Apple's reliability is both its blessing and its curse.
Part of the reason apples work well is because they build it the way they think is best and you are basically stuck with it. On the one hand, they do design some great products, on the other hand, there is is almost no personalization of settings. Additionally, there are very few programs or products you can download or buy if you aren't crazy about the apple product. And if you do, its a huge headache because apple makes their products so they dont work with anyone elses.
This makes for fast, reliable products because everyone who develops something really only has to develop for a small variation of hardware and software combinations.
The problem is that in order to get full functionality of everything in your life, easily, you have to have apple everything.
I think what screws up windows is all the crap you download for it to personalize it. since ive started running it, i have downloaded all kinds of stuff trying to find the perfect "to do list" gadget, e mail program, music player, antivirus, etc. I noticed my computer was starting to use a little bit more ram after that. Once i found everything i liked, i did a full uninstall of all the other stuff and the ram use is back to where it was when i first got it. This isn't a problem with apples because there's not a whole lot to download. However, i know i started having some issues with my imac when i was trying to get it to properly sync with my blackberry (never really successful) and with my droidx (more successful, but still not really).
Last edited by roosterjuicer; 01-16-2011 at 10:34 AM.
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