1. Overpriced? Theyre cheaper than these new Amigas you are all talking about
Everything is cheaper than Amiga.
2. Cheaply made? Thats why they have won many awards for best computer designs...
Design, maybe... but they've had a boatload of reliability problems, like CD-Roms disappearing for no reason, not waking up from sleep mode (ever), and what about all those Cubes overheating cause Apple was too brass to put a 1,000 RPM fan at the bottom, which makes less noise than the quietest hard drive? Not every computer needs a 4,500 RPM 80mm fan... or two... or five.
3. Poor quality? More durable than most PC's.. so I doubt it. No viruses for a start and as for physical build theyre one of the best built computers I have ever used, and that is a lot of machines over the years
What about all the Power Macs with plastic hinges and fans that got power by mating with connectors built into the case? It was very stressful to open up those machines
5. You can upgrade all Macs..
But MacOS won't recognize most of them. CPU modules are a killer. You can't replace an Apple motherboard unless you replace your whole case. Even many prebuilt PC builders don't do that.
Neither have I, and I use Windows. Your point?
I second that. I repair PCs all the time and they are loaded with Spyware. I myself never had problems and IE was my default browser until the beginning of this year. Sounds to me that people get viruses and spyware because they are just stupid and say "yes" to every Install-On-Demand.
afraid not my amigaone never even cost half of what the g5 mac does.
Most people that point out the cost of the G5 point at the dual CPU model. The single CPU isn't that costly, but for the money you definately deserve a better hard drive and graphics card. I was ticked off when the $2,000 Macs built a few years ago gave you a GeForce2 MX when the full GeForce 3 was top of the line.
I do like apple there the only competition or choice apart from linnux or unix based machines.
True, but MacOS X today is more of less just a replacement for X Windows.
CPU? Where? I have yet to see a CPU upgrade for the iMac.
There was for the old CRT imacs
Wha? I thought iMacs only had memory expansion slots and that was it.
They are closed systems, which in general is bad.
Almost everything other than the PC is that way. I can't blame Apple for holding onto their vertical monopoly, but I do blame Steve Jobs for being the biggest ***hole in the industry. Bill Gates is annoying, but Jobs just burns me to the core -- and that stupid smirk of his doesn't help.
