Macs

[Calibanbutcher]

They are quite durable. The one I have has worked for more than 6 years now and I even bought it used. In the same time, my father has gone through 4 laptops and my little brother has gone through 3 and now upgraded to a new gaming PC.

Both of them spent a lot more than I did overall, with my little brother going through more than 4 times what I paid for my Macbook.

While I'm not saying I don't believe you, I don't really think that's a fair point.

I can only say that they...obviously ain't taking care of them if they've collectively managed to go through SEVEN computers in six years, what on earth are they doing them?. That'd be like me consistently crashing my car in to lamposts and sticking diesel in a petrol car and then saying that BMWs are terrible cars.

Secondly, if they've managed to spend that much money, they're either getting fleeced or buying from really overpriced shops.

And hey, if you want to spend more money because you feel it may annoy someone that's your call, but unless you announce it, no body will know, and you're 700 out of pocket, bit of a weird sentiment if you ask me.

OT: I mean Macs ARE overpriced as hell for what you get, they're pretty much "designer" computers, but even worse in the sense that you get less customisation on them. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise is insane or knows nothing about components.

I don't understand it myself. I haven't got anything against them, but I can't for the life of me see why you'd buy one over windows, not only do windows have far more versatility and the ability to build one from the ground up by standard(as opposed to building a hackintosh), they have far more support in both the software, gaming and hardware scenes, and are cheaper. They still have that irritating hold "apple" button to right click motif (WHY WHY WHY?!) going on too, what's with that?

I'm not even sure where the "they're easier to use" concept comes from either. I mean they're not exactly much different from windows. When it gets to the technical stuff yes, but that's going to be the case with Macs too if you're not tech savvy.

I have to admit, my father does use his laptops mainly for work and he does work them a lot, but the Dells he had seemed to break down quite easily. My little brother on the other hand used his for gaming and he basically managed to get every single one of his laptops to overheat and die.
As for the price issue:
I paid 800 bucks for my macbook. My little brother worked his way through 4 x 500 - 700 bucks worth of laptops and now has a 900 buck gaming-PC.
As for my father: He currently uses a Laptop which cost around 4000 - 5000 bucks, and even this one already had it first break down.

FIVE GRAND? Even the most expensive Alienware laptop is only £2500, which works out at about $3000 given how royally we get screwed over in conversion.

What on earth is it made of? I can only envision a platinum wired, ivory keyboarded with diamond tipped wires, dipped in gold with fan blades made from the wings of freshly slaughtered angels and a cooling system instilled with the urine of christ himself.

I mean I've got a Dell XPS15 and I rag that, it gets so hot it's physically painful to touch, but I've yet to have any problems with it, and I've had it for over a couple of years now.

Platinum and ivory I am not so sure of, but it's completely tricked out as far as specs are concerned and goes far beyond any gaming PC or anything else I have ever seen.
He does need it for work though, so I guess the price should not be an issue, since it's not an entertainment machine but a work-horse.

 

[elvor0]

They are quite durable. The one I have has worked for more than 6 years now and I even bought it used. In the same time, my father has gone through 4 laptops and my little brother has gone through 3 and now upgraded to a new gaming PC.

Both of them spent a lot more than I did overall, with my little brother going through more than 4 times what I paid for my Macbook.

While I'm not saying I don't believe you, I don't really think that's a fair point.

I can only say that they...obviously ain't taking care of them if they've collectively managed to go through SEVEN computers in six years, what on earth are they doing them?. That'd be like me consistently crashing my car in to lamposts and sticking diesel in a petrol car and then saying that BMWs are terrible cars.

Secondly, if they've managed to spend that much money, they're either getting fleeced or buying from really overpriced shops.

And hey, if you want to spend more money because you feel it may annoy someone that's your call, but unless you announce it, no body will know, and you're 700 out of pocket, bit of a weird sentiment if you ask me.

OT: I mean Macs ARE overpriced as hell for what you get, they're pretty much "designer" computers, but even worse in the sense that you get less customisation on them. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise is insane or knows nothing about components.

I don't understand it myself. I haven't got anything against them, but I can't for the life of me see why you'd buy one over windows, not only do windows have far more versatility and the ability to build one from the ground up by standard(as opposed to building a hackintosh), they have far more support in both the software, gaming and hardware scenes, and are cheaper. They still have that irritating hold "apple" button to right click motif (WHY WHY WHY?!) going on too, what's with that?

I'm not even sure where the "they're easier to use" concept comes from either. I mean they're not exactly much different from windows. When it gets to the technical stuff yes, but that's going to be the case with Macs too if you're not tech savvy.

I have to admit, my father does use his laptops mainly for work and he does work them a lot, but the Dells he had seemed to break down quite easily. My little brother on the other hand used his for gaming and he basically managed to get every single one of his laptops to overheat and die.
As for the price issue:
I paid 800 bucks for my macbook. My little brother worked his way through 4 x 500 - 700 bucks worth of laptops and now has a 900 buck gaming-PC.
As for my father: He currently uses a Laptop which cost around 4000 - 5000 bucks, and even this one already had it first break down.

FIVE GRAND? Even the most expensive Alienware laptop is only £2500, which works out at about $3000 given how royally we get screwed over in conversion.

What on earth is it made of? I can only envision a platinum wired, ivory keyboarded with diamond tipped wires, dipped in gold with fan blades made from the wings of freshly slaughtered angels and a cooling system instilled with the urine of christ himself.

I mean I've got a Dell XPS15 and I rag that, it gets so hot it's physically painful to touch, but I've yet to have any problems with it, and I've had it for over a couple of years now.

Platinum and ivory I am not so sure of, but it's completely tricked out as far as specs are concerned and goes far beyond any gaming PC or anything else I have ever seen.
He does need it for work though, so I guess the price should not be an issue, since it's not an entertainment machine but a work-horse.

Ah fair enough, that makes sense. It sounds...magnificent. I'm sure I'd have one if the opportunity arose, although I'd just totally abuse it, I've got this super computer, but look, I can run 10 copies of Crysis at once, bwahaha!