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One of the many reasons why Apple are complete scumbags.
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Apparently, yes
An army of hipsters.
Serious answer, the hardware used to be locked down enough that software could be optimized for it beyond what you could do on a PC. These days though, hipsters and inertia.
But why? People always say this but never explain why. What is this magic thing that Macs have but PCs don’t have that makes them better at media creation?
They are designed to do well with media, AND NOTHING ELSE.
Yeah people say this but never explain why. Why are Macs supposedly better with media? Do they have a program that PCs don’t have?
That said, the real reason why Macs are so widespread in the media world is essentially inertia.
You know that IT phrase ‘no one ever got fired for buying IBM’? It’s the same with Apple products in the media sphere; everyone is used to using Macs, everyone knows that it’s a fairly stable combination of hardware and software. Windows-based computers are just as good (so long as you avoid that horrid plastic-case disposable consumer-level shit), but when something goes wrong, if you’re the guy who bought the cheaper, unfamiliar stuff, you’re the one who’s going to get in trouble.
you mean self named professional - semi professional. i’ve never heard of any real professional using garageband for making music. they all use adobe and other programs that only run on windows.
it is very much like saying you would use the iphone for professional photographing or videos, it is the best cam of its kind but not real professional.
I read all of that
I’m a non-partisan techie that prefers UNIX derived OS’s due to their flexibility and configurability.
Hardware is a non-issue, as long as it’s powerful at a reasonable price.
@Background Pony
Yes. this is true. However, it’s more accurate to refer to Foxconn as an assembler. they obtain the parts Apple tells them to, and put them together in the way Apple tells them to. The parts and methods specified by Apple are not the same as the other companies you’ve listed.
Contract based manufacturing is not what you think it is.
The assembly lines used by Foxconn for Apple hardware are entirely separate from those used by those other brands. (and, most of those brands’ lines are separate from each other) Aside from LCD panels, fans, and port connectors, there is next to no parts interchangeability.
This isn’t a situation like, say, GM/Chevy/Cadillac/Buick or Ford/Lincoln, where the respective brands differ from their cousins mostly in the cosmetics department, with most of the internals being identical.
This would be more like if, say, a company named Auto Assembly had multiple plants, one in which they assembled Ford stuff, and another where they assembled GM stuff, and another for Mopar, and another for Toyota. these different brands might, in this scenario, all originate from the same facility, but they still would not share parts, and the quality of the resulting products would still vary in accordance with the various brand owner’s specifications. A Ford Fiesta would still not be much like a Chevy Sonic except in broad outline.
@Background Pony
An Apple tower is as flexible as a PC tower, though an Apple tower will not cut your fingers on a sharp edge on the inside of the case.
An apple laptop will be as flexible in terms of upgradeability as a PC laptop: Ram, and disk drives, if you’re lucky.
An apple all-in-one will be as flexible in terms of upgradeability as a PC all-in-one (though granted there aren’t many of those)
A Mac Mini is about as upgradeable as a comparable PC (Think Lenovo ideacenter Q190 . oh wait, that’s less upgradeable)
In some sense, the Apple stuff is all more upgradeable than comparable PC stuff because of Thunderbolt, which can provide PCIe slots on a computer too small for expansion cards. some manufacturers have used the underlying technology, Light Peak, in their own way, but most PCs have to make do with USB3, which doesn’t do the same thing
Not what I was implying. Just defining. Thanks for the explanation. (mac users are vegetables)
A carrot is a vegetable, but not all vegetables are carrots.
Likewise, a Mac is a PC, but a PC is not limited to the shit that is a Mac.
wut
Actually Apple uses Foxconn for a lot of their hardware, the same manufacturer as Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba, Acer, Microsoft, Cisco, Nintendo, and many other big brands.
Except that MacOS is kinda violent towards other things.
We’re talking “flexible” in terms of hardware, not software. Believe me, everyone knows by now that there’s no difference between Macs and PCs in terms of software.
Guise, it’s THE SAME HARDWARE.*
this has been true for YEARS.
And the OS is effectively Linux with a closed source WM. (obviously, it’s not actually linux, but since just about every piece of Linux software ever builds and runs just fine, thanks, it’s effectively the same thing)
IOW, it doesn’t really get more flexible than that.
But soft! what datum is this? A PC is capable of running linux as well?
And lo! it develops that a Mac and a PC can both run 100% of the other’s software with the same degree of effort?
This stuff is old.
(* Apple is more likely to get their chips and boards from top of the line suppliers than Dell, HP, and their ilk. When I say ‘the same’ i mean ‘the same as IBM/Lenovo’ in terms of build quality and sourcing of components.)
Also, they get the same kind of bonus I get while on semi-biological liquid terrain.
In the same way that all vegetables are carrots.
You planned it all along didn’t you?
Sharks? ON LAND???
Well I’m done.
Macs are personal computers.
I have Goopsharks. They’re like regular sharks, but they can swim in anything denser than water.