I hate the mac
Jan 16, 2008, 11:27 AM
I am posting this, mainly to vent my dissatisfaction at Apple, and maybe worn others of the Apple trickery I have fallen pray to.
Don´t be fooled by Apple, they are just another greedy company after your hard earned money.
I switched over to mac with the understanding that Apple would provide the support necessary, through ´Boot Camp´ to allow me to run my XP on the macbook I had purchased, and therefore use the extensive collection of windows based software I had built up, (these being mainly games of course).
After about 4 months however, I started to realise that Apple, in all their greediness, had put out on the market a device (macbook), that was not ready for sale. Only incompetent, or thoughtless money hungry companies release products without testing them thoroughly, and to release a product that is faulty, is showing little (or no) respect for their customers.
My macbook, as was the case with many other users, had (among other things) overheating issues than forced the computer the just switch off, at the worst time I might add, if there is such a thing as a good time for a computer to crash.
Besides the hardware issues I was having, I was just getting tired of mac OS. Don´t get me wrong, I´m not knocking the OS. I just didn´t like it; maybe because I had become too accustomed to Windows, I still remember having to use DOS to get things done many years ago, and later awaiting the release of Windows 3.11.
But my choice to switch back to windows was made easy when the hard drive in the macbook decided to go faulty on me and die.
Anyhow, I rang up Dell and had a new Vista equipped notebook at my doorstep a couple of days later. I sent the mac to Apple to get repaired (under warranty) in the mean time.
Now, a year on, I am planning a trip to tour the USA on a motorcycle.
I thought it would be a good idea to dig out the macbook from whichever hole I had buried it in, and take that instead of the not soo small 17¨ Dell 9400 (E1705 for the cousins).
At first however, I intended to stick with the 10.4 Tiger, and just replace iworks06 I had purchased with the macbook, and get ms word for mac, the keyboard on the macbook I really like, except for the sticky key that was fixed when sent for repair. I would also load my photos, video and music, and seeing as the later I purchased from the online itunes store, without being able to play it elsewhere, it´s just as well I don´t really listen to music anyway.
But, I have just found out that macs will not support pocket pc (wm6) devices. So, in order to backup my newly acquired, awesome HTC Advantage, I figured I would have no choice but to install boot camp again, along with my old copy of XP Pro.
But lo and behold, Apple have withdrawn their support for boot camp on non-leopard OS. What a surprise! Apple want me to spend more money buying their new OS. They certainly have the art of making money down to a tee. The bastards!
I hate greedy corporations, and Apple is as greedy as they come.
We live in world where honour is something very rare, and Apple certainly have none of it. I was led to believe that I would still be able to run Windows on the macbook, this was the main reason I decided to go ahead with the purchase.
But Apple have found a way of sucking more money out of me even though I don´t want to use their OS, just the hardware I have already paid them for.
I´m not asking Apple to spread their wealth, just provide me with what they promised, or inferred; to provide users with the means to run Windows on macs. The ****ers!
Well, no more money! ¨Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you!¨
I WILL throw the macbook in a river before I give Apple another cent of my money. I was prepared to give them another chance by using their OS, and who knows, maybe I would have become accustomed to using it and never have switched back to Windows again.
I heard, and watched for years the amusing marketing of Apple against Windows, saying how cool mac OS was, and how Apple was the choice for young, smart, slightly rebellious and cool people. And that Microsoft was for the old, crusty and unadventurous suit wearing types. But Microsoft I figure, are also a greedy corporation, but at least they don´t pretend to be anything other than that; a huge corporations that makes tonnes of money every minute of the day, whilst Apple pretend to be some kind of crusading people´s company; stick to the man they imply, the man presumably represented by Microsoft? What a laugh!
I don´t expect anyone to give their products away for free, and I am only to willing to pay for quality products, I have never used pirated software because I believe that people should get paid for their work, but Apple have been good (but not great) products for many years, and surviving on the loyalty of their dedicated customers who, also thought they were buying into something different than the norm, and ´sticking to the man´ to some degree.
To those looking to buy a Windows alternative; Try both Windows and Mac at a shop, and decide for yourself which suits your needs better, but don´t be fooled by the crap Apple is leading you to believe about themselves or their competitor(s), remember; they are a business, and a thoughtless, inconsiderate and misleading one at that. And please don´t give your loyalty to any other than your family and/or friends.
Corporations, religions, governments, salesmen and/or politicians will only serve to disappoint you some day.
To Apple I say; release a boot camp that I can use with OS 10.4.:mad:
What could they possibly be doing with soo much bloody money anyway? If these ******* corporations pledged some money from their sales to helping out the poor people of the world, there would be some hope for humanity.
So here is my pledge Apple; you build water wells in 3 African villages, and I´ll buy Leopard OS from you. Otherwise, go and you know what with yourselves!
Don´t be fooled by Apple, they are just another greedy company after your hard earned money.
I switched over to mac with the understanding that Apple would provide the support necessary, through ´Boot Camp´ to allow me to run my XP on the macbook I had purchased, and therefore use the extensive collection of windows based software I had built up, (these being mainly games of course).
After about 4 months however, I started to realise that Apple, in all their greediness, had put out on the market a device (macbook), that was not ready for sale. Only incompetent, or thoughtless money hungry companies release products without testing them thoroughly, and to release a product that is faulty, is showing little (or no) respect for their customers.
My macbook, as was the case with many other users, had (among other things) overheating issues than forced the computer the just switch off, at the worst time I might add, if there is such a thing as a good time for a computer to crash.
Besides the hardware issues I was having, I was just getting tired of mac OS. Don´t get me wrong, I´m not knocking the OS. I just didn´t like it; maybe because I had become too accustomed to Windows, I still remember having to use DOS to get things done many years ago, and later awaiting the release of Windows 3.11.
But my choice to switch back to windows was made easy when the hard drive in the macbook decided to go faulty on me and die.
Anyhow, I rang up Dell and had a new Vista equipped notebook at my doorstep a couple of days later. I sent the mac to Apple to get repaired (under warranty) in the mean time.
Now, a year on, I am planning a trip to tour the USA on a motorcycle.
I thought it would be a good idea to dig out the macbook from whichever hole I had buried it in, and take that instead of the not soo small 17¨ Dell 9400 (E1705 for the cousins).
At first however, I intended to stick with the 10.4 Tiger, and just replace iworks06 I had purchased with the macbook, and get ms word for mac, the keyboard on the macbook I really like, except for the sticky key that was fixed when sent for repair. I would also load my photos, video and music, and seeing as the later I purchased from the online itunes store, without being able to play it elsewhere, it´s just as well I don´t really listen to music anyway.
But, I have just found out that macs will not support pocket pc (wm6) devices. So, in order to backup my newly acquired, awesome HTC Advantage, I figured I would have no choice but to install boot camp again, along with my old copy of XP Pro.
But lo and behold, Apple have withdrawn their support for boot camp on non-leopard OS. What a surprise! Apple want me to spend more money buying their new OS. They certainly have the art of making money down to a tee. The bastards!
I hate greedy corporations, and Apple is as greedy as they come.
We live in world where honour is something very rare, and Apple certainly have none of it. I was led to believe that I would still be able to run Windows on the macbook, this was the main reason I decided to go ahead with the purchase.
But Apple have found a way of sucking more money out of me even though I don´t want to use their OS, just the hardware I have already paid them for.
I´m not asking Apple to spread their wealth, just provide me with what they promised, or inferred; to provide users with the means to run Windows on macs. The ****ers!
Well, no more money! ¨Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you!¨
I WILL throw the macbook in a river before I give Apple another cent of my money. I was prepared to give them another chance by using their OS, and who knows, maybe I would have become accustomed to using it and never have switched back to Windows again.
I heard, and watched for years the amusing marketing of Apple against Windows, saying how cool mac OS was, and how Apple was the choice for young, smart, slightly rebellious and cool people. And that Microsoft was for the old, crusty and unadventurous suit wearing types. But Microsoft I figure, are also a greedy corporation, but at least they don´t pretend to be anything other than that; a huge corporations that makes tonnes of money every minute of the day, whilst Apple pretend to be some kind of crusading people´s company; stick to the man they imply, the man presumably represented by Microsoft? What a laugh!
I don´t expect anyone to give their products away for free, and I am only to willing to pay for quality products, I have never used pirated software because I believe that people should get paid for their work, but Apple have been good (but not great) products for many years, and surviving on the loyalty of their dedicated customers who, also thought they were buying into something different than the norm, and ´sticking to the man´ to some degree.
To those looking to buy a Windows alternative; Try both Windows and Mac at a shop, and decide for yourself which suits your needs better, but don´t be fooled by the crap Apple is leading you to believe about themselves or their competitor(s), remember; they are a business, and a thoughtless, inconsiderate and misleading one at that. And please don´t give your loyalty to any other than your family and/or friends.
Corporations, religions, governments, salesmen and/or politicians will only serve to disappoint you some day.
To Apple I say; release a boot camp that I can use with OS 10.4.:mad:
What could they possibly be doing with soo much bloody money anyway? If these ******* corporations pledged some money from their sales to helping out the poor people of the world, there would be some hope for humanity.
So here is my pledge Apple; you build water wells in 3 African villages, and I´ll buy Leopard OS from you. Otherwise, go and you know what with yourselves!
