Since discovering that some PC OSes can actually be
good, I'm seeing a lot of things that are making me lose faith in Apple.
http://www.apple.com/macbook/features.htmlHow is a non-removable battery environmentally friendly? In five years, the computer won't retain a charge and it'll either be sold off, thrown about, thrown in landfill or you can
pay Apple to replace the internal battery. It'll be obsolete in five years anyway, so you'll want to dispose of the entire machine. That's what bothers me about Apple hardware. It's all disposable. Want a new, faster machine? Go and buy a whole damn system and throw out your old one. What a waste.
And another thing; why is it that Apple hardware is still expensive? We were promised that the price of Apple hardware would drop when they switched to Intel.
Where's the massive price drop? Plus, reducing the fit and finish and build quality of Apple hardware isn't a way of saving money. Same old story again; we're all waiting for Apple to make a cost-effective computer, and Apple are waiting for us to buy their expensive computers before we get to see the cheap stuff.
Their support department is absolutely rubbish. I was told I couldn't have my iSight replaced or repaired and that I'd have to part-ex my 2006 machine for a new one and copy the contents of the hard disk over (this was me talking to a tech support guy who sounded like he was in an Indian call centre of all places). I found an unofficial hack that made the iSight work again. Unofficial software making Apple's "just work" software actually "just work"...
Ah, I dunno. Maybe the X in Mac OS X is the number of years that Apple is behind in all aspects.
