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With the exception of a handful of brands (e.g. ThinkPads), most people I know can't stand their computers and plan to buy a Mac once their machines die or beco
by SandB0x 15y ago
With the exception of a handful of brands (e.g. ThinkPads), most people I know can't stand their computers and plan to buy a Mac once their machines die or become unusable. I'm surprised that other PC manufacturers manage to sell anything at all. Crapware, poor build quality, bloated and impossible-to-comprehend product lines, it's like HP, Dell and co are actively trying to go out of business.
- yequalsx 15y agoWhat you wrote pretty much sums up why I went with a Macbook Air recently. My first Apple product ever. I used to think in terms of cutting edge video card, processor, etc. But my last Windows laptop would freeze up from getting too hot. Just watching a video on Netflix caused this problem unless I elevated the machine to allow free flow of air. My Macbook Air can compile a video lecture while I'm watching a Netflix video without overheating. I've realized that Apple creates a great computing experience without using cutting edge specs and their experience is much better than other PC manufacturers. And their products look like something you'd want to take care of and appreciate.
- bittermang 15y agoI can concur to this anecdote. I'm personally in the IT field, and just got tired of fixing computers all day, to come home and fix my own computer. It was something I loved enough to make a career out of, but yet I grew exasperated at having to maintain my own setup just to keep it in a semi-enjoyable state. Once I had another hardware failure, I scrapped the whole thing for one of the first gen white Intel iMacs, and never looked back. I no longer get in to a domestic dispute with my computer when I come home at the end of the day. My desktop is at peace.
- dman 15y agoI have often wondered what people do to their computer to break it? I have a windows 7 install that is a couple of years old at this point. And my linux install is an unbroken series of debian upgrades going about 7 years.
- krallja 15y agoWhat hardware are you running it on?
- dman 15y agoA self assembled PC that I put together eons ago.
- krallja 15y agoWould you say you used high-quality parts? ;)
- dman 15y agoOnly the very best - I prefer to use server boards which dont have whizbang features but receive bios updates for a couple of years. I think buying PC's is like an art. You dont want to buy any PC that has a radical feature vendor specific. For eg I would never buy anything with Nvidia optimus, chances of Nvidia sticking around to maintain it five years from now are zero. Youre much safer buying a middle of the road model that will receive vendor updates because the vendors lifeline depends on it. Buying motherboards that are used in supercomputing clusters is also great because those users tend to actually contribute kernel patches in case compatibility breaks over the years.
- narrator 15y agoAgreed, Redhat 9 was hell but Ubuntu saved Linux for me. I hardly ever have any problems, especially the crapware, malware, 30 different "please update me" popups kind of problem that are a dime a dozen on windows. I also like that I know what's going on with the system all the way down to the bare metal. The main thing that I can't use Linux for: Watching Netflix or other premium content is largely solved by the fact that I do all that, and play video games on my big screen TV via a PS3 and the built in Netflix/Amazon Video features of the TV.
- dman 15y ago
- whichdan 15y agoI used a ThinkPad T400 for about a year and a half before getting a Macbook Pro. The ThinkPad is junk compared to the MBP. Sadly, it's still one of the best Windows business laptops you can get.
- srparish 15y agoI've had exactly the opposite experience. I've owned 3 thinkpads, 4 macbook pros (between my wife and i), and an ibook. The thinkpads are tanks that take any beating i give them and keep running. The ibook was solid. The macbook pros have been complete crap--breaking dvd drives, failing harddrives, failing keyboards, cracked displays, failing trackpads. On the dvd drives, Apple has refused to admit the problem, and has repeated deleted forums with people discussing it. They've completely lost me as a customer.
- hendrix 15y agoThe t400 is a tank. It survived university and being dropped more than a few times, and beer spilled all over it. MBPs are like Maserati/BMW/whatever which are sexy but require much more maintenance and care than the Honda civic of laptops aka the thinkpad T-series.
- vidarh 15y agoPeople buy Macs when they can afford it and/or want to spend money on quality. But most people can not afford Macs or are not willing to spend that much on a computer. That's why the other PC manufacturers manage to keep selling, and that's also why the other PC manufacturers struggle with razor thin margins.