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bomberboysk

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Ok, lets see what everyone thinks about apple.
For starters- THIS IS NOT A MAC VS PC OR OSX VS WINDOWS THREAD......
Basically, lets discuss the pro's and con's of the apple products. What do you think about the prices, features, etc of the apple product, on both the up and down side. I'll start with a few generalized ones:

Pro's:
-Stable and Fast operating system.
-Quality Hardware
-Innovative features such as multi-touch in a phone, ambient light sensors, etc
-Slick user interfaces
-Great battery life on notebooks
-Most of lineup has aluminum chassis
-Wifi Included in all current models

Pro's Added by tlarkin:
- Engineered from the ground up
- Apple takes out unneeded things, to keep it streamlined
- Stable
- Competitively priced for what you get
- Based on Unix, NeXT to be specific
- No major engineering or hardware changes between models, they keep it simple which goes into the quality of the machine
- Great support, had Apple actually give me brand new replacement computers over the years. Never had any other company ever do that.
- Can run any OS on their hardware, thus any Application as well
- Not a resource hog
- command line interface for everything in the OS, yes that is a plus for me!
- $129 for the OS for everything, none of that priced tiered feature limit crap
- tons of open source software available

Con's:
-Closed business model, os runs only on proprietary hardware.
-The mainstream user based models are non user upgradeable for the most part(ex- imac/mac mini)
-Price
-Limited choices as far as hardware/hardware configurations.
-Non user replaceable batteries in new macbook(pro's)
-Dropping of legacy support very fast(ex- PowerMac/Powerbook + Snow Leopard)

Lets expand the list on both pro's and con's shall we? (Will be added to top post)
 
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Sir Travis D

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The apple business model is like the FBI. It's closed, and you can't run it on what you want to. It's a greedy company, and makes 1/3 of their profits by selling phones (according to tlarkin)
 
tlarkin

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Sir Travis D said:
The apple business model is like the FBI. It's closed, and you can't run it on what you want to. It's a greedy company, and makes 1/3 of their profits by selling phones (according to tlarkin)
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Yeah you're a moron. I am bout to introduce you to my ignore list. You are quite entertaining with your trolling, but it is getting old very quick.
 
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Sir Travis D

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tlarkin said:
Yeah you're a moron. I am bout to introduce you to my ignore list. You are quite entertaining with your trolling, but it is getting old very quick.
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Is that all you can say, spread rumors and hate spam on these forums? Please stop doing that.
edit: My bad, I meant 2/3 of their profits are due to phones, according to tlarkin.
 
Gareth

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Windows Pro's and Cons

Pro's
Comes in a variety of specs, prices and highly customizable
Almost every current software on the market is compatible
Cheap to upgrade most machines
Good for gamers
Reliable
Most widely used and recognized.
Vista is very fast on the right setup

Con's
OEMs who ship cheap PCs use poor hardware and Windows gets blamed
Cheap hardware fails causing problems, again people blame windows
Software driver fails causing problems, again people blame windows
Heavily virus attacked
 
tlarkin

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Sir Travis D said:
Is that all you can say, spread rumors and hate spam on these forums? Please stop doing that.
edit: My bad, I meant 2/3 of their profits are due to phones, according to tlarkin.
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I don't have to spread rumors you are already making an ass of your self with out any help from me.
 
bomberboysk

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Gareth said:
Windows Pro's and Cons

Pro's
Comes in a variety of specs, prices and highly customizable
Almost every current software on the market is compatible
Cheap to upgrade most machines
Good for gamers
Reliable
Most widely used and recognized.
Vista is very fast on the right setup

Con's
OEMs who ship cheap PCs use poor hardware and Windows gets blamed
Cheap hardware fails causing problems, again people blame windows
Software driver fails causing problems, again people blame windows
Heavily virus attacked
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Damn... i was hoping for at least 10 posts before people not even reading the first post:(
bomberboysk said:
For starters- THIS IS NOT A MAC VS PC OR OSX VS WINDOWS THREAD......
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Sir Travis D

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Back on topic, I tried as hard as I could but I could not think of a positive aspect.
Now for negatives.

Paying triple for the same hardware (proven last year by me)
Unstable operating systems
Not compatible with most software, needs software to run the software
Copies most ideas by Microsoft and eComstation
 
g4m3rof1337

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Sir Travis D said:
Back on topic, I tried as hard as I could but I could not think of a positive aspect.
Now for negatives.

Paying triple for the same hardware (proven last year by me)
Unstable operating systems
Not compatible with most software, needs software to run the software
Copies most ideas by Microsoft and eComstation
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I'm surprised you didn't buy an Apple product, since you spent a lot of money on a POS Alienware.
 
bomberboysk

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Sir Travis D said:
Back on topic, I tried as hard as I could but I could not think of a positive aspect.
Now for negatives.

1.Paying triple for the same hardware (proven last year by me)
2.Unstable operating systems
3.Not compatible with most software, needs software to run the software
4.Copies most ideas by Microsoft and eComstation
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Lets number these:
1- Not quite
2- More like the opposite
3- Not compatible with WINDOWS software, then again, is linux? No, software that was written for windows is meant for windows. Do you see things like final cut on the pc? Nope....
4- Sure.... You know since microsoft had the first gui, microsoft had the dock, microsoft had transparent taskbars and menu's first, right? Oh wait... apple did...

^Sorry bout feedin the trolls there...

Now.........
GET BACK ON TOPIC, TRAVIS QUIT TROLLIN OR GET OUT
 
gamerman4

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congrats bomberboysk you succeeded in trolling the forum. You can't deny this because you knew with 100% certainty what this would turn into.
 
g4m3rof1337

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Sir Travis D said:
I have a powerbook, and a time capsule. They did not work.
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Whoopi shit, that has nothing to do with what I said.

`PaWz said:
Didn't he spend an extra $200 for an LED keyboard?
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Yes, yes he did.


gamerman4 said:
congrats bomberboysk you succeeded in trolling the forum. You can't deny this because you knew with 100% certainty what this would turn into.
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I wasn't trying to derail the thread, I think it's a valid topic, but when you have trolls trolling, you need to take care of it.
 
tlarkin

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Sir Travis D said:
Back on topic, I tried as hard as I could but I could not think of a positive aspect.
Now for negatives.

Paying triple for the same hardware (proven last year by me)
Unstable operating systems
Not compatible with most software, needs software to run the software
Copies most ideas by Microsoft and eComstation
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This is exactly why you are a moron:rolleyes:


OK, the Pros of the Mac Platform:

1) Engineered from the ground up
2) Apple takes out unneeded things, to keep it streamlined
3) Stable
4) Competitively priced for what you get
5) Based on Unix, NeXT to be specific
6) No major engineering or hardware changes between models, they keep it simple which goes into the quality of the machine
7) Great support, had Apple actually give me brand new replacement computers over the years. Never had any other company ever do that.
8) Can run any OS on their hardware, thus any Application as well
9) Not a resource hog
10) command line interface for everything in the OS, yes that is a plus for me!
11) $129 for the OS for everything, none of that priced tiered feature limit crap
12) tons of open source software available
 
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