Mac

[Zarax]

Macs are in fashion nowadays...
Some people looks at the shape and thinks they are cute, real users laughs when they see the price they would pay for outdated hardware.

[satalexton]

c'mon face it, sluggaboyz or stormboyz, as long as they WAAAGH!!! thery're good boyz.

The same thing applies to Macs and PCs.

[jnabb22]

Actually my mom works at apple so she gets tons of deals and free software. But I like the pc but my opinion don't count.

Ps. I'm actually typing this on my iPod touch.

[cmacq]

Actually my mom works at apple so she gets tons of deals and free software.

This is one end of the Spectrum. But that's still not a reason to sell the PC, unless we're talking about a, 'True Believer.'





CmacQ

[Zarax]

I'm the king of true believers, and spoke with one of the really big guys in one occasion...

[Nachtmeister]

This is one end of the Spectrum. But that's still not a reason to sell the PC, unless we're talking about a, 'True Believer.'

Simple: She doesn't want her offspring to become intellectually dulled out by spending too much time with video-games. I've seen it happen to me when I was still a local offspring; quite a shocking process to close observers: First, the facial musculature loses definition; features become blunt and the whole skin acquires what I commonly call "monitor tan".
Then, the eyes become rather sluggish and the victim tends to ignore anything outside the central 25° field of view. Shoulders sagg and the neck gradually moves from atop and between the shoulders to a position close to the top of the vertical chest bone.
At this point, interruption of any kind, even for the purpose of offering tasty, *warm* lunch/dinner prompt severe rage, which is at first kept in check by the conscious desire to maintain status-quo appearances. This desire gradually becomes less conscious until the victim wonders why they are bothering with such pretenses; at this point parents begin to suspect that something might be out of the ordinary and consequently ask questions. This is perceived as a very invasive, hostile act by the victim, leading to (more or less, depending on the level of regular discipline exacted by the parents during initial education) open conflict and irrational or warped-out-of-perspective argumentation by the victim.
The parents find their suspicion profoundly confirmed and, depending on inventiveness, budget and the severity of the hostile reaction of the victim during above mentioned inquiry, take according action to prevent further deterioration of their offspring from what they consider a sane state of mind.
For instance by getting rid of the mindblowing evil machine.

Mac has paedagogically more valuable games like marble blast gold...
Or maybe she didn't like the Hellenes' theme...?
It could also have been the eastern charge sound.



On a more serious note, to adress the OP,
depending on the hardware of said MAC, you might try

- installing Linux on it and running WINE (windows emulation) which will however severely impede performance but might enable you to run EB - maybe assume roughly half the system's actual hardware stats to allow for the amount of capacity drained by the cumbersome process of translating every single action going on into windows-terms. It's like running an application within and application within an application within...
Only here it's BIOS, binary level, operating system, second operating system, application. Or something like that. The second operating system on top of the first is the only way to get the hardware to behave like different hardware.

- in case it is a Power Mac or even more modern - just install Windows on it... I hear the processors are no longer really different.

- abandoning video games, they make you lose reality and tend to worsen school marks. Severely. EB is the *only* exception - and even with EB it will get tricky after you have consumed the historical facts data and begin re-fashioning history to your own preferences. Claiming you led the Getai out of Roman oppression will get you some laughs from your mates and a reprimand of your teacher, reminding you that that happened in another part of the world during a much earlier period with a different people.

But if the less serious part of this post has some truth to it, the mom might object to any but the last option... And disguising a multi-OS setup seems like a tough task...

Either way, I wish you good fortune in your endeavours.

[desert]

Simple: She doesn't want her offspring to become intellectually dulled out by spending too much time with video-games. I've seen it happen to me when I was still a local offspring; quite a shocking process to close observers: First, the facial musculature loses definition; features become blunt and the whole skin acquires what I commonly call "monitor tan".
Then, the eyes become rather sluggish and the victim tends to ignore anything outside the central 25° field of view. Shoulders sagg and the neck gradually moves from atop and between the shoulders to a position close to the top of the vertical chest bone.
At this point, interruption of any kind, even for the purpose of offering tasty, *warm* lunch/dinner prompt severe rage, which is at first kept in check by the conscious desire to maintain status-quo appearances. This desire gradually becomes less conscious until the victim wonders why they are bothering with such pretenses; at this point parents begin to suspect that something might be out of the ordinary and consequently ask questions. This is perceived as a very invasive, hostile act by the victim, leading to (more or less, depending on the level of regular discipline exacted by the parents during initial education) open conflict and irrational or warped-out-of-perspective argumentation by the victim.
The parents find their suspicion profoundly confirmed and, depending on inventiveness, budget and the severity of the hostile reaction of the victim during above mentioned inquiry, take according action to prevent further deterioration of their offspring from what they consider a sane state of mind.
For instance by getting rid of the mindblowing evil machine.

Haha, good one Kafka.

[jnabb22]

Simple: She doesn't want her offspring to become intellectually dulled out by spending too much time with video-games. I've seen it happen to me when I was still a local offspring; quite a shocking process to close observers: First, the facial musculature loses definition; features become blunt and the whole skin acquires what I commonly call "monitor tan".
Then, the eyes become rather sluggish and the victim tends to ignore anything outside the central 25° field of view. Shoulders sagg and the neck gradually moves from atop and between the shoulders to a position close to the top of the vertical chest bone.
At this point, interruption of any kind, even for the purpose of offering tasty, *warm* lunch/dinner prompt severe rage, which is at first kept in check by the conscious desire to maintain status-quo appearances. This desire gradually becomes less conscious until the victim wonders why they are bothering with such pretenses; at this point parents begin to suspect that something might be out of the ordinary and consequently ask questions. This is perceived as a very invasive, hostile act by the victim, leading to (more or less, depending on the level of regular discipline exacted by the parents during initial education) open conflict and irrational or warped-out-of-perspective argumentation by the victim.
The parents find their suspicion profoundly confirmed and, depending on inventiveness, budget and the severity of the hostile reaction of the victim during above mentioned inquiry, take according action to prevent further deterioration of their offspring from what they consider a sane state of mind.
For instance by getting rid of the mindblowing evil machine.

Mac has paedagogically more valuable games like marble blast gold...
Or maybe she didn't like the Hellenes' theme...?
It could also have been the eastern charge sound.

very nice but so true =)

On a more serious note, to adress the OP,
depending on the hardware of said MAC, you might try

- installing Linux on it and running WINE (windows emulation) which will however severely impede performance but might enable you to run EB - maybe assume roughly half the system's actual hardware stats to allow for the amount of capacity drained by the cumbersome process of translating every single action going on into windows-terms. It's like running an application within and application within an application within...
Only here it's BIOS, binary level, operating system, second operating system, application. Or something like that. The second operating system on top of the first is the only way to get the hardware to behave like different hardware.

- in case it is a Power Mac or even more modern - just install Windows on it... I hear the processors are no longer really different.

- abandoning video games, they make you lose reality and tend to worsen school marks. Severely. EB is the *only* exception - and even with EB it will get tricky after you have consumed the historical facts data and begin re-fashioning history to your own preferences. Claiming you led the Getai out of Roman oppression will get you some laughs from your mates and a reprimand of your teacher, reminding you that that happened in another part of the world during a much earlier period with a different people.

But if the less serious part of this post has some truth to it, the mom might object to any but the last option... And disguising a multi-OS setup seems like a tough task...

Either way, I wish you good fortune in your endeavours.

Thanx i might just try that but not the abandoning games part =)

[cmacq]

Well, there is the spectrum, and then there are the pathologies?


CmacQ

[Subotan]

I love it when people slag off Microsoft, and rant on about "Fighting the big evil corporations" and "They only want my money"...

And proceed to buy a Mac

If you're that anti-business, go Linux. Although I dislike Macs as much as the next (smart) guy, I do like iPods.

[Zarax]

If you're antibusiness go BSD.

[Nachtmeister]

NNOOOOOOO!! What have we done...!?
We have resurrected the greeks vs romans thread in another dimension, disguised from those who were able to heroically slay the groman thread with the new front-ends of Apple and Microsoft...!
The heroes cannot fight what they cannot see.
We have created a monster!

But it is more dangerous than the groman beast, for it has a third head, an as yet unknown faction, the BSD-mainframians... From the super-adriatic cloud-island of BSDeia, they descend upon the two contestants for glory while they are aggressively engaged to the point of being oblivious to their surroundings, alternately prodding their balls from behind with a loooong ethernet-cable. RIGID CAT5, with switch attached. *ZAP*

[Zarax]

I truly hope we won't have a MS versus apple versus linux versus BSD thread, otherwise it will make any gladiatorial show pale in comparison...

[jnabb22]

NNOOOOOOO!! What have we done...!?
We have resurrected the greeks vs romans thread in another dimension, disguised from those who were able to heroically slay the groman thread with the new front-ends of Apple and Microsoft...!
The heroes cannot fight what they cannot see.
We have created a monster!

But it is more dangerous than the groman beast, for it has a third head, an as yet unknown faction, the BSD-mainframians... From the super-adriatic cloud-island of BSDeia, they descend upon the two contestants for glory while they are aggressively engaged to the point of being oblivious to their surroundings, alternately prodding their balls from behind with a loooong ethernet-cable. RIGID CAT5, with switch attached. *ZAP*

sorry bout that =) but i love a good monster =p