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TheRealMafoo on 20 September 2008
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lapsed_gamer said:
TheRealMafoo said:
freebird4 said:
Apple's are for people who want to think they're special.

Yeah, you are special. It takes a special kind of dumbass to pay $500-1000 extra for an Apple with half the compatibility of a PC.

 

I bought my Mac Book Pro 17" 2.5 years ago.

I wanted a laptop that was an inch thick, metal, 1680x1080 screen, dual core, under 7 pounds, built in webcam, back light keyboard, 802.11g, 256 meg video card, and over 4 hours of batter life.

Can you show me the PC I should have bought that's $500-$1000 less then the $2900 I spent? Can you show me one at all that was around 2.5 years ago? Can you show me one today?

I will save you some time (because I looked). There was none. The closest was a Dell, and it was bigger, heavier, slower, and cost a hell of a lot more.

 

Quite the bold challange: spout some specific specs of a three year old computer and tell us to match them. How about this: give us a current Mac and we will find a cheaper alternative. Just in case you were planning on using the size of the Air, ours may be just a little heavier, but it will have a media drive.

The point is, with Windows (and Linux) you have options of competing hardware. Prices are lower, and for that matter the generally low prices of computers is thanks to this competition.

 

 

I bought my Mac to run Windows. I didn't care about OSX at the time, I just wanted the best Windows hardware. I could not find a  laptop that could beat it on function. I then ran dual boot, and over time, as I learned OSX, XP kept pissing me off. I would want XP to do all the things OSX would do for me. Then Vista came out, and tried to do all the things OSX does, but it was buggy as hell. I finally blew away my Windows install, and am completely OSX on this machine.

One thing people seem to forget. Apple is primarily a hardware company. MS a software company. OSX is a version of UNIX they throw on there hardware, but they are selling the hardware. You could get 90% of what OSX does if you put Linux on a PC.

A better comparison between two companies, would be Apple vs. Dell, or HP, or IBM.