| Dragonos said: You fail to realize that people have different uses for their computers, they dont need any of these features that belong to OSX (and by the way, please explain what these are. because other than "media creating features" i dont see the point to macs. crashing and bloatware can be dealt with by any decently computer-literate person, so i dont count that). |
That's another thing I don't understand....why pay for what is essentially a specialized *nix system + a few proprietary (and IMHO overpriced) programs, when you can get cheaper non-mac hardware and just run linux + hundreds of open source programs on it for free? I suppose it may have something to do with the "it just works" thing....but at this point in time if you're really looking for that distros like ubuntu tend to "just work" out of the box as well.
My biggest problem with macs though is also the price. I bought a Dell laptop about 8 months ago that has a slowish (but adequate) core 2 duo, a dedicated GPU, and 2 gigs of memory for about $650...the cheapest mac laptop at the time had a faster processor, but had no descreet gpu available....not to mention its base price was over $1k....why doesn't apple want to compete in that (my notebook's) segment?
(and no, my laptop is not over 10 pounds, does not overheat, and has decent build quality)
