Posted:
Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:44 amby benwynn
You cant really say that Deeknow, have you ever used a Mac? Im 99% sure your opinion of them would change, for the better or the worse.
Strictly a PC Guy ay Andrew? Fair Enough, But I have 2 fortunently. My PC for Flight Sim, and my MacBook for everything else
Posted:
Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:36 amby Daniel
Nope, I won't be. Don't have the money at the moment anyway.
With Apple you pay for the brand. Tom brought up a good point about the price for Apple branded cords etc.
I don't have any Apple branded thing at the moment.
Posted:
Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:51 pmby Anthony
I won't be buying an iPhone because I'm happy with current phone and it's on the wrong network anyway (Telecom for the win and the lose).
Plus I have a lot of other things I want to buy and the amount I have now doesn't quite stretch to cover those things let alone an iPhone.
As a Mac user, but not a religiously nutty one, I figure I may as well say something about it.
Daniel is correct - with Apple you pay a lot for the brand. The other things you pay for are the user interface, simplicity, etc but a lot of it is the brand.
Is it worth it? To some it is.
Apple's prices are a rip in many ways - especially for 'accessories' like cords and extra RAM.
Disclaimer: At the moment I own a MacBook and an iPod from Apple. I also own two Windows computers plus the family computer which is also Windows.
My mum, as a teacher, has a school laptop which is also Windows. I think it's safe to say that I'm fairly platform agnostic.
Posted:
Tue Jul 01, 2008 6:49 pmby toprob
Way back when I started the copy centre, we used a Mac as a print server, but did most of the work on a PC. The Mac cost about $30,000, the PC was $5,000. (Although the Mac had 512MB of RAM, whereas the PC only had 128...) I guess it was a matter of taste -- the Mac had PhotoShop installed (which I only used for scanning), and I suppose I could have got to love the Mac, but it really seemed clunky to me. I guess things have changed now, but I preferred the freedom of Windows' windows, if you'll excuse the expression.
But the main reason for setting up the print bureau part was a direct reaction to the Mac-centric digital print market. It was almost impossible to get a PC file printed here in Christchurch, and most bureaus had an attitude which I always took to be snobbery. Now I know that they just didn't really have a clue about PCs, because Apple did all the necessary training for the Mac, supplied all the software for free, and it wasn't that easy to get the same support for PCs.
One day when I'm rich I want a huge wide white Mac screen on a little table when I walk inside, to check my messages....
But I do understand the power of peer pressure. My ex-wife (the first one, not the second...) would only want an Ipod, because that's what all her friends had -- it wouldn't matter if you could get a nice MP3 player for cheap -- you just couldn't explain the difference to her.
My kids are a bit more sensible, but that's mainly because of the un-green reputation of Apple.
The same thing applies to game consoles -- younger folk want a Playstation 3, because then they belong to a 'club', but if you do the normal consumer research, there's no way a PS3 would be a suitable choice, unless money was no object.
.. running around a work site with the COMUNERCATOR 
.. not sure whether bout to kill convo .... or button to push 
.. iPhone .. is that a IanPhone targeting the non user 
but real 
COS ITS SO BRILLIANT ITS ALMOST REAL - she'd be gettin giddy AND thats when the BAG COMES IN HANDY .. you can now spend some money for yourself and flightsim
(Fortunently it will come out on pc I hope 