Posted on 01/28/2014 3:21:35 PM PST by NYer
Well,,,, I just got a new iMac. The electric company blew up the power supply in my ancient Quicksilver G-4. I love this thing. Best user interface there is. My lady friend has some Dell thing. It stinks! The iMac is so much easier to use.
My PC music computer is dying. At the same time the 8 in 8 out Mark Of The Unicorn audio interface is showing signs of age and the recording software version I have is no longer supported.
The new audio interface that I desire (Universal Audio Apollo)ONLY works on Mac. I’ll have to learn a new software AND a new computer OS AT THE SAME TIME! It’s gonna suck!
Today, I don't have any Apple products, just don't really need them, as other products works just as well for me and at a better price. Having grown up, I tend to roll my eyes at the fanboys too, but I know where they are coming from.
Regardless of how you feel about it, there is no doubt that Apple has pushed the envelope, and we are all better off for it.
No, I don't care about the premium price. Don't even bother trying to convince me that I can get a lot more Chevrolet for my money than I can buying a Porsche Carrera-Turbo: Yes, I am well aware that you can tinker-build an unreliable bitchin' Camaro in your garage that'll do 10 seconds in the quarter mile for a fraction of the price of a Porsche 997 GT2, but anyone with a brain knows that the Porsche supercar will be the far nicer car to own and drive in every way imaginable.
I love my Mac also.
Parallels gives you the best and worst of both worlds (Mac and PC).
Run MasterCam on the windows seven side and have really never had a problem whats so ever with my 2010 MacBook Pro.
Girl friend has a Dell and as far as I am concerned it is a terrible machine I am always fixing it for her.
Ping.
for those who don’t do windows ping.
I was an original mac head. Loved my SE/30. I still think it’s one of the best computers they ever made. I was an early member of the Seattle “DBUG” user group that met at the Seattle center back in the 80s. Guy Kawasaki was an inspiration.
I branched out into Windows NT... Netware... Cisco... And never really got into the comparative religion aspects of computer ownership. There are good and bad things about them all, and they’ve all played their key roles in the development of all the technologies we take for granted today. I managed a WAN with hundreds of servers... Windows, Mac, Unix and even VMS.
Now I still have a couple of windows7 computers at home but I have an iPhone and I’m typing this on my iPad, sitting in a bar. :-).
Viva Steve Jobs. Viva Bill Gates. Between the two of them they created the foundation that I built my career on— a career that served me well enough to let me retire at 50.
(Runs and hides)
I know Microsoft isn't much better, but with Windows you can buy an AMD and as little MS software as possible.
Go hide under your Bill Gates mosquito net! Or are you using it to cover your goats like the African peasants for whom goats are worth more than chilrun?!
competition and dueling egos did make both improve. maybe not exactly the way we wanted, or as fast, but it did.
not really a proper comparison.
corvette vs porsche may be a better one.
Apple and the rest of us could really use better competition than Blue Screen, Inc out of Seahawkland!
Thanks for the ping. In January 1987 I saw an article about a program called MacInTax that said it was so good that it was worth buying the Mac Plus computer. I did. It was. And I have been a constant Mac user ever since.
Get a Mac! It comes with Garage Band ... you'll love it!
Don't forget the Norton! (Not needed on a mac).
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