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]

look michael, you seem overtly defensive.

i came out in the begining and said that this is MY problem with macs. not THE problem with macs.

i don't see how that translates into an attack on macs in general.

i'll tell you my perceptions of macs, and you'll correct them, alright?

1- with a mac, you're pretty much stuck with what you've got.

2- you have to deal with the ego of steve jobs. for instance, years of insisting that one mouse button was the way to go, and then when coming out with a two button mouse, acting as if they were coming out with something revolutionary that was much better than all the other two button mouses in the world.

3- apple claimed that, by simply switching to intel, using the same chips as everyone else, they made a comptuer 5 times as fast as existing ones. i saw the commercials. and i'm pretty sure that that's a pretty far fetched claim.

4- you pay a premium for style, style you may not even like. sure, the new macbooks are pretty cheap. but why the heck is the black one, the only one i like, more expensive? for no other reason?

5- mac users, in general, think their better, sort of like the linux users. somehow, using a mac makes them much better than windows users.

6- apple is all about proprietary. when they can get away with it, they'll go proprietary. of course, they do recognize when they can't, but they try to use proprietary whenever they can.

7- apple makes little effort to be compatible with PCs. i know before, when floppy disks were still quite prevalent, the problems with different disk formatting. i don't know if that applys now (i think it does, in USB drives, for instance), but it seems to be a general trend from apple.

8. apple thinks they're better. intel chips sucked- untill they started using them. (look at the ads). PCs aren't fun- yet they offer about the same set of software. two mouse buttons sucked- untill apple made a mouse with two.

numbero eight is a pretty big thing for me.