Really, the only good thing they put out is the iPod, but to be completely frank, unless you're a professional music/video editor their computers are worthless.
Don't get me wrong, they have nice specs, but in all cases of desktops you can build a better PC than any top-of-the-line Mac for little more than half the price. Furthermore, if you have a Mac and you want a better computer, you need to buy a whole new Mac. In the case of a PC, you can just upgrade a few parts to meet your needs, which obviously costs a few grand less to do.
And yeah, there's a few Mac desktops out there are upgradeable (and only one you can upgrade more than just the RAM and HDD, the Pro I believe), but even then the cost difference between that and a normal PC is so immense that the price advantage for the upgradability disappears.
On a side note, if you accidentally delete something on a PC you can almost always get it back through DOS. If you're using a Mac, you're just plain screwed. And the reason there are so few viruses for Macs isn't because they have good protection from it, it's because for the past decade or so PCs have help 95% of the market share and thusly viruses were practically exclusively made for PCs. As Apple grows in the market share, they will continually get more and more viruses.
And before you bring up PCs and crashing, let me remind you that Macs have their own version of "crashing" that is just as annoying and almost as prolific.
I suppose my question is this: Is it really just a matter of "OOH LOOK A SHINY COMPUTER" that makes Apple good? Is it the customer service? Maybe as someone who is fairly knowledgeable about computers I would never care for these things, so is it just a matter of a bunch of people who want computers but don't want to learn how to use one?
Don't get me wrong, they have nice specs, but in all cases of desktops you can build a better PC than any top-of-the-line Mac for little more than half the price. Furthermore, if you have a Mac and you want a better computer, you need to buy a whole new Mac. In the case of a PC, you can just upgrade a few parts to meet your needs, which obviously costs a few grand less to do.
And yeah, there's a few Mac desktops out there are upgradeable (and only one you can upgrade more than just the RAM and HDD, the Pro I believe), but even then the cost difference between that and a normal PC is so immense that the price advantage for the upgradability disappears.
On a side note, if you accidentally delete something on a PC you can almost always get it back through DOS. If you're using a Mac, you're just plain screwed. And the reason there are so few viruses for Macs isn't because they have good protection from it, it's because for the past decade or so PCs have help 95% of the market share and thusly viruses were practically exclusively made for PCs. As Apple grows in the market share, they will continually get more and more viruses.
And before you bring up PCs and crashing, let me remind you that Macs have their own version of "crashing" that is just as annoying and almost as prolific.
I suppose my question is this: Is it really just a matter of "OOH LOOK A SHINY COMPUTER" that makes Apple good? Is it the customer service? Maybe as someone who is fairly knowledgeable about computers I would never care for these things, so is it just a matter of a bunch of people who want computers but don't want to learn how to use one?