Smashed Windows? Nah! What’s the point?
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Apple on November 14, 2006 at 12:27 pm
With fellow blogger Dave Adamson launching an attack on Apple Macintosh computer users, should it be time to parry his remarks? As the (seemingly) only Mac user here perhaps it should fall to me but to be honest I couldn’t care less.
Our decision to use Apple products was made over 2 decades ago when the only viable opposition was clunky IBM PC clones running DOS or “home computers” such as Amigas. Every three years the competition is reviewed as “new computer time” comes around and apart from a brief flirtation with Sun’s expensive workstations, Apple’s products come off best for our needs every time. It wouldn’t even be too hard to switch away from Macs as all our ancillary equipment is cross-platform and software publishers usually have some kind of deal to change platforms.
The latest Apple Computers are able to run both Windows and MacOS, as well as Linux and other more rarified operating systems all at the same time so it would appear that Apple is even a better bet. Then IT Pro’s sibling magazine ran a review of an Apple computer and announced it was the fastest PC in the UK.
What do I care as long as my computer is fast enough for my needs? I’ve never needed Windows or Linux anyway.
Apple’s computers have also tumbled in price and now similarly configured machines see Macintoshes far cheaper than Dell’s. Macs have always been well-specced with such things as gigabit ethernet and Firewire as standard for years. The days of limited availability have gone too, with Dixons and high street stores stocking Apple equipment. Personally, the cost of our computers has always been secondary to what it will do for us. My new Macintosh always cost at least two grand and the RAM and hard disks from the one replaced are always the wrong sort as technology moves forward. In any case, invariably the old Mac is sold on for half its original purchase price so the real cost of ownership is actually pretty low. Unlike the high-spec. Windows PC my son built, it cost him over £800 but a year later he struggled to get £150 for it.
The one thing that I think does have some bragging rights is the appearance of computers. Don’t PC manufacturers have any taste? Whatever criticisms Dave may fire at Apple, I’d much rather have a Mac in my living room or office than the incredibly ugly piles of silicone chippery and plastic bling I’ve seen, still stuck in the pre-Cuban Missile Crisis school of design. Give me Jonathon Ive’s Bauhaus-influenced understated creations any day.
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