macs suck., pcs rule. Options

[sadolakced acid]

well, really, it's just a friendly mac v pc thread, and i know it's been posted before, but really, more people will click here if i name it 'macs suck'

my beef with macs-

i used mac OS way back when. bad experiences. not too much a legitimate reason today, but a reason none the less.

but the major one:

proprietary.

i don't know about now, but i know before that everything apple makes, they make it proprietary if they can.

for example, a PC owner can easily upgrade thier optical drive. they could pop in some more memory, or add in a new sound card.

now, sure, mac hardware may be good already, but you won't deny it's not the best, that would be much too expensive.

and as time goes by, it means the only way to upgrade is with a totally new computer.

i mean, sure, it works fine for people who don't want to be bothered to upgrade thier computers, and for the average user, macs are probably pretty good.

but i can't be hassled to buy a new comptuer if i want a CD burner and don't have one.

now, maybe apple has changed and i'm not up with the times. but irregardlessly, i severly dislike and avoid any company that insists on proprietary measures at any time.

which is why i do, and probably always will, hate apple.

[sadolakced acid]

i have said that i don't have experience with newer macs. but i do know the older macs- incompatable mice, incompatable microphones, incompatible moniters.

that may have changed. but irregardless, the design of macs are prohibitive to upgrading. I have no doubt that the new macs that "work right out of the box" use laptop parts. And i'm pretty sure that although they are replacable, it's most likely with apple parts, and not all of them.

if you're going to have a desktop, might as well make it a PC. i don't like laptops because they're too hard to upgrade- right now i'm stuck with a 16 mb graphics card. If i had a desktop pc, i'd have bought a new one for 100 bucks and popped it in.

so sure, apple products are probably user upgradable. But this is at a backseat to style and cosmetics.

for the average user- macs probably are great.

anyways, i just posted this thread so that we can yell at people who start mac/ pc bashing in topics. i'd like to once read a topic about macs or ipods without any bashing happening.