Andy, There's nothing worse than an optimist who's turned pessimist
:-).. That's me with Apple.
I was an Apple BELIEVER!.. I fought tooth and nail to get Apple into
the department.... Hector Sanchez will verify how much the ministry
wanted to use windows machines and how many meetings/arguments we had
where I had to explain why exactly apple was way better for Photographic
processing when "Everyone" in Oman used windows. Nowadays Apples are
everywhere in Muscat. When I got there you couldn't find one.
Perhaps I have over reacted in my dissapointment at the failure rate
which made a bit of a fool of me there.
Yes.
When they first came out I went in and bought a Macbook for my wife and
a Macbook Pro for me and for the college I bought first the Imac G5s
(The white ones) and then when the pentiums came out I bought quite a
few of those. The maclab at Muscat HCT has 20 Imacs, the video editing
lab has 10 Imacs and each staff member has one. There are about 6 spare
and we were forever switching them out as they died.
Who knows where these machines came from... There are no official Mac
dealers there... Maybe we were just unlucky, but it sure made me think
twice about buying Apple again.
H
On 10/28/10 12:54 PM, Andy wrote:
Did you buy first generation models? I haven't had your experience.
Andy
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On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Herschel Mair<herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
