Fishaman P said:
Well, for starters, Macs cost $1000 more than comparable PC's, they don't work with a lot of devices, they use a proprietary disk partitioning scheme, you can't customize them or build one yourself, only about 4% of all programs work on a Mac (not counting Wine), and... no options but white.
Oye. In this thread which has been so civil up until now, we get our first glimpse of the typical ignorance we see in the frothy anti-Apple fanatics. It's one thing to dislike a specific product or platform, another to spout utter nonsense sound bites you heard from someone else who also doesn't understand what they're talking about.
Every year the price difference becomes less and less. At this point you really can't find comparable machines in the same price range of say, a MacBook Air. You can find less expensive thin form factor laptops, by some small amount. However they
won't have comparable build quality, or even the same hardware feature-set, almost strictly inferior machines. This is really a hold-over of the biases from the 80's and early 90's, where Microsoft pushed for the commoditization of PC hardware to sell their OS. At that point Apple resisted the change, keeping their machines in the price range of several times their Windows-running counterparts. The Apple of the early-90s is of course not the same Apple we have today, and now on most of their products they offer competitive price points.
I'm not sure what devices you're referring to, but from my experiences OSX has always had better plug-and-play support than Windows. Even first-party Microsoft peripherals which
weren't plug-and-play in the XP era worked flawlessly out of the box in the OSX revisions available at the time.
As for building yourself, since apparently you aren't particularly proficient at reading, I'll point out that several posters in this thread
have working hackintoshes.
4% of all software? Who cares? I'd rather have 15 great Twitter clients to choose from than 150 terrible ones. There are a plethora of great options on OSX for almost any application-based workflow.
tl;dr computer choice isn't a holy war. Veil your ignorance and cease this pathetic attempt at Jihad.
