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"This is the reason why Windows PCs are pricier than Macs -- you're paying for OS X"Macs are generally pricier than Windows PCs.
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Right you are! I fixed!On Cost...
I'm both a mac and a pc user. Critical of both.But.
One thing that endlessly bothers me is comparison of sticker prices as if they matter.
Computers have quality. So does software. Comparing them as if they are all just 'items' is misleading.
Mac hardware is fairly solid. It ranks up there with higher end hardware from the most reputable PC dealers. Comparing bargain basement crap hardware (PC) to Mac hardware is misleading. I've had 4 mac laptops and 4 pc laptops. I've never ONCE had a problem with mac laptop hardware. 3 of the 4 pc laptops didn't work properly from day one. (one was a Dell, one a Toshiba, one was an LG. The Sony worked great until I dropped it).
Mac software is very solid and you also get, for essentially no extra cost, a bunch of very solid apps. Compare that to MS Windows XP SP2 (not so solid, but not terrible) and the cost of Office and so on to make it do what Snow Leopard does with, say, iLife and iWork and you are talking about $500 difference in price. Please don't say Mac software is expensive.
Now, place a value on the crappiness. Every time you have to fiddle to get a computer to work, 'charge' that amount of time at say $10 an hour to that system - add it to the 'cost.' I have informally tracked this for years and I find I spend about an hour a month fiddling with my mac and, for the PC, there are so many issues that I've simply given up on that the cost goes from 'wow, expensive' to 'how do you put a price on it just doesn't EVERY WORK.'
Total cost of ownership. Which is why even when I am running WinXPSP2 I run it on Mac hardware in a VM that I can clone and replace when it (inevitably) stops working properly.
I honestly hope Win 7 turns out to be 'as good as a Mac' because I spend a lot of time with Win software and the time I spend keeping it working isn't a win.
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Apple shmaple, give me a netbook running on bsd. Could care less about the entire OSX bag of baloney stolen from the BSD community. As long as there are free operating systems, true hackers won't care one iota about a crapmac.And anyone who waste time pushing osx to a netbook isn't a hacker, its just a kid with a script...
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your such a badass.You just sit there and
You just sit there and ignore all Microsoft done to make software better. you don't even understand why microsoft rewrites each new version of Windows instead of just tweaking it, what apple does.uhh.. why?
if it's not broken, don't fix it."It’s a transactional
"It’s a transactional world Dell lives in. It’s all about numbers. Everything they say about Apple making products for themselves is true. Apple — it’s about changing the world. For everyone else, it’s about the money."- Ken Segall (The man who named the iMac and wrote Think Different)
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Apple uses it's operating system to sell overpriced hardware and therefore keeps a Monopoly on the operating system.The proprietary software that came with the itunes has in fact caused a lots of headaches for many unaware windows xp users and has cost folks a lots of money by making reistalling windows xp a necessity.Yes the itunes and ipods and iphones are sleek product and work well but they are not worth the money and more often than not many folks buying these products merely as an status item.As for my part i will never purchase overly proprietary products from any company that includes Apple Products but as they say there is a sucker born every minute."Stolen" from the BSD community?
Whining about a company using software in a way that is freely allowed by its license sounds foolish and bitter.Foolish and bitter...
Let's not forget the self-esteem issues by the PC- using, TV- watching automatons, who let Apple's marketing influence them to hate Apple. Mind you, these are people who have never used a Mac, and simply hate them because of their effective marketing to the "hip" types (also automatons); marketing that makes them subconsciously feel bad that they aren't "cool". They have counselors for these types of issues, you know.The human species has evolved into a bunch of consuming, brainless morons...
i sort of resent that
i bought mac because i love the operating system. i'm not saying its perfect (i have managed to crash my mac) but it works a hell of a lot more often like it should than anything that ever came out of redmond washington. i've used both and this is what i decided on.