Ten reasons to buy a Mac

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/21/ten_reasons_to_buy_a_mac/

I thought it was amusing, and y'all would appreciate it It's a good overview of why Apple is doing something right, without being too preachy (actually, it's being quite irreverent. But that's el Reg for you.)

 

it didn't convince me but I won't rule mac out as an option when I make my next purchase.

 

So I was reading Games for Windows (was CGW) and ....

They had an article about mac in there, and were like... Why wouldn't you buy one now that you can run both OSX and Windows? However, I think they were upselling and a bit misinformed on how Bootcamp works.

 

I look at people's MBs open, all at the same maximum angle. Because they don't open any farther beyond a limited range, the ergonomics are poor unless it's used while seated at a table.

The hinge was designed this way purely for looks--so that the hinge is invisible when the lid is shut. It means you can't tilt it way forward to view while standing; you're options for viewing (not to mention typing) are limited when used on the lap; and some surfaces on which it's set that are not forward-level present viewing problems.

All so that the hinge could be hidden.

 

Not only for looks. It couldn't be as thin as it is if the hinge design was different. While I understand this makes for some compromise and this may make it unnatractive to some people, it is not based solely in how it looks - unless you count thinness, low weight and other niceties as "looks". If you do, then I am all for it!

 

I recommend to them that they push some metal axis supports from the base slab, up into a hinge moment that can be seen when the lid is closed. They can then leave 97% of the lid as thin as they want, while beefing it up at the back of the lid (dig a slight concavity into the base where that occurs, and terminate the cavity at the back with a tangential deck impressed into the base that can receive the volume of the top of the lid as it's rotated a full 180 degrees backward. (When viewed from the back, a closed MB would have a slit of gap running across the back between the lid and the base

I don't think Steve will go for it though.

He could use the space to vent a little extra air in so the machine wouldn't get so hot during ordinary use.

 

I plan on getting a Mac because I want something different than Linux every once in a while, and Windows can bite me. I'm so fed up with Microsoft that I'm about to nuke my XP install and take this machine to straight Linux. Besides, if MS gets its way and hardware has to start being made with DRM hardware features, computers will likely become really incompatible with Linux, and it's just recently gotten to the point where Linux is really hardware compatible. It's just makes me so mad.

But all of those are good points as well, and all the more reason I'm looking forward to my first Mac purchase.

EDIT: I'm 1337. lol

 

1) it hides the hinge as stated
2) it looks nicer IMO
3) if it was tilted *way forward* as you say, the air vent would blow a lot of hot air onto the screen...that cant be too good.

 

Yeah, I thought it was a kind of a joke list of reasons, actually.

 

Not if the slat is aimed to the rear. It also might make a good intake.

And by "way forward," I mean propped onto a pitched surface. The screen angle goes forward with it no matter how maxed open.

 

#7 on that list applies to notebook PCs with Windows also, assuming you set it to go to sleep when closing the lid. That one was kinda pointless.

 

True. Although all the PC's notebooks or desktops, never quite woke up right from sleep. I have gotten not waking up at all to waking, but be not right. My MacBook Pro wakes up perfectly every time.

 

My ThinkPad has no problem waking up from sleep.

I do however attribute some sudden-onset odd application behavior that occurred once to the result of Win being put to sleep after numerous sleep wake cycles (less than 100, but more than 50). I rebooted it and everything was fine; I continue to sleep/wake it and haven't seen a reoccurrence of the problem.