowerBook three times before it started to fail and I could justify this nice shiny new one.

And then there's the pain of having bought Apple stock at $10.83. Which allows me to buy all these nice shiny computers and spend my days in SL...

Posted at 10:59PM on Oct 19th 2007 by kullervo

5. Steve-O told me their new viewer is gonna be killer! :)

Posted at 11:23PM on Oct 19th 2007 by Pompo Bombacci

6. Ugh, really? No. LEt's not bring apple into SL. They're already annoying enough, with wares they won't even support.

Posted at 12:13PM on Oct 20th 2007 by Tenshi

7. "Where's the fun in that? Where's the excitement in a computer that never crashes, never gets any virii or spyware or whatever?"

Ironic that I don't have those issues. You can tell an Apple user that didn't know what they were doing with a PC when they pull that one up as an excuse.

And Apple's stock going up just means there are a ton of suckers out there. They're making money off of people that can't work real computers!

"And you're right-- I just plug stuff in, and it works!"

yeah...that happens for me, too, only I get to choose who made it and pick based on the best features available instead of "it's the only thing on the rack at the Apple store". Again, it's all in understanding how real computers work!

Keep thinking different! The proceeds go to Mr. Jobs' new yacht!

Posted at 1:59PM on Oct 20th 2007 by squeezeone pow

8. Not to sound an enormous fangirl or anything, but I would just like to point out a few flaws in your logic:

1) Mac OS is unix-compliant, meaning that you have the same low-level system access, etcetera as a linux machine or anything else.

2) Most PC hardware runs on a mac, and if you really have a hard time getting it to run under mac OS, new macs can also boot into windows - and run it full speed with the same reliability as a PC.

You really should find something better to do than sit around on a second life forum finding fault in people's computers, though that's neither here nor there.

Obviously Apple's aware of Second Life which is good for us. Hopefully. :I I would like it to work better.

Posted at 1:11PM on Oct 27th 2007 by Kalemika

9. I am sad to report that Second Life crashes consistently under Leopard as it did under Tiger on the MacBook Pro. I was hoping that the new system would fix the drivers for the graphic chips. If anything it crashes sooner rather than later. Rebooting is a bother but SL runs great under Vista even though you know you just helped Bill Gates get richer.

Posted at 10:57PM on Oct 28th 2007 by ArthurConan Doyule

10. I was really hoping someone would say that Leopard made SL incredibly stable and crash-free on the Mac.

As if. :)

I'm going to upgrade to Leopard eventually, but I'm gong to sit back for awhile and listen to everyone else's issue before making the plunge. My 2.4GHz Core Duo MBP should run it just fine, or so I assume.

And for the genius who posted immediately to rip on the Mac platform: thanks for showing everyone your ignorance about my Intel-based supercomputer that can indeed run Mac OS, Windows (ick!), and other operating systems. I run MS Office, Second Life, and all your other cute little PC apps, and never get a BSOD or have to screw with a BIOS. Enjoy your Microsoft day, now. :)

Posted at 12:39PM on Oct 29th 2007 by Zak Claxton

11. OK, I have to chime in here. I admit, I am a total geek, and have been since I played Star Trek on a teletype back in 1974. I have used PCs, Apple IIs, Commodores, Ataris, Macs, Suns, UTeks, Sequents, and even IBM Mainframes. What do I have at home? Two iBooks, a shiny new iMac 2.4 GHz 24" (the new aluminum one), one Athlon 64 single core, and a shiny new Athlon 2x64 5600+ with a Radeon X1950 Pro 512 MB. I work on computers for a living. I built the iMac from scratch, no Migration assistant. SL freezes as soon as it starts loading my home and has to be force quit. I was hoping the video firmware update would help, but no dice. Runs great on the PCs (the older takes 30 seconds to switch out to a web browser, but runs SL OK). I don't experience any blue screens because I have firewalls, anti-virus, and all the necessary things on the XP boxes for safe computing. It also runs great on the Mac Pro at work. Everything else seems to work fine on the iMac. Grrr.

And upgrading to Leopard didn't help. I even did an archive and install :-(

So sad, have to settle for a 22" widescreen when I have this killer 24" right here...

But all said, I repair machines for a living. The PCs are for gaming, the Mac has the important stuff on it. I will admit, Microsoft is great for job security :-D

Posted at 2:51AM on Nov 16th 2007 by venron