" rEd Eye-
How about you answer some of the questions put to you here in the forum?"
Ok,I suppose that for the intent with which I began this thread,I should have phased things a little less aggressively.My interest was in discussing.....
"Every company uses confusing/misleading language to try to make their product sound better than it really is",including Apple.
I for one,have always seen Apple as being a good solid stone to step on,however between the price of their machines,the completely prorietary infrastructure of the mac,and the fact that they haven't shown me that they are any better than any other corporation when it comes to being completely honest,and someone you can trust.I was interested in discussing this,because so many of us do see Apple as a solid friend who has our best interests in mind?Do they,or are we just another sucker,falling for the glamor and paying more than we should be for their products?
Everything Apple cost's too much.same brand Video cards are twice as much,The memory has gotten cheaper,but it still cost's quite a bit more.On average,you are going to pay 50%more for anything purchased through Apple from hardware to software.
Do you disagree?
"Mac propietary??? Please, M$ is as proprietrary as all hell, and they're in
COURT right now because of it!!! "
Hows this for propietary................
I myself own two Macs,and have been happy using them,apart from the price that I had to pay for them and the fact that I am obliged to own two licenses for OS9,one licence for OSX that I have no use for,two Apple ONE button mice,Two apple keyboards,two Apple supplied Cd rom/dvd rw etc,Two G4 cases w/power supply, two ethernet cards etc etc.As well as I had to buy another Seperate PCI graphics card,because of Apples propietary display connectors,advertised as "dual monitor support",but useless for me.When in reality the only new piece of hardware that makes a single difference to me is the new mobo and dual cpu's.I only use one machine,and now I have no choice but to sell the slower and all of it's components at a fraction of what I paid.
That's propietary!
Yes,I recognise that every hard drive,cd-rom ,dvd rom,floppy disk,and other forms of storage media manufacturer claims more storage than is actually available,I would just hope to see Apple as being the type of "user friendly"company that would be anxious to be one step above and happilly tell the consumer on the front page that they were actually receiving 74.53GB of storage space,so that no one who didn't know bwetter would ever have to wonder why they didn't receive the full 80GB drive.
I also do not believe that their product info for the DP G4's informs the average consumer that purchasing Dual CPU's will be redundant for most OS9 apps.Wonder if anyone has fallen in this trap yet?
And....of course............sigh!
Make up your mind... is it 3 or 4 ports that you don't agree with.
"Once you hook up your USB keyboard and mouse you have 3 ports left, just like you would with a PC. Leave off the mouse and you have 4...
What's the problem???"
On the tech specs page for the PowerMac G4 Apple says point blank:
Four USB ports (two on system, two on keyboard)
How is that misleading?"
I wish I could draw you a picture,and yes this is completely insignificant,and has nothing to do with why I bought my computer,but,dammit!the point has to be made.....?
point blank:
Four USB ports (two on system, two on keyboard)
Should say:
Three usb ports(two on the system,one of which is irrevocable consumed in order to gain access to the two keyboard ports.)
(you notice that I am not nit-picking about the one that is irrevocably consumed by the mouse,as a true hardcore could operate the entire system via keyboard.)
When you purchase a system with four usb ports,you get four,because you don't need to plug in a key board to access two of them,even though there is still only going to be three left that you can use for other things,after you plug in the keyboard..
It is not the fact of how many usable usb ports there actually is,It's the fact that the big lovable friend that we warmly refer to as better than the rest would try to make it appear as though there were actually four usable usb ports(if you happen to be not thinking!).
I very much feel that for the price of these systems,the consumer should be receivng more than they expected.
Honestly though,this usb thing was not on the top of my list of things to discuss here.nitpicnitpicnitpicnitpicnitpicetc.
My other points are more in my interest of discussion.
