You said previously that what Apple offered was hard to beat. I disagreed with you on that. I think it is easy to beat with any research. I didn't attack your computer knowledge. Is it that time of month? SO not sure what the fudge your statement above actually is in reference too.
Macs are horribly overpriced. If you're not very inquisitive or need something simple and you have an abundance of cash, then that's the product for you. Software development has finally caught up with Windows on Macs which has finally made them usable. I have owned multiple Windows machines and never had a single issue with any of them. All of them were purchased at a fraction of the cost of Apple products. If you do your homework and buy a good Windows machine and not the pieces of shit that so many people sell, you'll be fine. I have not owned an Apple computer, but I have worked with them extensively. I saw nothing special about them and frequently grew aggravated that the closed system would not allow me to make modifications that would increase my productivity and work efficiency. There is nothing I can do on a Mac that I can't do on a Windows machine for significantly less. They're great products. I'm just not paying that much money for what has essentially become a status symbol.
Then you don't know UNIX. The MacOS is just an amazing GUI on top of a elegant and powerful UNIX system that you can customize like mad if you use the command line.
In this day and age if I had to use the command line to do customizations, I would wonder what is wrong with the company. As far as the parts not going south etc? Pure luck sir. You know how I know this? Yeah when I worked for Dell we were contractors and guess who else we serviced? That's right, Apple. We had fewer calls of course, but there are a lot fewer machines. Also, most of the component parts are the same. Same brand hard drives, same memory, sure the mobo and processor are different but those don't go out without lightning or bad grounding usually anyways. Don't get me wrong I'm not an Apple hater, just debunking the myth of their superior hardware.
No, I'm not the familiar with UNIX. I dabble, but not much else and that's more than 99% of the world's computer owners can do. That doesn't exactly make an argument for a closed system like iOS.
Actually, one doesn't have to use the command line, but it is there for those that really want to customize the system, like MLU. You have your experience . . . I have mine. I've bought sold and repaired possibly 350 computers (Macs, PC's, UNIX workstations, servers, and a few turnkey systems) in my lab over 30 years. As far as reliability, there is no comparison. I'm not a PC hater either, I still use some of them for certain tasks. But, in the last three years the PC-heavy guys in some of the other research units in my department have been Mac-ing up seriously as they have seen what we can do with ours. They started out just using them as Windows machines, but now they mostly run their Windows stuff in a window on the MacOX and they have definitely lost their "Macs are toys" attitudes.
I'm not saying they are toys. I'm simply saying you can't claim hardware superiority whenever the hardware is the exact same. It's not a matter of experience. As far as experience though, I've been part of a two man team that's rolled out 1,000 computers to an AT&T call center in Little Rock, I've built 250 for 1 computer lab at a school in Mayflower, AR. The most machines I've rebuilt in a single day is 30, with 20 of them being laptops, 10 of them Apples, the other 20 being Dells (10 desktops, 10 laptops). There are very few people who have had the experience I have fixing machines. Hardware is hardware is hardware. The OS may make better use of certain aspects, but software does not make hardware fail, ever. And MLUTiger, iOS is the mobile os for Apple, OSX is the operating system for the actual computers.
