How many APPLE products have you owned?

Yeh, but that Ballmer monkey-boy dance is boss. Never would have seen Jobs dancing like that.

I'll let y'all decide if that's a good or a bad thing.

 

Yes...

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Well you can say that, but it doesn't make it true.

 

Ah emulation. Yes, that is nice. A little slower but nice.

 

dupe.

 

i gave my wife a macbook a couple years ago because she always struggled using my dell laptop. the keyboard is a little nicer, spillproof i think. cost me over a grand and the dell equivelant was around $400.
i use dell because that's what we have at work and it's easier for my administrator. i have no complaints, they last 4-5 years before they implode. but they are a third the price of apple and i like getting a new machine. they definitely improve over time.

 

I've been an IT guy for places that used Dells, and I also found them nice to work with.

I got a Dell for myself, as did a couple of other people I know, and all three were total crap.

So, to summarize: Dells at work = pretty good; Dells at home = OMG AVOID! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

 

Agreed.

Business Class Dells are a different "company" essentially. Just like Cisco Commercial/Industrial vs. Cisco Consumer vs. Linksys. All the same company, but different design engineers. (as I type this from a business class Dell)

 

An iPad, a power book, (previous apple lap top), a couple of gen 1 iPods, a iPod shuffle (probably my favorite $10 eBay toy!), apple Tv system, airport router with built in back up HD. I also have a I phone that has no service I use to stream Pandora into the stereo..

The IPad came s a gift, the lap top bought new, the iPods rescued from the scrap heap when people moved on,, and they had little resale value. I did buy the router and apple TV. the iPhone was also a cast off.

Icarus

The last dell I had was a POS and lasted about an hour longer than the warrantee. The MacBooks cost twice as much, but are much nicer machines,, none of the small lap tops like rough handling though.

 

The industrial design of the machine affects me continuously, as do the aesthetics. I'm not always willing to pay more for that stuff, but I am in the case of a computer.

 

I bought one -- I forgot its name.
I was happy with it until a colleague showed me his little PDA he carried in his front shirt pocket, used for everything I wanted out of the Newton, and was a speed demon to use.

 

A fews -- two macbooks, an all-in-one, Itouch.

Also still have some XP machines. Ubuntu pending ....

 

this is interesting, i'm on a 17" vostro now. not sure how to differentiate between 'business' and 'home use'. i just went to dell.com, called up and ordered it. 600 bucks, no complaints except for the first few months i kept getting a message 'internet connection lost', and then it just stopped doing it and it's been fine ever since.

 

My two housemates at the time bought Newtons, but one of them is The Ultimate Apple Fanboy(tm) - from buying very first generation Mac, to standing in line at the Apple store to be a First Day Buyer.

 

I started with the first Mac, graduated to a Mac IIÆ’x, and now work with a G5. We enjoy a wealth of Apple products - Apple TV, large format monitors, iPhones. Apple is seamless in that what I do on one product I can readily access on my Powerbook, desktop, iPhone and other units. iCloud only moves things forward.

 

I've always bought "value" products. That rules out brands that charge a premium just for the name - like Apple or Sony. Ofcourse, I build my own PCs.

Recently bought an old iPod for my Leaf - since per GB cost was less than what I'd have to pay for a USB drive

 

All our Intel Macs are Dual Boot so that I don't have to use a Virtual Environment. I love having the option.

 

Lowest Price != Best Value

 

My son gets into some serious robotics software development at a commercial level and prefers running Windows on a Mac too.