Re:Spoken Like a True Self-Deluded CEO
by Drake42 (4074)

I had a macbook but it was too damn slow, so I bought a 64 bit, 17inch monster laptop. It had everything, it could play games, have two documents open side by side, it was a beast. I had owned that macbook for almost three years before I gave up on it and bought the PC laptop.

I handed that PC laptop to the trash bin after only 12 months. I couldn't hot swap the battery. I couldn't tell how full the battery was until the stupid thing had booted. It's case was plastic and broke. It got stuffed with stupid software that I couldn't uninstall. I put Suse Linux on it, but it's a cutting edge funky laptop so nothing worked. I went back to windows with a fresh install but the CD ROM drive was loose and unless I held it in its bay the speakers would spew static. Finally it just gave up and the mousepad wouldn't work any more.

During this time I had given my old macbook to my stay-at-home wife and mother of my three year old. The three year old threw it while the plug was in an horribly bent the chassis. But it still worked. My wife is nursing the baby and it turns out that human breasts can spray that milk quite a distance. My macbook had breast milk spattered all over it and in every crevice. It still worked! The three year old stuffed something into the DVD drive to prevent us getting the disk out. After we finally got the disk extracted, everything continued to work. The laptop is over five years old and has literally been around the work with me. It still works fine.

Needless to say, I just bought my second MacBook. With 2GB of ram and 2.1Ghz standard the performance has been excellent.

Bottom Line: PC Hardware sucks because no one is in control of it. (Even Dell and Sony can't get it right) Apple has the best hardware for their computers, the best hardware for their music players and I suspect will have the best hardware for their phones. OS X even bugs me a bit, but the fact is that their product is better than the PC products. Vista will be years before it stops sucking. XP on the MacBook might be viable, but realistically, everything I care about runs on both platforms.

It's not about being in the elite. It's not about catchy adds (tho they are funny and true). It's not about corporate personality or hype or history or market 'statistics' (lies, damn lies, statistics, etc). It's about finding and using the best tool available for doing my job.

Current winner: Macbook Pro.