Right...that's why MacBook Pro's consistently are ranked no. 1 whenever laptops are compared to one another. Desktops? iMac. #1. Every time. And then there are other statistics. 99%. That's the number of people who are satisfied with their iPhone. Peeling away one layer reveals more. 82% of those consider themselves very satisfied.
You get my point. That's not to say they're flawless. I had two bad iMac's in a row when I converted to the Mac religion only a little over a year ago. That's enough to turn many people away according to another statistic and I guess I can see why. But I've had 2 more iMac's, a MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air, a Mac mini and now the Quad Mac mini (server model) as well as a 30" Cinema HD Display and now a 27" LED Cinema Display. I did have two iPad 2's that had the screen bleeding issue, but that was something that many "early adopters" of that product experienced.
As for OS X Lion, I don't get why those who don't like the OS would often times call it an iOS-ified piece of junk. Really? I don't use LaunchPad either, but there is so much else to it that makes me appreciate it over what was already a great OS, Snow Leopard. It's very polished and I've been using it exclusively since Developer Preview 4 was released on June 6, when WWDC started.
Oh, and one more thing, because I was a ThinkPad guy before and I had always hated the pad. The first thing I did was always to disable the trackpad whenever I'd get a new ThinkPad (over an 11-year period). With Apple, I am in love...and in awe...of the gesture support and my Magicalicious Trackpad. I had the Magic Mouse for one month and I did like it a lot. I got the Trackpad on the day it was released and packed up the Magic Mouse that same night. Seriously. And with Lion, it is that much more fun to use it as compared to Snow Leopard.
The only thing that does kind of annoy me is the lack of eSATA or USB 3.0 support. FW800 is definitely better than USB 2.0, but every external RAID array that Apple sells has eSATA, and yes, I get it, it's all about ThunderBolt. And I've accepted that, because as soon as the first (affordable) ThunderBolt RAID array will come out, and when you have two SATA III SSD's RAID'ed together, you will not want to be slowed down by an eSATA or USB 3.0 connection.
You get my point. That's not to say they're flawless. I had two bad iMac's in a row when I converted to the Mac religion only a little over a year ago. That's enough to turn many people away according to another statistic and I guess I can see why. But I've had 2 more iMac's, a MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air, a Mac mini and now the Quad Mac mini (server model) as well as a 30" Cinema HD Display and now a 27" LED Cinema Display. I did have two iPad 2's that had the screen bleeding issue, but that was something that many "early adopters" of that product experienced.
As for OS X Lion, I don't get why those who don't like the OS would often times call it an iOS-ified piece of junk. Really? I don't use LaunchPad either, but there is so much else to it that makes me appreciate it over what was already a great OS, Snow Leopard. It's very polished and I've been using it exclusively since Developer Preview 4 was released on June 6, when WWDC started.
Oh, and one more thing, because I was a ThinkPad guy before and I had always hated the pad. The first thing I did was always to disable the trackpad whenever I'd get a new ThinkPad (over an 11-year period). With Apple, I am in love...and in awe...of the gesture support and my Magicalicious Trackpad. I had the Magic Mouse for one month and I did like it a lot. I got the Trackpad on the day it was released and packed up the Magic Mouse that same night. Seriously. And with Lion, it is that much more fun to use it as compared to Snow Leopard.
The only thing that does kind of annoy me is the lack of eSATA or USB 3.0 support. FW800 is definitely better than USB 2.0, but every external RAID array that Apple sells has eSATA, and yes, I get it, it's all about ThunderBolt. And I've accepted that, because as soon as the first (affordable) ThunderBolt RAID array will come out, and when you have two SATA III SSD's RAID'ed together, you will not want to be slowed down by an eSATA or USB 3.0 connection.