People don't want to mess around making every little thing work. Personally, I was sick of Windows, and Vista finally made me decide to switch to something else. I tried Ubuntu 3 or 4 times and Fedora Core. They were great at 'almost' working, but it seemed like there were far to many steps to get to have the machine fully functional.
I use my machines for media hubs, and there were so many hoops to jump through to get everything to work in Linux, I just gave up. I bought a Core 2 Duo Imac, and I'll probably never touch Linux or Windows (at home) again. Unix based systems don't have to be hard to use, Apple proves that. If only the distros could eliminate some of those hoops.
In the past year, I've bought an ibook g4, and a 20 inch Core 2 Duo imac. The ibook g4 had a bad motherboard, but i bought it at the local campus store, not the local apple store, so the apple store wouldn't replace it. I brought the laptop to the apple store at about 6pm on a friday, and i had it back on monday at around 2. Thats pretty impressive in my opinion, and its worked great ever since.
When I got my imac, it had bad RAM, and would lock up under load. This started happening about 2 weeks after I got it. I took it to the apple store, and they gave me another one, right away, no questions asked. With a PC at any other store, that would never happen.
Apples support is about the best you can get, from my experience
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People don't want to mess around making every little thing work. Personally, I was sick of Windows, and Vista finally made me decide to switch to something else. I tried Ubuntu 3 or 4 times and Fedora Core. They were great at 'almost' working, but it seemed like there were far to many steps to get to have the machine fully functional. I use my machines for media hubs, and there were so many hoops to jump through to get everything to work in Linux, I just gave up. I bought a Core 2 Duo Imac, and I'll probably never touch Linux or Windows (at home) again. Unix based systems don't have to be hard to use, Apple proves that. If only the distros could eliminate some of those hoops.
In the past year, I've bought an ibook g4, and a 20 inch Core 2 Duo imac. The ibook g4 had a bad motherboard, but i bought it at the local campus store, not the local apple store, so the apple store wouldn't replace it. I brought the laptop to the apple store at about 6pm on a friday, and i had it back on monday at around 2. Thats pretty impressive in my opinion, and its worked great ever since. When I got my imac, it had bad RAM, and would lock up under load. This started happening about 2 weeks after I got it. I took it to the apple store, and they gave me another one, right away, no questions asked. With a PC at any other store, that would never happen. Apples support is about the best you can get, from my experience