I love Apple

I STG you're my magical twin I've never met.

 

I had an iBook that I most likely would still have if the power would still charge. Worked great until it wasn't able to get a good connection with the connector anymore. I donated it to a co-worker of my mom's who got old computers and either refurbished them or used them for spare parts to build computers for children who needed them for school but their parents couldn't afford a brand new one.

Now I have a MacBook Pro. Love it. Absolutely love it.

 

Apple has been hit or miss for me. I had an iMac G3 in college, bought with a little left over scholarship money. I got it because the journalism department only used Mac, and I was tired of going to the labs for design projects. Great little computer for home and school work. I upgraded to an iMac G5, which had problems. The power source kept frying the mother board. But Apple was great about making sure I had it repaired in a timely manner.

I upgraded that for the first MacBook to replace the iBook line. What a piece of crap. I know better than to buy the first of anything, but I wanted to go portable. Hated that thing. Battery wouldn't hold a charge after six months, mother board kept failing, unresponsive USB ports. I dumped it off for cheap on eBay.

My current is an iMac Intel, bought in Feb. 2008 and still running strong. I just boosted the memory, so it's running as fast as the day I bought it. It should ultimately last me 5 years. Around then, I'll probably look for something new. Ideally, this thing will run for another 3 years, and I'll get an iPad so I can web surf and play games and not have to sit at the computer desk. After all day of sitting at a desk for work, I'd rather not do it when I get home, too.

 

Those 27-inch iMacs are, indeed, the bee's knees.

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I have an iBook G4 that I got in 2003. It still runs, albeit much more slowly than it did back in its heyday. It still does what I need it to do, however.

 

Macs are quite hit or miss. I've heard several stories from people who just loved their Mac. Mine was definitely in the miss category. If it froze five times or fewer in a week, that was a successful week for it.

I'm now a die-hard PC user.

 

PCs haven't ever suffered from freezing or blue screens of death.

 

Not nearly as often as Macs do, in my experience. That's what happens when you get a bad Mac.

 

It's all in personal experience. I've had mostly bad experiences with Apple products (seriously, my iPod touch won't run apps for more than 30 seconds at times even after I reinstall them and barely holds a charge), average to decent experience with PCs overall and great experiences with Dell (a little Inspiron that's still running great six years later and a year-old Studio that they replaced the HD for free on after I dropped it and broke the spindle).

No computer company is perfect, and all of them have products fail on a fairly regular basis. The ones that fail on you are going to be the ones that color your opinion.

Stitch - No antivirus program on my machine (our company has one on the internal server that scans our machines when they're hooked up at the office but nothing on the individual computers). It will freeze up regularly when only running 3-5 programs (Safari, Firefox, Entourage, Quark and VPN) and is just deathly slow even when it's not freezing. Yeah, it's old and I can't take off the servers that probably slow it down more, but it's just not a very good machines. It's actually a new body because the LCD screen on the first one died, so we just put the hard drive in a new body, and it's gone through at least four batteries because they all have a tendency to overheat, swell, lose their contacts with the computer and risk bursting from the pressure. My company certainly doesn't help them, but they're not good machines either.

 

Crapware is why I won't buy a Windows PC anymore. Is there anyway to buy a consumer laptop (Dell, HP, etc.) from a consumer channel without crapware installed?

Thank goodness I don't work in IT. I worked in technical support for a few large ISPs before the cable and phone companies took over that market, and worked in Windows support for a Microsoft contractor, and it was nothing short of pulling teeth to help those customers.

Of course, a lot of computer problems probably could be avoided if users didn't click on every Web ad they see or every link in an email, and their system trays didn't extend halfway across the task bar.