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]

well, if you want to ignore apple ethics, then sure. but the ethics of the company play a part in my choice- for instance, i won't choose sony anymore, becuase of thier copy protection on thier CDs. it has affected my choice that blu-ray will suck, and it will affect my choice for many things. sure, i still buy sony, but only after careful examination, and only when quite beneficial.


as far as the powermac- aren't those discontinued? in contrast, the new macs, the ones that are "inspired by the ipod", and are basically a laptop's guts on a stand.

based on my dealings with laptops in general, i can pretty much say that, for a desktop, the new macs dont' seem that good at all.

first there's the premium for the compact parts. if you were to decide to get a new optical drive, assuming you could, it would require a laptop drive, i assume. a regular drive seems... a bit too big to fit in the mac. The building cost of a desktop from laptop parts is higher than an equal desktop from desktop parts. sure, there are slimline PCs, but those hardly seem good as well.

then, there's the problem of the whole thing being one package. sure, maybe you can upgrade th eparts inside- but you're stuck with the screen. you're stuck with that size.

which is why i say it's basically a laptop on a stand. to which i wonder: why not just get a laptop then? what's the point? for aesthetics?

i can't say much about OSX. i haven't used it. but the reasons to why OSX is better mostly entail problems with XP- problems i've never come across.

sure, it took me about 5 hours to install and configure all the software i wanted when i reinstalled windows (not becuase of any fatal errors or anything, i just wanted to get rid of 4 years worth of programs and files and such that had built up), but after that it's been smooth sailing.

quite frankly, i just don't see a reason to switch. i don't see a reason for mac users to go PC either.

[*mipadi*]

well, if you want to ignore apple ethics, then sure. but the ethics of the company play a part in my choice- for instance, i won't choose sony anymore, becuase of thier copy protection on thier CDs. it has affected my choice that blu-ray will suck, and it will affect my choice for many things. sure, i still buy sony, but only after careful examination, and only when quite beneficial.

I can respect such a decision, but it begs the question: If you feel so strongly about corporate ethics, why are you still using Windows? (I'm not trying to be a smartass, but your stance does raise that question.)

as far as the powermac- aren't those discontinued? in contrast, the new macs, the ones that are "inspired by the ipod", and are basically a laptop's guts on a stand.

I think you're talking about the iMac, I guess. At any rate, the PowerMac is still very much in the product line.

i can't say much about OSX. i haven't used it. but the reasons to why OSX is better mostly entail problems with XP- problems i've never come across.

There are certainly more reasons to switch than problems with XP. I can certainly say that the reasons I use OS X have little to do with perceived problems in XP.