I haven't owned one no, I have used a MBP extensively at work though.
Dont get me wrong, Im not saying their any worse than PCs, but in my opinion their no better. It just baffles me when people say their light years better than PCs when their not! They both do the job, one just costs alot more and it seems to be very fashionable to be on the macs are great PCs are cack bandwagon.
My experience is somewhat different. Most mac owners couldn't give a flying f**k about windows - yet pc owners seem to get a bee in their bonnet about macs! Mac owners seem to have to defend themselves because windows owners can't stop trolling!
If you go through the "PC" threads on here, you won't find the mac users popping up spouting crap about windows, but post something about a mac and you get windows users popping up spouting all sorts crap and rubbish about macs!
Au contraire, sweetpea, every time there's a "Mac vs. Windows" debate, Windows users tend to say they've never understood why Macs are a million times better, whereas Mac users have to tell the world how s**t PCs and Windows are.
Are we all forgetting (more now than ever!) that they run on the same x86-64 architecture and share the same physical limitations? And that, indeed, a Mac is just a very, very expensive PC with a much more limited HCL (which gives it it's "legendary" stability).
I'm not bashing the Mac in this post - they are VERY pretty pieces of kit, and the idea of restricting the list of compatible hardware is good in principle, but in the real world there is no 'Computer User', and everyone uses their computer for different things to different extents, and as such the Mac is very much painting itself into a corner.
Just a minor example, short of the Apple solutions, how many SAS cards can you fit in your Mac Pro and run Leopard? I can run an industry-leading 9690SA in my Windows-based PC. The only SAS card you can run (and boot) from in your Mac is an Areca unit (which has to be Leopard) or the Apple unit which "is only supported with Apple drives". Add the OS limitation in (you can only use it on Leopard) and I point out the fact that I can install my 9690SA on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 Server, Linux, FreeBSD... I'm bored now. Point being where do I get drivers for any of the above operating systems for the Apple RAID card? So what you're telling me is that if I buy the 'approved' Apple SATA RAID card and install 'unsupported' SAS disks in the machine, I can only use OSX Leopard and can't even use a bootloader such as Boot Camp to run Windows?
Ok, take a home example as well. I'd like to use my Creative Xen with my Mac. What, I can't? I've got to buy an Apple iPod? If Microsoft dared to suggest that the only PMP you could use with Windows was the Microsoft disaster, Apple would be first in the lawsuit queue to point out that you can't force people into specific hardware.
"Oh, but you can install it, you just have to use it like a normal disk drive" - so when my device ships with a fairly useful piece of software for organising it's music and uploading it in a similar fashion to Apple's iTunes, I can't use it because Apple say so? Who are they to say this?
If I wanted to play games, Apple won't certify the 9800 GX2 drivers. So I can't use one. Microsoft should probably take this approach because nVidia are s**t at drivers, but you get the idea.
Very, very limited in it's uses and in my personal opinion, of no use outside of the house or in marketing/graphic design environments where they were originally designed for.
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