fatbrit

Your husband has skills that can only be sold to Apple?

If his skills weren't bought by Apple, he wouldn't be able to do anything else?

Fanboi kool aid.

Sally Redux

We've just had to buy a Mac laptop for my son's college course, what a rip-off, but i guess that's the proof that Jobs was a great businessman.

kimilseung

How on earth did they get to stipulate a specific brand to buy? What were the reasons given? (Video editing, using FInal Cut or something?)

edit: Talking of Final Cut, no one talking about that disaster from Apple

N1cky

The company he works for only exists because of the iphone, and game development has become much easier and profitable for developer companies because of the iphone

N1cky

That's crazy

Desdemona

I don't really need an iphone or an ipad but they are fun things to have and use Just like some guys enjoy fancy sports cars. Do they really need them ? No, but they are fun

Sally Redux

It's for a graphic design course, I'm not sure, it may possibly be for the video editing. He wasn't happy about it and couldn't see any advantage, I'll have to ask him if it has been beneficial.

N1cky

In fairness I don't know a single graphic designer who doesn't use a Mac, and I know alot of them. When asked at an interview what system he uses, saying a PC wouldn't get him very far.

Sally Redux

I realise that, I don't know enough about the relative merits to say whether it's worth the extra money, Joe feels not but he may well change his mind.

SpoogleDrummer

Simple answer is that if you know your arse from your elbow when it comes to using a computer then a Mac isn't worth the extra money. Most people that do art or design courses though know very little about computers and usually wind up with a virus filled spyware ridden piece of crap after a few weeks of use.

Most of the graphic designers I know have a Mac for work and a PC for everything else.

Sally Redux

That makes sense.

kimilseung

OK, graphic design - makes sense (even if it does not actualy make sense).
One of the great myths of computing, that Macs do media better, long gone are the days of graphics card-less PC's; but the industry has gotten itself in that corner, and its sticking to it.

HarryTheSpider

Yup - most of the others don't bother to polish the turd, or even make sure the whole turd is even there...

HarryTheSpider

Perhaps - but at least my MacBook, my iPod, my iPad and my wife's Macbook actually work and don't crash and do all that other undesired [email protected] that many other similar products do...

My only non-Apple gizmo is a Samsung smartphone - now, if that thing would stop forcing me to behave the way the geeks who designed it demand me to behave, and stop rebooting every couple of hours for no good reason... I might be less tempted to arrange an untimely death for it...

... evil empire or not (the company I work for may - or may not - have been, at some point in the past/present/future, a supplier to Apple), 56 is too early for anybody to be shuffled off their mortal coil... (would that be an 'iCoil'?)

RIP

SpoogleDrummer

But they'll charge you half the price. And if you know enough about turds you'll wind up with a much better one.