Why Mac Sucks - Don't Choose Apple

Why does Macintosh SUCK? Where do I start?

1. Price. Go ahead, research. Apple is way overpriced. You end up getting far less for your money. No low end Mac's for the budget shopper. Pity. Why would anybody pay for an operating system when you can use Linux for free?

2. Not tech savvy. Sure, they spend most of their money on marketing, but that's because they don't have anything except a shiny image to sell to their hipster clients. Mac is renowned for not being able to keep up with eSATA, HDMI, and have stuck with DVI for so long it's like a Greek tragedy, and the funniest bit is they kept pushing firewire --like that was ever going to work. Please.

3. Mac OS X is merely a locked down version of open source Linux. Yup, 90% of Mac owners are not only unaware of this, but don’t have a clue what Linux is. Turns out that back in 1996, after Steve Jobs’ short-lived company NeXT stole its OS base from open-source (read: FREE) BSD Unix, it resold the now proprietary OS to Apple which then became OS X. Perhaps if OS X had the flexibility of Linux, or if Mac fanboys didn’t use Linux concepts (i.e. Terminal) as reasons to brag about OS X, there wouldn’t be so much smearing to do. (Warning: do NOT attempt ask any Mac fanboys about this, or they will ignore your question and start babbling about things like Firefox.)

4. Increasing number of viruses. Gigaom | More Mac Viruses, Similar Sources: Time to Worry? "Oh, but you're wrong. There are no Mac viruses." --Yeah, okay. Why are there no Mac viruses?

5. Every gamer in the world who actually games (for real) knows Mac is terrible for graphics. Don't believe me? You don't have to. http://gizmodo.com/5177614/mac-pros-priciest-video-card-actually-kinda-sucks-for-gaming

6. You can't customize Mac like you can Linux. You can barely change options in the Mac OS, let alone customize --unless all you want to do is set your wallpaper to some Indie rock band or your fav movie star...

7. Good luck upgrading your Mac. Not gonna happen. If you have no idea what I am talking about, try upgrading Ram or your HD which are welded to the motherboard.


But don't take my word for it! Let's see what the world thinks.

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I could do this all day...

 

One is none --- (The same applies to 'puters, no matter which OS you have.)

 

We have been a Mac House since BEFORE anyone ever knew there was a Mac.... My Partner was a Alpha Test Site for the Original Mac 128k Fishbowl... and had PreProduction Units to design hardware Expansion Assesories for it and the follow-on 515k MonsterMac, and the MacSE... I HAVE A PILE OF DIFFERENT Mac versions, sitting in my Dry Storage... These days I run an iMac 27" i5 32GB Retina with a TB Fusion Drive and 10TB esata Rotating Storage & I TB SSD.... This sits on my LAN, along with AlaskaChicks 27" iMac i5 32GB, 1TB Rotating Internal Hd, and 5 TB of FireWire 800 external Rotating Stoage... a MacOsx 10.4 Tiger based Server, on a PowerMac G4... a OS X 10.5 Leopard based Server on an Mac Mini... and a OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard based Server on a newer MacMini.... Both my IMac & Alaska Chick's iMac have Windows Virtual Machines that run 2000Pro, & XP FOR winDoz requirements... I also have a pair of Legacy MacBooks Running OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard Duo Core 16 GB and 1TB SSD's for when I travel to the FlatLands... This does not include all the iPods, iTouches, iPads, and iPhones hanging around the place... There is one lowly Gateway 2000 Laptop running XP, I keep around for Legacy. Widoz software...

 

Okay, so it's the experience game, then. I've had PC's since I was a kid, expensive they were at the time, but my parents bought them and the OS was command line DOS. My first PC was purchased complete from the store with Windows installed (Win ME). I've been building my own ever since. You can always tell a computer USER from somebody who cuts out the middle man when we discuss performance. I've never had a computer "die" on me completely. I have had hard drives crash and go dead, RAM go bad and become useless, power supplies burn out, and a single Pentium II CPU just stop working once. I still have Pentium III PC's that work, and all I need to do is replace parts on any computer. Laptops can be salvaged and sometimes rebuilt at low cost, but I prefer a full personal computer because they are easier to work on. I have used Macs for work, had them routinely freeze so often they were all but useless. I believe the IT guys spent more time integrating them into the Linux servers and trying to make them print and stay functional than anything else. But, every point I listed above are valid, sourced, and well documented. I will concede, the welding of components thus making them non scalable is outdated, and it serves only to show you the thinking process of the company.

The operating system (OS) is critically important, because both Apple and Microsoft consider themselves to be software companies exclusively. Those are Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' words, not mine. The future is not paved with computer components alone. Every piece of a computer requires software, the internet requires software, the cloud requires software. The thing we shouldn't ignore is "who controls the licensing of software for the hardware?" You can either remain as a USER, or you can choose to go beyond this consumerist cage and become truly free to create your own computing experience. Only open source can offer you this freedom, whichever you decide to choose. The choice is yours.

Make your own PC:
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The genius within. Understanding. This isn't about who is "cooler", it's about the fields of technology, invention, innovation, purpose, and substance. If a corporate entity profits from stealing a free set of code from the open source community, it's perfectly valid to question the corporation and their products. One may also find the collective genius of the open source community to be profoundly more beneficial, both economically as well as fundamentally. Perhaps I needed to clarify my purpose -it is not to order or demand others to obey, although I do hope people will at the very least listen and take the time to investigate and question. I am simply explaining a very clear pattern which I can only hope can show with little to no doubt that the future will be quite dark and oppressive if technology and software were to reside solely in the hands of corporations. We can reach any reasonable objective without the hand of corporate entities deciding what we need.

Or you could build your own and ignore the pre-packaged consumer scam.

Neither have I --they both equally suck. Both belong to corporate enterprises, and neither fully benefits the free minded individual.

Linux is freedom. This is the why.

 

As long as they control their little portion of the cloud. What a racket.