Neowin - Should it still be in a Mac users bookmarks?

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A few people have said that if you don't like what neowin posts then feel free to leave. I agree that there is nothing making you stay checking a site regularly.

However for everyone who says feel free to leave, you have to think why the OP made this thread. They have done it as they wish to improve Neowin. I know that it's human nature to hold some bias towards one product / thing than others, however i would say that the neowin forums and comments were more neutral last year, generally there was a lot more positive posts than negative.

Neowin has become a recognised news site with well written articles and reviews which are good to read and it would be shame for it to loose any member, the forums are watched by a number of knowledgeable chaps that can help you with any problem on any platform, knowledge which would costs ?1000's if you approached a company.

Critism is never a bad thing, when it's constructive and leads to a postive outcome, negative trolling like windoze or iSheep just annoys and pushes people away.

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"Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out"

actually, no... we dont want the mac fanboys leaving....

because if they do, then what they have said will become true, neowin will become anti-mac and indeed, have no longer any place in a mac user's bookmarks...

their very presence here speaks much louder against their claims...

actually if the fanboys, and only the fanboys, leave, and what we have left are reasonable mac users, then that will be good too

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This is primarily a Windows fan site. You have to expect to see the same kind of behavior exhibited from fanatics on here as you see from the blind Apple fans on the aforementioned AI and MR sites. In fact, I can barely say a good word about anything Microsoft before getting roundly abused by the Apple cult on MacRumors especially.

Personally I use both Windows and OS X and like them both. Windows 7 is the best Microsoft OS I have ever used, and I'm excited to get my hands on the RTM early next month on Technet.

I bought my first Macbook Pro last month and I love that too. (with the exception of the now well publicized incompatible hard drive units Apple refuses to publicly acknowledge while continuing to ship in its mobile computers)

Apple does a good job. Microsoft does a good job. I have no interest in becoming a fan boy, zealot, or a blind cheerleader for any corporation. :) But if either company makes a good product I will more than likely be interested in making a purchase.

Because I like products from both companies, and even dabble in Linux occasionally, a site like Neowin is perfect for me. I have been reading here for years but never registered until today.

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Hell-In-A-Handbasket

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a Mac is a PC

But as a Mac User, Neowin is still in my bookmarks, and the start page of all the browsers on my Win7 machine and my XP/Linux Machine

Can people be PC and a Mac?
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Wow, I think this is the perfect example of what the OP is talking about.
actually, no... we dont want the mac fanboys leaving....

because if they do, then what they have said will become true, neowin will become anti-mac and indeed, have no longer any place in a mac user's bookmarks...

their very presence here speaks much louder against their claims...

actually if the fanboys, and only the fanboys, leave, and what we have left are reasonable mac users, then that will be good too

I don't want "mac fanboys" leaving...I just don't care about whiners. Who really cares if the OP leaves or not.

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I don't want "mac fanboys" leaving...I just don't care about whiners. Who really cares if the OP leaves or not.

If you don't care, don't post in the thread. You don't have to be a fanboy to be annoyed by some of the stuff that gets posted around here.

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evo_spook

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If you don't care, don't post in the thread. You don't have to be a fanboy to be annoyed by some of the stuff that gets posted around here.

Cheers for a typical neowin reply, I think the question is more then relevant then ever.

The thing that amazes me, is peopl who go "I love microsoft but I hate apple"

They are both companys that are there to make a profit, they arn't football teams, to prefer one OS over the other shouldn't naturaly mean that you have to hate the other, its just so childish.

I'm usually a mac person, but the last 2 weeks I've mainly being on my windows laptop and finding it ok, ad they are both tools and I don't understand why people need to get such an emotiol attachment that they need to belittle each other and their choice of OS, eg: Geek of All who seems to have made it a personal crusade to now bring bad apple storys.

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Stop speaking crap. People are entitled to their opinions and just because you are a Mac user and disagree with them doesn't mean Neowin is a bad website. Now get out of your reality distortion field and just accept that no website is perfect. If you want all goodie news about Apple etc, then goto a Apple web site or something.

Neowin is not Microsoft orientated, it's a news website for everyone, and I hate it when people generalise this place for being Pro-MS and Anti-Apple/Linux.

well windows 7 has stole alot of thunder and spotlight from any other news or operating systems. look at the linux section, it hardly has any new posts.

personally i just got rid of my perfectly working osx86 install for 7 rtm, wouldn't even consider going back, that's how fast this sucker is!

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Tharp Daddy

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I'm quite surprised at how much people are offended by this stuff. It's a computer for god sakes, it's just the hardware you use to go about posting on this site. People are treating it like they are from different countries which are at war with each other - it's a piece of hardware. Will you flame someone who uses a TomTom when you yourself use a Magellan? Its just a different brand. Get over it, if you enjoy visiting this site, bookmark it; if you don't delete the bookmark. it's not a hard decision.

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actually, no... we dont want the mac fanboys leaving....

because if they do, then what they have said will become true, neowin will become anti-mac and indeed, have no longer any place in a mac user's bookmarks...

their very presence here speaks much louder against their claims...

actually if the fanboys, and only the fanboys, leave, and what we have left are reasonable mac users, then that will be good too

If every fanboy of any kind leave then Neowin would be the best tech site ever.

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Granted it does get annoying when you're trying to read something and it turns into a flamewar about mac vs pc, but there's no reason there can't be a vibrant mac community on neowin. Since building my hackintosh i've been learning quite a few tips and tricks and I'll be posting them as I come by them. If people just let silly comments go by without responses then the mac community would have a lot more credit. I'm not saying PC fanboys aren't just as bad, but hey, on a forum dominated by PCs it's up to mac users to earn their right to be here.

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I wouldn't really call people who run Hackintoshes as part of the Mac community nor in any way Mac users more than Windows people who run Linux in a VM on their installation being part of the Linux community.

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I wouldn't really call people who run Hackintoshes as part of the Mac community nor in any way Mac users more than Windows people who run Linux in a VM on their installation being part of the Linux community.

Way to fight for the cause, man. Mac OSX on a hackintosh runs natively and not in a virtual machine. It's the same OS, it runs the same software, runs the same updates...in fact the only difference is that it doesn't come in an apple designed shell.

I think you've hit the crux of the debate between PC users and Mac users, which causes tension on the boards. For some reason there's a lot of mac users who think the shiny case is of better quality than one can build a PC or indeed a hackintosh system for much less price. The machine is a means to an end to use an operating system. OSX on a hackintosh is no different than OSX on a genuine apple.

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