I do not own any products made by Apple
Anymore, anyway.
I do remember clearly the moment when I cracked open the tape on the box containing my very first computer, an Apple 2E. I remember playing the simple games that came with it, I remember typing thousands of words using the very crude word processor. I remember using the word/mailmerge/etc pretty much at it’s capacity, straining the software at it’s very seams to do the things I needed done.
These days, I rarely find a feature missing in a piece of software; if I want to do something, chances are that some geek in an office three thousand miles away has already planned for my need.
Most of what I do cannot be done on an Apple, the better engineering software etc. is written for PC only, and most of the software used to communicate with machine tools, PLC’s, etc. is written exclusively for PC.
If, on the other hand, all I ever did with a computer was surf, type, look at pictures and video, I’d be getting an apple. The Imac is rocketship fast for what it does, and for 90% of the population, is the best computer they can buy. The UNIX based OS is what the platform lacked from the beginning, and now it has it.
I’m not a fanboi of either platform. They’re tools. Use the one that works for you. Frankly, the day I have adequate wealth to allow me never to touch an electronic device again will be the happiest day of my life.
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Put your last two posts together and you have: “We’re all slaves to Steve Jobs”, and that pretty much sums up the pirate/victim relationship THERE, eh?
Once you take your first suck at the Apple teat, you are forever in Jobs’ pocket. You can take that first suck with a spendy, and no more useful computer, or you can take it with a spendy, but no more useful I-phone, or you can take it with a spendy, but no more useful music player.
Get the thread? All of Jobs’ stuff is too spendy, and no more useful than other computing hardware. Want a fast computer with a super-speed O/S? Buy a re-built PC and rework it to run Linux in one of it’s many forms. If you do anything else, you are not living the maximum life. Apple sure won’t get you to that Nirvana, if you think it’s Nirvana.
Actually, having run the Imac at work, there is nothing that deals better with photographs or videos or normal websurfing, owing to the OS being Unix and very clean. This is not a supposition, it is a fact.
I like Jobs and Gates pretty well equally. And there are a good solid number of people plainly too stupid to drive a PC under any circumstances.
Other than my IPod(s)I own no other Apple products.
Having said that, the user interface for I-phones, IPods (and I-tunes), and their computers is easily the best of all the competing products.
I own an android phone, and gotta say that they have a way to go to meet the iphone user interface.
My PC handles photos and video plenty fast. But then, I built it to.
6 core Athlon processor, 8 gigs of triple channel RAM (I know, I know, it’s technically more than photoshop will ever use…right…), 4 1TB hard drives in a RAID 0+1 array and a nice 1GB video card run Windows 7 with aplomb and then some.
I only buy a computer every 5 years, but when I do, I make sure it’s big enough to last.
Randy: I’m a PC geek. I use PC’s all the time because they work for me. And ALL the software I need runs only on a PC.
Until I saw the way the Imac, Intel based,unix box, I never saw anything deal with photos and videos that fast. I’d consider a Hackintosh just for that purpose. Trust me on this, there’s nothing like it.
Hmmmm. I may have to test one out then, because a fair chunk of my usage is Photoslop based. Hell, part of my hardware purchases for this machine were so that I wouldn’t ever have to see the “system lacks resources” message ever again.
Check it out. I have a couple of pretty hot boxes, (I have to use Solidworks and other pretty intense stuff) and they can’t compete.
Wuzgonnasay that now that Macs run Unix on Intel processors, what you basically have is a pretty interface and some clver hacks, but the diff between Macs and Wintel machines is diminishing. I would not be surprised if, sometime down the road, Apple switched the underlying OS to Windows. Maybe Jobs’ successor might do it.
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If they did that, it would be a great shame. Unix is clean, functional, and very fast.
if you load Quicken, for instance, on a Wintel machine, you have a bucketload of drivers and librarioes it has to use, wheras Quicken for the Imac is one very small file, and it runs like a raped ape.
No, the preferred thing would be for Windows to go UNIX, that would change the landscape of computing, possibly forever. These are just my opinions, I’m not an expert- I only kn ow what I see, and I see Apple boxes handling things better because of the (presumably) low overhead of the UNIX os.
Didn’t say it would be a good thing.
I like the ability in OS X to go behind the GUI and deal with the OS on a command line basis. Always bugged me about earlier versions.
Would be nice if MS would adapt Windows to UNIX. Or even *NIX — like Linux. Can’t see Gates or Ballmer going there, though.
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We have an iPod where both my wife’s music and mine both reside, that’s it.