Originally posted by Digitalis ** I have worked with macs in the past, in my early days when I really didn't have a choice.They got the job done, in an obtusely dull way.
For some of us, a computer is a tool used to get a job done. We don't look for excitement. Yes, you can't work or upgrade a Mac...for some of us, spending the time to buildi our computers is really 15 or 20 years gone. I used to build four or 5 P.C.s a year with my technology classes. I haven't opened a case in 15 years. These days I just want something dependable. that gets the job done. My step son still does the "build his own machines" thing for gaming. More power to him, but, it's irrelevant to a huge portion of the world. For folks like me, if you want to talk about boring, I'd find upgrading components in a P.C the very definition of dull and boring. Been there, done that, it's work. Please, leave me out of it.
I want to buy it off the shelf, plug in my backup drive and go to work. That's exciting, to each their own. There's people that build their own air planes too. I don't do that either.
My father's favourite piece of research was done testing beer drinkers. 5 beer drinkers in room, each one claiming he liked his own beer and not the others. These were the top selling brands in the country at the time. IN fact in blind tests, they couldn't pick out their "favourite." Then the classic internet part started, even though it was before the internet. Rather than admit, they couldn't tell the difference, they blamed the researchers and accused them of trying to trick them, by putting their beer in another company's bottles.
Choosing computers these days is very little different than choosing your favourite brand of beer. The desire to make use of computer equipment, gets lost in the tribalism of brand loyalty and often unsubstantiated beliefs in exactly what your brand provides that others don.t. "I build my own computers" people are, just another tribe in the computer world.
I also prefer the dependability of my Toyota to "exciting to drive" high performance cars. I don't look for exciting in my vehicles either. Four wheel drive and absolute dependability and big tires are what's going to get you from here to there where I live. Those little skinny tire high performance vehicles can't even get up my driveway... buy what suits your needs. It's not all about absolute performance. Some of us "need" to avoid opening computer cases.