Having used an iMac for a bit more than a casual glance I think they're pretty good. I'd certainly put it above most of the Linux desktops I've used (and my use goes back to the days of Slackware 2.0 in around 1994 and covers a number of revisions of Slackware, RedHat (both pre and post Fedora), OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, as well as other Unix desktops like Solaris and Irix).
I know a number of people who've gone to the fruity side and never looked back and my only real problems with it are cost and user maintenance of hardware. I currently use a 4GB Q6600 with a 750GB drive and two 1650x1080 screens running off an ATI HD3870 which cost about the same as the 24-inch 2.66Ghz Imac (and is a lot cheaper than the cheapest Mac Pro). With the Imac I'm pretty much locked into those specs, but, my Q6600 originally had a 1650x1080 and 1280x1024 monitor running off a Nvidia 8400 card, a 250GB drive, and 2GB of RAM, and I've been able to do all the upgrades myself. Every 6 months or so I try a Linux desktop and I've got to admit I've never had a good experience. The problems ranged from hardware support to screen performance (scrolling was just painful last time I tried OpenSuSE 10.3 on my Q6600 with the proprietary drivers), and as for USB devices, well, that's hit and miss. At the moment I'm trying Ubuntu 8.04-LTS on an eeeBox, but the screen resolution is stuck at 1024x768 on a 1280x1024 and I don't have the time to spend hours tweaking. For me Windows has always just worked. Yes I've had blue screens every now and again, but my last one was about 6 months ago, and I rarely see them more frequently than that. Add to that I can go into a local store, buy any stock piece of hardware and know it'll work when I get it home rather than hoping it's supported or drivers are available, and I can see the reason people stay on Windows. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of lbcoder Sent: 06 April 2009 13:57 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Will prices of mac vs. pc's encourage devs over to Android? I looked at apple once. OS version 10.5 ish, I think. It seemed to function, but had such a goofy UI that it was essentially useless. I never gave them one thin dime and don't intend to. See, I think the way that OS's lie is as follows; Apple: its all about image at the complete expense of functionality. Think Italian sports car. MS: kind of like a russian car. It gets you there sortof, but it might explode along the way. Linux/other UNIX: like a Japanese pickup. Practical, reliable, functional, and you can beat the crap out of it and it keeps on going. On Apr 6, 8:40 am, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > Mac is like the BMW of computers. That should say it all. > > On Apr 6, 2009, at 6:53 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > This weekend I had what I thought was a pretty good idea for a product > on Android. But then I figured I didn't want an iPhone dev to steal > the idea and cash in so to speak, so I figured I'd look into a > simultaneous release on both platforms. > > But I got a shock when I researched the cost of Macs this weekend. I > have recently purchased a top-spec PC laptop for under £500 ($750). > > For the same price I couldn't even get the lowest spec MacBook and if > I was looking at a higher end MacBook Pro, I'd be looking at 3 to 4 > times the price! > > And ultimately the Mac is just another development tool that lets me > browse the web, send emails and view pictures. I have read so much on > Mac forums about better build quality, security and quicker setup > times, but I have had no issues whatsoever with my new PC and I set it > up in about 10 minutes! > > Is it just me or are the Mac brigade trying to make themselves feel > better about how much money they are burning on 'superior' Mac > hardware? > > Anyway, back to the point - could this be a driver in helping the > Android market to eventually outperform the iPhone market? After all, > once the momentum builds for Android and devs can see that they can > use Java, make a minimal investment on hardware and make the same > returns on their apps, why even consider the Mac route? > > Also the economic recession could have an impact on Mac where casual > users / developers cannot justify spending the extra money on a > machine that ultimately does the same thing. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
