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(Unverified)Jan 24th 2009 2:08AM
@harrison ..Dude, it's just a computer brand. No need to pretend it's a religious war.
Um, please explain what Apple has to do with the obliteration of Mom&Pop corporations? Are you just picking on others now Bush isn't available to blame?
If you'd been using and supporting WinXP, Vista, and Mac machines for several years now, you'd probably feel much more comfortable with the clean-ness of MacOS compared to the too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen Windows flavours. Apple machines really aren't the pure evil you paint them to be.
Disclaimer: Both my home machines are PC's ..but I have an iPhone and am seriously considering a MacMini for development soon.
(Unverified)Jan 24th 2009 2:24AM
Hmmm...I didn't intend to make it out to be such a "religious war." The point I was trying to convey is that Apple is a company just like any other, and so many people act like it (Apple) is the first, last and only way to do tech.
I was just really annoyed with the author's line about NEVER buying a competing brand of laptop again. That to me is just flat stupid. (And a very, very common opinion--shared by a vast majority of the Apple users I have met.) Dell built it's reputation on quality then lost it. What makes anybody so sure that Apple will NEVER pull a similar stunt? Steve Jobs announces a leave of absence and Apple's stocks plummet. There is no reason to think that Apple will or ever should be the end all for ANYTHING. No company should.
Where did Bush come into the question? I didn't much care for the guy, and I don't think he had a single thing to do with computers...He probably never learned how to turn one on--I don't know or care. This is a tech blog site, not the Economist.
If you read what I said, I never dissed on Apple's designs or software. I diss the (majority of the) lame-ass people that use them, and then set up Apple shrines in their heads. They simply cannot fathom that perhaps somebody else could do something as well as or better than their beloved fruity friend, which is annoying to me.
(Unverified)Jan 24th 2009 3:18AM
Apple have always been a 'premier' hardware maker ..putting design and usability before the bottom-line ..apart from 'the dark years', they don't do cheap. People who love this concept will naturally gravitate towards Apple because, hell, who else in tech does this? You see the same kind of brand loyalty in cars, clothing, mountain-bikes, etc. If there were more tech companies consistently doing this I'm sure Apple wouldn't be the only one receiving this kind of adoration. ..Sony was maybe in this class once. But IMHO recent console, display, and PC build-quality is suffering now.
Think you're reading too much into her comments dude. She said she *might* not go back to using a PC full-time (there, still open to windows) and is *certainly* not going back to something without Mac on it which, sure, if you want to take it literally sounds like she's married to Mac hardware ..but I think it's reasonable to assume that, if Apple hardware goes to crap like it did in the first sans-Steve era, she'll have the intelligence to re-evaluate her position. (Feel free to shoot her down if she doesn't though.) :) For now, it was just a one sentence. Don't consider it her mantra for life.)
Um, you did seem to be suggesting apple as one of the big corporations who killed the mom&pop stores. If I have to draw you a picture when bringing Bush into the big corporation argument, this is gonna take a real long time. C'mon! I put the words mom&pop and Bush in two connecting sentences!
(Unverified)Jan 24th 2009 11:41AM
TKO - you pretty much understood my comment. Right now, Apple makes the best hardware (Lenovo makes nice stuff too but it isn't any cheaper and doesn't come with OS X) and they couple that with an OS that I prefer for both my inner design geek and my UNIX geek. Having said that, if Apple flipped course and went the way of Dell and coupled crappy hardware with an OS I don't like as much, sure I'd ammend that "never buy a laptop without Mac in it" statement.
Honestly, I like Windows 7. I might even dual-boot it if I end up finding apps or another reason to do so.
I'm not a zealot; I was trying to be cheeky. Trust me, I respect other OSs and I'm a computer fan. It is fun to play with new stuff, regardless of platform. I do like that my Mac lets me do that without having to go all osx86.
(Unverified)Jan 25th 2009 10:19PM
Comment by a female! What to do? What to do?!
hehe.. Sorry, couldn't resist. :) (I could claim to not be a geek at this point, but heck, I just used html braces.)
A few years ago, in the PowerPC days, when the motherboard+CPU architecture wasn't being done by people (IMHO) as professional as Intel, and back when the cases were plastic (durable though it may be), and every second power-brick design had cables that frayed at the brick or plug, I too might have queried your wish to specifically go for a Mac Christina.
But now they've got such cool hardware (the Intel architecture + the unibody, the no-ugly-button glass trackpad, the glass screen, and light-up keys) and are truly becoming the centre of people's digital lifestyle (in seriously good ways ..I mean, look at iPhoto and iMovie now ..and then contrast with you're typical (disjoint) windows software bundled with Cameras) ..now that it's got to this stage, it's much easier to understand the desire to stay mac. I'd love to have a unibody mac myself, but I just can't justify it. Even either of the built-in battery models appeal. That's a ballsy move at the premium ends of the market.
Those who instantly assume a mac-zealot at the keyboard, and spit forth the 'stupid insular mac-user' comments, sound much more like the stereotypical mac-hater these days: hated OS8/9 at college, and don't know what a vastly different beast it is now. I wonder how many would be like that if they'd really used a modern Mac. (I mean *really* used, not just a few minutes at an Apple Store.)