Steve Jobs gets more of my money

After ten years of being a Mac user (And before that it was all about NeXT) I kicked the habit when their desktop hardware turned out to be more junky than even I had expected. But after a few months on the wagon I had a relapse.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Comments

[Storage Monkey]

I have been a Mac owner for 7 almost 8 years now. Used them off and on for a decade before that (had them at work/school). Although the equipment is more expensive than a Dell/IBM/HP/etc windows based machine, in the long run it seems to be cheaper. Most people bawk at that but it comes down to upgrades, additional software, additional hardware, cost to fix thing when they break, etc.

Well I am glad you are back!

[Scott W]

The real question is: will you use it for work and turf the Dell lump? I have been considering doing it, but... the notion of spending that many of my own shekels for a work only device makes me cringe. I already have a 24" iMac for my own use at home.

[Storagezilla]

SM: I've already sprung for Applecare so price balkage won't be an issue. ;)

Scott W.: Hell no and I'll tell you why. If the Dell suffers a mishap when I'm out and about (As sometimes happens when people travel as often as we have to) it's the company's problem. If the MBP does it's my problem.

Yes I'm planning to use it as my home environment on the road but no I'm not planning on using it as the work rig which in turn will cut down it's travel time.

[John]

Really? Have you seen the newer Dells? Maybe I am the oddball out in that I really like Vista. It just isn't "that bad" and having spent more than my fair share of time supporting OS X in an academic environment I cringe at all the stupid things that can and do go wrong with it.
Why pay the price premium just to go out and run Fusion on it to accomplish 80% of the work that you need to do?
The cult of apple has just never appealed to me. I will admit that I love the shiny outer casing but don't even get me started on how shabby the XServe is compared to even the most basic Dell kit.

[Stephen Foskett]

Nice one, Mark! I'm planning on a 15" MBP in the next few months myself! Did you get Fusion or Parallels?

[Storagezilla]

John: You know what I find myself in the Vista camp too. Like all OS's it has it's problems but it's much more Mac like than XP. I've seen some of the new DELL laptops and they are..well..sexy in places. The VAIOs are pretty hot in their own way too.

As I'm about to tell Steve F. I don't run Windows in a VM or otherwise on a Mac and do everything natively. The multimedia creation tools are just better and I missed the iLife suite. And yes the Xserve/Xserve RAID are/were awful. They've pretty much turned tail and fled that market anyway.

The idea of Apple as an Enterprise company was ludicrous and nothing more than a distraction for a company which is a consumer electronics powerhouse. People might as well have been floating the idea they were going to get into the tractor business.

Steve F: It's worth treating yourself every now and then. No on Fusion or Parallels since it's the third machine in behind home desktop and work laptop so I've Windows covered. That and the fact Virtual PC in the PowerPC days just left a bad taste as you had to emulate the x86 instruction set and performance was woeful.