Let MS and Apple sort it out by letting Gates and Jobs fight each other.

 

I wish celeb deathmatch was still around

 

Well if you're not the tech savvy type then I'd probably stay away from putting a hackintosh together. Just because it's pretty intensive and it actually took me, who I consider to be pretty tech savvy a weekend to put together. I was ok with it because it was fun for me and I learned a few things about computers. Again, no real disrespect to anyone who gets a Mac. I just did it so be an annoying brother. Of course she then got an iPad and I was like fuk, I can't build that lol.

 

I had a toshiba laptop that lasted a good 3 years before dying. (Fan died, overheated and got blue screen of death. Never turned on after) that was shared between my brothers and myself while we were in middle school ... High school I custom built a desktop and had a fujitsu N series for awhile. That died only after 2 years. Keys fell off, computer stopped functioning correctly (like freezing while opening applications etc.) if i were to go PC again, i'd go with toshiba since that was the most reliable in my personal experience. A lot of my friends told me toshiba, lenovo, asus were good companies for laptops. However ... I'm happily waiting my new macbook pro in the mail Didn't really choose it because of hardware and overall specs, just wanted to try something different. On top of that it looks cool and it does everything I need it to do. Desktops I will always build my own since that's what I have been doing for the past 7 years or so. Didn't really like how the imac's performed. The Mac pro is just WAY out of my price range for eternity.

 

We can't let this thread die. Macs are ghey because they only have 1 mouse button, lolbuttonfail.

Iphones have to reinstall the entire iphone OS just to apply security fixes, lolbadprogrammingfail.

 

My iPhone's battery died and it never turned back on and had to be replaced. It also froze the iPod interface in my car after updated to 2.1.2. Grrr.

 

The major problem with Windows PC's is well....Windows. But then there's the parts bin engineering that all PC manufacturers have adopted to minimize costs that also drives them into a margin sapping price war with all the other clone vendors in a race to the bottom. If you want, or can only afford, cheap and are willing or forced to accept a poor user experience, you buy a Windows machine and focus on the "killer specs" to rationalize your inferiority complex.

Apple has chosen a closed ecosystem where they control key components of the design and supply chain including the OS and many applications. As a result, their unique product competes with none of the clones and they can demand a higher price. If you want the best industrial design, the best innovation, and the best user experience with very solid build quality, you go to Apple and get on with whatever it is you need a computer for.

 

sooooo......tricked out its like 14k?

 

That was one of the most ridiculous posts I've read in a while.
Thanks.

 

It cracks me up when people get on their anti-Mac soapbox and single them out like they're doing something bad. At least Mac's hardware is more closely controlled and you know what you're getting. Yes they're next to impossible to upgrade but most consumers opt to purchase a new computer rather than upgrade their existing one so that doesn't hold much water as far as I'm concerned. Sure Mac's are over-priced but they are also less problematic and have a superior OS. Sure if you're a techie you can probably get Leopard to run on any hardware but it will be a pain in the rear and most likely will be problematic. If you wan't to beat on people for over-pricing then let's talk about Alienware. I priced out my hardware with Alienware before building my own and they wanted $4K for a machine that I built for $1,200. All this is nothing more than a short term issue anyways...as 'the cloud' continues to gain traction, 'PCs' and OS's for that matter will become obsolete for the most part as this will become a service based industry. Buy Google stock...they're the next Apple.