Mac Rants

There's a piece by Scott Wasson regarding the claims of Apple, of late, and his...feelings on it. It's a pretty ranty piece, as he says in the beginning, but it's a good discussion starting piece - even tho' I disagree with him to a degree.

Comments

Mac fans should defect.

[Flabdabb Hubbard]

After all, it is very easy to build your own PC these days. Controversial news and discussion site adequacy.org has a story on its front page which describes how even the least tech-savvy person in the world can easily build their own dream PC.

Re:you're a little behind the times.

[jbarnett]

I was thinking of getting a Mac, but it is hard to find a decent mother board, CPU that I can buy off the self... Any suggestions?

I want to build it myself (hobby of mine), but pricewatch.com doesn't list any parts. Can I get some pointers on where to look for Mac parts? Do PowerPC motherboard fit in standard ATX cases? If not, any links to Mac cases I can get?

Thanks.

Re:trying to be objective

[Marx's Ghost]

I read the rant, big whoop. He's citing a comparison by someone I've spoken to on a Mac forum from time to time. The point of his comparisons (he's done several) is not that the Macintosh will solve world hunger or anything. He was trying to debunk the myth that Macs are expensive in a bang-for-your-buck method.

Well, he did a poor job. $2500? Maybe that money makes sense if one uses Photoshop all the time, sure. But if a gamer or the average person wants to invest in a high-end system, you can end up with a >1.0 GB PC with a wide selection of peripherals for less than a grand. And you bought a Mac, which holds a monopoly on their hardware (hardware that, except for VirtualPC and Linux, has NO alternative operating systems), because of Windows licensing costs? "Nazism?" I'm not Windows fan, but what kind of logic is that? You don't even have third party choice of hardware for the Mac, let alone software diversity.

WTF?

[KFury]

A guy writes a propaganda chart, saying an L3 cache is four times as important as a floppy drive, and other dubious, yet totally subjective claims. He says, "If you don't like my results, come up with your own chart. YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY."

Then, some other guy writes a piece saying how wrong he feels this post is.

Then some third guy (Hemos) posts the 'story' to ./ and they put it up saying that the 'some guy' is flaming the outrageous claims of Apple.

The only thing newsworthy about this article is that /. actually thinks someone flaming Apple is newsworthy, and the utter lack of investigation, in thinking the referenced piece is a flame against Apple, and not some other guy's homegrown opinion.

Get a grip. There's plenty of cloning stories to post about before we let drivel like this make it to the top of the page.

bubba

[delmoi]

is dead.