iMac?

[iBlueBox]

They look very nice.
and like some other people have said, they just work so easy.

[GommeInc]

I don't comment on how welll a Pontiac drives if I've never driven one.

A Pontiac (judging by Google) is a car, so it drives like a car :/ What's your point? An iMac or any Mac is just a computer, a computer works the same way but different OS' (or companies even) have difference takes on how to use one. The components of a Mac aren't at all different to any other PC company, the only difference is you get ripped off by Apple with no justification for the price.

Even though he's right.

Those adverts are for stupid people. Like putting a stupid sausage on the end of a stupid fishing rod sitting by the end of a stupid pier into a pool of stupid people in the hope to catch some, and strangely they do work, but only exist in America where they're not banned for false advertising and challenging human intelligence. We've had this discussion before dear, a Mac is limited. A PC isn't as limited

[HotelUser]

A Pontiac (judging by Google) is a car, so it drives like a car :/ What's your point? An iMac or any Mac is just a computer, a computer works the same way but different OS' (or companies even) have difference takes on how to use one. The components of a Mac aren't at all different to any other PC company, the only difference is you get ripped off by Apple with no justification for the price.

So you think all cars drive the same then:eusa_wall

an iMac is hardware wise like any other all in one. How ever it is beyond ignorant to put down OS X without using it, and by just saying "there's just a different take on how to use this OS but it's like windoze so you got ripped off by paying more ahahahaha". Hopefully you didn't mean to say that, and meant something different. You can do similar things on Windows and OS X, but they're still different...

Those adverts are for stupid people. Like putting a stupid sausage on the end of a stupid fishing rod sitting by the end of a stupid pier into a pool of stupid people in the hope to catch some, and strangely they do work, but only exist in America where they're not banned for false advertising and challenging human intelligence. We've had this discussion before dear, a Mac is limited. A PC isn't as limited

You're trying to sing my song without knowing the words now. You cannot (CANNOT) say a Mac is limited when you have not given OS X a fair shake. And just saying "A Mac is limited a PC isn't as limited" is a very pointless statement when you haven't backed it up with facts.

You think Apple's ads make Apple bad? Who tried to copy the keyboard keys?

I agree with the others, you have absolutely no idea what you're on about.



Theres your problem.

Also, if you think you've never seen a MacBook do that, they have done far worse... (Google around for the Magsafe problem where the wire began to burn, spark and catch fire).

I haven't boughten an Acer since. Especially after their crappy driver support for Windows V-badword-

[StefanWolves]

"Boughten", lol.

Anyway stop the ******** guys, the OP didn't want this to turn into a Mac vs. PC argument... even though it was inevitable that it'd happen.

[GommeInc]

So you think all cars drive the same then:eusa_wall

an iMac is hardware wise like any other all in one. How ever it is beyond ignorant to put down OS X without using it, and by just saying "there's just a different take on how to use this OS but it's like windoze so you got ripped off by paying more ahahahaha". Hopefully you didn't mean to say that, and meant something different. You can do similar things on Windows and OS X, but they're still different...

No, I said it drives like a car... Cars are driven and work in a very similar way to each other, and all have key components - gearbox (peripherals), engine (CPU), wheels (RAM?), radio (closest thing to an HDD to be honest ) and a dashboard (GUI). An OS/x, Windows or Linux machine works the same way as the counter-parts, they're not different in that sense, they just do things differently :/ And judging by the Apple website, you are pretty much being ripped off if you dare change anything in the extras and order page. 2TB HDD at £200? My word, what a bargain AND 16GB of RAM for over £1,000? I believe I have just wet myself in delight for such a bargain bucket. By all means, they can charge whatever they want for the design and the OS, but that much for hardware that you can buy for cheaper? My word :S

You're trying to sing my song without knowing the words now. You cannot (CANNOT) say a Mac is limited when you have not given OS X a fair shake. And just saying "A Mac is limited a PC isn't as limited" is a very pointless statement when you haven't backed it up with facts.

*looks through his most used programs and sees the one he uses for work is incompatible with a Mac, and that a Mac is terrible for presentations*

Done. I've used a MacBook for a presentation, not only was the poorly designed machine terrible to hook up to a projector (it needed a silly little adapter, thankfully the person who supplied it had one), it didn't understand the red spectrum so anything on the projector (which was mostly brown) came up in green... And generic laser pointers don't want to work with it, you had to run to click a button on the MacBook to play a video. Strangely, the two Acers I've used do a better job :/[/quote]

You think Apple's ads make Apple bad? Who tried to copy the keyboard keys?

What do you mean? I'm intrigued

And yes, I really do. Companies who have to fall to attacking another company annoy me. In the UK we have ASDA adverts which literally belittle the competition, yet don't provide any information as to what product are cheaper. They generally are cheaper, but the brand name items aren't. Thankfully Tesco retaliated by showing in their adverts that their basket shops are generally cheaper (they see what people buy in baskets (10 items max) and make up offers).

[HotelUser]

No, I said it drives like a car... Cars are driven and work in a very similar way to each other, and all have key components - gearbox (peripherals), engine (CPU), wheels (RAM?), radio (closest thing to an HDD to be honest ) and a dashboard (GUI). An OS/x, Windows or Linux machine works the same way as the counter-parts, they're not different in that sense, they just do things differently :/

Cars can handle differently depending on make, size, weight, some don't drive as smooth, your breaks could suck. There's many factors. It's a very good comparison which you ruined!!!

And judging by the Apple website, you are pretty much being ripped off if you dare change anything in the extras and order page. 2TB HDD at £200? My word, what a bargain AND 16GB of RAM for over £1,000? I believe I have just wet myself in delight for such a bargain bucket. By all means, they can charge whatever they want for the design and the OS, but that much for hardware that you can buy for cheaper? My word :S

Fortunately I'm not stupid enough to pay $1,200 for their monitors, when I can get about 5 of the same ones from LG. Their iMacs in Canada are not expensive. They might be in Europe where all electronics seem to be a lot more pricey, but here I have no complaints about iMac price here.

*looks through his most used programs and sees the one he uses for work is incompatible with a Mac, and that a Mac is terrible for presentations*

47/52 of my applications don't run on Windows. Why? Because they were made for OS X. You forget that the comparison goes both ways, and that for most programs there are alternatives. You use Notepad++ and I use TextEdit, but you can't say I lack a good source code editor if I have TextEdit.

Done. I've used a MacBook for a presentation, not only was the poorly designed machine terrible to hook up to a projector (it needed a silly little adapter, thankfully the person who supplied it had one), it didn't understand the red spectrum so anything on the projector (which was mostly brown) came up in green... And generic laser pointers don't want to work with it, you had to run to click a button on the MacBook to play a video. Strangely, the two Acers I've used do a better job :/

Ooh you used it for A presentation. I didn't realize using it once when you probably didn't know what you were doing (which is understandable since you never used it before that) makes you an expert on all things Mac.

What do you mean? I'm intrigued

You think Apple's bad because of their ads? Microsoft tried to copyright keys on a keyboard. Go complain about that.

I have no problem, absolutely no problem at all discussing flaws with Apple, and flaws with Microsoft, with someone who genuinely knows what they're talking about, and can back up their subjective opinions with experience with both companies. These people like ***** make posts that I (for the most part) see where they're coming from, and even agree with. But with what you're doing in this thread I can't find any truth, besides Apple being overpriced (which they usually are). From my point of view you own a Windows machine, and because of this you want what you have to be the best, not this "Apple stuff", which (no offense) I don't think you gave a good chance at using. I've had decent discussions with you about this stuff before, but this is very much so below your standards of reason and justification for your reason. I have some horror stories with some Dell machines running Windows doing some presentations myself(and the problems I had with those presentations actually related to the operating system and the machine itself, not because I was doing something wrong). I don't think any less of Dell or Windows for those experiences.

[alexxxxx]

I've had an imac, vista laptop and 7 laptop.

im still using my imac and my 7 laptop.

i think windows 7 is good, not quite as good as OS X imo, but definately a massive improvement on vista. I would use XP over Vista any day. Vista is like Windows ME, horrible.

OS X is really good in my opinion and only now is it beginning to slow (mostly to do with new programs being written for only the intel macs, power pcs are becoming extinct. I had no problem with OS X plugging in a midi keyboard and it working fine, but then did the same on my VISTA and 7 machine and no-can-do.

I honestly prefer the iMac, mostly because its OS is top quality (i bet some Linux users disagree but i tried a few distros but tbh getting everything to work takes the piss) and i think it utilises its resources better because the OS is developed with the hardware in mind rather than in Windows' case where hardware can vary alot.

I'd rather have a mac pro than a PC tower any day. One can customise it their way.

[Jord]

I made the change from PC to Mac recently and will tell you what is so good about an iMac.

Quick, simple, easy and fun to use operating system, it looks good, the build quality is amazing, you can download many wicked apps, can't really get any viruses, it just works (haha), freezes far less than windows machines (from my experience and I think it's safe to say they do officially tend to freeze less on a whole) will work great with your iPhone (if you have one), you see a lot of professionals or well off people on TV using them, they have the Apple Logo (not that you buy it for that, it is just a bonus) and many more. I still can't believe that all them times I had the cash to buy a new computer I went out and bought a PC. I might of always bought better PC's (£1000 and up) but when in comparison to Mac's they are just blown away. I love my Mac so much I gave it a name, it's called Robert.

thanks thats what ive been looking for

[HotelUser]

I've had an imac, vista laptop and 7 laptop.

im still using my imac and my 7 laptop.

i think windows 7 is good, not quite as good as OS X imo, but definately a massive improvement on vista. I would use XP over Vista any day. Vista is like Windows ME, horrible.

OS X is really good in my opinion and only now is it beginning to slow (mostly to do with new programs being written for only the intel macs, power pcs are becoming extinct. I had no problem with OS X plugging in a midi keyboard and it working fine, but then did the same on my VISTA and 7 machine and no-can-do.

I honestly prefer the iMac, mostly because its OS is top quality (i bet some Linux users disagree but i tried a few distros but tbh getting everything to work takes the piss) and i think it utilises its resources better because the OS is developed with the hardware in mind rather than in Windows' case where hardware can vary alot.

I'd rather have a mac pro than a PC tower any day. One can customise it their way.

Fair opinions, I totally agree with you about Windows. I've been running Windows 7 on several machines for quite some time now and I'm very impressed with it. Booting in less than 20 seconds on my SSD.

thanks thats what ive been looking for

I'm glad to see you've looked past the nonsense in this thread and have come to a solid conclusion.

I can't say I'm impressed with a lot of the remarks being made in the tech section lately. People have got to understand that different people have different standards. For example, this thread was about a user asking for pros concerning a specific computer. But instead the anti-apples discovered that the computer in question was an iMac, and because of this they have taken it upon themselves to completely trash everything Apple, which has the opposite affect of helping you learn about OS X.

I sympathise with you, especially since you said you didn't want a Mac vs PC fight going on here. You just wanted pros on a specific machine. A similar thread could be posted in the Windows section, and no argument would have happend. An Argument only started when people refused to accept that some people prefer something different than that person preferred. These troll posts aren't wanted, and they're just going to cause once genuine threads to be locked.

[Recursion]

I've had an imac, vista laptop and 7 laptop.

im still using my imac and my 7 laptop.

i think windows 7 is good, not quite as good as OS X imo, but definately a massive improvement on vista. I would use XP over Vista any day. Vista is like Windows ME, horrible.

OS X is really good in my opinion and only now is it beginning to slow (mostly to do with new programs being written for only the intel macs, power pcs are becoming extinct. I had no problem with OS X plugging in a midi keyboard and it working fine, but then did the same on my VISTA and 7 machine and no-can-do.

I honestly prefer the iMac, mostly because its OS is top quality (i bet some Linux users disagree but i tried a few distros but tbh getting everything to work takes the piss) and i think it utilises its resources better because the OS is developed with the hardware in mind rather than in Windows' case where hardware can vary alot.

I'd rather have a mac pro than a PC tower any day. One can customise it their way.

No you can't... You have to pay extortionate prices for, for example, the graphics card.

Also Linux does JUST WORK. Funilly enough.