Community weekly poll: How many Apple electronic products do you own?
- 5/14/08 4:23 PM
Apple HAS released a gaming console
by LaptopLover46 - 5/15/09 5:33 AM In reply to: I proudly own no Apple products. by Ed-duh-winFor your information Ed-duh-win, (and the rest of you who don't know a wink of Apple history) Apple HAS released a gaming console: Pippin. Here's your noose!
LaptopLover46 
Apple toys
by baddawg65 - 5/14/08 11:15 PM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
4-6 Apple electronic products.
MacBook Pro
Mac Mini
Two iPods
iPod Shuffle
PowerMac G4
At least 4.....
by Evanrude Von Lichtenstein - 5/14/08 11:19 PM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Currently I own a Quad G5, Airport Extreme base, iBook G4 800, and a 60Gb iPod video.
I used to own and operate my own computer consulting business, working on Windows based operating systems. I built and repaired computers from Dos up through Windows XP. After using the iBook for the first time, and realizing that it ran circles around a Windows based machine with TWICE the specs, I used a few more. After about a year of running the G4 laptop alongside 4 different Windows machines, 2 of them hand built, one Dell, and one HP, I decided to make the move to Apple.
Apple computers have proven to require LESS maintenance, less troubleshooting, less upkeep, etc. They run longer, last longer, and take care of themselves. And their re-sale value even 4 to 5 years after they come out is VERY high. 5 year old Apple systems will sell for more than 60 percent of their initial cost. You can't say that about a Windows machine.
I still work on Windows based machines, and make between $35 an hour and $50 an hour to repair them. I almost never get called to work on an Apple. The point being, for all of the people who just posted to complain about Apple price, you get what you pay for. Buy a $500 Dell, and then call me when you want it fixed. Repeatedly. After a while, you'll have invested enough that you could have BOUGHT an Apple that did NOT need the repair.
Either way, I'll happily take your money to fix it 
How many Apple products do I own?
by gsbrickner - 5/14/08 11:21 PM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
4-6
I have six: iMac (Late 2007), MacBook (2006), Airport Express (2006), iPod Touch, Mac Mini (PPC 2005), and iPod Shuffle (original).
I Have NONE
by cnet47 - 5/14/08 11:22 PM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Apple makes great products, but they don't fit my budget.
Why I own zero Apple products
by TonyMagiera - 5/14/08 11:25 PM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Like many people posting, I can find products that do just as much or more for less money.
When it comes to Apple's computers, I grew up on Windows, so I'm just much more comfortable with PCs. It's like a language - you can argue that other languages are easier to learn than English, but I grew up speaking English, so it's easiest for me. I can learn other languages, just as I can work my way through a Mac, but I'll always be most comfortable with what I've been using almost my whole life.
Also, I think anything with an "i" in front of it (especially iPods) is too cliche at this point.
Lastly, I still hold a grudge agaist Apple from the time when the iMac came out and Jeff Goldblum was in its commercials. If I could sum up the message of those ads, I would say that Apple was esentially saying "Apple - because you're not smart enough to use a PC." At that point, I had already been using PCs for some time, so the marketing at that time really alienated me against the Apple brand.
Apple Products i own
by jik47 - 5/14/08 11:44 PM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
None. Do not like Apple products.
Apple
by anistri1 - 5/14/08 11:51 PM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I own an Imac and an Ipod. For years and years I had been using Windows OS on various machines, but the heaviness of their systems and the continuous updates really started to tire me.
Leopard - the latest release of Mac -, running on their own hardware, not only is sleek and super fast, but delivers stunning graphics, which to me, being a photographer, is essential.
Personally I would advice people looking for top quality to switch: they won't be deceived.
9 :-)
by pabo - 5/14/08 11:52 PM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
ok some olds are around (a further 5 are gone already ...):
* Mac Color Classic (just for souvenir, running OS 7)
* eMac
* iMac (aluminium)
* MacBook Pro
* iPod Shuffle 1G * 2
* iPod Shuffle 2G
* iPod Mini
* iPod Nano
* iPhone (yes from the US , live in Luxembourg )
PS: i would be interested in a Apple Game device (portable like the iPhone or TV based)
PS': needless to say that i don't and will never own a PC (although this has been typed on my company's PC, trojan horse applelised via Safari), but do own some Linux devices
I have two apple things:
by billygard - 5/14/08 11:57 PM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
A G3 iMac and an iPod classic. Currently these have nothing to do with one another. I got the G3 because someone who replaced his Mac gave me this one. It has OS10.2, the newest version this model will take. And as any of you know, all useful programs insist on 10.3 and up. Either I have to figure out how to shoehorn a newer OS into this computer, or collect 10.2 compatible vintage programs.
My iPod is new enough to require the hottest and newest version of iTunes, 7.4, which in turn requires an OS my Mac can't take. So these two devices never found out about each other's existance. Only my XP computer can carry the iTunes the iPod requires. But this is also a hand-me-over whose XP keeps crashing a lot of programs, particularly iTunes. Therefore I've been working with Foola, which is an iTunes substitute that I can use on my Win2000 computer. I could even use it in Win98 if I could find a darn driver that will allow Win98 to recognise the iPod as a disk device.
There is the remote chance I may end up getting myself a Mac book, even if only to have a computer that iTunes would run smoothly on, just for my iPod! And also because it would be kind of nice to have an up-to-date laptop and look trendy in a Starbucks.
An Apple a day keeps Dr. Watson away.
Billy
Just one
by andy419 - 5/15/08 12:12 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
...my iPod touch- I'm typing this on it
Why I don't own a Mac
by dbear135 - 5/15/08 12:27 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Not enough games are compatible
Apple Schmapple
by Helzundi - 5/15/08 12:41 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I live in NZ.
I'd love to own a Mac.
Not sure what Mac's cost in US, but here they're double that of PC's.
I've just (a year ago) purchased a Dell PC.
3.6GHz Dual Core, 4GB, 500GB, nVIDIA 512MB.
Quite powerful when it was new.
Cost NZ$2500.
For an equivalent Mac system it would've been NZ$4800.
Until thay become reasonably priced, I'll stay with PC's.
The same goes for I-Pods compared to other brands of MP3.
Same with the I-Phone.
Cheers
A Good Kiwi Joker
Number of Apple Products: None
by shadowca1964 - 5/15/08 1:12 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
To each his/her one as they say. While Apple products are some of the best computers to audio-visual editing and thier hardware\software is excellent, I find Apple products to expensive and overpriced. This includes thier computers, iphones, ipods and thier other hardware devices. In addition, i also dislike that fact that apple maintains such a tight grip on third party apps for thier computers and iphones. They do not allow cloned apple computers or hardware. they also thawart devolopment of third party software applications for thier propritiary operating systems
Apple products
by e3954 - 5/15/08 1:12 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I own two products: A Mac Mini and a MacBook. I've chosen to abandon Windows based computers because my main interest in computers is using them as personal and business tools. I am not at all interested in tweaking and scanning for malware and hoping that the operating system works properly. Although not perfectly, Apple computers work in a way that allows me do do what I want, rather than being it their mercies.
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