I hear things like this from friends all the time. I wonder where people get these ideas...
Like the idea that you can't upgrade macs, or the idea that you can't get third-party upgrades. There are whole stores and websites devoted to competitively priced mac upgrades, and from a large variety of manufacturers. And yet, this is probably the number one reason I get from friends for why they buy PC's instead of macs. They have this vague idea that having empty PCI slots (which is all you get on the cheap models anyway) somehow enriches their lives.
Same thing with pricing. Surely, there have been enough direct comparisons conducted by blogs and websites recently that it should be easy to inform oneself that macs are competitively priced at both the high and low end of the market.
Sure apple products are aesthetically pleasing, and have very successful marketing campaigns but at worst this is something to be ignored.
The only explanation I can come up with for these weird excuses is that the people who make them feel comfortable with their ability to use windows, and are afraid they would have to start all over again if they switched. The only thing worse than having to read the comments of a "noob" on a forum is the fear of becoming one yourself I guess. When I switched, though, I found myself spending so much less time dealing with malware, tinkering with the registry, and other such garbage that I actually had time and energy left over to learn how to use my computer better.
One last thought: why do I care so much (aside from the ugly brand loyalty which I will grudgingly admit to having developed)? I think it's a distaste for really bad arguments: I am trained as a logician.
J. Anton
· 2 years ago
This is exactly why I don't read comment threads on Digg. Every time I do I feel like I was hit in the head with a hammer, and am now a little bit dumber for it.
J. Harrison
· 2 years ago
Besides this guy being a complete and udder idiot. He probably never has really sat down with a mac nor has he really educated himself on the real side of apple products. He fed into the same BS that told him the Windows and PC are far superior. Personal preference is how I look on it. Today is a good example. I had purchased the G5 PowerMac and had to install crap ton of software that I had purchased with it. And today my friend calls me over to show me his new Toshiba P105 laptop with the new "Vista" windows on it. And he proceed to tell me oh how his laptop was going to blaze past mine and how much better it was. (Please note that I just had a Toshiba P25 with WinXP for school up until a few days ago. So I am not completely bias to Apple.) So we power it up.. even with a gig of ram it took 20 minutes to set up. Then to uninstall all the extras that he didn't want. Which was literally half of the programs installed. Then installed 2 media programs and Nero 7. Ok this is what got me. It took almost 6 hours from the time we started to finish and in the end it still didn't let Nero 7 install because of it eatting so much memory to run. I am sorry. Yeah he paid way less than I did. But at that cost. I am sorry to say.. he has a piece of crap.
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Like the idea that you can't upgrade macs, or the idea that you can't get third-party upgrades. There are whole stores and websites devoted to competitively priced mac upgrades, and from a large variety of manufacturers. And yet, this is probably the number one reason I get from friends for why they buy PC's instead of macs. They have this vague idea that having empty PCI slots (which is all you get on the cheap models anyway) somehow enriches their lives.
Same thing with pricing. Surely, there have been enough direct comparisons conducted by blogs and websites recently that it should be easy to inform oneself that macs are competitively priced at both the high and low end of the market.
Sure apple products are aesthetically pleasing, and have very successful marketing campaigns but at worst this is something to be ignored.
The only explanation I can come up with for these weird excuses is that the people who make them feel comfortable with their ability to use windows, and are afraid they would have to start all over again if they switched. The only thing worse than having to read the comments of a "noob" on a forum is the fear of becoming one yourself I guess. When I switched, though, I found myself spending so much less time dealing with malware, tinkering with the registry, and other such garbage that I actually had time and energy left over to learn how to use my computer better.
One last thought: why do I care so much (aside from the ugly brand loyalty which I will grudgingly admit to having developed)? I think it's a distaste for really bad arguments: I am trained as a logician.