Why I Ain't Buying A Mac

gphat writes "An article at Rush Magazine details why the author isn't buying a Mac. This is in response to Apple wanting our input last week."

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Executive Summary

[4of12]

Loves

• underlying UNIX of Mac OS X
• fast G4 chip
• snazzy physical design
• good desktop interface with DVD players, access to Office, IE if needed.

Hates:

• expensive price.
• that he can't trade in cheap mix 'n match components for an inexpensive upgrade path like PC commodity world.

must be a slow day on slashdot

[dru]

how much do we care what that one dude wrote? I could have written the same piece myself, but it isn't really "news for nerds"

Why *I* am not buying a mac.

[mallie_mcg]

1) Price. I can upgrade my PC for a fraction of the cost of even apples cheapest G4 (i do not like the CRT iMac, and i barely like the LCD one).

2) See Point 1.

3) DivX out of the Box. The best available "hack" is to convert a DivX to a .MOV, grrr.

4) Lack of cusomisation to OS X. I dont wanna use whats best. I do NOT like the new menu styles. (I ran X for 6 months on an iBook 366 SE, so i have actually used X)

5) Antialiased X on LCDs looks crap! The buttons look ugly. They are trying to shove round things into rectanular pixels.

6) Yes, the mouse. I want a scroll wheel and two buttons. (I KNOW I can buy any USB mouse, but i think apple should listen, coz i dont wanna go out and but a 3rd party mouse!!)