# Mac crew: school me on a mac book **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 25, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-crew-school-me-on-a-mac-book/215859 "2011-08-25T13:59:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ZOMGVTEK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zomgvtek/32/5063_2.png) [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-crew-school-me-on-a-mac-book/215859/61 "2011-08-27T13:46:17Z")
Alienware makes good machines for the money. However, the only hardware advantage they have is in GPU’s. You don’t buy Apple hardware to save money. If you want a fantastic notebook at a cost representative of what you are getting, Apple has it. ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-crew-school-me-on-a-mac-book/215859/62 "2011-08-27T21:10:35Z")
> [@ProgRocker](#): > > But Macs can dual boot natively…I’m assuming they wanted something like Parallels? I can build myself a Windows machine that could smoke a Mac at the same price…I also don’t like their lifecycle of products and their support for OSX. It seems people complain about something and they refuse to acknowledge it. I also can realate to what traderbase said about the Macs assigning itself a 169 address. You have to delete a firewall file to correct it, even if the firewall is turned completely off. Isn’t the firewall issue retarded. I have students on an almost daily basis that “can’t connect to the wireless”. Most the time the firewall is on and when I turn it off it will pull an address. Sometimes though like you said…firewall on or off makes no difference and the prefs are jacked. Oh well…beats a backup and full restore from a rootkit and festering infection I suppose. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![honda4life](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/honda4life/32/5300_2.png) [@honda4life](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/honda4life)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-crew-school-me-on-a-mac-book/215859/63 "2011-08-27T21:23:23Z")
> [@TradersBASE](#): > > Isn’t the firewall issue retarded. I have students on an almost daily basis that “can’t connect to the wireless”. Most the time the firewall is on and when I turn it off it will pull an address. Sometimes though like you said…firewall on or off makes no difference and the prefs are jacked. Oh well…beats a backup and full restore from a rootkit and festering infection I suppose. 😉 I fucking hate rootkits they make my life a living hell ---
**Author:** ![jt76](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jt76/32/5100_2.png) [@jt76](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jt76)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-crew-school-me-on-a-mac-book/215859/64 "2011-08-28T02:02:13Z")
whelp bought a macbook pro today from best buy. I got a GREAT deal. $100 off student discount along with a $100 gift card. Put the gift card toward a go pro HD. It was like an early Xmas! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-crew-school-me-on-a-mac-book/215859/65 "2011-08-28T04:18:40Z")
:tup: doing the right thing ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-crew-school-me-on-a-mac-book/215859/66 "2011-08-28T07:06:05Z")
> [@jt76](#): > > whelp bought a macbook pro today from best buy. I got a GREAT deal. $100 off student discount along with a $100 gift card. Put the gift card toward a go pro HD. It was like an early Xmas! 🙂 Don’t forget Microsoft’s discounted student stuff, like Office. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mac-crew-school-me-on-a-mac-book/215859.md?page=3)