Butch opened this issue on Apr 04, 2007 · 51 posts
Butch posted Wed, 04 April 2007 at 11:33 AM
Yeah I do know that, one of my friends has been pointing that out to me for years, He is a dedicated Mac fantic. He has last count 7 of them from a note book to the new monster machine. My problems with Mac goes back to when I was trying to get my first new computer. I was looking at and this shows you how long ago it was, at a Swan 485/25 with a 50 megabyte harddrive (or something like that) and at whatever Apple computer was out at the time. When I called Apple to see about getting one they were less than helpful and the guy I talked to and I will never forget this basically said that, "...if I couldn't afford to buy an apple then an apple was probably too good for you and that I should get a cheap pc", basically he was telling me that Apple computers were too good for me. So I did I got a great PC, not the swan, for less than half of the cost of the Apple and it had bunch of software titles and I got a free printer as well. Over the years at the Comdex shows when they were still being held in Atlanta, I had several other run ins with the all mighty Apple company. I found their people snobbish and so smug that that if they stood out in the rain they would drown from having their noses so far up in the air. (And no, I wasn't looking for trouble when I talked to them, I was seeking infomation. At that time I was still considering an apple because I was just getting into computer graphic at that time.) There are several things that I still like about Apples but they still leave a really bad taste in my mouth whenever I have to deal with one. My fantic apple friend even gave me one of older apples to pay with and it was fun, but in the end I gave it back.
Over the years and through I don't know how many different computers as well several operations systems, I still think that for the average user and I put myself in that group, that for convience and ease of use, Windows still is the best solution. I don't think that windows is the end all to end all operating system, that MS thinks it is, but I have yet to find something that can replace it and still do all the stuff that I want to do, and as easy as I can do in under windows. If something comes along that can do that then I jump ship so fast you won't even see my shadow.