Mac users - why do you like so few choices?

I couldn’t care less what computer you want to use. However I have experienced many times the smugness of PC users telling me how much better their Beige Best Buy Bargain is than my Mac. This happens in real life, if you say it doesn’t you need to get out more. I see it on internet forums, the smugness is real and rears its head anytime this debate comes up. No, I don’t particularly care for these PC users (and they are a subset). I find them a unique group that values cost above anything else. I see them as willing to spend the bare minimum and ignore anything of value that costs more. When you point it out, you get the typical responses the main one being how PCs are so much cheaper, only to find out that 99 out of 100 haven’t really done their homework or are completely blind to the points they don’t care to acknowledge.

I can tell from your response that you are die hard **PC user **and no amount of reasoning on my part will change your opinion. We will have to agree to dis-agree. I will go back to browsing the SD on my $2500 Mac laptop and smile knowing that the $1200 or so dollars I saved by buying a Mac over a PC will be returned over the years when I don’t have to buy something else and my internet experience is as good as yours is, even though you are on the “superior” machine.

I really can’t tell which one is more smug…it kinda reads like a Mad Lib.

Nah, a Mad Lib would read like:

“However I have experience many times the smugness of penis users telling me how much better their fart is than my boob.”

At least that’s more like how I remember Mad Libs.

I would still like to know how I could have an extra $1200 in my bank account from buying a PC when my Mac cost $1000.

Choice is not merely overrated, it actively contributes to paralysis, confusion, and ultimately unhappiness.

Having said that, Mac people don’t choose Mac because they “like” few choices - and I think you know that. What we like is Macintosh. The fact that there are fewer choices for Mac is just an occasionally annoying aspect of choosing what we do like: the Mac.

In matter of fact, based on what apple charges for ram and storage, the choice is often the lowest level Mac in the product line. The slowest processor these days is more than fast enough for most things, and it’s been admitted by both sides of the debate that games aren’t really where it’s at, so the GPU ain’t as big a deal…

I saved some serious money over the apple ram tax by buying the MBP and the 8gb of ram separately. It’s not like we’re against saving a dollar or two.

I agree that Apple really charges a lot for memory. I bought a Macbook several years ago. It came with one gigabyte of memory. I wanted to max it out to four gigs, and found that I could buy memory from another company (even a good name brand) for, as I remember, a quarter of the price that Apple charged for it.

That sounds right. I took my MacBook up from 512 to 1 gig and paid about as much as I did a year later for two 1-gig sticks from Kingston. Of course, now that’s it’s four years later than that, I can go up to four gigs (it’ll use three) for something like $60 from Kingston.

Apple has always made a killing on RAM and storage. If the cost of buying it separately is much less (as in, I probably wouldn’t bother for $10) I’ll do that.

You are just preemptively dismissing any criticisms of your posting on the basis that the people who oppose you are “die hard fans who won’t listen to reason”. That’s stupid. You’re bitching about smugness of Apple users while being by far the worst offender in this thread. Smile all you want, you’ll be buying another computer in half the time that I will.

Why’s that?

Because in my experience they tend to last longer than PCs.

It was addressed, Post #121.

And cases for other phones have cutouts to show their branding too.

Why do people advertise anything they like on their cars? Why is it any stranger to advertise that you’re an Apple fan on your car than being a Kansas City Chiefs fan, or a NASCAR fan or a Jesus fan or an honor student at Joe Shmo Elementary School fan or anything else that people represent via vehicular stickerage?

Well heaven forbid people like cultivating an image of themselves. Perhaps we should all use beige box computers and wear plain blue jumpsuits and have regulation haircuts. Would that be more to your liking?

Get a grip, man. People are allowed to enjoy things that you don’t. That doesn’t make them wrong, bad, frivolous or otherwise a negative thing. Tastes differ. Get over it.