Comments on: Apple I Hate You or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mac http://resistmedia.net/blog/2005/10/18/apple-i-hate-you-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-mac/ This is a blog about adventures in design, and sometimes other crap. My name is Beth Dean and I'm a web designer from Cleveland Ohio. I work for Progressive Insurance as a UX Developer. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:58:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: beth http://resistmedia.net/blog/2005/10/18/apple-i-hate-you-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-mac/#comment-21 beth Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:25:30 +0000 http://resistmedia.net/blog/?p=20#comment-21 Dave, it's funny you should mention that. I just got an HP printer, and it came bundled with so much garbage, it was unbelievable. You know Lexmark used to bundle spyware with their drivers? One thing I'll give Apple, pretty much any Apple product I've ever used, you can plug it in and it works. No messing with drivers, no nothing. That's why I say it'd be the perfect computer for my grandma. Dave, it’s funny you should mention that. I just got an HP printer, and it came bundled with so much garbage, it was unbelievable. You know Lexmark used to bundle spyware with their drivers?

One thing I’ll give Apple, pretty much any Apple product I’ve ever used, you can plug it in and it works. No messing with drivers, no nothing. That’s why I say it’d be the perfect computer for my grandma.

]]> By: Dave http://resistmedia.net/blog/2005/10/18/apple-i-hate-you-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-mac/#comment-20 Dave Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:38:48 +0000 http://resistmedia.net/blog/?p=20#comment-20 I've got kind of a love-hate relationship with Apple too. PCs were kind of crappy until 1992, when the 486DX2-66 and VL-Bus machines came out and started to seriously spank the Mac. Since then the OS has come up to speed also, mostly, though I really like OS-X. Conceptually...it still feels kind of piggy to me. These days I really like the design that Apple has...I don't care if they come out with newer designs, because I generally still like the old ones for what they are. I still have an original bondi-blue iBook (my first Apple purchase since 1987), and it's cool. I only seriously started thought about switching to Mac after getting a new HP laptop for my Dad, and being ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED with the amount of marketing BS installed on it. It was like the desktop was covered by writhing parasites. Ugh. Plus, watching him try to figure out how to install something on his own with the typical windows installer was painful, as were there awful quality of the peripheral drivers. Made me mad, it did. I’ve got kind of a love-hate relationship with Apple too. PCs were kind of crappy until 1992, when the 486DX2-66 and VL-Bus machines came out and started to seriously spank the Mac. Since then the OS has come up to speed also, mostly, though I really like OS-X. Conceptually…it still feels kind of piggy to me.

These days I really like the design that Apple has…I don’t care if they come out with newer designs, because I generally still like the old ones for what they are. I still have an original bondi-blue iBook (my first Apple purchase since 1987), and it’s cool.

I only seriously started thought about switching to Mac after getting a new HP laptop for my Dad, and being ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED with the amount of marketing BS installed on it. It was like the desktop was covered by writhing parasites. Ugh. Plus, watching him try to figure out how to install something on his own with the typical windows installer was painful, as were there awful quality of the peripheral drivers. Made me mad, it did.

]]> By: beth http://resistmedia.net/blog/2005/10/18/apple-i-hate-you-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-mac/#comment-19 beth Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:08:59 +0000 http://resistmedia.net/blog/?p=20#comment-19 No kidding! I really think OSX is a superior OS, and way more user friendly. My grandma could use a mac right out of the box. They're just too inaccessible, and you said it, unstable. The mini mac was an absolute joke. Oooooh a $500 computer. Well the IBM I use for development was only $600, it came with a keyboard and mouse, and is better in about a 1,000 ways than than the mini mac. What average user wants to drop $1500 for sub-par hardware? And if it breaks, it's not like they can take it to the local Best Buy for a tune-up. If they lowered their prices they really could give Microsoft a run for their money. No kidding! I really think OSX is a superior OS, and way more user friendly. My grandma could use a mac right out of the box. They’re just too inaccessible, and you said it, unstable.

The mini mac was an absolute joke. Oooooh a $500 computer. Well the IBM I use for development was only $600, it came with a keyboard and mouse, and is better in about a 1,000 ways than than the mini mac. What average user wants to drop $1500 for sub-par hardware? And if it breaks, it’s not like they can take it to the local Best Buy for a tune-up. If they lowered their prices they really could give Microsoft a run for their money.

]]> By: Joe http://resistmedia.net/blog/2005/10/18/apple-i-hate-you-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-mac/#comment-18 Joe Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:14:03 +0000 http://resistmedia.net/blog/?p=20#comment-18 This is similar to my knock on Apple for years: they always outdate their users within a year and they don't have a migration path to new software (read older OSx versions to OSX). They are all about having their customers constantly buy new stuff from them. They are contributing mightily to the landfills with their strategy. Little wonder then that the vast majority of the world (90%) uses PC's and Microsoft OS or a UNIX OS. Stability! This is similar to my knock on Apple for years: they always outdate their users within a year and they don’t have a migration path to new software (read older OSx versions to OSX). They are all about having their customers constantly buy new stuff from them. They are contributing mightily to the landfills with their strategy. Little wonder then that the vast majority of the world (90%) uses PC’s and Microsoft OS or a UNIX OS. Stability!

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