My Galaxy Note 4 makes a MUCH better pocket warmer than my iPhone!
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
-Kujako-
Because it was better for graphic design and 3D rendering, there were things that the original Mac architecture could do that were just plain superior, I mean heck you could buy an applemac tower with two processors seats back when Intel was still playing around with hyper-threading. Also, it provided a real honest-to-goodness alternative. There's no functional difference between a Mac and "PC" now aside from operating system, you're basically buying the same car and then deciding on if you want it blue or red and whose brand sticker you want on it.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
-Kujako-
Personally I have nothing against Apple. They're doing their business, I'm doing mine. As long as I remember, they have had absolutely zero products that had a modest price tag compared to the parts it's made of. People buy in incredible quantities their stuff, so why would they give any discount or go boasting with the HW specs when they don't have to. My GF bought the macbook air a good while ago. It looks neat all the way down, until you touch the keyboard. Even some cheap Acer I've tried in a store is better by a mile. I've had iphone6 as my work phone for ~1,5 years, and I'm still baffled how someone sees there value for as high as 800€. I might not be the only one with these thoughts, but it seems I'm a part of such minority that Apple does not need to listen to.
I don't know what have been the latest sales figures for their laptops and tablets, but I would not be too surprised if they're trying to direct people from buing the "entry level macbook" to buying an ipad instead. I'd bet the cost of manufacturing the latter is significantly lower than the former. And if you need something more than just an ipad with a keyboard, then there's the more expensive macbook pros which bring more money to their pockets.
So here we have a a 16 year old slow-as-nothing-else standard and a 10 year old standard which virtually noone uses on their PC's (as you say, you don't use BluRays on your PC; noone does)
... and somehow you're surprised when a manufacturer decides that, on a portable device like a laptop, they really couldn't care less about wasting 1/3rds of the internal space on a drive you're not going to use anyway and, if you are, it'll be very rarely.
Just take an external drive and be done with it. They work absolutely fine. I mean it's either the DVD drive or 5 hours of battery or a WAY thicker machine. BluRays and DVD's are large; have you noticed?
As for the other guy who thought he really had a point about mobo's not coming with the necessary drivers and that those are on discs... we're talking about Apple. Pretty sure they got that under control; in fact I can't remember Apple releasing a machine without proper drivers on it EVER.
They cater to the poorly educated.
Where did I say nobody uses Blu ray? Don't put words in my mouth please. I said DVD is still a widely used format and I still use it for movie playback as I don't need to shell money out for a Blu Ray player when movies are still coming out on DVD and don't look like they are going anywhere any time soon. When movies start being Blu Ray only I'll get a Blu Ray player but for now a DVD player is perfectly fine. Laptops should have a Blu Ray drive as standard. Especially for the stupid prices apple charge. You can get laptops that can do what a Macbook can do except 4k for cheaper and they come with DVD/Blu Ray drives and are fine as a portable device. So again £800 for a laptop and over £1000 for an All in one and no DVD drive is pitiful although every apple product is an overpriced piece of shit so you know. Just like their shitty £400-500 phones when you could buy an Android phone which can do pretty much the same for less.
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r.i.p. alleria. 1997-2017. blizzard ruined alleria forever. blizz assassinated alleria's character and appearance.
i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
ive never liked apple and i used old macs, back in the early 90's they was terrible then and there terrible now, did you know that apple also made a console in the 90's called pippin
Why would they get rid of the 3.5 jack? Everything is Bluetooth now? That'll drive me away for sure.
I only got an iphone due to a promotion with T-Mobile, I sort of miss my galaxy S6, but the battery life of my iphone has thusfar proven superior and that's more important to me.
As for the notebook, that's ridiculously priced.
I see two sides, and in my tech business I use AT LEAST two different systems for each of our clients and I would say most of the time - the Apple products are above the curve for reliability because of how locked down, and the because of the design.
We use Customer built windows desktop computers running windows 10, and our portables are Macbook Pro Retina's running 10.12 and 10.11.6
For our mobility division we run both, iPhone and Nexus - on the tablet, iPad and Nexus/Samsung tablets pending what each person prefers. As long as updates are rolling fixing security bugs on any of our systems, we don't give a damn.
TL;DR - our business runs Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS (Linux on some servers, but not for normal end users or clients) - and everything works freaken awesome - So run whatever the hell you what. I love Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung - you name it, if it's new tech - GIVE IT TO ME! <3