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Are you happy with Apple's current selection of computers?

Are you happy with Apple's current selection of computers?

  • Ecstatic

    Votes: 28 9.7%

  • Reasonably happy

    Votes: 132 45.7%

  • No, but I get by

    Votes: 88 30.4%

  • No, I will not be switching

    Votes: 19 6.6%

  • No, I will be switching back to Windows/Linux/etc.

    Votes: 22 7.6%
  • Total voters
    289
Not happy at all. I've owned more than 30+ Macs over the past 20+ years.

I won't purchase a laptop with a glossy screen again and they only offer a Matte option on the 17" now (which is way to large and expensive for my needs).

The don't have a true "desktop". Mac Mini - underpowered and not expandable, using laptop parts, iMac - underpowered and not expandable, uses laptop parts, offers a screen I don't want and even if I wanted a screen would not want a glossy/glass Screen. Mac Pro - overkill and expensive. Every other manufacture offer Quad-Core systems for < $500 now. It is shame Apple can't even offer one for 3X what other's base is. Apple's only Quad Core entry starts at $2500.

I'm not planning on buying a new machine now until Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are out, but if Apple doesn't improve their lineup for my needs it is going to be a much tougher call that what I get next.
 
I wish they'd make a mini-tower. However, now that I have a 24" iMac, it's not something I'll worry about for a while. I would have preferred that since I had a perfectly good 20" monitor when I bought a mini several years ago. When it was time to upgrade to Intel, I just went for an iMac.
 
I'm totally dissatisifed with Apple's lineup. Where is my octo-core 4GHz Macbook Air with the kicka** graphics card and 10-hour battery life... for £500? :rolleyes:

Actually, I'm quite happy with my Unibody Macbook. It isn't perfect, but it is as good as any other machine on the market.
 
Where's the 'Happy' or 'Satisfied' option. I'm either reasonably satisfied or happy beyond belief with your choices.

So, I didn't vote, but:

Notebooks = fine
Desktops = The mini needs to stop being crippled.
Netbooks = something will probably be here by Christmas, not that I'm in the market for one.
 
The lineup is good. Most people who want expansion don't need/use it. That's the argument I use for people that whine about the X Mac in between the iMac and Mac Pro. The whole point of Macs is to be simple. Expansion is not simple... but the real pros do use it, so there's the Mac Pro.
 
Eric S. said:
For a laptop I'd prefer a 13" MacBook Pro.

For a desktop I want one of the ones Apple doesn't make - from the gaping hole between the mini and the MP. So I still keep my PM G4, while thinking about going the hackintosh route.
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Isn't that what the iMac is for?
 
My regular computer cycle has me looking for a new computer around 2015. So til then I'm just looking for software updates and the next iphone.
 
If my iBook died tomorrow I'd be pretty unhappy with my replacement choices.

I won't touch the white Macbook with a barge pole because everyone I know who has one has had it crack - marvellous, I'm used to a laptop I can throw around :rolleyes: (and it's slightly heavier than my iBook, which is heavy enough)
The unibody on the other hand looks pretty nice but the price point is something I couldn't justify. I'd either have to crouch over the refurb site for a month, or wait until the back to school and sell the free iPod to get some cash back.
(I use a laptop as my primary computer so an Air wouldn't cut it)

The family computer's needed replaced for ages, but for what it's used for it's not worth the cost of an iMac and we have a nice enough screen. My mum wanted to go with the mini, but since it hadn't been updated in forever it wasn't worth it. Then they updated it, hiked the price and it still wasn't comparable to other pcs. We didn't buy one.

A few years ago the Macbook specs at least were comparable or better than those of laptops in the same price brackets. Now everything Apple sells seems higher priced with a lower spec than other computers. Fab :rolleyes: Means I can't recommend them to people anymore.
 
Shake 'n' Bake said:
Eric S. said:
For a desktop I want one of the ones Apple doesn't make - from the gaping hole between the mini and the MP. So I still keep my PM G4, while thinking about going the hackintosh route.
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Isn't that what the iMac is for?
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Some people are happy with the iMac but I would never buy a system with an integrated monitor. In any case we can barely consider the iMac to be a real desktop; it's more like a laptop that's very difficult to carry around.

SnowLeopard2008 said:
Most people who want expansion don't need/use it. That's the argument I use for people that whine about the X Mac in between the iMac and Mac Pro.
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I completely disagree with that. You may not want or need expansion at the time the system is first purchased but as new technologies are developed, having expansion and upgrade capabilities is the way to stretch a system's useful lifetime. Macs used to excel at that but lately Apple seems to want to obsolete their HW within two to three years.
 
Eric S. said:
Some people are happy with the iMac but I would never buy a system with an integrated monitor. In any case we can barely consider the iMac to be a real desktop; it's more like a laptop that's very difficult to carry around.



I completely disagree with that. You may not want or need expansion at the time the system is first purchased but as new technologies are developed, having expansion and upgrade capabilities is the way to stretch a system's useful lifetime. Macs used to excel at that but lately Apple seems to want to obsolete their HW within two to three years.
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I agree with that. I recently got a Dell Studio 540 and even though the 540s (the small one) was cheaper, I need the expansion. It is great because you can upgrade processors, GPUs, TV tuners, what ever you want.
 
I think the iMac line is just about perfect. I see it as filling almost precisely the same niche as it did when the Bondi iMacs were released and filling it just as well. There are always going to be people against AIOs, but for a lot of other people, they're great (I think I last owned a computer monitor about six years ago).

The Mac Mini... I'd like to see two more models—an ultra low-end and an ultra-high end. I don't see this happening.

The Mac Pro... Uhh.. Good?

MacBooks... I don't like how these lines are set up. I preferred the more parallel set up of 12" and 14" iBooks (although why they never gave the 14" higher res than the 12 is beyond me) and 12", 15", and 17" PowerBooks. I see no reason why those that want a small notebook should be forced into either a crippled consumer machine (MB) or a crippled ultraportable (MBA).
Don't get me wrong, I think the MacBooks are great and the unibodies are a big step up for Apple's consumer line; I think that the MBA is a great ultra portable. But surely there's room for a tiny (but not too-tiny) Pro offering? (I'm thiking 12" PowerBook here).

I'm also saddened by the lack of a 12" or smaller model in any of the laptop lines. My little iBook is perfect dimensions—I know many other feel the same about it and the 12" PowerBook—and 13" widescreens just feel big and clumsy. How about a laptop the same width as the iBook (just big enough for a full-size keyboard), but with chopped off wristrests and screen to accommodate the widescreen format. This would be, what, 10.5"? Give it a high resolution screen to boot (at least as big as the old iBooks). Don't call it a netbook. It's just a return to small footprint laptops.
 
Here I sit with the cash to buy a Mac today. I've been shopping for the past 3 weeks. I want a Mac.

But I cannot pull the trigger. Why? I only need the power of an iMac but I do not like the fact that I cannot upgrade it or if something breaks, I have to ship it back to Apple for a fix. Isn't this a little ridiculous? And I don't want to make the price leap up to the MacPro.

The other thing that strange is why didn't they just put 512MB in the GT 120? If they would have I might have dove in. I don't want to pay $400 for more the 130 but I don't know if 256MB on the 120 will be enough.

I have a 08 MacBook and it's wonderful. I'd like to get a Mac but I think it may be time to bow out and spec a nice Vista machine out on NewEgg.
 
I'm looking seriously at building a performance desktop. My dad and I are both looking at netbooks. So I'm not happy. However, I am quite happy with my Macbook, though 1.5 years later, feel I paid too much for what it does.

The Macbook line is definitely Apple's strength. The iMacs aren't at all bad, but the Macbook Pro line is outrageously overpriced, for basically a screen size and small graphics upgrade. The Mac Mini is still out of the price range of most, and the Mac Pro is not commonly bought by consumers, just professionals.

A netbook, a mid-sized upgradeable desktop, a powerful notebook, a Macbook with a large screen size, and an affordable desktop are just a few of the tremendous number of holes Apple has in its lineup. As such, unless your needs fit well into Apple's product line, or else you can modify your needs so they will, Apple is not for you.

I'd love to have an Apple-branded performance desktop, and an Apple netbook. But as neither of those exist, there is one clear option: Windows.
 
Eric S. said:
For a laptop I'd prefer a 13" MacBook Pro.

For a desktop I want one of the ones Apple doesn't make - from the gaping hole between the mini and the MP. So I still keep my PM G4, while thinking about going the hackintosh route.
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I was in love with the 13" form factor, but I really missed having more screen space. I don't know if I could go back to it.
 
I have really mixed feelings about there lineup. My next desktop will probably be a pc running linux, I hate not being able to upgrade anything. I love apple's computers but I just hate spending this kind of money on a iMac and not be able to upgrade things like a graphics card. I do plan on buying a new macbook again, this is where I think apple is hard to beat.
 
Eidorian said:
None of Apple's current products create any sort of desire in me.
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That's a good way of putting it, and I agree.

If I was still on Windows then I'd probably be excited (which I guess is what Apple is going for), but as an existing user I see no compelling reason to change to a new Apple machine.
 
They're so good! I don't see what's wrong with them. Maybe the price can be a bit annoying, but still, they're heaps good! And if you want to go back to windows, you can just use boot camp! ;) You've basically got windows in your mac!
 
This thread has been illuminating for me. If you just read the comments you would believe that people were overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the Apple line-up, but the poll suggests other wise. I guess it just shows that those who are dissatisfied have the larger voices.
 
I put "No but I get by" though I'm basing that purely on the laptop line. I have no need for a desktop and I know very little about Apple's lineup. Personally I think Apple needs an 11" model and then and "consumer" and a "pro" version of each size. I was disappointed that I had to either get a 13" model that fits my usage or a more expensive, overpowered (for me) 15".
 
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