Anyone else gone all Apple?

[AstroManLuca]

I've gone completely non-Apple here, and that goes so far as to not even have a single piece of Apple software on my computer, not even QuickTime.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I like Apple's mobile OS. It's far from perfect, but it really does seem smoother than any of the Android devices that I've owned or used. I'm considering switching from my Atrix to an iPhone 4S (mainly for the smoothness of touch input, or lack thereof on my Atrix - especially for texting - and battery life / camera quality), and perhaps selling my 16GB Transformer + dock down the road towards and iPad 3 or whatever else comes this way. Currently the only Apple device that I own is a 4th Gen iPod Touch 32GB, which was a gift.

I do have to say that there are several things I'll miss about the devices that I use. The Transformer dock with the extended battery is brilliant (though mine died and I'm STILL waiting for a reply from ASUS). Free navigation on Android phones is nice too. Still, all of the customization hype didn't add up for me, as I just want a device that I can use and not worry about. Android is getting there, but it still has a way to go.

Desktop / laptop OS wise, I'm 100% Windows. OSX is pretty, but having worked on a few Macs from time to time, I'm not a fan. If I could install it on my normal Windows desktop or laptop with full support and no restrictions, I might give it a more serious look. I don't like the idea that I'm stuck with their hardware if I have a change of heart.

 

[LikeLinus]

I've got a Mac Book Pro and Mac Pro that work purchased for me. I use them primarily for FCP and Adobe products. But the usability sometimes is so freaking ass-backwards and dumbed down. I've been using it for over a year now and i'm not sold on it.

I also have an iPod touch that I've had for years. But I don't use it anymore because there's no reason to have a separate device from the phone when it can store 32GB.

I'm Android/Windows the rest of the way. My 2 years are up on my Droid 1 and I'm going to get a Galaxy Nexus / Prime when it hits.

I picked up (2) Touchpads for the wife and I and we love them. The new updates and w/ overclocking make them great. I may try the Android port soon, but really hope CM can get ICS together quickly.

 

[Krynj]

I don't Macs, personally, and wouldn't have any problem using a Mac/MPB every day if they weren't so ridiculously overpriced. However, I need maximum horsepower for my budget, and that instantly rules out any Apple product. I have no idea what a Mac comparable to the system in my sig would have cost me, but I'd be willing to bet it would have added somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000 to the price tag. And for me, that just doesn't make sense. It's the same exact hardware (mostly), and I have ZERO problems with Windows.

Plus, I like being able to go in and tinker, overclock, swap out hardware, switch cases, swap coolers, etc, etc. PC all the way in that regard.

When it comes to PCs and Macs, I compare them to cars and different types of car buyers. Some people that know nothing about cars just want something that works, and they never want to frig with it (Mac). And others are really specific about where their money is going, and really know what they're looking for in a car. They know the cars inside and out, and love to tinker with them (PC). That's not to say that Windows PCs aren't easy to use right out of the box, because they are. Both platforms are fine for the casual computer user that wants nothing to do with the hardware aspect, but when you do want to get into the hardware side, it's going to be MUCH easier and cheaper to do with a Windows/Linux PC.

 

[Nebor]

I've gone completely non-Apple here, and that goes so far as to not even have a single piece of Apple software on my computer, not even QuickTime.

Same. Quicktime and Itunes are both horrible in Windows.

 

[boomhower]

When it comes to PCs and Macs, I compare them to cars and different types of car buyers. Some people that know nothing about cars just want something that works, and they never want to frig with it (Mac). And others are really specific about where their money is going, and really know what they're looking for in a car. They know the cars inside and out, and love to tinker with them (PC). That's not to say that Windows PCs aren't easy to use right out of the box, because they are. Both platforms are fine for the casual computer user that wants nothing to do with the hardware aspect, but when you do want to get into the hardware side, it's going to be MUCH easier and cheaper to do with a Windows/Linux PC.

Knowing how to do something and wanting to are completely different things. I have built PC's for years. I have tinkered with Android phones for what feels like years. I can build, OC, root, ROM, flash radios, and everything else. I just plain don't want to anymore. I know some IT guys that support Windows networks that run Mac's at home. Sometimes you just don't want to mess with things and just plug and play. Windows has come a long long way in this regard but it's not a simple or elegant as Apple. Of course that does come at a pricey premium.

 

[xSauronx]

I'm the exact opposite, 100% Windows and Android.

same. windows 7 on desktop and laptop. htc desire and nook color with android. i could be tempted to try a windows 7 mango phone, and i love the look of what theyre doing with windows 8 development so far (i keep tabs on the windows 8 dev blog) so i could be tempted to go all windows when it comes out.

the thing is...i have so much stuff in gmail. contacts, loads of mail, labels, some filters, everything points there...im not sure id want to get off it or transition.

zero interest in apple. i dont have it, but i dont have a need or desire to move to it, and if given an apple device...id ebay it and buy something i was interested in.

 

[TuxDave]

I'm on my way there. Apple smartphone but Microsoft everywhere else. However we've been looking around for something for travel and it's looking like it'll be an Apple product next.

 

[Kenmitch]

Nope....Just got rid of my last idevice which was the iphone 4

Apple makes some cool hardware it's just not for me tho. Much rather have the ability to make it mine by doing what I want to it.

I've played around in OSX before and I just don't like it. iOS was tolerable when it was pretty much the only internet in your pocket(almost) choice. Things have changed alot so a person has more choices now.

 

[Aikouka]

I really only use Apple mobile devices. I don't have any qualms with the "walled garden" problem that some people bring up. I mean... I don't really do much with my Windows OS installations either. I think the only complaint that I really have is that I can't change the default app without jail-breaking. For the most part, it's not a big deal since a lot of apps try to mix their own web browsers in (like Twitter and Facebook), so I have to do something extra to get it into a real browser (that doesn't crash the app -- I'm looking at you, Facebook). Overall... negatives vs. positives.

Although, I guess I could see how some people that like "living on the edge" would prefer Android devices given how Apple typically won't integrate technology until it's properly matured. This doesn't mean they don't get good technology (e.g. PowerVR SGX 543MP2), but you won't see something like LTE because of that mentality. I think you sort of see the same thing in their desktops too. They typically don't have the same high-end graphics cards as soon as they're released.

But I'm not really interested in using an OSX-based machine for anything other than iOS development. I actually like building machines (I'm like a kid on Christmas), and I don't think that will really stop. OSX doesn't really offer me anything, and like I look at the mobile space, does it offer me any bonuses for its negatives? The answer is no, it doesn't. I lose out on a lot of gaming potential by using OSX, and the only answer is, "dual boot" (or play Blizzard games ). Given how I don't really like restarting, that's not really a good option.

 

[uli2000]

Almost, as far as mobile devices go. Switched my wife's and my phones to iPhones. I thought I'd never pry her away from her blackberry, but she won't even look at a BB ever now. The kids love the iPods and the iPad. I do have a Fire on order and a Touchpad on the way but that will most likely end up running Android real soon.

 

[zerogear]

2x Desktop - Windows 7
1x Server - WHS v1
1x Laptop - Windows 7
1x Server - Debian
1x Server - FreeBSD

1x Smartphone - Windows Phone 7.5

:]

I'm Apple-free. Well, it's more to say, Apple lost me without releasing a 4" screen iPhone.

 

[Andrmgic]

I've always liked apple's laptops..

I'm a sucker for the aluminum unibody design.. this macbook pro will be the first one I keep for any significant length of time.

I like tinkering too much to give up having a PC desktop for gaming.. For most everything else I'm content with the mac.

I bought the apple monitor and its requirement of mini displayport gave me an excuse to upgrade my 5870 to a 6970.. so my mac use feeds into my PC upgrade bug sometimes. I like to think of it as a symbiotic relationship

 

[vi edit]

Slowly working my way there. My wife and I are both on iPhones. My laptop is a MacBook Air, we've to an iPad for traveling with kids. And an Apple TV 2 is hooked up to the main TV in the house.

I'm in the market for a 27" iMac to take over as primary desktop duty, but not sure if I should hold off for the Ivy Bridge/USB 3 this spring to see if it's available. I'm not in a major rush.

I'll still have my Win7 box laying around. It's my household DVR and we record a lot of stuff to it. I also have a lot of work related things that I just can't do easily in OSX. My companies VPN adapter won't install on Lion and I can't get to the Cisco download page for it, and Citrix blows under OSX. It only seems to open one Citrix app at a time. Not an issue under Windows. My laptop is bootcamped to Win7 and if I get an iMac it will as well.

 

[TheStu]

Slowly working my way there. My wife and I are both on iPhones. My laptop is a MacBook Air, we've to an iPad for traveling with kids. And an Apple TV 2 is hooked up to the main TV in the house.

I'm in the market for a 27" iMac to take over as primary desktop duty, but not sure if I should hold off for the Ivy Bridge/USB 3 this spring to see if it's available. I'm not in a major rush.

I'll still have my Win7 box laying around. It's my household DVR and we record a lot of stuff to it. I also have a lot of work related things that I just can't do easily in OSX. My companies VPN adapter won't install on Lion and I can't get to the Cisco download page for it, and Citrix blows under OSX. It only seems to open one Citrix app at a time. Not an issue under Windows. My laptop is bootcamped to Win7 and if I get an iMac it will as well.

Have you tried Lion's built in VPN? That worked for me, we use Cisco VPN where I work.

 

[vi edit]

Have you tried Lion's built in VPN? That worked for me, we use Cisco VPN where I work.

Yeh, tried that first. Just says that the server isn't available. When I try to download the client from my companies VPN page it just gives me a .sh file. I tried going through some horribly complicated script compelling process that others have done with the old Snow Leopard client, but no luck with that.

So I just said screw it and threw bootcamp on.

 

[Anubis]

I don't Macs, personally, and wouldn't have any problem using a Mac/MPB every day if they weren't so ridiculously overpriced. However, I need maximum horsepower for my budget, and that instantly rules out any Apple product. I have no idea what a Mac comparable to the system in my sig would have cost me, but I'd be willing to bet it would have added somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000 to the price tag. And for me, that just doesn't make sense. It's the same exact hardware (mostly), and I have ZERO problems with Windows.

Plus, I like being able to go in and tinker, overclock, swap out hardware, switch cases, swap coolers, etc, etc. PC all the way in that regard.

When it comes to PCs and Macs, I compare them to cars and different types of car buyers. Some people that know nothing about cars just want something that works, and they never want to frig with it (Mac). And others are really specific about where their money is going, and really know what they're looking for in a car. They know the cars inside and out, and love to tinker with them (PC). That's not to say that Windows PCs aren't easy to use right out of the box, because they are. Both platforms are fine for the casual computer user that wants nothing to do with the hardware aspect, but when you do want to get into the hardware side, it's going to be MUCH easier and cheaper to do with a Windows/Linux PC.

Very well said, pretty much exactly how i feel as well.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Very well said, pretty much exactly how i feel as well.

If you'll notice, I don't have an Apple desktop or any desktop.

AT obviously has lots of power users and gamers who do use desktops, and there is no comparison, I'll readily agree.

However, once you get away from the "disposable" category of laptops and netbooks, Apple's offerings are competitively priced.

Same with phones, tablets, etc...

 

[BabaBooey]

I have and could not be happier.....:awe:


MBP 15 i7
Ipad 2
Ip4
iPod classic

 

[Ns1]

Knowing how to do something and wanting to are completely different things. I have built PC's for years. I have tinkered with Android phones for what feels like years. I can build, OC, root, ROM, flash radios, and everything else. I just plain don't want to anymore. I know some IT guys that support Windows networks that run Mac's at home. Sometimes you just don't want to mess with things and just plug and play. Windows has come a long long way in this regard but it's not a simple or elegant as Apple. Of course that does come at a pricey premium.

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although I do like Win7 and I'd probably buy a Series 7 or something

 

[MagickMan]

For mobile I go Apple, for desktops I build my own. Seems to be the best combo for me.

 

[roguerower]

No Apple here and will never buy an Apple product. They lost me for good when they started suing for ridiculous reasons.

Custom desktop w/ W7Pro
Asus Netbook w/ XP
OG Droid
MS ZuneHD

Phone will be replaced with a Gnex or WP7.5. Netbook will probably be replaced with a Transformer2. ZuneHD will be replaced with a ZuneHD.

 

[MotionMan]

My first computer was a Mac in 1987. I had all Macs until about 1996.

Starting in 1996, I was all Windows, built my own machines, wrote PC hardware reviews for a website and was 0% Apple until 2009.

Now I have:

iPhone 4 (mine)
iPhone 4 (wife)
iPod Touch 4th Gen (daughter)
iPhouch (iPhone 3G set up as a Touch) (son)
Shuffle (for workouts, walks and kids' camp)
MacBook 2009 (mine)
MacBook 2009 (wife)
MacMini 2009 (mine)
MacMini 2007? (kids)
AppleTV 2 (I also have two Roku Boxes.)

BTW, I run Windows via Parallels every day, all day, for work, but only because I have to.

MotionMan

 

[boomhower]

No Apple here and will never buy an Apple product. They lost me for good when they started suing for ridiculous reasons.

And this makes them different from any other mobile company how? They are all doing it and it is ridiculous. I'm not defending Apple. They suck for doing it and so does everyone else. It drives up the costs for everyone.

 

[MotionMan]

No Apple here and will never buy an Apple product. They lost me for good when they started suing for ridiculous reasons

You're going to run out of tech companies you will be able to buy from if that is your deciding factor.

MotionMan