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I haven't really touched anything Mac related since they made the switch over to OS X but decided to load up a Lion VM tonight to start poking around. So far.... not really seeing what all the hype is about. Anyone care to fill me in just in case I'm missing some uber awesome functionality?
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It's just a really shiny linux load, nothing extremely special about it. It works and is typical-end-user friendly. That's it. -
My nearing-2-year-old macbook air 11" is very light and convenient to travel with. There are other options now on the market that are similar form factor, however I'm not sure that they have the same build quality as the Air does (I've travelled many thousands of miles with it and had literally zero issues which is not something that I can say for my wife's Dell XPS m11x).
My year old MacBook Pro (that I use daily for work, 8-15 hours a day) is a similar story. Although I do run virtualization software to run windows programs (visual studio, sql server, etc.) I try and use the OSX experience for everything else (run in coherence mode so windows apps appear as OSX windows). I've had virtually no issues (any issues I have are either user error, frustration with POS Finder or a driver issue with USB video adapters for a 3rd monitor). My previous 3 windows laptops that saw similar usage all were replaced after a year because the hardware would begin to fall apart after a year of usage (Dell, Asus, Toshiba, all > $1500 laptops).
However, is it worth the extra cost for most people? I can be swayed either way. However my mother in law has continually had issues with her PCs because... well she's a 60 year old woman. Since she switched to a MacBook Air 13" earlier this year, I've stopped having to play tech support. The laptop was $400 more than they normally spend on her ($1400 vs. $1000). It's thinner, faster, quieter, better battery life, better display, fully solid state, etc. than the computer my FIL was comparing it to.Comment
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The real advantage Mac has over Windows is it's easier to use."When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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If you're invested in windows (as I am, having used it for many, many years), the switch can be rough (things don't work how you expect [like close vs. quit an app], keyboard shortcuts, applying settings (sometimes you have to, sometimes just setting it applies it).
If you're not a "power user" then the switch is pretty easy IMO.Comment
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The real advantage that Mac has over Windows is integration. If you have an ipod, iphone, ipad, itv, and all that other shit, they work SUPER well with each other.Originally posted by CJ View PostComment
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I would buy Apple hardware any day, but I would most likely put Linux on it, I just dont have any other apple devices. Apple hardware is worth it, I dont give a shit about having some UBERBADASS VIDEO CARD and SUPER MEGA 9 CORE CPU with 96GB of PC4 DD8 RAM. No one needs that shit, I just want something thats dependable, nice looking, well put together, and I never have to worry about.Originally posted by goofygrin View PostComment
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lmao @ the 10 years old arguments that MAC IS USER FRIENDLY, that is not the only reason you buy it.Comment
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Exactly, it's user friendly. I think a lot of mac heads users dislike saying that's the primary draw because it makes them feel like they're using training wheels.Originally posted by abecx View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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It has nothing to do with user friendly, it has everything to do with who controls the hardware and software and how its controlled. Its like NES vs Sega.Originally posted by CJ View Post
Apple is like Nintendo which required all hardware to be approved by them and they made sure the vendors only put out 5 games a year so they werent shitty, and required them to be licensed by nintendo, they monitored their market super well so shit works.
Windows is like Sega because they dont really give a shit, they have stuff like the 32X and the sega cd because power users like that shit, but none of it works well together. They let hardware vendors do whatever the fuck they want. Microsoft does not control the hardware market by any means.Comment
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Proprietary.Originally posted by abecx View Post"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser TytlerComment
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Yeah but i've been doing a lot of research on the gaming industry and why they did things so I wanted to use that knowledge. I find it interesting that we go from HUGE developments in games to bull shit over the last 10 years. The SNES was 3mhz.... and they had shit like rotoscoped animations, mode 7 graphics, and all sorts of other innovative shit, then we got AMAZING cpu's and stopped programming intelligently. anyway i'm going off on a tangent.Originally posted by CJ View PostComment
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