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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
Well of course their stuffs as proprietary as possible at the board level.
Using off the shelf easily reverse engineered components was the biggest mistake IBM ever made on par with bungling the license agreement for DOS.
Were it not for IBM then every other manufacturer would not exist or we'd have a 3rd competitive commercial OS if it didn't kill MSDOS outright.
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I've enjoyed iphones for a while but hadn't used a mac computer for years. I assumed they must be pretty nice because so many pretty people had them at the coffee shops.
My job sent me a fancy thin macbook as my 'main computer', for logging in to corp stuff. It was a huge pos. Keyboard got so hot I literally couldn't type on it, fan running constantly. Wasn't linux, wasn't windows, stuff would sort of work until it ran into some low level incompatibility. The keyboard suxxord an thought the touch thing was a disaster. Device was pretty until you turned it on. Strange because they pretend to be about pragmatic usability, instead I saw principled design at the cost of the user.
I'm not a normal user but I thought it was bad even for just web and email. Now that I've had time with one I just can't understand mac lovers.
Edit: Listening to a mac lover is like hearing from a gambler about why gambling is fun.