08-23-2004, 12:11 PM
MichaelJComputer Wrote:john, that rocks real hard. steve actually took an outside e-mail and forwarded it accordingly. damn. i still can't bring myself to try apple products though, the premium n them is ridonculous.
I actually had a pretty hard time 2 years ago, trying to find a machine that was as compact, well-integrated, feature-rich, and inexpensive as the iBook. I was also itching to try OS X, from a user perspective, and also as a development platform. Of course, I ended up running Debian on my iBook for almost the entire time I had it :roll:
I'm not sure if the same value is there in the current model iBook G4, especially considering the low-end laptops that Dell is putting out - but my current iBook G4 cost me absolutely nothing (although I did spend a couple hundred bucks to max the RAM out to 1.25GB). Of course, when you say "premium", you're probably talking about the higher-end systems, no?
MichaelJComputer Wrote:and i'm not a fan of their "we are the only people who can manufacture apple systems."
True that. Apple tried licensing hardware back in the mid '90s, and it didn't work out so well (why, I'm not entirely sure). Their current strategy of selling a complete package of hardware, software, and accessories seems to be working fairly well - however it does get expensive for the end user.
Despite my recent experience with customer service, I won't be buying any more Apple products for a long time, not because I don't like them, but because I can't afford them :?