Any Apple fans?

[Morgan]

Originally Posted by Tamago

yes, the ipod is cool and all, but that is just one more thing to have to carry around if you want to listen to music :) any modern phone is .mp3 capable and with SDcards getting bigger and bigger, there's really no need to carry anything but your regular cell phone with you.

i challenge Apple to build a netbook that's comparable with my toshiba, and at the same price.

but they won't. a new iphone costs more than my netbook..

I wanna say there is a quote somewhere from Steve Jobs about how any computer less than $500 was a pos and there was no way you could make a quality product for less.... which I'm assuming means no Apple netbook - boo but I probably wouldn't give up my acer aspire one for it anyway....

Originally Posted by KRAZGRL

mac = quality. I don't have a problem paying a little more for that.

Besides, there are many ways to get discounts for apple products (student/teacher/gov't employee, etc)

I almost disagree with you. I bought a first gen iPhone and straight out of the box, mine was defective. My bf's first gen iPhone had a portion of the screen die and BOTH of us (hardened PC users) had to get new iPhones.... I just thought it was weird that the ONE product we bought on TWO accounts were defective - coincidence??? I feel like Mac's give the illusion of quality, yes the materials are more expensive but they are all made in China and marked up just as much, mostly more than comparable PCs

Originally Posted by Altitude

Good stuff.

I'm a programmer/IT guy by trade so PC's are pretty much the standard for me. As for home use, like you, I enjoy rolling my own. Haven't bought a pre-built since the early nineties.

I have several Mac-only/fan boys/cultists who to game and program. They each have a PC built especially for gaming and programming needs. Even they admit Macs are too expensive... the irony of this is that no matter what they say about their PCs, its always that they can't believe how easy it is to fix and cheaply buy replacement parts as needed...



OP its a difference of opinion with Apple and PC (or non Apple product). I really liked my iPhone (the one that actually worked ) and the UI was nice, we hacked both of our iPhones to run on Tmobile and they did the job flawlessly most of the time, but overall I can't recommend them to just anyone. Its not just the price, but the fact that I felt like I was personally insulting every Apple Fan boy when I had a complaint about my Apple product and that's not cool