Taking a break...

I've started getting way too involved in the boards lately and in trying to clear up all the misinformation a select few people seem to love spreading about Macs.

It's got me very frustrated and also very disgusted with this place. Normally just a couple people wouldn't bother me but when they insist on saying the same things relentlessly over and over again no matter what proof you show to the contrary it just gets annoying and trying to refute everything they say becomes an exercise in futility as they just continue on spouting their misinformation.

Whenever I come here now I'm more angry than anything else and I don't like it, especially as these feelings have been increasing in the past week or so.

Starting with the next time I visit the boards, which will probably be in a few hours, I am no longer going to respond to comments made by abf and usa<s>dipshit</s>patriot or any other persons like them who continue to spread misinformation. If people decide to believe what they say, oh well, let them, I honestly don't care anymore.

I will still be reading and responding to real and intelligent questions and giving advice, but I'm going to try and distance myself as much as possible for a while. And starting on either Friday or Saturday I'm not going to even come here at all for about a week as I'm going on holiday to Savannah. Hopefully it'll help my decompression and I'll be able to come back when it's over in a much better mood.

I came here originally because I was going to buy a laptop and wanted to get information. I found a great community here so I stayed. Now it's just been soured and this place is no longer fun for me so I'm taking a break. This isn't one of those "I hate you all so I'm gonna take my toys and leave!" posts—and god help me if I ever make one of them I hope someone shoots me—this is just something I need to get off my chest.

I will still be around—except for most of next week, as I said—and I'll still answer questions and give advice, but I am no longer going to bother with responding to those people who insist that Macs suck because of x, y, and z, with x, y, and z usually being stupid assumptions, stupid opinions, or just flat out wrong information.

Thanks everyone.

I just saw a post in another forum and, my god, it's just soooooooooooo hard to not reply. But I need to do this because the exchanges just piss me off in the end and that's not good for anyone.

:sigh:

What I wouldn't give for Maxwell's silver hammer.

Well, I'm going on holiday with my mother, my aunt, and my 13 year old cousin, so the amount of fun I'm going to have is debatable, but at least I'm leaving Orlando so that makes me happy.

I just wish I could leave permanently. Anyone wanna finance my moving to New York and subsequent establishing of myself there?

I'm 27 Shazza, which makes this break all the more necessary as I'm allowing a bloody 16 year old to piss me off so much.

Funny, though, as I'd give anything for a few weeks in Oz...none of that outback stuff though. I don't like the fact that pretty much everything out there can kill you, but I'll settle for a nice five star hotel overlooking Sydney harbour, and I'd definitely love to take a trip to Coober Pedy while I'm out there as well.

Yup, Rob, it was the Divine Miss M who sang that song. It's overly saccharine and sentimental, but it just seemed to fit

I'll have to think about your proposal...throw in enough money to hire a nanny and I think we might be close to a deal.

Gonna do the Disney thing, Chevy? It's hell during the summer! I don't envy you coming, heh.

Thanks, Chode. I don't particularly like reporting posts, however, as people are entitled to their opinions, and I really don't want to turn into the old man sitting on his porch waving his cane around and screaming at all the whipper snappers, heh.

Golf, BootCamp is "expected" to provide full hardware support in it's final incarnation. It's just right now that it doesn't support all the nonessential hardware like the iSight and the light sensor, etc. Bluetooth is supported, however, from what I've heard, but supposedly you get better transmission by installing a third party bluetooth driver. I'm pretty sure I saw someone post about it here so try searching and see if it pops up.

As far as I know all Windows programmes will run with the exception of some that require legacy hardware or dongles, apparently. 3D Studio Max 8 runs, from what I understand, but earlier versions won't for some reason. Other than that all "normal" software should run, ie, games and such.

You'll be able to connect to your W2K server through both OS X and Windows.

Remember: It's not the heat, it's the humidity!