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Geek Culture / Mac clone scam company?

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Omega gamer 89
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Posted: 18th Apr 2008 23:11
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hmm... methinks these guys fail:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080417/bs_nf/59339

your thoughts?

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MSon
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Posted: 18th Apr 2008 23:50
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Multipul Incorrect Addresses, Card Companies refusing to deal with the site, and contradictury statements, id say scam

is there a version of mac's OS that works on PC? that would be a good way around as i never liked the one button mouse that macs have.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 00:50 Edited at: 19th Apr 2008 00:50
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Quote: "is there a version of mac's OS that works on PC?"

Not without hacks.

Quote: "that would be a good way around as i never liked the one button mouse that macs have."

had.
Well... perhaps you want one without any buttons at all? Or buy a Mac mini. That one comes without any mice. .

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bitJericho
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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 00:54 Edited at: 19th Apr 2008 00:55
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Quote: "Multipul Incorrect Addresses, Card Companies refusing to deal with the site, and contradictury statements, id say scam"


I read the zdnet article a few days ago. The author obviously has no idea how credit card processors work.

1. Most places take a credit card. Well that's what paypal does. Obviously their credit card processor stopped working because of the huge volume. Credit card processors can't take the risk if it turns out the company is a scammer. They'll probably be able to get it once so much time has passed.

2. Inaccurate addresses, very possibly the guy didn't want to have his home address publicly available so he changed it. Then he figured out that the new address was no good (perhaps it's his neighbors, or another location that he was hoping to setup shop that didn't pan out), and so on. I'm sure he had no idea it would take off like it did, and if he were anything like me, would have been working out of his bedroom.

I think we should at least give the guys a chance before calling them scammers :/ It's not like your credit card company won't allow you to dispute the charge.


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GatorHex
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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 01:08
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I've dealt with a card suppliers and they made us deposit £20k in their bank account for 30 days just to see if we could do it!

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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 01:11
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MSon, you can plug in a standard 2-button mouse for Mac, it just won't look as cool.


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Satchmo
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That no button mouse thing looks purdy, don't know if it would be useful or not though.

Quote: "transforming your sleek, one-button mouse into a two-button wonder. But the innovation doesn’t end there. "


THAT made me lawls, real innovation that is right there.


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 02:33
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*hugs his 7 button, horizontal and vertical (optional smooth or clicky style) scrolling mouse complete with side spring loaded thumb wheel*

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bitJericho
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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 02:36
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/04/18/apple-mac-psystar-tech-cx_bc_0418macman.html

Pwnd by a real journalist


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soapyfish
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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 18:17 Edited at: 19th Apr 2008 18:19
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Quote: "is there a version of mac's OS that works on PC?"

I imagine they have just installed an off the shelf version of Leopard, the latest Apple OS, maybe with a bit of jiggery pokery to get it working. However in the EULA for Leopard it says something about not installing it on any Non-Apple hardware and if you attempted to update the operating system it would probably end up borked. Best get used to clicking that cancel button.

It is much easier to get a decent, working version of Windows on a Mac than it is to get OS X on a Windows Machine.


Quote: "i never liked the one button mouse that macs have."

Mac laptops come with just the one mouse button, right-click is referred to as control-click because holding down the ctrl button when clicking has the same effect as a right click. I believe there is a similar way of doing it just using the touch pad with the newer models but I'm not sure.

The mouse that comes with desktop machines is the same mouse that empty linked to. It has both left and right click ability. I'm not sure if it's touch sensitive or just very, very sensitive. Mine seems to click with the lightest of touches. I've seen a few mac journalists say it's not really all that good, I've got one myself and I'm not a big fan either, perhaps if I got used to it but I manage fine with a bog standard cheapo buttoned mouse.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2008 18:55
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A touch sensitive mouse (to me) seems really annoying.

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