Why I went Mac

Well, my macbook should arrive tomorrow, I've always wanted a Mac since the cheetah days so I'm not falling for any hype personally.
 
Gosh, I started on a mac in 1992, think it was a Mac Classic - 512kb of ram, Photoshop 1 etc etc. Swore by them until 2002 when I wanted a graphics card to play a game (yes, the mac did get one or two). Seems the card cost almost twice the price - Mac certified - compared to the PC cards - offered by many manufacturers. All that had changed was a bit of 'Mac-friendly' BIOS code. From that day I dumped the excess drain my wallet would entail and went PC and have never looked back. I get to choose every single component I want and build it myself. Why get a Mac - all done in a factory and totally impersonal - when you can hand-assemble your own? And as to XP: it works. I like the fact that it uses little RAM and doesn't have all the eye-candy overkill. To me, the latter maketh not a good OS. Maybe if Vista really sucks in 2 years when I migrate, I'll look to alternatives, but I'm darn sure it'd be Linux long before joining the Mac camp. Oh, and another thing I remember is how ignorant some Mac fanboys are. Had a dinner with some designers whom told me images open quicker on Macs... designed for graphic work. Try explaining it's the processor, RAM, HD speed etc and I'm sure it went over their heads. Another reason why building your own is important: you're actually in touch with the tools you're using day to day.
 
PCs are all good and well, and I will always have one or two in my house... but I have always wanted a Mac, even more so since OS X came out... The laptops are just incredibly sexy... as are the iMacs and MacPros....
 
PearlJam said:
Another one falls for the apple marketing hype ;)
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Hate to break it to you, but there's a lot more to the increasing success of the Mac than just marketing hype ... seems you're a bit behind the curve, but I guess you'll eventually realise once it becomes blindingly obvious and their success too commonplace to ignore. In the US, around 30% of home computer purchases are now Macs, and customer satisfaction surveys that over 80% of Mac owners are "very satisfied" with their systems - compared with only 61% for PCs. I guess you'll assume that every one of those people has just fallen for hype, and that they're all idiots unable to evaluate their own real-world day-to-day experiences on their systems. Whatever. I'm afraid the cliches and stereotypes about Mac users back when they represented a miniscule percentage of the market are now hopelessly out of date, you'll have to get some new cliches. Amazing what a marketing company can make you believe, i.e. Microsoft's marketing team have manipulated so many people into believing anyone who defends a Mac should be derided for drinking Steve's 'Kool-Aid' - how childish. They did very well at that, and yet in SPITE of these ignorant artificial obstacles, Mac is succeeding.

Anyway, Macs are certainly a bit more expensive in terms of upfront purchase price, but I worked out the other day that, based on the amount of time I've WASTED trying to get even *basic* things to work on my Vista system, in terms of opportunity costs, it would've been much cheaper to go for a Mac back when I bought my current system. In other words, as they used to say about Linux, PCs are only cheaper if your time has no value. Sorry, but my time does.
 
For sheer good looks and usability, though, I have to say that Leopa 514 rd beats all rivals.
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Pity Duncan couldnt figure out how to install compiz-fusion on linux, otherwise he would realize that perhaps that statement is not as accurate as he thinks.
 
Soulsnatcher said:
How does ubuntu compare?
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Well, since you can make Ubuntu look exactly like the Mac desktop... I would say pretty good. This little nugget from the article was good though :)

The world of operating systems has made significant strides in the past two decades. We have Linux, built on free and open-source software which, in many ways, is now superior, in stability, security and usability, to Microsoft Windows.
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:D

Superior = Agreed
Stability = Maybe agrees, if only IF you now wtf you are doing
Security = Tied (M$ made some big strides on this)
Usability = Don't agree. Only if you have like an M.Systems Eng. would you truly use Linux in a more superior way than Windows.

But still good though...

I really wish Shuttleworth's vewnture gets off the ground though... With ubuntu as his key selling point...
 
Turtle said:
Anyway, Macs are certainly a bit more expensive in terms of upfront purchase price, but I worked out the other day that, based on the amount of time I've WASTED trying to get even *basic* things to work on my Vista system, in terms of opportunity costs, it would've been much cheaper to go for a Mac back when I bought my current system. In other words, as they used to say about Linux, PCs are only cheaper if your time has no value. Sorry, but my time does.
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When will people learn to not switch to a new MS OS until at least the 2nd service pack... *sigh*
 
I have come to like Mac's. I wonder what took me so long really to join the hype. BUT I personaly find that they are not for day-to-day business as opposed to MS (depending of course). What I mean is, one has to struggle to find software to do mundane things. You have to spend time on the internet researching on software applications. And that also is not easy, you almost have know what you're looking for. It's the same with Linux as well. One has to be involved... In MS they do everything for you. If it's not standard with your PC, you tell them what is it you want to do and the answer/solution is instantenous. Not so with Mac. They don't even know what MS Project is. Good luck if want do manage projects. I think MS is easy in terms of Magageability, Practicality, After sale support. With Mac you have to pay diferent people for variuos applications that you might need to use. Most of these are internet transactions. Talk about "client/supplier relationships", huh, on internet. MS is onestop shop...
 
A shop where most people run in and go "Arrr me maties.... hand over the booty like good chaps!"
 
cablemonkey said:
Piracy bwana.
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Sure - I got that but I'm trying to figure out how it ties in with the thread. :o

I'll figure it out eventually. It's early and I'm still on my first cup of coffee :)
 
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