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"Face it, Apple = the Bose of computers: cutesy industrial design but hideously overpriced, overhyped, mediocre quality, and geared for folks who are too stupid and/or lazy to learn how to use real equipment.
I totally agree with you there about Bose. So much for so little. As the saying goes, "No highs, no lows, must be Bose" (which is actually the opposite of why Bose sucks - they have no middle, which is where all the energy and life of music exists, and consequently, is the most difficult range to reproduce accurately). Speakers that are 10 times better can be found for less than half the price easily. This same holds true for Monster Cable and everything they make. The have perpetrated a bigger fraud on the electronics-buying public than Bose has for sure. We've tested them all and it's beyond debate - Monster is no better than the stuff you buy at the drug store and is actually worse than the Radio Shack standard fare.
But see, the thing that makes you guys look like fools is when you insinuate that Macs, or any piece of equipment for that matter, are geared solely towards stupid/lazy/incompetent computer users who have trouble flossing their teeth, much less using "real equipment" (whatever the hell that means). I'm not gonna re-hash my credentials as I've posted them earlier, but lets just say that in my line of work, if we have downtime caused by one of our workstations, the potential loss is a billable $650/hour. I have an engineering degree. Everyone in my field has some sort of formal engineering background. Not one of us can afford to use anything but Mac. The PCs we have only run simple automation programs, yet they are the ones that require most of the attention. Not only that, we don't really want to spend the money to have a full-time computer/IT guy on staff, so we don't. We don't need it. Granted, this is way different than general population use, but to insinuate that these machines aren't "real equipment" is just plain stupid.
