| Bitmap Frogs said: Ah, once you are done swallowing the whole price-difference thingalingy, I'd like you to explain why pc's are better for word processing (considering both office and open source office suites run on mac os x), internet (there's a crapload of browsers and other web-based utilities like ftp's available for mac os x) or gaming (considering you can just bootcamp into your gaming windows partition from any mac). |
for the first two - i can't say anything against them, other than disolitude's comment about some aps not running well on the OSX. But i can speak for the latter, which is purely convenience. Simply put - i often do small tasks inbetween gaming sessions (chatting, internet, whatever), or literally during if i have to wait for something for some odd reason (mind you, this is the same reason why i'm a big fan of running games in its own window). In other words, i dont like having to switch to a different OS (in my case, my ubuntu partition) simply to do a specific task, then know that i will have to reboot into the other OS when im done. likewise, as someone else noted - the little differences in the user interfaces themselves simply become tedious (i.e. my annoyance at simply resizing / maximizing a window when using a Mac), making you want to stick to one OS, even if you need the other for whatever reason. But that's probably just me, that has little patience for small (and somewhat unneccessary) annoyances.
so yeah, no good reason - just convenience. in other words - the will to be lazy.
also - disolitude made a good point that i didnt realize until now concerning mac prices - yes, they are competitively priced shortly after their revisions but like you noted - the last revision was in february - this article relates to august sales (i think, i forgot). The thing that bugs me is that in essence, the extra profit that apple made off these laptops was....bad for the consumer in general, since at that point in time they could've gotten something far more worth their money in terms of computer specs, at least. I mean, i have no problem if they wanted a mac for the sake of using OSX (basically, they paid a premium to use said OS in this instance), but it just seems to me that unless apple revises their product more often, its just...feels like a ripoff to purchase so late into the "model revision". If that made any sense. But i guess thats why apple had the 300 dollar itouch deal along with the 200 dollar rebate that i think impulsivity noted - so atleast that makes me feel better about said situation.
/mini rant
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