Dang!??!?….and it's a Mac.

[Jesla]

[nhdungeonracer]

I know someone who will have one...

Christian! :lol:

[Wolseley Hornet]

There used to be bars in London (well before my time,I hasten to say), where attractive young women would allow you to buy them drinks.(Actually you didn't have any choice,unless you wanted to debate the issues with the large and threatening heavies who provided security).
They had orange juice: but when the bill came,you discovered it had actually been champagne!
These were colloquially known as "Clip Joints".

I sometimes think that these big computer firms are simply running Electronic Clip Joints.
The only difference between them being the attractiveness of the girls - and the price!

You have to have the latest shiny box, which they just happen to have developed with your welfare in mind; and if you want to use any of the other shiny boxes they offer (purely for your benefit), with the shiny box you just bought last year - at the very least you'll have to buy a new operating system. Or you may just have to face the reality that last year's shiny box is now so out of date that the only thing for a sensible person to do is scrap it and buy a completely new one!

There, Bibbster, I've done the rant for you.
And damn, doesn't it feel better.

And that's probably my chance of ever getting a visitor's visa gone West as well !

David.

[Jesla]

LOL…..that was good!

But I look at it this way, your at the Mustang Ranch who are you going to 'dance' with?

The Hottest, Newest, Fastest wench available….Don't lie, you know what you would do. 8-)

You only get so many trips around the sun…..

I'm 8 months into the Apple Eco System after thirty years of PC's. 14 Apple devices and counting.

I've never been happier, the wife and kid require almost ZERO support……and it all just works….aah……

Ok 'Fan Boy' Off………..no kidding after my first iPhone I started wondering if I really liked PC's and all their drama.
I'm old and getting slower at keeping up with technology, Apple makes it easy and that makes the cost well worth it to me.

[ElSecundo]

Apparently there's an issue with heat, so they have to move a lot of air to keep them cool. End result, they are supposedly quite loud, and technicians using them for sound recording are unhappy. It's nice that they've re-imagined the computer case, but that's really the only big selling point. Ooh, shiny.

But it's still cool to see them forging ahead with new ideas. Hey Dickie, maybe Chrisitan will let us try it out when he gets one. :)

[Jesla]

Apple says the FAN rotates "a few time minute", don't know what that means until it's released.
And according to Apple it's very quiet. But it IS the coolest Desktop I've seen in a loooong time.

Already getting the budget set up. I guessing now, but I expect the one I want will be in the $2500-3000 range.
If it goes five years with out needing any hardware upgrades, I think it will be money well spent.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I left Macs behind many years ago when they suddenly laid off 4000 people at a plant that was making tons of money for them. Guess where those jobs went. I got rid of drama from PCs when I got rid of Microsoft. That move also took care of the strangely short life of large capacity hard drives. Suddenly, everything works, and is dependable. And almost all versions of Linux are free downloads with far more features than Microscarf ever thought of. Most of the good Mac stuff has a Linux version, too.

My son is a big driving gamer. He has one of those elaborate driving cage things with a special wheel and pedal set made in Germany by hand, It is apparently licensed by Porsche, as it has their steering wheel or a dead copy, including the weight and balance. It even has those annoying flappy paddle shifters for the transmission.

[Wolseley Hornet]

[Jesla]

'Fan Boy' On…

The New Mac Pro will be assembled* in America…….Go Apple!….

*Yes I understand the difference between Assembled and Made. Better here than China, Mexico, etc.

[DAVE]

New programs and applications are coming out all the time, and some are requiring some big
disc capacities, so eventually you have to upgrade. It's planned obsolesence. To keep up with
the neighbors, you have to change with the times.
I worked for a company which made the magnesium frames for Powerbooks and Apple desktops.
Everything we made was shipped to India. We also offered to do sub-assemblies for them. But
our hourly rate was too high, by 500 per cent. Eventually they set up their own operation to
cast the frames over there, and we lost them as a customer. But that's the way manufacturing
is. Every company is doing it. We could stop buying goods from overseas, and eventually those
goods will be made here again. We are the biggest consumer market. But what do we use while
we are waiting for the transition to happen?

[Ember]

Ex Apple fan here... From the long ago dark ages. Yes... They make pretty machines. But they make mistakes too.

Regardless of that the Apple Cult thing is just a major turn off.

Just upgrades to a top of range Ultrabook at Xmas time after 8 years on Dell laptop. I know the Ultra won't do me for the 8 years... But I like it. I'm even coping with Windows 8 now that I've got used to the idea.

I know Apple is the standard platform for the graphics industry. But I just can't afford it.

[Dangermouse]

Well we are a Mac / iOS household and love it

I find it amusing all the press generated, because even the people who don't like them know stories about 'em 'sell newspapers'

At the end of the day be happy what you like or change it I for one am tired of all the press from both sides of how someone copied this or that.

For me I agree with Jesla they just work and I have enjoyed that in 30 years of using all sorts of PCs Macs Apple Iie, Newtons, etc

In terms of cost yeah you can buy a PC for cheaper but I have found over the life of the computer this evens out. yeah you can upgrade the PC if you are that way inclined bit like you can upgrade your car if you

There are pluses and minus which ever way you go but with my Macs I have never had a virus ( unlike the 500 odd infecting my brothers PC (i told hime to stop opening those porno emails) or spent an entire weekend removing a Trojan that kept replicating itself (web advice was throw the hard drive away)

There Mac rant over

The computer is one serious looking piece of kit and whether you love or hate Apple you have to give them credit for the profound effect they have had! One only needs to line up competitors offerings against Apple's offerings it is like walking down the street in the bazaars in Thailand cheap copies all over the place but never as good as the real McCoy

yours truly
I guess I am a fanboy he says as he types on his iPad while snoozing in on a slightly cool Saturday morning
DM

[TsgtRet]

:shock: Wow, you mean there is something newer than Windows 98?
Seriously, I learned DOS way back when and never have to get the "newest, biggest, fastest" when it first comes out.....let 'em work out the bugs and get the patches sent out before I buy. Heck, my youngest daughter still has my old VIC 20 someplace with the cartridge text games: "you are standing in forest, to the East you see...." My cell phone just flips open and talks. I guess new technology just doesn't trip my trigger. :snooty:

[Ember]

(chuckle)
Vic20 brings back some memories. Only quite recently dumped a whole lot of old computer gear. Of course, now I know someone who would've bought the Apple IIGS, Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 from me for serious money. Doncha just hate finding out these things just a day too late?

[Dangermouse]

"now I know someone who would've bought the Apple IIGS, Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200 from me for serious money"

put them in touch with me - I have an Apple Museum - Lisa, (pre the Mac) Macs, IIGS, Iic IIe, original Mac Laptop etc etc

DM