I have to use windows machines 8+ hrs a day and am totally gobsmacked about how bad things are designed. As a developer I can take a fair guess why they developed something a certain way - it's because they're lazy. The amount of bad default preferences, the number of times you need to hit OK, the riduculously small menu items with drop down arrows, left arrows, right arrows all dependent and moving about depending on what you had for lunch. The best way to think about it is how much effort you have to change things around (preferences etc) after a clean install, or new purchase, before you're up to productive speed. On a Mac it's like an hour, on a PC it's a couple of weeks (just one more clippy to kill...now where is he - hmm I feel like a bit of pasta for lunch. There he is!)
and of course if you're wrong then you'll admit it because you seem like a big man. another way to look at it is that there are a diverse group of people here with different, and hell, even conflicting viewpoints but maybe thats not black-and-white enough for you (I'm taking a big leap here and guessing you must be an american, hell, i'll dip my dick in the vice and even say you're a red state american too). You never thought that maybe the google fanboys and the apple fanboys might be two different sets of people (with some intersection). But I logic can only go so far.
Now, I know what the Mac fans will say: 'Plenty of people spend far more than that on gaming sticks and PC peripherals,' etc, etc.
No, what we'll say is that you're buying a designed mice with above average quality products and you'll pay through the nose for it since it like-matches your iMac dude.
It's like trying to buy a cheapo CD player and going into Bang & Olufsen and complaining about the prices.
My answer: don't go to Apple if you want cheap stuff. Ever!
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I have to use windows machines 8+ hrs a day and am totally gobsmacked about how bad things are designed. As a developer I can take a fair guess why they developed something a certain way - it's because they're lazy. The amount of bad default preferences, the number of times you need to hit OK, the riduculously small menu items with drop down arrows, left arrows, right arrows all dependent and moving about depending on what you had for lunch. The best way to think about it is how much effort you have to change things around (preferences etc) after a clean install, or new purchase, before you're up to productive speed. On a Mac it's like an hour, on a PC it's a couple of weeks (just one more clippy to kill...now where is he - hmm I feel like a bit of pasta for lunch. There he is!)
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and of course if you're wrong then you'll admit it because you seem like a big man. another way to look at it is that there are a diverse group of people here with different, and hell, even conflicting viewpoints but maybe thats not black-and-white enough for you (I'm taking a big leap here and guessing you must be an american, hell, i'll dip my dick in the vice and even say you're a red state american too). You never thought that maybe the google fanboys and the apple fanboys might be two different sets of people (with some intersection). But I logic can only go so far.
It's like trying to buy a cheapo CD player and going into Bang & Olufsen and complaining about the prices.
My answer: don't go to Apple if you want cheap stuff. Ever!
Ciao
maybe next time we won't vote in a GWB clone.
of course that seems like a waste to me :)