Am I An Apple Fanboy?

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I think you only qualify as a fanboy if you:

• can't bring yourself to ever say anything negative about the Mac / Apple
• slam Vista regularly despite never having used it
• and insert "Well, with a Mac you can..." in every conversation possible, all the while not realizing how stupid you sound to PC users who can do all the same stuff on their machines.

So I don't think you qualify.

Nothing wrong with having some Apple products, just with having the annoying Mac attitude.

 

Well, with a Mac you can usually Print without crashing your system.

 

My signature photo says it all.

15 years of Apple computers and products, zero problems. I still have the original iPod in use, among many other iPods, and it works just fine.

I think the Prius is as close to an apple product as anything can ever be.

 

Never had a problem printing with Vista or XP. But that's not to say others haven't. But then again, Mac users apparently have their share of problems too:

Mac OS X and iPod Troubleshooting, Support, and Help - MacFixIt

My only recent experience with a Mac was in trying to burn a bunch of jpgs from an iMac onto a CD. Talk about painful - finally after about 20 minutes of using the Mac's "intuitive interface" I figured it out. Even the teacher for whom I was doing it didn't know how - and she is a Mac user (by default) because the school put one in her classroom. Well, "put one in her classroom" is not quite accurate. She told me she was on her 4th i-Mac as the previous 3 all had problems and had to be replaced.

 

If you were using a beta version, that could be the problem. I have Vista SP1 and the only trouble I've had was with firewall software from Computer Associates. It didn't play well with Vista so I installed something different and have had no troubles since. I was hesitant after being a longtime XP user, but for me Vista has worked out quite nicely.

 

I have at Home 4 desktop mac, 3 laptops, My first computer was a mac, I was a Windows network admin and still use pcs at work... but I never considerate myself as an apple fanboy... I prefer to use a mac because it suits me better, and give me less maintenance work so i can feel at home when I'm at home, (I would feel like at work doing maintenance of my own computers)...
I had some hardware issues (Hard disk failures...) but this is not mac related...
I just use the tools that suits me better, if someone asks me about macs I tell them what they want to know but I will never try to make someone change for a mac. they have to choose for themselves...

 

Congratulations and Welcome.

 

i work for apple, and let me tell you there's nothing more annoying than "fanboys" who love to chat it up try to out geek me.....AHHHHHHHH

 

I went with 32 bit. It sounds like many programs are still not optimized for 64 bit, so I figured there was no point -- yet. Anyway, sorry to hear you are having trouble. I considered a Mac but at the end of the day it was just too much more money for too little, if any benefit for me. Plus having to re-learn a lot of things that are now second nature. But that doesn't mean it's not a good choice for others. It all boils down to personal preference - but my Vista experience overall has been good.

 

No computer system is perfect. They are made by humans after all.

Am I an Apple fanboy? I wouldn't call myself that anymore than I consider myself a fanboy of a tv brand. I don't drink the cool aid. I just find Apple products being just enough better at the things that I personally do are better.

Yes there are some things like burning CDs that are just stupidly not obvious as to what to do on a Mac. Try moviemaker on a Windows computer then iMovie (I much prefer iMovie '06 as iMovie '08 seems to be for movies 20 minutes or less. Oh well.

As for costing more. This is a myth if you compare same hardware to same hardware. Once you pick that low end Dell, etc, and upgrade it so that it has the same or very similar hardware as the Apple computer you will find the Dell, etc., to be very close to the same price or even higher. Plus you can run Windows, or Linux, or etc. on a Mac along side Mac OS X. You can't run Mac OS X on a Dell.

 

Sounds like you made a good decision - I believe people should use what works for them, be it Windows, Mac, or Linux.

However, I have to take issue with Mac costing the same. That has not been my experience at all. I researched a laptops recently spec'd against a MacBook Pro (same CPU, same memory, same screen size, larger HD on PC) and the PC was markedly less expensive (about $750 less).

Or, take a mac-mini at $599. It has a Core 2 Processor (1.8 GHz), 1 GB RAM, and an 80 GB HD.

For the same $599 you can get a Dell desktop QUAD Core 2.4 GHz, with 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB HD.

But if you like Macs, then by all means the difference is worth it. I won't argue that. Like I said - I think people should use whatever suits them best. But recognize that in most cases, the PC is less $ for equal performance or more performance at an equivalent price.

 

Did your PC had
-a GEForce 8600M GT with 512MB of memory on it
-Digital Audio in and out
-Express card
-IEEE 1394
-IEEE 1394b
-Wireless networking 802.11 a b g and n
-bluetooth 2.1 with EDR
-Gigabit ethernet
-DVI port.
-backlit keyboard
-multi-touch trackpad
-built-in webcam

 

Very similarly spec'd:
- ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 w/ 512
- No on digital audio in/out
- yes on Express card - BOTH sizes 34 & 54 (not just 34 like the Mac)
- yes ilink 1394
- yes on 802.11 a/b/g/n
- yes on bluetooth 2.0 +EDR
- 10/100 ethernet
- HDMI port
- no on backlit keypad
- yes on trackpad, with right mouse and integrated fingerprint reader
- yes on webcam

Also - on the PC but not on the Mac:
- 2 internal hard drives (320 GB total; secondary drive 200 GB 7200 RPM)
- 5 in 1 card reader
- Harman Kardon speakers
- lightscribe DVD recordable drive
- 3 GB RAM (vs 2 GB on Mac)
- page up/down/home/end keys

For me, I'll take the PCs $750 savings, the two hard drives, more RAM, the integrated card reader, right click trackpad, and HDMI port over the Mac's backlit keyboard and digital audio in/out. But if you like the mac, you like the mac. No problem.

 

I'll take gigabit ethernet, 1394b, and multi-touch trackpad over the card reader lightscribe, etc...
Does Windows use the 3GB RAM ?
on my machine only 2 of the 4 are recognized, (2 of the 7 GB on my desktop machine...)
A DVI-HDMI converter ($5) easily solve the HDMI issue
And Backlit keyboard, once you've tried it you don't go back...

FYI Multi-touch trackpad allows for Left and Right click, scroll up/down and Left/right, zoom in/zoom out, and to rotate pictures in some applications...

As you said everyone has to define his needs then take the tool that suits you better

 

We currently have three Macs - one MacBook, and two iMacs. (My very first Mac was an SE - even before the classic - but my very first APPLE was the Apple 2E! Good times, good times...)

Fwiw we also have several Windows-based PC's.

Also have an iTouch and we briefly had Apple TV. And countless iPods.

Yeah, I'd say we're loyal fans.

Dh wants a Macbook for himself now too.

We do run Parallels (only when needed).

 

Based on your response, you are definitely not a "fanboy" either.

Anyway, I haven't plugged into an ethernet cable in about 5 years - all WiFi now. But the 1394b might be interesting and I can see the functionality of a backlighted keyboard. Touch might be nice, though I'm used to a right click pad and use it all day long. Also - I have to give credit to the Mac for a better battery. But I'm very pleased with the price/performance/functionality of the new PC. The Mac would be fun to learn (again) though. Last I used it was with my old Powerbook, which I liked.

Oh - and to answer about the RAM - Windows uses all 3 GB - though I heard it is best to use equal sized pairings. Windows also has a neat memory-related feature called ReadyBoost whereby you can effectively turn external flash memory (through the USB or Card Reader) into system RAM. So if one needs more, you can simply increase the usable RAM by popping it in the card reader.