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<p>who cares if they don’t know about hardware? you probably don’t have a clue about how a microprocessor works.</p>
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<p>Lol a mac zombie challenging someone on how a cpu works. That’s something you don’t see everyday. </p>
<p>Does Steve Jobs include a Central Processing Units for Dummies in each Mac computer box? Or did you just buy it in the Spoiled little ■■■■■ Edition?</p>
<p>i don’t see why that guy has to be a huge snob about how computers work. if you know anything/something about computers, you’d know that they are complex as hell and that it is impossible to be knowledgable about everything involved in their design.</p>
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<p>You don’t have to know how a CPU works to know that an i3 is overpowered for the majority of college students, that popular games like SCII are more GPU intensive than CPU and can therefore be run even on a CULV Core 2 Duo, that the integrated Intel 4500 GMA is more than enough for the majority of non-gaming, non-3D designing students, and that the motherboards within 80% of laptops out on the market for both Macs and PCs are absolute crap.</p>
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<p>well yeah, but if that’s all you knew about computers i wouldn’t exactly lord over other people and belittle them because they haven’t bothered to learn how to recite stuff that tech magazines & websites say.</p>
<p>I could have gotten two equivalent PC’s for the price of a mac.</p>
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<p>So uh, what do you know? At least I’m well informed enough to get a computer that suits my needs and I don’t overpay for anything I’m not going to use. And I really doubt knowing how a CPU process information through its cores and the use of the L2/L3 caches will ever help in deciding a laptop.</p>
<p>“recite stuff that tech magazines & websites say”</p>
<p>Where in gods name do you learn the things you know? Did you gain the knowledge of what anti-aliasing was in a dream one night? </p>
<p>Good lord man you are worse than a child created by Sarah Palin and Mel Gibson.</p>
<p>Oh and to add to this discussion. Make a macbook 500 dollars from its inception and see just how many of the macintosh infused morons end up buying a 500 dollar dell. </p>
<p>Most consumers think high price= high quality. The uneducated ones atleast… :</p>
<p>i’m obviously not the most knowledgable about computers. i’m a student and don’t design computer stuff for a living.</p>
<p>i do know a fair amount though—a couple of months ago, someone posted a thread titled something like ‘i know everything about computers. ask me about them.’, and i ■■■■■■■ the h out of that thread asking questions which people who just recite stuff from websites get sooooo wrong. ‘why can’t my computer use more than X amount of ram’, ‘what is virtual memory’, ‘what is unix’.</p>
<p>I’m tired of all the hype towards apple products. Why do people care about brands so much?</p>
<p>-Sent from my iPhone 4</p>
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<p>You are right. It isn’t that useful for a person who just wants to buy and use a computer to know. I just objected to that guy being a huge snob when if he were to stop & think about things, he’d probably realize that he doesn’t know much about how computers work either.</p>
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<p>Aren’t you being a snob for assuming that I don’t know much about “how computers work”? :)</p>
<p>not really.</p>
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<p>Knowing enough to make an informed decision =/= knowing everything about computers.</p>
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<p>right, but knowing how to recite facts like this from websites:</p>
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<p>doesn’t mean you should belittle people when they:</p>
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<p>theReach probably has no clue how a microprocessor works and the extent of knowledge about computers is what he reads in tech magazines & websites—it’s stupid as hell to be such a snob about something you have no idea about.</p>
<p>it would be equally moronic for me to belittle others for not knowing string theory if all i knew about it was contentless summaries from popular science books/magazines.</p>
<p>That’s quote is from r31ncarnat3d, not me. And you’re not making any sense. Why would I need to know how an CPU works to know that a Macbook is overpriced? By your logic, I would have to know how an internal combustion engine works before I could tell you that the 3-series or Chrysler 300 you are looking at is overpriced. You only have one talking point right now; according to you everyone who disagrees with you is “reciting from websites”. I could say the same for you. </p>
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<p>It’s stupid to make wild assumptions like that. r31ncarnat3d said it right. I don’t know everything about computers, but I know enough to make an informed decision.</p>
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<p>that is not what i’m trying to say. i was criticizing you because you were condescending like mad to that girl because she doesn’t know how to recite facts about machines. who cares?</p>
<p>you don’t see the irony in looking down on others for not ‘knowing the hardware’ when you don’t even have a clue about how a microprocessor works?</p>
<p>That’s exactly what you’re trying to say. I made fun of someone for buying an overpriced Macbook Air for the sake of having a status symbol. You come in whining about how I have to know how a microprocessor works before I can talk about hardware. And you mistake other people’s posts for mine. Get your head straight before you jump into something. All you’re trying to say here is that you know more about how a CPU works than everyone else. Good for you, you probably memorized a post from a tech website (see what I did there?).</p>
<p>I resisted the urge to mock her until she cried.</p>
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<p>yeah, you should hold off on condescending until you actually know what you are talking about.</p>
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<p>you don’t see the irony in looking down on others for not ‘knowing the hardware’ when you don’t even have a clue about how a microprocessor works?</p>