I still haven't found a PC touchpad that functions as well as the one on the MBP I bought a few years ago. Is that worth the premium? Probably not. But I like it enough to not want to go back to something worse.
Creative professionals do.
I still haven't found a PC touchpad that functions as well as the one on the MBP I bought a few years ago. Is that worth the premium? Probably not. But I like it enough to not want to go back to something worse.
They only sell for that much since the computer illiterate buy macs. Nobody who knows anything about computers would pay that much for them.
Creative professionals do.
The thing I love about using the Mac is that even as a IT professional, and a guy who made a lot of money over the years cleaning up spyware and crap.
Browsing on the Mac is just a much more enjoyable and low stress experience than the flury of popups, warnings, intrusions, ect that can affect IE. I never really cared for Firefox so I always stuck with IE.
I find it funny that a VW fanatic is slamming Apple. VW is the Apple of cars. They are both premium, botique items that have their advantages and disadvantages.
You must be the only IT professional that uses IE and "never really cared for Firefox".
Is that why VW is priced to compete with Toyota/Honda/Chevy etc?
You have no idea what you are talking about.
BMW or MB is the Apple of car world.
VW might have a lot of hipsters, but at least they are not paying premium for the product (gotta give them some credit).
Now if VW cost as much as a BMW.....you MIGHT have a point....
There's just a lot of stuff that I use/used that either required or worked better under IE. Legacy health care stuff, for years Outlook Web only rendered right in IE, different vendor sites only supported IE, ect. Plus Firefox was a memory hog. I just used IE so much that it was a preference over many years of needing to use it.
i've owned 2 VW cars and they were both more expensive than their counterparts in the honda, toyota, and chevy brands. they were also more expensive to maintain and fix when problems arose.
and as someone who used to be a vw enthusiast and all over vwvortex boards, the majority of vw enthusiasts look down on american/japanese cars and think their euro cars are better.
sounds very similar to how many people perceive the apple brand and users.
My Passat (in 1999) was actually cheaper than Toyota/Nissan and was comparable to V6 models that were 5-10k more expensive (in performance).
Yes, most are Euro snobs. One simply has to get past that.
PS.I've been on Vortex SINCE DAY ONE.
Yes, minus the overly expensive part which makes the Apple products that much more sucky.
You can't compare Hype + normal pricing to Hype + expensive.
You are talking BMW/MB even Audi here.....NOT VW
HA says guy that presumably administrates windows machines for living; mad windows power user bro!
You do realize it's unix underneath right?
fx-70015 ~$ uname -a
Darwin fx-70015 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
I realize this, but I teach animation, not administrate PCs. What does that have to do with anything anyways? Mac aren't bad. They just are overpriced and the used market is driven by people who don't know why paying that much for outdated hardware is a bad idea.
They go for about $100 these days.Wonder if my iBook from 2004/2005 is worth anything.. :hmm:
There is lies your problem; people aren't buying "hardware", they're a buying a solution for their computational needs.
I can't tell difference between i5 and i6 macbook air, I couldn't honestly even tell the difference between core 2 or whatever the last one was and the i5 I have... hardware specs is one of the least important criteria when it comes to my usability of a laptop. It's incidental; implementation detail.
I can't tell difference between i5 and i6 macbook air, I couldn't honestly even tell the difference between core 2 or whatever the last one was and the i5 I have... hardware specs is one of the least important criteria when it comes to my usability of a laptop. It's incidental; implementation detail.
And that's what really satisfies me with that little Macbook air I have. My work laptop is a beastly HP "elitebook" with an i7 something or other and it weighs like 19 pounds and barely fits into any carrying case you can buy. But it still takes likes 4 minutes for it to go into hibernation, another 2 or so to come out of it and be back up and running. Close the lid on my Air and it's asleep. Open it back up and it's awake and ready to roll in about 4 seconds. The trackpads are so far apart it's not even funny. The scrolling on the HP with the shitty synaptics software is an exercise in futility. It's so bad that I resort back to the rubber nubbin and manually scroll in windows if I don't have a mouse attached. The Mac on the other hand is an absolute pleasure to web browse on. Using a 3rd party utility and programming in different gestures and touch settings I don't even have to take my fingers off the trackpad for a vast majority of web navigation.
Well, for the MacBooks, a Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz isn't a Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz.There is lies your problem; people aren't buying "hardware", they're a buying a solution for their computational needs.
I can't tell difference between i5 and i6 macbook air, I couldn't honestly even tell the difference between core 2 or whatever the last one was and the i5 I have... hardware specs is one of the least important criteria when it comes to my usability of a laptop. It's incidental; implementation detail.
holy shit you just described my i5 elitebook. This thing is a fucking dog.
what? the parts for VW are more expensive than the parts for a japanese car. my wife had a honda all the while i had my vw's. to say that the cost of a vw is the same as a honda is just false. i've been going through this the past 10 years of so, with the exception of the past year where i got rid of my vw and will never go back to a european car.
issues to fix in my jetta/gti were always more than the issues to fix in her civic.
bmw and audi's shouldnt even be compared to honda or toyota. they shoudl be compared to infiniti and lexus.
Heh.
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Don't get me started on the arrow key arrangement on that turd. Full size number pad but they put the arrow key into some impossible to use Tie Fighter kind of shape.
EDIT: or the pathetic 1366x768 resolution on a 15" screen. The 13" Air at least has 1440x900.
i've owned 2 VW cars and they were both more expensive than their counterparts in the honda, toyota, and chevy brands. they were also more expensive to maintain and fix when problems arose.
and as someone who used to be a vw enthusiast and all over vwvortex boards, the majority of vw enthusiasts look down on american/japanese cars and think their euro cars are better.
sounds very similar to how many people perceive the apple brand and users.