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Community weekly poll: How many Apple electronic products do you own?
- 5/14/08 4:23 PM
Apple products ibookG3 & G4 and mini iPod
by edward Kearns - 5/15/08 5:33 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Why the question and did you follow the ages or lifestyles of the 55% of respondents with none or those who have 8 or more?
How many Apple users are repeat buyers?
Quality is intoxicating
by mikedardcnet - 6/5/08 7:44 AM In reply to: Apple products ibookG3 & G4 and mini iPod by edward KearnsAll of us are repeat buyers.
How many Apple electronic products do you own?
by bob3160 - 5/15/08 5:33 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
None and proud of it.
Over priced over rated and arrogant as heck.
arrogant- this maybe true
by mikedardcnet - 6/5/08 8:04 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by bob3160It is only after having endless problems with PC's at work, friends, and listening... reading this forum, do I a Mac user start to think that way. See I endlessly, effortlessly, use my Mac with no problems, my efficiency is much higher my manager tells me I'm better than everyone else, they pay me more. You are right I need to humble myself. I know the burden you all have staying in-line lock step, shuffling back and forth. Screaming don't touch my computer I haven't had to reboot it in 4 hours. don't change anything I just learned the 12 steps I needed and I completed a form. It didn't save it! It didn't save it! Ahhhhh! Wait no I coming back to my senses are you crazy I'm not going to humble myself to Microsoft or you because you feel that way. I'll never go back, I moved up and out of the slime! I'm freeeeeee. Eat your heart out.
love my macs
by cbfifi - 5/15/08 5:35 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
2 emacs
1 ipod touch
I grew up on macs, so like an earlier poster who grew up on pcs, I know this language well. My work uses windows, so it took me a while to be comfortable with that language and it's ok, but i love to come home to my mac. Maybe it is a simple matter of what language you learned in the beginning of your computer learning days. I am glad that there are fewer mac users so that the creators of viruses and such don't pay us much attention (or maybe as a previous poster said it is the tight control on 3rd party apps.) Thank you PC users! I'll keep my macs.
My Apple Electronic products.
by TulitaO - 5/15/08 5:36 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have an iBook G3, a 12" iBook G4, a PowerBookG4 and an iPod. FYI, I also have several PCs. As a 61 year old Aging-American, I've always enjoyed technology and try to keep up with new iterations of operating systems and hardware. The hardest thing to do is to part with the old ones!
The PowerBookG4 has been the most challenging and the most enjoyable of the Apple products. The challenge has been getting it to wake up..inevitably have to reset the PMU...it has gone into a "coma" too many times, and periodically have to reset the permissions as well. That works for a while. I'm sure it has to to with "operator error"! I really like the new OS in that iPhotos does load more quickly (I've over 3500 pics on the HD), and I like iTunes for the Mac. iTunes for Windows lacks some of the features, and I look forward to the time when it is as good as the Mac version.
Yes, I'd love to have the HUGE G5 desktop loaded to the gills with music and photography software; I don't have enough $$ to get it!
I feel I've been blessed to play with so many different systems and hope to be able to use, if not own, those that are on the horizon.
An iPod and a iPod.
by tjt620 - 5/15/08 5:56 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a 1.5 gen iPod with video and a 4GB iPod Nano. I have a dead 3rd Gen iPod in my PC Desk if you want to count that.
no, but I have used , and tried Macbook
by ro_lando - 5/15/08 5:57 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
As a special needs student, my local authority says Macs laptops at £1800 ar far too expensive for the student. Is it not better to have a larger share of the market than 10-15%, lower competitive prices but much higher market share. Macs cannot be beaten for quality, hardware and software. Magazine and publishing, newspapers all use Macs for quality. I know of owners of macs that have never experienced a virus, and yes they do use the internet, what does this tell you? It ooses quality.
none, none, none
by mittens - 5/15/08 6:02 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My friend Lillian loves apple. She is using her second one now, because the first one was so buggy she gave up on it. This second one is equally as buggy, and in the shop as much as it's home, and in my opinion should be bright yellow instead of red. *g*
But she loves it.
I dislike Apple's proprietary behavior online, most notably with embedded links on any apple site you go to. There are times when I enter a site and realize these are Apple videos, and think, oh oh...and sure enough, even though I've backed out and never clicked on anything but "exit", when I get back to my main screen I head for the registry to clean out alllll the little bits that Apple has left for me, as gifts. I have trouble trusting a company that would do that.
Why own Apple?
by DOSpower - 5/15/08 6:04 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Why would I buy Apple products?
Higher price, limited compatibility, limited functionality, proprietary formats, built in non-user replaceable batteries, constant upgrades. When the competition is cheaper, more functional and utilises standardised formats (or as close to) then I vote with my wallet. Microsoft, Intel, Creative and Nokia win my wallet when the time comes.
If Mac OS was open for use on generic hardware I might vote otherwise but until then it is DOS, Windows, Linux and Unix that will get served up for me.
RE: Why own Apple?
by cl8389 - 5/15/08 6:29 AM In reply to: Why own Apple? by DOSpowerI have been seeing a lot of posts about the cost of apple and how they are not as good a product. I work on both. Always have, always will. But I choose to utilize Apple at home. I do that for two reasons. First, I don't like looking like a dork. I have yet to find a windows based product that is sleek and cool looking. A few have come close, but Apple's products deliver that. You are paying for asthetics as much as you are paying for the software and hardware. They are pretty, inside and out. Because of that they cost more. They have turned computers into a piece of art.
2nd. I do not believe that Apples do not work as well as their PC counter parts. If anything, they work pretty much the same as all other computer manufactures. I believe their was a CNET article a few weeks ago comparing different manufactures and their rate of repair. They were all within in the statistical error rate, which means there is no significant difference. Almost all the computers out utilize the same pieces of hardware or same manufacturers for the piece parts, they just package them different. I personally am willing to pay more for a beautiful package.
6 items
by cl8389 - 5/15/08 6:17 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Macbook
2 iPods
iPhone
Airport Express
Airport
Life is just fine without Apple
by suedihfed - 5/15/08 6:17 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When I started with computers in the 90's, there was more software available for PC's than for Apple. Since then, I have always used the PC format. I am curious about Apple format computers but they are too expensive and I do not ever expect to purchase one. I do not like the nasty, condescending tone of their PC vs Apple commercials either.
1, used to be 2....A shuffle that was given to me.
by dnaz - 5/15/08 6:26 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Mac reminds me of the COMPAQ PC's early on. They were fairly reliable but when something went wrong you were stuck ordering parts directly from COMPAQ, and paying a premium to do so. (the G4 below had 2 issues, one required the case to be swapped out and the other was an occasional fritzing out of the monitor that I could never get it reproduce in front of one of the freaking MAC Geniuses )
The lab I was in before used MAC's, I was issued a G4 iBook with maxed out ram (768 Mb ***, that's it?), It did fine when storing pictures or playing music et c. but lacked the power to deal with the amount of data that I had to sort out. I felt like I was back on a 486 with Win 95, hit a sort button and waiting 5 minutes in Excel (15,000-20,000 lines shouldn't take that long and didn't even on my PII 600 PC)
So, if you aren't working with much data a MAC is fine.... It was easy to work with and all, I really liked the Airport, it could pick up and use poor WiFi signals like a champ. It just lacked the guts to do any serious work on.
The Shuffle... Itunes is awkward at best.
We Own 2 Apple Computers
by triplet grandmom - 5/15/08 6:35 AM In reply to: How many Apple electronic products do you own? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
We own an I-Mac and a MacBook. Will never go back to Windows based PC's.
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