Comment OSX a bad Investment? (Score 0) 1053
It is nice to see views from both sides of the coin when it comes to OSX. I work in education, have serviced Macs for going on 6 years. Heavily from OS8.6 and on.
I have noticed many things that cross the board as far as Mac Hardware and OS Revisions.
There is no such thing as a responsive or Fast Mac. I have serviced 100's of PPC 5260's all the way up to XSAN's with a 2 metadata controllers and a NAS Head. All of which share the same pace and feel when it comes to reaction time and general usage.The most important role the Mac's have filled for our educational uses is bridging the total novice gap. The most inexperienced computer users grasp the environment faster with one mouse button and the historical drag and drop Application installs, that OS9 touted.Simplicity and ease of use is the foundation that Apples have stood upon. This appears to me to be the source of devotion from Mac Fanatics.Macs have been in schools for years.This is how Apple grabbed its foothold. Other than that there are much better tools else where. Our district has finally left Mac's behind, cause of the lack of Software availability, and the costs. Each piece of software we have tested runs much better on a PC, jeez I wonder why. Maybe cause Software companies write software with
profit in mind, so who would you put your money into if you were a software company, a Mac? Or would you right code for that which 90% of the Market controls. It is money. When Apple dropped OS9 they left a large niche they carved out in education behind. They will not recover from that. When most of the School Districts move to PC's the Children will not be brought up in a mac world, hence less fanatics, thus Apple will either need to conform or die. PPC to Intel that is an interesting situation.???? There is simply better Hardware available and much more software choices for everything else. There is no evidence that there is more or better software for Mac's. Quality of construction for Macintosh Hardware is another issue. Ibooks are flimsy, the plastic is cheap and not strong, hinges are weak,the power adapters connections constantly separate and break. There is no such thing as extended battery life for Macs It is amazing that Macs are typically much more expensive, and typically of less quality. An all around Bad investment. Unless you are a One Button needing novice. "Oh, but Mac's are not for simpletons the have robust BSD underpinnings." I highly doubt typical Mac users have even looked under the hood let alone used it to change rights, or Port some OpenSource Apps,ssh'ed somewhere. You don't need to pay for that "BSD Core" There are plenty of distro's that are free and will run on 1/10th the machine that OSX will run on. If one of the benefits of OSX is the ability to have access to Open Source apps then why pay a company to give you crap hardware to run it on? So you can have a Dock, and Genie Affect? There is no need to spend that kind of money for a GUI.
I have noticed many things that cross the board as far as Mac Hardware and OS Revisions.
There is no such thing as a responsive or Fast Mac. I have serviced 100's of PPC 5260's all the way up to XSAN's with a 2 metadata controllers and a NAS Head. All of which share the same pace and feel when it comes to reaction time and general usage.The most important role the Mac's have filled for our educational uses is bridging the total novice gap. The most inexperienced computer users grasp the environment faster with one mouse button and the historical drag and drop Application installs, that OS9 touted.Simplicity and ease of use is the foundation that Apples have stood upon. This appears to me to be the source of devotion from Mac Fanatics.Macs have been in schools for years.This is how Apple grabbed its foothold. Other than that there are much better tools else where. Our district has finally left Mac's behind, cause of the lack of Software availability, and the costs. Each piece of software we have tested runs much better on a PC, jeez I wonder why. Maybe cause Software companies write software with
profit in mind, so who would you put your money into if you were a software company, a Mac? Or would you right code for that which 90% of the Market controls. It is money. When Apple dropped OS9 they left a large niche they carved out in education behind. They will not recover from that. When most of the School Districts move to PC's the Children will not be brought up in a mac world, hence less fanatics, thus Apple will either need to conform or die. PPC to Intel that is an interesting situation.???? There is simply better Hardware available and much more software choices for everything else. There is no evidence that there is more or better software for Mac's. Quality of construction for Macintosh Hardware is another issue. Ibooks are flimsy, the plastic is cheap and not strong, hinges are weak,the power adapters connections constantly separate and break. There is no such thing as extended battery life for Macs It is amazing that Macs are typically much more expensive, and typically of less quality. An all around Bad investment. Unless you are a One Button needing novice. "Oh, but Mac's are not for simpletons the have robust BSD underpinnings." I highly doubt typical Mac users have even looked under the hood let alone used it to change rights, or Port some OpenSource Apps,ssh'ed somewhere. You don't need to pay for that "BSD Core" There are plenty of distro's that are free and will run on 1/10th the machine that OSX will run on. If one of the benefits of OSX is the ability to have access to Open Source apps then why pay a company to give you crap hardware to run it on? So you can have a Dock, and Genie Affect? There is no need to spend that kind of money for a GUI.
