I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard this story, and I hear sooooooo much whining from stubborn Microsoft lackeys that the only differences between a Windows laptop and its Macintosh counterpart is a few hundred dollars and a fancy little apple engraved in the casing. Hardly. In the first place, that Powerbook’s casing is made of titanium, which makes one hell of a difference. I’ve dropped mine a number of times on the concrete steps of the law school, and no problems. The processing speed is impeccable, and the graphics capabilities are to die for. I have been virtually virus free for over three years, ever since I bought this little gem. In the year before, two Windows-based laptops went kaplooey on me, and I couldn’t make it through the competitive lawschool curve without a laptop, since everyone else could take notes on them, and I simply couldn’t afford to be without that edge. Of course, the Windows types just roll their eyes at me and swear my case is unusual.
What the fuck ever, people. This story involving shoddy service concerning Dell is something that’s become a regular mantra, both in and out of the blogosphere. Toshiba gave me the same runaround as well. I dare you to find me a Powerbook owner that’s become disenchanted with their Macintosh experience. It just isn’t going to happen, and if you send an imposter my way, I will most definitely call his bluff. Hell, when I’m done interrogating said faker, he’ll make Tom Cruise look like a heterosexual fool in love. Heh.
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I love my P4 Sony Vaio – widescreen baby
And yes, Apples do look pretty, that is their key marketting ploy
When the Mac v. PC debate erupts in my vicinity I have an unfair advantage.
My first personal computer was a $4,500 PC clone system. I used it for a year to compose a technical manual I had been working on for several years before using only a manual typewriter. It took me one week (about 12 total hours after work) to learn how to compose and print a one-page letter, but I learned it from one of the three-each 3-ring binders of instructions that came with the system. Mission accomplished!
I went to work for the company that sold me the system. They had just gotten in the new 128k Macintosh and were still carrying the Apple Lisa as a “business” machine. In order to sell the Macs, I had to learn to use one. So I sat down and composed a 2 page business letter, with graphics, in only 2 hours … and the letter sold a Mac system. I did not touch a manual.
I found someone who would give me $2,000 cash for my one-year-old PC system (and counted myself lucky to get even that much!) and bought a Mac.
Since then I have sold both PCs and Macs to earn my living, and I have used PC and Mac on the job to earn my living. My PowerBook is now 2 years old and is my 7th Mac altogether (I still have my SE in a closet somewhere).
So, having owned both, sold both, and used both on the job for about 20 years, I have an INFORMED opinion based on experience. If my employer buys PCs for work, I use them, and use them well. But when I spend MY money, it’s Mac all the way.
When I use comparable software on comparable platforms (2 year old machine and year old OS, etc.), I am almost 3-to-1 more productive on a Mac. That includes Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office products like Excel and Word.
Macs don’t do anything PCs won’t, or can’t. I can use emulator software and fly PC applications on my Mac if I want to, but the last time I checked the reverse was not possible or practical on a PC.
Well, a Ford and a BMW do the same things. One is just prettier and a bit faster … and WAY more expensive.
I drive a cheap, used 10-year-old American-made vehicle. When I graduate college (in 2008?) I have promised myself a 5-year-old BMW convertible as a bonus.
Nothing wrong with driving a Ford … just don’t compare it seriously to a Beemer … until you’ve owned a Beemer.
(Mac on, my Apple-sister!)
All this proves is that Mac users are butterfingers.
Writing on my 5 year old iMac while my 4 year old iBook battery which only lasts an hour recharges. I had to have the logic board replaced when it went kerpluey only 1 week after Apple ended its free replacement policy earlier this year.
I am forced to use microsoft software on Windows OS at work. I love to come home to my old macs – they’re more fun and more reliable than the new Dells running Windows XP at work.
Macs aren’t made in heaven, they have their faults, but just great for those of us that are too cheap to buy new batteries, don’t read manuals but love to lurk the internet in search of a hack to get around iPod deviancy (I sure as heck wanna get those songs OFF it as well as onto it).