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]

not a word based on who?

dictionaries are politics.

languages evolve all the time. there is no such thing as "not a word".

to me, inflammable means just that- not flammable. i don't care what websters or oxford says. eventually, if enough people believe that, then webster and oxford will agree with me.

regardless is not the word i'm looking for. irregardless is. and i don't give a damn what your english teacher says. and i sure as hell am not going to simply follow others.


anyways, michael, those new spiffy macs that you see in commercials. the ones that are just a laptop's guts on a screen stand. those. can you upgrade those? can you add RAM to those?

most likely the answer is yes, but (insert complication here). i don't know for sure.

i'm not focusing on upgradabillity as what everyone wants in computing. i'm focusing on it because it's what i want.

and also, choice.

sure, you can upgrade mac products. but is it to another apple product? or a company that pays money to apple for the 'right' to sell products compatible with thiers?

it's the same reason i like firefox. it's not much better than other programs, opera, for instance, gives it a run for it's money. but i like firefox.

i can customize it however i want. the exentions i used don't even have to be approved by mozilla, much less created by them. i can make it mine, so much so that it's hard for me to use someone else's firefox.

why should computers be different? it's a Personal computer. in the days when multiple users shared one computer, one uniform interface made sense. multiple user accounts was an attempt at a compromise.

but now, my computer is mine. people may borrow it, but they recognize that the settings are mine. if i had a desktop, i would change it however i wished. mac owners know what version thier mac is. The specs. if you picked up someone else's mac of the same type, you pretty much know what it's going to be.

PCs are different. for instance, ask kryo what he's running. then try to find 100 people running the same specs as him. i doubt you'll find one.

for most users, macs are the better choice. but for anyone who's not content with using a compromise (because one computer can't be the right one for everyone), then PCs are better.