Like I've said before, Apple is an **** ******* and anybody who **** an ***** deserves ***** ******* to them.

I would elaborate but since this forum stopped allowing opinions, I can't find the adequate vocabulary or images to eloquently describe the **** without it being censored (post deleted).

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No SandS an Apple is not a Lemon, it's a pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family (Rosaceae), and is a perennial.
A lemon is both a small evergreen tree (Citrus × limon, often given as C. limon) native to Asia and the tree's oval yellow fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and nonculinary purposes throughout the world – primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind (zest) are also used, mainly in cooking and baking.

Don't forget to install your propaganda & manipulation software (iTunes), happy crash free computing.

Apples computers and other shiny things they make are really nice. I like them all and buy them when they come out. They are designed in California too. It says so on the back.

I currently have a Macbook Pro and its pretty sweet. I like the way you can scroll down a page with two fingers. Makes using a normal scroll pad seem really old.

I'm looking forwared to the Macbook Wheel. It looks really cool.

www.theonion.com/c/video

seen the iRack yet?

With any brand of computer you occasionally get ones that have issues, but in my experience apple products have far less issues than the competition...

It seems that most people just shrug their shoulders when something happens on their PC, but if it were to happen to a mac they start going postal.

Case in point, yesterday I was helping a co-worker with a file, and I asked her to take a screengrab. She tried, failed, and said that she can take a screenshot after the computer has rebooted but then it doesn't work after a couple of hours. It's just something you accept with PCs. Same with reinstalling the operating system -- I've used macs since 1986, and never once had to reinstall the operating system. It's just not something that you have to do. I know many people who say that they reinstall windows every year to keep things running smoothly.

Personally I find Windows frustrating, inconsistent, slow, buggy, unintuitive, and it wastes my time. I made it a condition of employment when I went for my current job that I use a mac (and it's the only mac in the building!). I'm probably around 30-40% more productive on a mac than a PC, because stuff just works and you don't have to deal with times when stuff doesn't work.

As for mobiles, the iPhone is allright, but like anything all products have their strengths and weaknesses. I've found that for most people the iPhone makes stuff easy to do that you'd have to be a super nerd to figure out on other phones, but signal strength and voice quality aren't quite as good as other phones. The reliability and ease of use is better than most, however.

Swings and roundabouts, if you're not happy with something then take it back and get a different one... No-one will force you to use something you hate

grumplestiltskin said...

Just out of curiosity what was the last version of Windows you used? Win98?

Windows Vista, forced to use it a couple of times a week to see how broken websites are on IE

Yes it's still slow, inconsistent and frustrating for me...

Buying the missus the latest from apple this xmas...the 'i-ron'


...she's going to love it!

I used Macs right from the very beginning and owned several. One of the most popular pieces of software was ConflictCatcher. We had to spend hours dragging programs around so that the load sequence would not result in errors. If the machine locked up then you had to pull out the power cord. There were numerous magic key sequences you had to hold down during boot to do various things.

During use you had to know Apple-key sequences to get access to properties and options and stuff. With Windows it has always been right-menu, pick the option.

Apple computers are beautifully made and beautifully designed products. There are many machines in the PC world that can make similar claims. Only recently have Macs become cheap enough to be viable for most people. They still suffer from the problem that many web sites and many programs don't run on them.

They do suffer from exactly the same problems as any other computer (except viruses ... so far). You get a DLL out of whack or a version clash and you have to download a new version same as any other.

When I switched to PCs I love the fact that I can buy hardware and software for next to nothing at the supermarket or from eBay. Research it. Buy it. Pop it in. Away you go. Fantastic.

I have 6 and 10 year old PCs that sit and run just fine. I don't have to reload the operating system at all. I do have to provide support for my neighbour's PC with monotonous regularity. God knows what silly things he does to it. I have a friend's G4 that has got some version clashes and it took about as long to sort that out as any other machine.

They're just computers folks. They run software. If they run what you want then they're good. If they don't then they're boat anchors no matter how glossy the marketing.

(PS I love iTunes. I would like a little more control of the searching and information update capabilities.)

slowboat said...

Nebs, Vista is a virus. A bit like windows ME or win 98. All shockingly unstable and painfully inefficient. ....

I've never understood the anti-Vista thing. I have it on a couple of machines and they work just fine. I upgraded one to Windows 7 and there was no driver for my web cam so I reverted to Vista.

I can plug my cameras and GPSs in. Run all sorts of software. Listen to music. Download demos of any database you care to name.

It might not be technically perfect but in use it does everything I could reasonably want to do.

I think the Mac thing and the Vista thing and the Linux thing is all about fashion and marketing (not so much for Linux as a commercial Unix alternative.) All this chest beating about stuff that really has no bearing on anything.

Smedg said...

Moby is right about the mac book wheel. I'm pre ordering mine today. easily worth checking out if you haven't seen it yet. I reckon that this will change everything, Again.






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I recon that the wheel is crap! Its a april fools joke in what ever month it was shown in.