mmm
I used to feel the same way until the intel /made in China era arrived.
My G4 17" powerbook is a monster. It's works so hard and so reliably
even editing huge 39 MP images with three or four open at a time and
never complains!
My G5 is as exciting to use now as the day I first brought it home about
6 years ago. A workhorse of note. Indestructible
My Macbook has been replaced twice. My Macbook PRO just hangs up for no
reason from time to time.
Of the 25 imacs that we had in our computer lab in Oman, there were
always 5 or 6 out of commission. The technician from Apple was there
once a week to collect the fallen and walking wounded.
Now there's be no reason to get a new computer except that I'm teaching
Photoshop and CS5 won't $#@&%%% work on my older G5. I have avoided
the issue and there's nothing I want to do for my own work that I can't
do on CS4... But now I must get a pentium machine/s to load CS5 onto and
I'm nervous about buying Apple imac, especially when spending my own
money instead of college money.... because I don't trust its reliability.
Herschel
On 10/28/10 11:43 AM, Andy wrote:
Much the same can be said for Microsoft, when they upgrade the operating
system you generally need a new computer and to upgrade all the software.
Apple knows this too. But apple uses the fact to make hard cutoffs in hardware support. This allow the software to not become bloated and limits the impact of legacy hardware and code. This is why apple can stay fresh and new. This is also a detriment because they sell you on the latest and greatest FireWire and apple display connectors that sometimes dont get industry support. But you always get what you pay for and it will not loose functionality for many more years than a pc.
I own 4 Macs and 0 PCs and I'll take these trade offs any day of the week for the quality of hard ware and software combined.
Andy
