People Happier Than Ever With New Computers

[dEAne]

PCs is a necessity that when it bogs out it becomes like a blood pressure, you will never be cool until the pressure goes down.

 

[teng029]

[citation][nom]nesto1000[/nom]Apple is high up there because the apple fanboys can't say anything bad about their "perfect" Mac computer...[/citation]

get over yourself. the reason people buy anything is because they want to. who the f**k are you to tell them otherwise?

 

[kronos_cornelius]

Dell and HP should replace Windows with Ubuntu, that would allow them to build better products from the ground up for their customers. Instead, they are always held up by what Microsoft thinks is the future, and if MS is wrong everybody loses like it happened with WinVista.
Alternatively, they could move on to Chrome OS or Android, but those are younger OS's compared with Linux.
Apple on the other hand should be imitated for its excellent gorilla advertisement campaigns. You'd think more than a few percent of people had a Mac if you based your statistics on the number of times their products how up on television. Also they are really good at convincing people that off-the-shelf parts are their inventions like multi-touch displays. Once they do this, other product look like imitations.

 

[fellskrazykayaker]

It's obvious that Apple doesn't cater to the majority of crowd that populates this web site. But when you make broad generalization about Apple products and use anecdotal evidence to make your case, it smacks of ignorance. When I read people's comments that "Macs just don't do what I want it to do" without providing specifics, it just lets me you're not knowledgeable.

Apple doesn't always get things right. I can think of quite a few: ADC connectors, AAUI connectors, G4 cube, failing liquid cooling on PowerMac G5s, crappy puck mouse, limited video card selection, no merge function in OS X, can't right-click drag, no cut-copy-paste within finder, lacking in games, etc. I shuddered at the thought of some of the color schemes (flower power and dalmation, ugh) on some of the CRT iMacs.

But a lot of times they do get things right. Helping Intel by pushing USB when the industry was still stuck on legacy ports, developing a great isosynchronous protocol in FireWire, GPU accelerated UI elements (Jaguar in 2002 way before Vista), EFI (Pros and Cons to this), native PDF support, commitment to Universal Accessibility (for those who don't see or hear well), MagSafe power connectors, multitouch trackpads, excellent retail presence and support. Apple made bluetooth, gigabit ethernet, and WiFi (original iBook) standard equipment when few manufacturers were including these options as standard. Apple was way ahead of the curve with self-resolving network protocols like AppleTalk and today with mDNS. Apple made it easy to support multiple monitors many, many years before Windows 95.

Did Apple develop all of these technologies? No, but they pushed for adoption of them and made them mainstream. The PowerBook was the first mainstream computer with a trackpad and the iBook the first mainstream computer with integrated WiFi.

I use OS X, Windows 7, RHEL, and Solaris on a daily basis and there are many aspects of each that are nice. If you can't find a single redeeming positive thing to say about Apple or it's products, I find it hard to believe you know anything about computers at all.

 

[rhino13]

Potentially skewing Apple's rating upward is the ASCI's inclusion of the iPad, which is the highest ranked product that the ASCI has ever tracked.

Well, I guess that calls the validity of this entire article into question.

 

[liveonc]

You want consumerism? you milk that cow & you milk it twice! Just like Steve chooses a sweet exterior, midrange guts for what's inside with mini upgrades as the pace of progress. A design concept that matches each other making it easier for you to sell your products as the identity of it creates offers people the identity they lack & having a million copycats help you to justify your fashion statement through mimic, only to fail as a bunch of wannabes.

Everybody who wanted to be original, would have built their own PC, & giving them the choice would only swamp you with inventory eating away your earnings like a million flavors of Fanta.

 

[redraider89]

[citation][nom]ruffopurititiwang[/nom]PC users are more critical of their computers and gadgets. If it sucks, they're not going to go out of their way to defend it. They are going to complain!Mac users, on the other hand, think an Apple product is good because it's shiny and made by Apple and their Messiah, Steve Jobs, said it's the best thing ever![/citation]


I think you summed it up very well. The people who use Macs don't know any better than how Macs look and what they are told about them.

 

[Guest]

I have been in the lime light of a lot of Anti-Microsoft debates. I love my *nix based Operating Systems, because they just work. I like knowing what's on my computer, what's going to run, and what's happening when I click something, exactly. Microsoft has been known for extremely scandalous practices so let's not forget them:

* Not allowing users to permanently (with Windows 98; boot into DOS and go deltree that stuff) delete web browsing history via Internet Explorer - Windows 98
* Every single Office release that they had was way bigger than the previous versions, with very little updates to show forth the space used. - Bloatware
* Someone using saving a newer version of a Word Document (ppt, etc) cannot send it to someone with an older version and expect it to work right. - Force of Upgrades (this in my opinion is a positive and negative)
* In all my years I have never really seen Microsoft deliver an Operating System that was fully finished. Even if it's the day that it comes out it seems like you're going to spend 2 hours updating security holes, etc.
* Just blatant stealing? KDE had the "Aero" functions long before Windows. I know it's open source, but they are marketing it as if it's like a new revolution.

So, in any case anyone can go on with their little Microsoft is elite debates, but in actuality Microsoft steps on the little people everyday. It's business I know, but there are other companies out there that don't. Where's Netscape at? Haha.

The reason why Mac is so expensive is that they have exclusive hardware built and made to run their Operating System as effectively as possible. Mac quite frankly from day one has been ahead of Microsoft when it came to stuff like this. Mac has the performance marks to show for the expensiveness of their computers. Sorry guys, but the fact of the matter is they do. If you want a commercial computer that is going to just work, would you go with Dell, HP, Acer, etc? I know that I wouldn't I would rather have the Mac if I had the money.

I just trust the *nix base ever since I first picked it up. I dunno why, but I love it. In my opinion the only truly decent operating systems Microsoft has put out were Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Windows 7 ain't too shabby as they have brought down their resource usage, but I mean seriously... who cares? After the big long list of stuff that they have done on their rise to the top. I don't know if I really trust it being on my computer all that much. I'd rather just run a virtual machine.

 

[Benihana]

[citation][nom]peptobismal[/nom]I have been in the lime light of a lot of Anti-Microsoft debates. I love my *nix based Operating Systems, because they just work. I like knowing what's on my computer, what's going to run, and what's happening when I click something, exactly. Microsoft has been known for extremely scandalous practices so let's not forget them:* Not allowing users to permanently (with Windows 98; boot into DOS and go deltree that stuff) delete web browsing history via Internet Explorer - Windows 98* Every single Office release that they had was way bigger than the previous versions, with very little updates to show forth the space used. - Bloatware* Someone using saving a newer version of a Word Document (ppt, etc) cannot send it to someone with an older version and expect it to work right. - Force of Upgrades (this in my opinion is a positive and negative)* In all my years I have never really seen Microsoft deliver an Operating System that was fully finished. Even if it's the day that it comes out it seems like you're going to spend 2 hours updating security holes, etc.* Just blatant stealing? KDE had the "Aero" functions long before Windows. I know it's open source, but they are marketing it as if it's like a new revolution.So, in any case anyone can go on with their little Microsoft is elite debates, but in actuality Microsoft steps on the little people everyday. It's business I know, but there are other companies out there that don't. Where's Netscape at? Haha.The reason why Mac is so expensive is that they have exclusive hardware built and made to run their Operating System as effectively as possible. Mac quite frankly from day one has been ahead of Microsoft when it came to stuff like this. Mac has the performance marks to show for the expensiveness of their computers. Sorry guys, but the fact of the matter is they do. If you want a commercial computer that is going to just work, would you go with Dell, HP, Acer, etc? I know that I wouldn't I would rather have the Mac if I had the money. I just trust the *nix base ever since I first picked it up. I dunno why, but I love it. In my opinion the only truly decent operating systems Microsoft has put out were Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Windows 7 ain't too shabby as they have brought down their resource usage, but I mean seriously... who cares? After the big long list of stuff that they have done on their rise to the top. I don't know if I really trust it being on my computer all that much. I'd rather just run a virtual machine.[/citation]
Well said!!