I'll second Harry's comments although I'm not a MAC user... never have been for (bluntly) cost reasons, though I would love to own a high-end unit for recording and photography work...
How many of you (PC/MS) users here have had to go through PC-HELL, regardless of how many BUD's you have, whether it was a PSU failure, or an HDD, or a Motherboard, or whatever, and had to reload all the software you use on a regular basis to a new machine and get back onto a level playing field...? Not a pleasant experience... hours and hours of wasted time that you will never recover...
I assist a friend who although is happy to strip down a car, remove engines, running gear, do welding, etc (his wife will too), has issues when it comes to technology...
With his MAC's he can run several different operating systems from the same hard-drive without worrying about partitions and run them externally to the system via firewire or USB... (legit-installed) software can be run from any drive on any machine...
He wanted to upgrade his CUBE so all we had to do was copy everything from the hard-drive onto a new (larger) drive, remove the old one, and fit the new one - job done...
No messing around with GHOST or some such thing, no hardware issues, no conflicts, everything works...
Copy-paste-done... (albeit USB1)
For many years they (Apple) held onto their code and allowed no tinkering and this resulted in limited (brands/type ie not a gaming platform) but highly efficient products that "does wot it sez on the tin" to coin an expression over here, although in a limited way they have allowed this to change...
Microsoft is King, end... of... story... but their kingdom is flawed and perverted...
Long live the King...!
I have a (#2) Ipod and I have no issues about how it works, or the (hifi) quality, it just, day-in-day-out, works...
I think Microsoft has approx 90% market share below $1000 equipment, whereas this is almost mirrored in Apple's favour above the $1k PC bracket... that says it all, from a professional perspective...
We all use what suits us or what we can afford...
I have no use for an Iphone... I so rarely use a "personal" phone and usually end up with my wife/daughters cast-offs, so my present phone has a camera and REAL-BUTTONS (
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) but I do have to suffer working tools (presently a BRICK called an ES400 as it is designed to
suffer abuse which it does) and have been a "mobile" user since the mid eighties (I still have my first phone, a BIG hand-bag sized Panasonic "transportable" that had nicad batteries about the size of 6 Iphones, 3 high-end on and it worked until cloned around the time GSM was launched, then I switched to a Motorola flip-phone (beam me up, Scotty) and on to a Nokia Communicator (first model) and so on... but if I am out I'm with my family I only need a cheapie so they (SWMBO and daughter) can track me down... at work, why carry 2 phones...
I've had an HTC (for work - side on-slide out qwerty thing - MSM5) and my daughter presently has one (Android too, Al, iirc) which she loves...
The present (work) phone has a Blackberry qwerty style interface which is not user friendly fo my chubbie fingers...
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