It all boils down to the roots of Apple vs. IBM. Apple refused to sell
any rights to it's hardware tech, IBM did, and gave us IBM clones.
Apple continues this basic monopolistic principle, they want you to buy
everything from them, hardware, software, OS, etc.
Luther KB5QHU Forest Park, IL
'98 ML320 "Max" (171,xxx mi)
On 10/30/2013 8:13 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
I think its unfair to say that I hate Macs, I think Apple makes robust hardware
but I also think the love that the average Mac fanboy gives is missplaced.
Face it, Apple is going to break your wallet every 5 years or so. If you want
to keep up with the rest of the world (for surfing or running new software or
whatever) Apple will absolutely force you to upgrade at 5 years MAX because
they'll abandon you.
Has MIcrosoft done that? Absolutely NOT. WinXP is still seeing reasonably good
support for an OS thats 11 years old. In that time Apple has put out 7 or 8
versions of OS 10 and dropped support for who knows how many platforms. When
Microsoft leaves you its just because no new drivers get written for your
hardware, maybe somebody in the wild can work something up. When Apple leaves
you the OS detects your hardware platform and DENYS you.
I know I can get adapters and really the two that gall me are firewire and an RJ45 for
Ethernet, I'd forgotten there was an HDMI port. Two years ago Apple told us Firewire 800
was the bee's knees and we should all invest in it, now its "oh no, you really
wanted Thunderbolt..."
Windows 7 is a very good OS (8 sucks but that was to be expected) and is as
stable as 10.6+ and has much better third party support. Software support for
Macs will always be limited because Apple treats third party developers poorly.
I've now worked for 3 third party developers (admittedly 2 were competitors)
and apple seems to honestly enjoy pulling the rug out from under them.
Win7 is more configurable and gives way more kernel level support.
BTW, want to boot a PC to Linux on a key drive as a live disk (as I'm doing
right now)? Easy. Want it on a Mac? Can't be done, Apple doesn't want you doing
that...
I'm not saying Windows is a perfect OS but its a big world and there are
choices for everybody.
I did spend some time at Frys the other day looking at the $250 Chromebook.
Nice little laptop for the money...
-Curt
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