🚀 go-pugleaf

>> Go on, prove that you are more than a troll - give me a reasoned
>> argument to support your point of view. Alternatively, keep on with your
>> current approach and guarantee a place in the kill file, whence peace
>> will be restored! Smile, and the world may just smile with you!
> That's fine mr ostrich, killfile me, that's your prerogative. But I
> leave you with just a few of the reason's I don't like macs, and why I
> avoid them at all costs.
> 
> 1) Macs are way over priced and underpowered
I'd hardly call 64 bit dual G5 processors underpowered.  And the iMacs are
not overpriced.  Where else can you get a top-quality 20" LCD and 64 bit
computer setup with quality components and stylish design to beat that
price?  You could probably build something yourself out of shit parts, but
you get the lack of reliability that comes with it.

> 2) they are costly to fix
Buy an extended warranty and a surge protector.  And they rarely break
anyway.

> 3) both hardware and OS are proprietary which means you must depend on
> the notoriously fickle Apple corp for virtually everything from
> security patches to processors.
Not much different to MS, except MS takes even longer because of all the
extra hardware it has to support.  And has all the bloat that comes with
supporting all the yum-cha crap that is out there.

> 4) lack of viable software, what software is available is very costly
> and unstable. Because there is virtually no competition there is no
> motivation for software companies to improve their software when users
> experience problems. Instead they release an "upgrade" which they
> charge you for but is really just a patch for what they did wrong in
> the first place. Ever wonder why photoshop is much more stable on
> windows than mac?
Haven't had problems with any of the mainstream products that I run on my
G5.  I crash maybe once or twice a year, and my uptimes are measured in
months, not hours. 

> 5) frequent crashes and lockups, perhaps due to shoddy memory
> management and/or poor proprietary software
Maybe in MacOS 9.  MacOS X has a full protected memory system.

> 6) poor security: security through obscurity is the worst possible
> security model there is. That is Apple's philosophy, says so right on
> their web page. It takes them months after publicized security flaws
> to fix those flaws. This makes Apple totally unsuitable for a server
> platform and just as unsuitable for an "always on" desktop.
No ports open to hack by default, and built in firewall, unix security, heck
a virus would have to ask for your password before it can infect you.  My
computer is fully open to hackers and viruses and I have never actually had
one succeed in attacking me.

> 7)  one button mouse. You say there are multibutton mice but I have
> yet to see one attached to an actual mac. Aside from the constant
> lockups this is the most annoying "feature" that macs have.
I agree with you that 1 button mice do suck, the first thing I bought with
my G5 was a 3 button Logitech mouse, which worked perfectly without the
Logitech drivers, although I did install them for some extra features.  1
button mice are more simple for the grannies though ;)

For the record I use both mac and PC at home, I have a dual 1.8G5, and a
3Ghz Pentium 4 that I built myself out of the best brands, neither have
crashed since I bought/built them, XP is the best MS OS so far that I have
seen, but it still has a very long way to go compared to MacOS X, especially
in ease of networking.  The amount of headaches setting up wireless networks
with XP is ridiculous!
I like the PC hardware almost as much as I like the mac hardware, but the OS
on PCs leaves a lot to be desired.  And Linux is not a viable alternative
(yet) for most people despite what many may think.

Anyways that's my $0.02 + GST.