You seemed to be fine with the way OS X used to work at some point, but not with the newest version(s), so....don't upgrade? I noticed on Windows you're not planning to go with the latest version. Why not?
Hmm, my battery is screwy most likely because of a security update. The reason I think it's a security update is because my gf runs tiger, and she too suddenly had the problem.
At one point I went back to tiger because leopard was not just buggy, it was close to useless.
Then you were apparently terribly unlucky with Apple hardware, which has not been my experience after owning several Macs.
Wow, after ignoring arguments for post after post, you suddenly go back? Anyway, you make it sound like I only owned one Apple computer in my 19 years of being a Macuser.
The problem is, that I am not alone in thinking that the quality is dwindling.
Secondly, it taught me a valuable lesson: Never be tied in. As it happens, it all goes hand in hand with the success of the iPods and the catering to that crowd only.
As I was demonstrating ThinkPads are not exactly flaw-free
You didn't demonstrate anything. I never said nor implied that Thinkpads were flaw-free. I said that Apple's quality control is all but gone, and thus I will be moving on to something less prone to problems. There's QUITE the difference.
and I demonstrated with evidence that Apple users are generally the most satisfied, from a PC magazine article, which you immediately wrote off.
Of course I write off an article about DESKtops when we talk about LAPtops, especially considering it's from a US magasine when I have to deal with Apple Ewwrope (remember, the ones that gave me a hard time while I was installing, reinstalling, exchanging computers and whatnot for 18 months).
Then you admitted there is no real data we currently know about to prove one is more reliable either. Can you say for certain that your Lenovo FW port will never break?
Wow, this time you really are using strawman argumentation just like in the above example with "flaw-free" computers: I don't ask for a computer with a port that guaranteed NEVER will break. I ask for a WORKING one from the start. The FW port on the MBP is USELESS even if it's "up to spec". The fact is, that the Lucent Agere chipset makes it a nonstarter. Sheesh!
I am on my 4th gen MBP and never had any problem with the FW ports. This is all anecdotal.
The FW-problem is not about the physical ports breaking. In the recent ones it's about the chipset. In the ones I had to have exchanged it was about it not working from the moment I received them. Time after time after time. Just like the numerous motherboards.
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Fyi, my workflows are part of real-world activities performed by real people and have saved 1000s of hours and are used for...content creation.
You don't get it, do you? I work with AUDIO, meaning I have to get the AUDIO into the computer, LISTEN to it, while I EDIT the audio, BOUNCE it to a disk, and then DISTRIBUTE OR SEND IT, so it can be BROADCAST.
Show me a bloody SCRIPT which can do such a thing, and I will give you a million dollar! Canadian, no less.
The entry point to a computer and exit point from are real too.
Yes, they propably are, but as usual you're missing the point entirely. You STILL think that you can script your way out of these problems. What a joke this is.
I'm talking about the part that is on the computer being platform independent so that my company can stay agile and easily scale without locking into a single vendor.
As I believe I have explained quite a few times by now: My work is NOT scriptable. I work with AUDIO. My AUDIO is indeed platform independant, but my AUDIO apps and the inherent workflows certainly ARE NOT. You really think that one audio app is the same as the next? Let me tell you that audio and video apps have really steep learning curves, and since I compete, not only with other media outlets but with colleagues too, I can't sit around and not have my workflow down. As I said, I do contents creation. Funnily enough, that is also where my focus should be.
I'm fine hearing anything negative people have to say about OS X and Macs. I don't own any Apple stocks. You're attacking a strawman. Like I said, I also use Linux.
See above with regards to the "platform independence".
You "dabbling with linux" has no bearing on how you come off as a fanboy ignoring that some people will simply not be able to use a laptop from Apple for their real-life day-to-day work.
I really just ask myself why you're here because you already made your firm decision to move on. It's like telling your mate that you are breaking up, but then just sit there instead of getting up and leaving.
I know. You'd prefer it if it was just you and your peers sitting here, praising the work of Jobs.
I would guess in this case that you have some regrets or maybe really don't want to go.
You think? After 19 years on a platform I use to make a living you think I can do like the iPod Crowd and simply "move on" with no regrets to the next shiny object?
In that case I'd say you're welcome to hang around but better improve your attitude,
Haha, yes. Perhaps I need to adjust it. But seriously, I may be impatient with idiocy, but the fact that you don't even get that people have different needs than your lack of translucent menus really needs adjusting too.
but what do I know I am just a "simply working in an office like setting" person
Well, so far, you haven't named a single thing you use a laptop for. You haven't even understood howcome some people might need a working laptop in the field, nor that not everyone's jobs are scriptable. So, yes, it does seem you work in an "office-like setting" and have no clue as to how it is to work in the field and be dependable on your laptop with a set deadline ten minutes away.
