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| ark_ader:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 06, 2017, 11:32:22 am ---Ok.... apple is overpriced. I think that covers it. --- End quote --- Quality over quantity. My Apple gear still works 10 years on without needing an upgrade. I have a G4 that does more than my PC laptop. I'll take quality anytime. You kids can buy the cheap ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, then moan about it. Need to look at the price, then you cannot afford it. Worse part is I'm not even an Apple fanboi. Their ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- just works. |
| dkersten:
Yeah, the salesman told me the same - Big sale in November, but until then this is it. Current sale lasts until the 12th, lots of time to think it over. |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on July 06, 2017, 11:49:45 pm --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 06, 2017, 11:32:22 am ---Ok.... apple is overpriced. I think that covers it. --- End quote --- Quality over quantity. My Apple gear still works 10 years on without needing an upgrade. I have a G4 that does more than my PC laptop. I'll take quality anytime. You kids can buy the cheap ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, then moan about it. Need to look at the price, then you cannot afford it. Worse part is I'm not even an Apple fanboi. Their ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- just works. --- End quote --- I'm all for quality over savings as long as it makes sense. These days Apple makes no sense. A 7th gen core i5 doesn't perform better when in a white box than in a black box, regardless of the kind of fruit painted on the back of the monitor. Apple's OS runs everything slower except Adobe products. My daughter just passed the "gate" into the graphic design program at the university she is attending. The requirement for her last 2 years there is an Apple macbook pro. Awesome, I have to buy her a $2600 laptop that has the exact hardware a $700 dell has. Or I can buy a 3 year old Apple laptop for $1200 that can't outperform a brand new $350 HP with a core i3 and 4 megs of ram. All so her instructors don't have to say "on PC's, use 'control' instead of 'command'." |
| fallacy:
All my built desktop gaming PC have all just worked since Windows 7 but because there are so many different drivers and hardware out there it does not seem to be the case for everyone. I guess it is a little like buying a suit, do you want to pay twice as much to make sure it is taylor fit or do you want to take the gamble and get something that might not just all work. Plus for me I do so much messing around in VR, gaming and 3d modeling I would never get an apple for that reason alone. |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: fallacy on July 07, 2017, 11:49:52 am --- I guess it is a little like buying a suit, do you want to pay twice as much to make sure it is taylor fit or do you want to take the gamble and get something that might not just all work. --- End quote --- I would refine this analogy: Do you want to buy your jacket, pants, and shirt at shops you like, then take them to your tailor to have altered to fit. You run the risk of your choices either not quite matching or not even being alterable to begin with, BUT you get to choose from hundreds of brands, colors, fabrics, and ultimately can create thousands of combinations. OR Do you want to go to a specialty shop and buy a suit that is already picked out to match and all ready to tailor to your frame, but costs 2-4 times as much as the other option and there are three choices, black, brown, or blue. If you suck at coordinating your clothing, or if you aren't paying attention and get something that is not able to be altered, you will end up with a suit that just doesn't work. But if you know what to look for and have some sense of style, you can save a TON of money and can choose to stand out in the crowd or blend in without anyone the wiser. Only snobs will point out that your suit doesn't have the same popular label as theirs does. THAT is the difference between Apple and "the rest of us". |
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