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What attracts you to the Apple brand?
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I landed on Apple branded products after using numerous other brands, some of which were nice, and others that exceeded my frustration tolerance levels. OSX aligns better with my intuition than Windows, which makes using Mac computers pleasant and productive.
Design design design, design design design.
Plug and play.
Human interface considerations taken seriously.
Longevity. All my Apple stuff still works, even the stuff from the 80s. All my iPods still work. I have never had an iPod serviced except for when I cracked a screen changing out a batt on a touchwheel iPod (complacent having done it before, case-cracking tool slipped in too deep the second time!) and then talked my favorite reseller into fixing that booboo for me. I have only had a bad logic board swapped out on one of the computers, and I think I had to replace a display backlight on a powerbook 170.
My latest secret was to buy Apple-refurb G4 powerbooks (extra QA is done on them, my impression) until the MacBook Air came along and bumped me back into the fast lane. I have bought iPods new and as refurbs.
MacBook Air with the SSD -- la ultima maquina. So fast so quiet so light!!!
And their stuff is basically like potato chips, just one kicks off the lust... so BEWARE, and HAVE FUN !
Plug and play.
Human interface considerations taken seriously.
Longevity. All my Apple stuff still works, even the stuff from the 80s. All my iPods still work. I have never had an iPod serviced except for when I cracked a screen changing out a batt on a touchwheel iPod (complacent having done it before, case-cracking tool slipped in too deep the second time!) and then talked my favorite reseller into fixing that booboo for me. I have only had a bad logic board swapped out on one of the computers, and I think I had to replace a display backlight on a powerbook 170.
My latest secret was to buy Apple-refurb G4 powerbooks (extra QA is done on them, my impression) until the MacBook Air came along and bumped me back into the fast lane. I have bought iPods new and as refurbs.
MacBook Air with the SSD -- la ultima maquina. So fast so quiet so light!!!
And their stuff is basically like potato chips, just one kicks off the lust... so BEWARE, and HAVE FUN !
Mac OS X is UNIX with consistent support for proprietary software, and can run most if not all of what I like in UNIX, even if some of it is more hacky/requires X11.app
I like the "Menu Bar of current app on top" paradigm, though I could care less for pretty much everything else in the interface, it's not as intuitive as it claims in my experience, GNOME or KDE4 are far more intuitive. I really wish it could be TOTALLY torn apart and rebuilt like Linux/traditional UNIX interfaces.
The Macbook is the best engineered laptop I've touched so far, several times the battery life of my family member's laptops and runs about 10C cooler doing the same tasks on average(all my family's laptops are around the same vintage as my Macbook).
That and it's pretty much the only computer brand you can buy that doesn't ship with Windows(or didn't ship to the middleman with Windows before being replaced by Linux). The eeePC and some Dell offerings are the only other way to avoid the Windows tax when buying a prebuilt computer.
I like the "Menu Bar of current app on top" paradigm, though I could care less for pretty much everything else in the interface, it's not as intuitive as it claims in my experience, GNOME or KDE4 are far more intuitive. I really wish it could be TOTALLY torn apart and rebuilt like Linux/traditional UNIX interfaces.
The Macbook is the best engineered laptop I've touched so far, several times the battery life of my family member's laptops and runs about 10C cooler doing the same tasks on average(all my family's laptops are around the same vintage as my Macbook).
That and it's pretty much the only computer brand you can buy that doesn't ship with Windows(or didn't ship to the middleman with Windows before being replaced by Linux). The eeePC and some Dell offerings are the only other way to avoid the Windows tax when buying a prebuilt computer.
I was brought up with Macs. I know how to use a Mac more than I know how to use a PC. Over time, I kinda gravitate towards what I'm used to. Apple products appeal more to me than everything else. I'm used to Apple and their products, so I like them more. Pretty much it. Apple products have a different vibe to me than, say, using something created by Sony or Microsoft.
a. Design. I have never seen any other company put so much thought and effort into the design of their products. I really want to become an industrial designer. They also seem to think more about what it is they are doing and why they are doing it and what problems they are actually solving. They didn't create the MacBook air just so that they could say that they made the worlds thinnest notebook they made it for the traveling buisnessman, who spends half his life on the road and didn't want or need a supercharged laptop that weighed 8 pounds, they figure that all he needs is a computer that can video confrence, send email and write contracts. People don't always understand why apple does certain things whitch I think is kind of annoying.
B. Customer service Apple thinks about their customers a lot. And then you say "THE iPHONE PRICE DROP!!!". But think about this apple gave $100 dollars to every early iPhone buyer. Dell or HP or Sony would have given them a 300 page survey to fill out then give you $5 towards the brand new store that the just opened up in India. And if something is broken then it takes like 8 minutes to get it replaced for free on their website and you will get it in ( at the most ) 2 days
That's what I like about apple and those are things that a lot of people just don't understand.
B. Customer service Apple thinks about their customers a lot. And then you say "THE iPHONE PRICE DROP!!!". But think about this apple gave $100 dollars to every early iPhone buyer. Dell or HP or Sony would have given them a 300 page survey to fill out then give you $5 towards the brand new store that the just opened up in India. And if something is broken then it takes like 8 minutes to get it replaced for free on their website and you will get it in ( at the most ) 2 days
That's what I like about apple and those are things that a lot of people just don't understand.
Hi Fellow Forum Members,
I just wanted to weigh in on this.
First off, I want to say what a great forum this is with it's wealth of information and knowledgeable members (brown-nosing over). I have lurked here for a while deciding which Mac to get and have read some great posts (my fav was the one with someone ordering a $20 set of headphones and somehow throwing it away with the rest of the mail because that address was only for junk mail and then getting upset and trying to get the Feds involved...lol...I am still laughing).
Years ago I was a Mac user...actually I was an Apple and Macintosh user...pre Mac days. I loved them then. While everyone I knew had a 386 or something similar that was always crashing, my Macintosh never had a problem. I left the Apple world (free computers from work) for years and have had hundreds of problems causing me to spend entirely too much time trying to fix them. I want to get back to those worry free times and save some cash by using less Tylenol.
Those times should begin in a day or two as my new MBP has shipped.
Oh Yeah!!! Apple stuff looks great too!
Cheers!
I just wanted to weigh in on this.
First off, I want to say what a great forum this is with it's wealth of information and knowledgeable members (brown-nosing over). I have lurked here for a while deciding which Mac to get and have read some great posts (my fav was the one with someone ordering a $20 set of headphones and somehow throwing it away with the rest of the mail because that address was only for junk mail and then getting upset and trying to get the Feds involved...lol...I am still laughing).
Years ago I was a Mac user...actually I was an Apple and Macintosh user...pre Mac days. I loved them then. While everyone I knew had a 386 or something similar that was always crashing, my Macintosh never had a problem. I left the Apple world (free computers from work) for years and have had hundreds of problems causing me to spend entirely too much time trying to fix them. I want to get back to those worry free times and save some cash by using less Tylenol.
Those times should begin in a day or two as my new MBP has shipped.
Oh Yeah!!! Apple stuff looks great too!
Cheers!
1. Software that just works and is highly integrated with each other as well as the hardware.
2. Aesthetics/Industrial design. Anything with an Apple logo looks amazing. (Except for the black keyboard on the Air, that should have been like the MBP). Anyway....
3. OS X
4. OS X
5. OS X
2. Aesthetics/Industrial design. Anything with an Apple logo looks amazing. (Except for the black keyboard on the Air, that should have been like the MBP). Anyway....
3. OS X
4. OS X
5. OS X