Rotten apples

[greatbearmd]

Many of you might believe that Apple is an elegant, well-run company behind their flashy gadgets. I think it might be more like what's pictured below, given their latest PR foofaraw.

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[greatbearmd]

Makes perfect sense, to a point. I've had to play unwitting IT tech for lots of folks I know with PC issues. A lot of these problems stem from far too much 'crapware' loaded into typical Windows machines out of the box. The big brands like Dell, HP, IBM are the worse for this, with consumer boxes being far worse than business PCs. All these silly control panels, free offers, and other bloat is usually the first thing that goes when I get hold of someone's new PC. Apple has a head start out of the box without all this junk installed.

In the case of anecdotal evidence, the last fully-assembled PC I got was an ASUS lappy. A rather impressive 17" multimedia computer, all the bells and whistles, and Windows Vista. The latter I was a bit apprehensive about, but at least it was the SP1 version. Upon turning on the PC everything worked. It has yet to crash. Any application software I run on it has yet to crash. I can leave it running for a month at a time without a reboot and it keeps on going. It was the functional equivalent of a 17" MacBook Pro at the time. It's a lovely machine that I had recommended to others. The best part is it cost only 1050 bux. Less than half the price of entry of the MBP. Would I like to have a MacBook Pro? Hell yeah. I just can't justify the purchase. I would not be gaining anything, and the majority of the apps I run are for Windows. My only real 'need' for a Mac would be to keep my skills on the machine honed at home.

The point of all this is that one does not need to become some sort of IT guru to run Windows successfully. I still recommend a Mac to anyone who says to me that they want a PC that they dont have to worry about. I do tell them that any potential hardware repairs are going to be more costly than a commodity PC if the need does arise, and if they are used to having typical Windows apps, they need to make some changes.

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