For definitions of 'screw around' which include 'being able to find exactly the system and components you want instead of being locked down to about ten basic choices', 'not finding your equipment deprecated within 3 years' and 'leaving you able to work the way you want, not the way makes Apple the most money'zerocrossing wrote:If you have money and not much time to screw around getting things running, stay with Macintosh. If you're short on cash and have a lot of time to screw around, get a PC.
Want a 11" laptop with a touchscreen? Sorry, Apple dont do that. And if they did you certainly wouldnt be able to get one for £400. Want a 17" laptop? Or larger? Tough. What about a tablet/laptop hybrid. Bzzzt. A server with enough storage bays to run a small business off? Nah. Something with dual Xeons, 128Gb of RAM and some Tesla cards, to run your department's physics research? No way.
Buying a PC has nothing to do with being 'short of cash'. Its about having a choice in spending as little cash or as much as one has, and getting exactly what one needs. Apple dont let you do that, unless your needs happen to coincide what they'll sell you.
And the notion that 80-odd million people a year buy PCs and then have to spend 'a lot of time to screw around' to be able to use them is just laughable.
And my original eee is still a very useful box for what it currently does.I've got an aging G5 8 core machine. It's still quite nimble and I run all sorts of graphics and audio programs on it. Maybe not the lastest versions, but it's a very useful box.
That's not anything you can blame on Windows, that's an artefact of MOTU's drivers not being up to the job.I've also got an i7 Dell running Windows 8 and it took me months to realize that the blue screens I was getting were because of the way it hated when I connected two MOTU 828s to it at the same time.
