If You Hate Apple and Macs, Read This

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I've got both Apples and PC's. I like them both for different reasons. I've built PC's for over 20 years and it's fun upgrading them, tweaking and bench marking them etc. I've never cracked open a Mac and tried switching out components, nor would I ever try. Apples make some tasks easier by virtue of included and integrated software. You can do the same on a PC, but you have to purchase the software separately and piece it together which isn't quite as elegant of a solution. PC users have more software choices available to them - especially games. Gaming on the Mac is not that great, and in many instances outright stinks. Games ported from Windows to OSX are sometimes twitchy and almost always slower.

But most importantly: hardware is hardware is hardware. It doesn't matter whether it's Mac hardware or PC hardware. Most of it is made by the same Asian hands and only sold to different customers. But tech support for Mac users in case of a hardware failure is superlative compared to that available to PC users. Apple customer service is second to none. Now whether that's important to you or not, depends upon your abilities and confidence levels.
 
Nice article. I'll admit, I do not like Apple and Macs. But the only reason for this is because I find that many Mac users preach Apple as if is from the mouth of God. If this was not happening, then maybe I would even like Apple. And maybe purchase some of their products. If they lower their prices 😀.
 
Tuan:
Instead of listing all the straw man arguments you can find against apple products and then claming impartiality, how about we see (for once) the one thing that we should expect from a truly impartial tech website:

BENCHMARKS.

PRICE vs PERFORMANCE APPLE VS DELL VS HP VS SBM

and if one system cant run the apps in the standard suite - that would just demonstrate that people wont want the system because of its incompatibilites.
 
Apple are creepy- its simple really- their users are treated like cattle and everything is done to keep them on the ranch- the entire business model is to fleece the fashionable and naive.
had my first dealings with apple this month, total nightmare from outright fraudulent lies- the oh so common warranty shirking and an absoute nightmare of a store where the stepford genius clones were so very nice i was totally freaked out by it- i dont want new friend i want the damn piece of overly fragile- overheating crap fixed.
sold it next day, never again.
 
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