What's so great about Apple products?

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Rath said:

kowenicki said:
Technology for people who don't understand technology... juts plug and play.

Simple UI and great product design/build quality.

Thats about it.

I am a convert to Apple products, I appreciate good design and excellent build quality and its undeniable that Apple has this. I still have windows installed on my Mac so I'm losing nothing.

Cash? =P

In terms of tech alone Apple products are fairly expensive.

They're fairly expensive but not as much as people would lead you to believe. Macs come pretty jam-packed with both hardware and software features that are only found on the highest end Windows equipment (if at all).

It's just a matter of deciding whether those features are something you want or need.

My MBP was pricey (just a hair over two grand) but it came with a top of the line i7 chip, 8 gigs of RAM, OS X, iLife, a beautiful 1680 15.4" screen, aluminum casing (with the best trackpad on the market by a country mile), HD camera, Thunderbolt, blah blah blah. If you were to price out a similar Windows machine, it would have run me well over $1500 for the same hardware but it would still be missing Mac's awesome iLife software package and it still wouldn't have that awesome trackpad.

It's just a matter of what you value in a computer and what you don't. Macs certainly aren't for everybody but they have served me well for a long time.