I wish there was a truly matte option for my iPad and iPhone. I have a matte display for my desktop, and there isn't a single lighting condition where I can't use it. My Apple products though? There are definitely places where I have to watch where or how I sit to be able to see the screen.
A Glossy display has a crisper and sharper picture. Impossible on a matte display. Most professionals in my line of work use glossy displays, with a anti-gloss treatment. Glossy displays give a better picture.
Also, again, Apple uses edge-lit LED backlighting. So there is no real world advantage over CCFL other than "instant on" and possible, but not always, power savings.
Trolling much? No advantages. Ok.
Apple using low grade Sandy Bridge Processors?
I didn't know that the Core i7 2600 or 2600S was low grade.
There is absolutely no reason the $1,999 iMac should cost what it does. The $1,499 iMac is even more so overpriced. 21" IPS displays can be had for around $200-$250. When you factor in the rest of the cost of the components, even using overpriced components, the total system cost should be no more than $800 with the display.
You cannot just take any IPS display and say it should cost this much or that much. Not all IPS displays are the same. Not this stupid argument again. Really? $1500. Give me the average price for each not including what I left out. Put your money where your mouth is. Average prices. Go Ahead.
The 27 inch is even a bigger bargain.
Quad-core Intel Core i5 2500s with 6MB on-chip shared L3 cache
1 TBWestern Digital 7200 RPM hard drive
4 GB of RAM
AMD Radeon HD GDDR5 graphics processor
Thunderbolt port and controller
450 MPS 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Intel Z68 Motherboard
SDXC card slot
LM215WF3 IPS LED 21.5 inch display
Sony optical drive
Ambient Light sensor
HD camera
Microphone
Speakers
Broadcom BCM2046 Bluetooth IC
All aluminum enclosure
Glass front.
wireless keyboard
wireless multi-touch mouse
OS with:
Photo Suite
Movie Suite
e'mail client
with compariable programs that OSX is already installed with.
Now build me a Windows PC with all the specs above for $800.00
Doesn't have to be exact. But close.
Than include the OS with comparable programs that OSX already comes with. Software is part of the equation.
If you can do that, good luck to you and I will give up Apple forever and just use Windows, nothing else.
Windows Update can't "screw up" your video drivers. If something happened like that and a reinstall didn't work, then you did something else.
More crap. Windows does nothing wrong. Works perfect most of the time? Sure it does. Stop drinking the cool aid.
The problem with windows is the hardware doesn't talk to the software very well.
It was nothing she did, Windows does not work very well for the average consumer. They buy them because they are cheap, nothing else. You act no one on here uses Windows. Everyone on here uses Windows. We know what it does, it's shortcomings and it's benefits.
Again, this is something you did. The only way you can get any sort of malware in Windows these days is to actively do it yourself. Unlike this: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/02/macdefender-malware-targeting-mac-users/
You can get malware because Windows is a insecure OS. Has nothing do to with the user. Open a e'mail and you have malware. Is that the users fault? How prevelant is malware in Windows than OSX. The difference is that it still need permission in OSX from the user to execute. Windows Malware does not. The link above relies on the user to execute the malware and give it permission. You have it backwards.
Note: Still not one Virus in the wild that has infected a wide number of OSX users. Not one.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/04/is-mac-under-a-virus-attack/?section=magazines_fortune
Windows 7 is still a joke compared to OSX. You can't be serious? are you. I own both and Windows 7 while better than Vista, the simplicity of OSX and well.....' it just works'. There not even comparable. Don't kid yourself.
It still has "permissions' issues, administrator issues, hardware issues. It still gets viruses, spyware, trojans, malware etc and the list goes on. You still have to put software to "fix' software. Some hardware is not recognized 'at all without the proper drivers, none of which Windows provides.
Windows 7 is still a joke no matter how you look at it. I don't care if you have a 16 core processor and three graphics cards in one box, hardware is only as good as the software that runs that hardware. How often do you have to update 'drivers' and get "updates' to fix problems only to find out that the 'fixes' actually causes more problems or makes them worse.
I gave my Dell to my six year old, she even gets frustrated with it. I have a Wifi card installed and you have to 'restart' the computer for the WiFi to connect, there is a 'driver' issue with Windows 7 I was told by a microsoft rep. And that rep happens to be my brother in law, and yes he has a Mac.
I consider Windows to be a 'virus', it breaks everything it touches, and frustrates every user to ever use it. The user you are saying is "their fault' is no exception.
You know of what I speak of. Everyone here does.
You're barking up the wrong tree here. Your not going to a hassle free machine with a OS that was designed to work with multiple hardware manufactures, there will always be headaches. As with the other Windows machines I have used over the years, Windows 7 is no different, it has it's shares of problems.
More than OSX, that is a fact. For the simple fact that OSX is better designed, more powerful and more importantly runs on hardware that it is designed to run on.
You're all happy now since you have no issues, .....yet. Does that even tell you something, that your happy you don't have problems? Think about that for a moment.
And the argument that OSX is not as widespread and it's marketshare protects it is nonsense. You, don't kid youself, as it seems you already have. Like I said you're barking up the wrong tree and it seems the jokes on you.
There is only one reason and one reason alone as to why there have been no known viruses to date for Mac OS X... because it is amongst the most inherently secure commercially-available operating systems on the market.
Can you say"UNIX". Look it up. You will get my meaning. Here I will help you.
"Unix operating systems are widely used in both servers and workstations"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
Microsoft vs UNIX.
http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/security/uw.html
The whole "security through obscurity" argument is nothing but a cop-out for those who either can't understand why or simply refuse to admit that the Mac is a very secure platform.
Apple is enjoying its largest market share since the 1980s... there are millions and millions of Macs in service and on the web, so it's hardly obscure. If one honestly thinks that it's simply not "worth it" to try and exploit damn near 1/10th of a pie that's as big as the computer market, then they're delusional.
Even if that remotely held the tiniest bit of water, then how does one explain the fact that the Classic Mac OS had several (relatively speaking) well known viruses/attacks, especially when their market share was much lower in those days?
Even more telling is the existence of hundreds of different kinds of malware out there which are written for linux... Linux is used by what - 1% of the market?
The argument that there's nothing worthwhile to be found on Macs doesn't stack up well either. It is fairly common knowledge that Mac users, on average have both higher incomes and higher disposable incomes, especially due to their perception as nothing more than a high-end "luxury" item. Mac users store financial information on their computers just like everyone else... So if one of every ten computers is owned by someone who may very well have higher than average assets, then how is that not an attractive target?
The current Mac OS must be the "holy grail" of hackers, et al. It is impossible to fathom that untold numbers of hackers simply give the Mac a free pass and leave it and its users to their own devices totally unscathed.
OS X has been on the market now for 10 years... In terms of computers that's eons, yet nothing has gotten out into the wild - even despite the fact that there have been full-fledged contests held to exploit the system.
I'm not so naive to think that there might never be any kind of malicious code(virus) released to exploit the Mac, but neither am I so naive to think that there hasn't been countless numbers of people out there who have tried unsuccessfully to do so over almost an entire decade's time.
If you don't like Macs' don't buy them, it's as simple as that. Don't chastise the people who do.
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