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Anyone else just HATE Apple?

#162
I am entirely apple. Was a user of both platforms for a long while during the OS 9 days. As soon as OS X came out, I switched over completely. I like apple computers much more than Window's based machines. It's just a superior operating system in my opinion. With that said, Apple's are not without their faults. Their wireless hubs, Airports, are really overpriced for what they are, and I've found that they need to be reset quite often. But as consumers you don't have to buy it if you don't like it. There are some other quirks that I don't like about some of the features within OS X too. Also their backwards compatibility is not as deep as a PC's.
 
#163
Geoff St. Germaine said:
So wait, one person spent $2400 on a computer in March and another spent less money 5 months later and got a computer with better hardware? That's surprising. :hmm: That's always been my experience when dealing with computers in the $2K+ range.

It's also the reason that people normally buy new Macs right around the time that hardware revisions occur.
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Actually if you get the MacbookPro, the top of the line one (17 inch 2.4 gigs) starts at $2700. And guess what, my Sony still has better hardware and a bigger hard drive and more memory. Hmmm....
 
#170
For what it's worth, I have very limited experience with Macs when it comes to video editing (which is pretty important to me). Basically, I thought Windows Movie Maker was much easier to use than iMovie. The fact that I had to use the keyboard for a lot of applications is just stupid. Sure, if I used it more I'd get used to it, but I think I'm pretty fine with using a mouse.

Now if I ever do start using more advance applications this school year, like Final Cut Pro, then I'll let you guys know. But really, I don't see why I need to spend $3,000 on some white box to do things that I could do on my PC. Oh, and the PC plays games too.
 
#172
BellBottomBlues said:
Actually if you get the MacbookPro, the top of the line one (17 inch 2.4 gigs) starts at $2700. And guess what, my Sony still has better hardware and a bigger hard drive and more memory. Hmmm....
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Like I said, it's always best to buy around hardware revisions because the prices of the Macs rarely change and the hardware is normally only revised twice a year or so. I believe that the Macbook Pro was revised last spring and is about due for a hardware revision, which makes now about the worst time to buy one. Going by historical revisions to the Macbook Pro it should have been revised in mid November, by rumor has it that it will be revised in Jan/Feb. They are supposedly waiting for the Penryn 45nm chips and will be revised with the T9300/9500 processors amongst other revisions.

Generally when they are first revised they are slightly cheaper than comparably spec'd PC laptops and from there they become relatively speaking more expensive as the next revision approaches.
 
#173
I'm a Microsoft MCSE instructor, use many PCs, own two Macs (a PPC and an x86 Mac), and have two Ubuntu Linux Machines also.

Mac OS X is a great platform, highly compatible, easy to use, efficient, secure and stable. I use my MacBook as my main machine for work in a PC based environment - I even do all of my Microsoft Instruction and demos from it. File compatibility and difficulty with cross platform networking is a thing of the past.

Windows has it's good points too, as does Linux.

I'll never understand why some people feel the need to align themselves with one thing only, and be a hater toward everything else.

C'mon guys - they're just computers.

Quit being a bunch of haters, and let people use what they want to use.

:)
 
#174
Luke73 said:
I'll never understand why some people feel the need to align themselves with one thing only, and be a hater toward everything else.

C'mon guys - they're just computers.

Quit being a bunch of haters, and let people use what they want to use.
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Best post yet. ;)
 
#178
You dudes are missing the point:

It's about the SOFTWARE.

What software do you get when you buy a PC? DVD burning software? DVD viewing software? Music writing/editing software?

And an OS that Vista only WISHES it could be on it's BESTEST day, and you have a Mac.

What, Macs don't have problems? That's like saying Anthony Jackson is an OK bass player.

I like the fact that you can do what you set out to do on a mac. It takes a little longer with a PC, what with updates, registering, intermittent crashes...what other things do PCs do instead of what you wanted to do in the first place? Oh yeah! Drivers!

I'm saving up for a new one, and I plan to use both platforms as long as I need to. I have a feeling however, that I won't be needing a PC if my Mac can do everything I need it to.
 

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