Apple products are way overrated
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- set0
I stayed out of this convo but honestly, unless you need microsoft to do something a mac can't do yet, os x is a sheer and utter joy to use over microsoft. It just works. I have never had a problem with apple hardware either, aside from the shitty mightymouse, I have owned powermacs, imacs, macbooks, all have been rock solid and completely reliable. OS X is like a dream compared to windows.
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- exactly my thoughts and experienceShaneHolley
- tgqt0
I gotta say I am working with apple on my macbook which has cracked a second time. I truly 'baby' this machine as I do all of my equipment. Apple agreed to replace it for free again...but they have completely fucked up the repair 4 times....the computer came back worse than I sent it, they replaced an optical drive the second time and didn't even look at the case, then they gave me the wrong keyboard.
They have too many customers to service and now we get crappy support and shitty [the plastic mac book] design. I am rethinking my long history as a customer.
I have never had a previous problem but this one has gotten out of control to a point where I am starting to take it personally.
Any one want to buy a brand new macbook?
- slappy0
This thread is great haha, I love my macbooks, they put up with a lot.
I gave my 2001 titanium mbp to my mother inlaw and you should see it now. Ill go get my camera brb.
- skt0
also, 'I have never met an authentic and or talented designer that worked on a PC. I do know some amazing accountants, video gamers and slackers that use a PC. Please name me one, just one talent designer that uses a PC and post his/her website link here, thank you.'
lol
- mg330
Times my Macbook Pro has shut down unexpectedly since March 2008: 1, maybe 2.
Times my PC shut down in a year before I gave up and got a Mac. DOZENS AND DOZENS AND DOZENS.
- TINKLDN0
I work on a PC. Mainly because that was the first OS that I used.
I don't understand the assumption that I'm a poor designer simply because of the platform I'm using. Illustrator is the same product on both machines.
- DrBombay0
Do you guys just sit and look at the OSX desktop and masturbate all day, or do you use software on these machines? Web browser, email client, graphics software has fuck all to do with the OS once it is launched.
- Wow, someone with some sense!
well said sir.Hombre_Lobo - I sit around and masturbate all day.utopian
- sweet.DrBombay
- Yeah UI has nothing to do with using programs, OH WAIT!BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD
- Wow, someone with some sense!
- emukid0
listen you guys, it is true what they say about macs. i used to be a pc guy and no one liked me. and my designed sucked. then i switched to a mac and now the ladies can't get enough of me. it's good to use a machine that actually works because things on pc just don't work. you switch it on and there's nothing there! i never have that problem on a mac. oh, and i am now an award winning designer. and a total wanker who thinks that the machine i use has an effect on my work.
- DrBombay0
honestly, this is not a very beautiful machine either, not really sure where Apple got the reputation as having beautiful product design outside of the ipods.
Lian Li makes cases that look similar and some would say better than the MacPro aluminum tower cases. And in all reality a laptop is a fucking laptop. but these things were fucking hideous:
Looks like a panini press from Walmart.- I love the iphone though before you fanboys get your thongs twisted.DrBombay
- i think at the time these designs were unique. the panini machines ripped them off later.emukid
- unique doesn't automatically mean good design though.DrBombay
- the laptops and macpro cases are understated, these were gaudy.DrBombay
- are you kidding? that shit was crazy hot in the 90s. they were already in my design history books in schoolscarabin
- you cant make me like them :DDrBombay
- The iMac started the whole craze of making a computer look cool, instead of shitty beigeIanbolton
- Hombre_Lobo0
i was once working at a design studio and there were 2 new designer jobs going, both good jobs, both well paid.
A woman rang up and asked how she should apply, after some chattin my boss mentioned to her that we use windows machines.
She seemed shocked by this and over the phone she said she doesn't want to work in a windows based design team. To which my boss replied saying that surely the computer you use is merely a tool to reach an outcome, particularly when the applications are identical. She refused to apply.That is a creative who will not get very far.
About half the design agencies ive visited use windows OS.- wonder if he applied, http://www.qbn.com/t…jerseyred
- good on her!must_dash
- lol must, :PHombre_Lobo
- me either, I wouldn't apply, actually that shows the oposite, it should be the designer to choose not the other way around...what do u want? Win or Mac?Elfangio
- jerseyred0
I believe PC users understand computers better than mac users. You could build a quad core machine, with 8 gb of memory, 1 tb hard drive, and a bunch of bells and whistles for a fraction of what a mac costs. They may not be sleek, sexy, shiny, deer in headlight caught, works of art but the inside is diesel.
-Intel® Core™ i7 950 Processor (4x 3.06GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
-12 GB [2 GB X6] DDR3-1333 Triple Memory Module
-ATI Radeon HD 4670 – 1GB
-Asus P6T -- Intel X58 Chipset CrossFire and SLI Supported w/7.1 Sound, Triple-Channel DDR3, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, 3-Way SLI PCI-E MB 3-Way SLI
-1.5 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 3.0Gb/s
22X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive
-The case looks like it's straight out of hackers but whatever$1351 - try to get those specs with a mac and find me a price!
http://www.ibuypower.com/
- emukid0
as far as the OS goes, Snow/Leopard is leaps and bounds better than window xp or even vista. but Windows 7 is fantastic. microsoft have never been innovators but this time they've done something right.
- never been innovators? cmon go look at their gazillion products, tell me they didn't invent anything after that...zarkonite
- ukit0
What was the original premise of this thread? PCs are more durable than Macs? Someone try to make that argument lol
- durability can't be compared. pcs are made by so many different companies. macs always by appleemukid
- apples and orangesemukid
- i hate Dell thoughemukid
- more than i hate appleemukid
- Who are the high end PC manufacturers?ukit
- Hp Z series workstations are the best machines for creatives. I had a z600 at work. very fast.Hombre_Lobo