Does a hackintosh support the in-line remote with mic, volume control, and control button when you connect an iPhone EarPods or headphones with the in-line remote? Do they support the Apple infrared remote? I haven't gotten an answer to this question.That's not entirely true either.
If you know anything about the hackintosh projects, then you would know that there are OEM PCs that you can purchase which are near to exact matches of Macintosh's available lines.
Not only that, but the majority of their products use stuff that you can buy at Newegg. And the UEFIs can be modded so that you would literally have a Macintosh in all but name.
What I will say is that the Hardware purchases do tend to be on the higher end and thus are more expensive, but still not as expensive as actually buying a similarly equipped Mac.
At the end of the day, you are still paying for the OS which I don't think is necessarily bad. There is an argument for designing an OS to work with specific hardware.
Just as subjective as self reporting. If you dismiss my subjectivity you must dismiss all self reporting and only rely upon squaretrades verified 3rd party data.
SquareTrade offers insurance policies for laptops. All of their data is reported by users, just like the information I provided.
That was in 2009. This data from 2012 puts them on top in reliability.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020725/apple-macbooks-lead-in-laptop-features-and-reliability.html
And you still haven't addressed the main issue.
Lol, using apple owners to rate apple reliability is pretty hilarious.
It would make more sense to have someone who's never owned one rate their reliability?
The testimony of thousands of users bears more weight than the angry ramblings of LegendKiller.
And if you dislike self-reporting so much, stop giving anecdotal evidence to support your claims.
It is if they are Apple religious fanatics, which is why hating on Apple is so trendy. Fannyboy Apple users are fucking annoying.
They are fanatics of the highest order. It's why their self reporting is a joke.
How many scientologists come out against scientology unless they remove themselves from the "church" (cult) completely? Not many.
How moronic does it look that they are following a science fiction writer's "religion" that preaches homophobia and alien spirit possession? Very. But they gobble it up, ignoring how stupid it sounds.
Another example is BMW buyers. Horribly unreliable cars. Yet they are "driving machines" that somehow have "better engineering". If they had "better engineering" then they wouldn't be unreliable, would they? But yet they have to justify their expensive purchase.
Cognitive dissonance.
They are fanatics of the highest order. It's why their self reporting is a joke.
How many scientologists come out against scientology unless they remove themselves from the "church" (cult) completely? Not many.
How moronic does it look that they are following a science fiction writer's "religion" that preaches homophobia and alien spirit possession? Very. But they gobble it up, ignoring how stupid it sounds.
Another example is BMW buyers. Horribly unreliable cars. Yet they are "driving machines" that somehow have "better engineering". If they had "better engineering" then they wouldn't be unreliable, would they? But yet they have to justify their expensive purchase.
Cognitive dissonance.
What an inane post.
As it happens I own two BMWs and many Apple products. BMWs are, at best, middling in reliability, and one of mine (a 2006 330i) has been the least reliable car I've ever owned. It is great, even special to drive (they really do have great engineering acumen - it's just that they seem to apply it to the driving experience rather than to optimizing reliability), so I tolerate its bugs, but my next daily driver will probably not be a BMW. My M3 is a weekend fun toy, so sees little mileage, but has been quite reliable.
My MBP is far and away the best and most reliable laptop I've ever owned, including an NEC, a Dell, a Samsung and a ThinkPad. I have never had another laptop last much past two years before it started to break down. My MBP is nearly five years old and remains a pleasure to use.
See? People can acknowledge reality when it comes to their major purchases! Even naive BMW/Apple fans!
The idea that Apple users are uniquely predisposed to irrationally defend their expensive purchases makes no sense to me. Why would they be any more inclined toward that than, say, Asus, Lenovo, or Vaio owners?
Yet you take a company that has a huge financial interest in laptops breaking as gospel? What makes squaretrade, whose entire business model is based off of people fearing their computer breaking on them, the end all be all for reliability? Squaretrade tends to get people who beat up their electronics. People who constantly drop their phone. People who don't take care of their laptops. People who tend to buy warranties because they know they will eventually need to use them. But apparently they are representative of EVERYONE, right?
If I wanted information on break-ins and how to stop them, the last place I would go to is an alarm company like ADT. Do you think they are really going to break down the facts in an unbiased way? So why would you go to a company that sells warranties on electronics to find unbiased information about laptop reliability?
Why would they care? They see it as a risk pool and price accordingly. What would be their motivation? Even if you could explain one, whose motivation is stronger?
I believe the study removed breakage from misuse.
No, you wouldn't go to ADT, but you would go to a police station to see which alarm companies had the highest rates of non-responsiveness and system failures.