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If anything irritates you about Apple.. what is it?
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Blue Velvet said:
Indeed, by that logic why does anyone ever get anything new? 56K modems transmit HTML faster than I can read them.. decade old cars travel faster than I can walk. Of course it still does what it was originally designed to do. Lest you didn't notice, things change.
Blue Velvet said:
You mentioned PCs. So... not workstations? You are comparing a Dell to what's potentially SMP dual processor Mac? Hello?
I don't see very many workstations with real mainboards, real ECC memory, need a lot of "fixing" by IT or otherwise. Some things are built to be reliable, some are built to be crap. You get what you pay for, remember?
Similarly, yes, I am very curious to see what kind of G4 you have from 4 years back that'd outclass a P3 that significantly. You do realise that even our new Yonah chips are really rehashes on the old design right? Oh, and while you are on it, how much did your G4 cost you back in the day again?
While on it... Photoshop. Pray tell, what does PS CS give you that PS6 can't give? After all when Photoshop was first released, it certainly does do what it was designed for too!
They don't take feedback very well. Listen to your consumers and give them some of what they want. Macs used to be much more customizable. When they went all iLife and stuff, they made it easy to use, which in a way made it harder for those of us who knew what we were doing to have things the way we like it. It took them till iPhoto 6 to allow us to keep our library organized the way we want it rather than their wacko system.
One thing I've wanted to see for a while is an improvement to iTunes. I have over 400 artists in my library and thus on my 40GB iPod. Give me the option of designating favorite artists, so I can have a menu of them to scroll through rather than all 400+. Likewise, let me designate my favorite songs by each artist, that way when I go into any artist I see ALL, MIX, and then each album. I don't want to make an artist specific playlist for each artist with a lot of songs, but I don't want to listen to ALL either. Playlists should be kept for just mixes of a lot of different artists. I have enough of them that I don't want more just to accomodate artists too.
One thing I've wanted to see for a while is an improvement to iTunes. I have over 400 artists in my library and thus on my 40GB iPod. Give me the option of designating favorite artists, so I can have a menu of them to scroll through rather than all 400+. Likewise, let me designate my favorite songs by each artist, that way when I go into any artist I see ALL, MIX, and then each album. I don't want to make an artist specific playlist for each artist with a lot of songs, but I don't want to listen to ALL either. Playlists should be kept for just mixes of a lot of different artists. I have enough of them that I don't want more just to accomodate artists too.
bbrosemer said:
I know how smart playlists work. I don't want artist specific playlists. I want playlists reserved for mixes of artists. And then a mix album listed in each artist based on selected songs. They could add a column or something to choose those songs. Likewise I want to designate favorite artists and have that as a menu in my iPod so I don't have to scroll through all of them. I don't think it's a lot to ask.
DevilsRejection, you were banned before. If you hadn't stirred up such a mess, you might have gone unnoticed.HardLine said:
generik said:
Home machine: G4 1.42 dual, 2Gbs RAM, dedicated scratch drives... I'll leave it to you to find the benchmarks since you bought the comparison up.
As to what it cost, well... prices here in the UK for any Mac including a national 17.5% sales tax make any comparison with US prices for PCs a fruitless comparison. I have no idea what comparative PCs cost in the UK at the time... Why? Because no print designer worth their salt uses a PC.
We use Pentium IIIs with 1.5gb of RAM running Win2000 in the office for internal correspondence that struggle with running two or more Office apps with IE and Adobe Reader open.
generik said:
Let alone the obvious that PS6 is a OS9 app and as well as other feature revisions including huge improvements working in 16-bit; if you haven't used the Creative Suite in a networked environment, then I'm wasting my breath.
They dont make very precise tech specs. My White G5 30gig iPod for example, only lives for about 7 hours and holds just over 4000 songs.
'Insanely Great'.
Teh ads annoy the living crap out of me 'Macs are better because ou can edit pictures, play music, video'. ANY COMPUTER CAN DO THAT.
Their prices are Insanely great too....
So yeah I would like to buy a mac just to try out and master teh OS X. But all these people going around blowing Apple's horn is kinda annoying 'You're a PC user you suck. Macs pwn PC's n00b'
Most games are playable with only BootCamp.
User-friendly... My friend's 15-inch powerbook crashes.
Blizzard games are probably the only games for mac. I wish there was more choice. But I love Blizzard though.
'Insanely Great'.
Teh ads annoy the living crap out of me 'Macs are better because ou can edit pictures, play music, video'. ANY COMPUTER CAN DO THAT.
Their prices are Insanely great too....
So yeah I would like to buy a mac just to try out and master teh OS X. But all these people going around blowing Apple's horn is kinda annoying 'You're a PC user you suck. Macs pwn PC's n00b'
Most games are playable with only BootCamp.
User-friendly... My friend's 15-inch powerbook crashes.
Blizzard games are probably the only games for mac. I wish there was more choice. But I love Blizzard though.
I guess i'm just special or something, but i have been blessed with exceptional apple service.
yes i have had a couple hardware issues ( bad LCD on my PB, 2 bad processors and power supply on my refurb G5 ) but both times i went to my local apple store, they took care of me right there on the spot, very kind and courteous and prompt.
even last night, i was in the store near the genius bar, someone wasn't showing up for their genius bar appt. so the guy asked me if i had any questions he could answer, and i JUST so happened to have quite the question for him.
he helped me find a solution and showed me online where i could get it within 5 mins.
no company on this planet is without its quirks or flaws. as a photographer, i appreciate the computers apple offers me, as they make my job a whole lot easier. mind you, i only switched in 2004, but in all honesty, i'm glad i did. If i had to do business or something like that, i probably would still use a PC, but im not, i work in a creative field, and apple products work for me.
i have no favoritism for either platform, just a preference.
shouldn't you use what makes you happy? If apple's products or methods irritate you or upset you, then why subject yourself to that? This is a computer we're talking about, an inanimate object. Does it really matter that much?
( please take anything i ever say with a grain of salt, i mean no offense to anyone )
yes i have had a couple hardware issues ( bad LCD on my PB, 2 bad processors and power supply on my refurb G5 ) but both times i went to my local apple store, they took care of me right there on the spot, very kind and courteous and prompt.
even last night, i was in the store near the genius bar, someone wasn't showing up for their genius bar appt. so the guy asked me if i had any questions he could answer, and i JUST so happened to have quite the question for him.
he helped me find a solution and showed me online where i could get it within 5 mins.
no company on this planet is without its quirks or flaws. as a photographer, i appreciate the computers apple offers me, as they make my job a whole lot easier. mind you, i only switched in 2004, but in all honesty, i'm glad i did. If i had to do business or something like that, i probably would still use a PC, but im not, i work in a creative field, and apple products work for me.
i have no favoritism for either platform, just a preference.
shouldn't you use what makes you happy? If apple's products or methods irritate you or upset you, then why subject yourself to that? This is a computer we're talking about, an inanimate object. Does it really matter that much?
( please take anything i ever say with a grain of salt, i mean no offense to anyone )
milo said:
So s/he can adopt the sneering, superior attitude s/he has done, dismissing (the majority of) people who buy Macs as 'zealots' and viewing himself/herself as somehow 'enlightened' because s/he remembered to consider a PC before making any purchase (as practically everyone on here probably did anyway)
AGoglanian said:
Isn't it a little doublestandards to ban him for sharing his own personal views?
He was banned for reregistering after being banned for other reasons previously. Had he not been so vocal, he might not have been discovered.Jiddick ExRex said:
some people just dont know when not to speak
and, like others said. why on earth would you come here only to rag on apple and its community? sure we are all entitled to our own views, but you have to draw the line somewhere. it's called respect.
and, like others said. why on earth would you come here only to rag on apple and its community? sure we are all entitled to our own views, but you have to draw the line somewhere. it's called respect.
That stupid Mighty Mouse. In my opinion, one of the dumbest things they make. Can't they just accept the fact that not everything has to be "different". They need to make a good mouse like the Logitech one for the Mac. An apple keyboard that is split wouldn't be a bad thing either. Their full sized keyboards are still a little too compact for me.
1. Integrated graphics. WTF Apple? You got cheap on us? I can understand the Mac Mini some what since the trade off was the 2nd ram slot. But the Macbook? Psssh. If I am going to spend $1K+ on a computer let alone a laptop I want a dedicated GPU! At least Apple is forcing me to buy the MBP and getting more money from me those evil people.
2. The new Mac names. Macbook, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro? Horrible names. I will forever call them the iBook, Powerbook, and Powermac.
2. The new Mac names. Macbook, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro? Horrible names. I will forever call them the iBook, Powerbook, and Powermac.
I'm really trying hard to think of something I don't like about Mac....
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maybe the fact that I bought Applecare....and never needed to use it....not once....
.................other than that.......
I got nuthin....
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maybe the fact that I bought Applecare....and never needed to use it....not once....
.................other than that.......
I got nuthin....
The only thing I don't like about Apple?
That I think about my macs too much and go on MR too much!
I love Apple.
Love Applecare.
Mac products are worth every penny.
Soon when the masses catch on to this, Dell will be toast because Macs can run Windoze and OSX...
Love Apple. Start a thread about what we love about Mac and you'll have an endless thread.
Only Mac I didn't like was the eMac but that's snobbery on my part that they were just good machines in ugly boxes.
That I think about my macs too much and go on MR too much!
I love Apple.
Love Applecare.
Mac products are worth every penny.
Soon when the masses catch on to this, Dell will be toast because Macs can run Windoze and OSX...
Love Apple. Start a thread about what we love about Mac and you'll have an endless thread.
Only Mac I didn't like was the eMac but that's snobbery on my part that they were just good machines in ugly boxes.
i think it was great to see the emacs in so many schools though. despite how we may feel about them