Renzatic on 17/6/2010 at 05:02
Quote Posted by CCCToad
Which backs up my opinion: Apple sells based on brand name and image, not product quality.
Not totally true. I'll use the one Apple product I like the most as an example here: The Macbook Pro. Quite plain and simply, you'll be hard pressed to find a laptop that equals it as a complete package. Sure, there are laptops that sport more power for a cheaper price, but they're usually shoddily designed machines so hulking damn huge they're barely portable, and run so hot they'll end up desoldering parts off their own motherboard. So while a Macbook might not have the best of the cutting edge best, you won't run across another laptop as powerful, as compact, and in as sleek a form factor that'll match its build quality or battery life anywhere else.
So what do I think of Apple products? The iPad? Eh. I might get one when they come down to $150. The Mac Pro? Great computers, but so horribly overpriced you'd have to be a trust fund idiot to buy one. Macbooks? The damn Cadillacs of laptops. In my opinion, they're the only thing in Apples lineup that justifies a higher pricetag. They're perfectly engineered pieces of technology (besides the stress fracture thing, but we're not talking about that :mad:)
PeeperStorm on 17/6/2010 at 05:39
Quote Posted by Schechter
And we all know that Apple has released crap products that it still touted as being absolutely grand (Performa 5230, anyone?)...
Oh Jesus, I still have nightmares about fielding customer service calls on the entire Performa line. Substandard parts manufactured overseas? Check. Two different sales channels which treat the customers differently from each other? Check. Monitor cases (made in Taiwan) that didn't match the computers because they were bilious yellow instead of beige? Check. Shorter warranties? Check. They didn't even include installer disks for the bundled software and OS in the initial offerings, opting instead to put instructions in the manual to get a bunch of floppies and run the backup utility that was on the hard drive. Three guesses on how well that worked, what with the entire line being aimed at computer n00bs.
It was like the Bizarro Apple product line, the exact opposite of their usual hardware and service at the time.
MorbusG on 17/6/2010 at 09:57
I just happen to hold an iPad infront of me, and I concur on the battery-issue.
All I'm doing is keeping the screen on and occasionally refresh a web-page on it, and it is sucking battery-life like a mofo.
ilweran on 17/6/2010 at 10:10
Quote Posted by CCCToad
For the 800 bucks a top Ipad costs, you could buy yourself a makeover that would have a much more substantial effect in that area.
lol. Actually the first time I saw an iPhone it was owned by a complete twat who was on the same training course as me and he spent the whole training session chatting up the girl sat next to me and waving the iPhone around. The sad thing is she was impressed :tsktsk: The whole thing left me with a dislike for iPhones.
Quote Posted by Schechter
Apple does have product quality, but it's not as consistent as they'd have you believe, and it's a an odd duck.
My dad has said he would never buy a Mac as he's had to fix a lot of hardware problems with them in work and apparently they're a pain in the arse to fix and the parts are horribly expensive.
Matthew on 17/6/2010 at 10:31
On that note, ilweran, when I bought the first iPhone I had loads of people approach me in the street, in coffee shops etc to ask me about how I found it. Sadly none of them were female :(
ilweran on 17/6/2010 at 11:46
Quote Posted by Matthew
On that note, ilweran, when I bought the first iPhone I had loads of people approach me in the street, in coffee shops etc to ask me about how I found it. Sadly none of them were female :(
Maybe if you'd acted like an arrogant twat as well the women would have been more interested? I despair sometimes at the amount of women who seem to like men like that.
The Alchemist on 17/6/2010 at 12:19
I don't know what you're smoking, my ipad batter lasts me more than a day. Could you possibly use it more than I do? That seems unlikely.
MorbusG on 17/6/2010 at 13:17
Quote Posted by The Alchemist
I don't know what you're smoking, my ipad batter lasts me more than a day. Could you possibly use it more than I do? That seems unlikely.
I don't think my smoking has anything to do with the battery-life.
Shug on 17/6/2010 at 16:30
actually I think you'll find Apple has revolutionized smoking
