but why settle for second best....don't you realise that the 'my pc spec's are better than yours' is the reason we dumped the PC with its **** windows OS for something which is a 1000 times better!!! is the hackintosh quiet? no.....does it look good? no.......is it just a bundle of parts thrown together? yes......
There's no "settle for second best" by building a PC or Hckintsoh. Apple is clearly the largest mobile devices company in the world today. So why defend Apple from the truth?
- iMac is the one and only reasonable desktop solution from Apple, but limited indeed.
- Minis are weak pseudo-desktop solution.
- MacPro .. well as I said .. a RustyMacPro.
You see all but loser desktop products. While Macbook and iToys hordes are pretty decent powerhouse and money machine in their own class.
in short there is nothing good about it other than the ability to run OSX....which could be broken in the future......also resale value is crap so why bother.......I bet you're one of these people who looks at a guy driving a ferrari and says 'but my hyundi has a better subwoofer'......you miss the point entirely, and like the 1000s of other windows fools will never get why we buy the real thing....the experience....
And when a Mac breaks out of warranty/AppleCare, what would you do? Do you think Apple will replace all your parts for free?
It's the same pile of junk just as any broken PC is. Unless you pay (excessively) for Apple repairs, it will stay be it.
"When in doubt, use car analogy" -Classic MacBible Chp.101
Ferrari is one of a kind, build all components from the ground, in-site, strictly by Italian workers to show how proud they really are. Macs are not. They're just another made-in-China Foxconn mainboards, using Intel CPU and nVidia/Radeon GPUs, just like a lot of PC out there. It's built for the mass, cheap, but good looking.
So I'd say Mac is a nice looking Volkswagen.
The reason I'm still standing by Apple here only because OSX and excellent service from Genius. I owned 4 Macs so far and none of them have zero repair history. So no need for telling me that "Apple machines are much more durable than PC parts" crap. They simply don't.
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Spec doesn't matter" is another famous quote from MacBible. If you don't care about spec, why did you bought fully loaded iMac as in your sig.? So you bought it not because it's i7 and has SSD? You bought it not because it has 6970M so you can play decent games under BootCamp?
Apple is no longer a respectable real computer maker in my book. So as long as they don't get their s#1t together about desktop computers, I'll just buy their Mactoys and iToys from now on.
That's what they're good at and there's nothing wrong by admitting it.