Apple products.

[oliveoiltinfoil]

I admit, I am a self confessed apple-holic. Granny smith apples, although expensive are really good.

I also am a sucker for apple products, the multinational tech company based in California US.

I bought an iPad air 2 middle of last week. I already have a macbook pro, but thought something smaller and more portable would be easier for casually surfing the web on. I absolutely love it.

I had the first gen ipad in 2010, running something like ios 3? Although i have an android phone (oneplus 2) i much prefer ios for it simplicity, stability and speed more than anything.

I find there products just work, i know many other say that. You do pay a premium for apple products but it seems to be worth it. To think the ipad 2 is still supported and runs the latest version of ios speaks for their longevity, as well as the statistic which states iphone and Macintosh's are by far the most reliable smartphone and laptops respectively.

I know many people dislike apple because of their "over pricing" although i would go as far as to say that in more cases than people care to admit, some people will always defend what they can only afford.

I am a senior IT technician at a college. We have 3,000 PC's and 1000 macintoshes as well as an array of tablets. Apple products are always the most reliable and apple are a delight to work with if anything does go wrong.

Build quality on everything is jsut epic. There are other smartphones and tablets with unibody aluminium designs but none feels as well finished as the apple stuff. They always use a higher grade aluminium. Even their keyboard for iMac, the end cap which you unscrew for the batteries is a solid piece of metal.

Some trivia for you; iOS interface was actually first developed by Southampton university in the UK in 2003, not far from where i live in fact. Th head designer at apple is British; Jonathan Ive.

I don't know, I just really love apple products.

 

[brando_husky]

I've used Apple my whole adult life mostly. After moving in with two of the smartest it developers/networkers I've dabbled a little more into PC. One of them still uses macs for media servers and such but everything else is PC based.

I've had my MacBook Pro since 2011 and it has served me so very well for everything I have needed like music production. It's now on the slow side after a couple reboots and Reimages. Time for an upgrade. I'm torn between building a gaming rig and just buying another Mac computer. Can't argue with their quality

There are things I like and dislike about both. My roommates swear by PC for what they do. (Extremely heavy traffic data movement) that no Mac in production can really handle at this time.

But for our home media centers the macs outperform most any PC in terms of user friendliness and smoothness of operation.

I've owned an iPhone for the past 3 years. Before that I have had android. I love the feel and use of an iPhone. Very friendly and sharp. My iPhone 5 was almost flawless.

But then I got the iPhone 6 right when it came out. It seemed perfect for about a week. Now I've run into several slightly irritating issues. The phone crashes several times a day, freezes and locks out multiple times. Also my battery life is roughly 3 hours during decent use. I receive around 300 text messages a day for am work so it's heavily run. I generally will lose all data network once every half hour or so.

Among other various issues I've kind of grown tired of dealing with the phone.

All my friends with iPhone 6s and 6+ phones never experience the same issues I have. I believe it's mah e due to my phone being a first run iPhone 6.

My next phone will probably be a nexus device based on their options and such will better suit me for my IT position at work. I miss my iPhone 5 haha


There will always be space for both apple and PC in our home

 

[electrolux137]

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I am "cross-platform compatible" and realize that Apples & PCs both have their strengths and weaknesses. However, my preference is decidedly tilted toward Macs, if for no other reason than the fact that every time I turn my Mac on I don't have to wait several minutes for YET ANOTHER system revision to automatically download.


 


Then there's the fact that the number of Mac-based viruses, cooties, internet-based crap, etc. is miniscule compared to the PC. I've owned Macs since around 1995 and never got a single virus or malware on any of them.

 

[brando_husky]

Couldn't have said it any better Charles.

 

[jfalberti]

! too am a Mac fan

and have a 2007 Mac Pro and a 2009 MacBook Pro.  I recently upgraded the RAM in my MBP to 8GB, and replaced the hard drive with an SSD, and I can't believe how fast this machine runs.  Not expensive upgrades and darn well worth it.  Personally, most of the things I need to do with the computer I can do under OS X, but there are a few work apps that are Windows only.  For those, I installed Windows 10 in a VMware VM, and it runs great.

 

[human]

Almost every computer I've owned over the past 25 years has been a Mac. I started out with a Mac Classic when I began grad school in 1991 and presently have a 2009 model 17-inch MacBook Pro and a 2007 model 17-inch MacBook Pro that I actively use. I do have an old Dell laptop that I've amazingly been able to upgrade to Win 10, but I only use it to grade one assignment I have my students do in Publisher, which isn't offered for the Mac.

I've had two iPads--a first generation and a third generation. The first generation iPad still works great but I had to upgrade because the operating system is no longer supported. It's the only iPad model that's totally obsolete at this time.

The one place I haven't embraced the Apple ecosystem is phones. Except for one Nokia candybar phone about 15 years ago, every mobile phone I've had has been a Motorola. Right now, I'm using a three-year-old Moto-X that's absolutely the most rock solid smart phone I've ever had but when it finally dies, I'll most likely replace it with an iPhone.

 

[oliveoiltinfoil]

Reference why the first gen iPad is unsupported now, that is because its specs cant run the later iOS, but for a tablet which is 6 years old, that is pretty bloody good going. The iphone 4 is still supported as well, so it seems these devices do last a long time and apple are prepared to support them for years. You get your moneys worth with their products.

Sometimes it can be expensive hen you buy cheap.

 

[human]

Low cost of acquisition isn't everything...

The way I see it, Apple products often have a more favorable TCO (total cost of ownership) since they're built better, significantly longer, and offer much more trouble-free operation. Yeah, you can pick up a brand new Windows machine on the cheap but you do end up paying more for it down the road through repairs, needed upgrades and general lost productivity.

 

[brando_husky]

Only thing I wish apples were more capable of is gaming and broadening the ability to upgrade intervals like one can on a PC. Part reason my next computer will be an MSI laptop. A little more in price compared to an apple but has very high end graphics cards, sound cards and some other features apples can't support yet

 

[sebo_fan]

Late last year my 2008 Macbook finally hit problems because it couldn't keep up with various updated software and then it ran into problems with an old Epson printer it used to work seamlessly with. Snow Leopard all of a sudden seems old hat and not a lot of software exists for it online unless you pay for it.

That said I do like Yosemite and OSX El Capitan although I dont see much of a difference between the two on my Macbook Air 11. I bought that Macbook Air 11 just after it was released with a special discounted price straight from an Apple store and I'm glad I did at the time.

It is a pity Apple appear to be shortening their OSX life spans. It would be good of them to allow some kind of extension where a Mac product can last a lifetime rather than continually updating to new OSX systems every couple of years. I also have a Mac Mini and an iMac and Im still puzzled as to why Apple can't supply a wired LIT keyboard for those computers.

 

[human]

#sebo_fan: My 2007 vintage MacBook Pro is running El Capitan just fine. Maybe you should consider backing up all your important files off that machine and doing a clean install of El Capitan. Just a thought.

 

[brando_husky]

My 2011 MacBook Pro runs El Capitan a little slow. Even after reinstalls and reimaging.

 

[matt8808]

I'm not the biggest Apple fan..... I see no point in owning an iPad... or any sort of tablet for that matter.

I've got one friend who has an iPhone, iPad, MacBook and an iWatch.

I've had LOADS of iPhones and they have always had issues. Mostly battery related. A year ago I switched from iPhone and got a Sony Z3 android phone. I find it a million times better. Huge upgrade on the camera (something like 24MP), superb battery life - can last two days easy even with heavy use, and best of all it is fully water and dust resistant.

I bought an iPod classic just before they stopped selling them - 160GB I think it is, as I have a Bose sound dock and the iPod compliments it perfectly. Very happy with both of those.

My biggest and most recent Apple purchase though I LOVE!

Have always bought Sony Vaio laptops. Never really had an issue with them. My last was two years old and I paid £750 for it but the case was starting to fail around the screen hinge. Sony no longer make laptops so I needed to switch brands. I'm more than happy to pay more for a premium product and took the plunge on Apple.

I bought the top of the range MacBook Pro. 15" retina display, 16GB ram, i7 processor ect.... it cost me £2000 but I friggin love it. It works so well. It is so fast and I love the apple operating system, I'd never go back to windows after this! The build quality is superb too. I'd always been happy with my Sony Vaio's quality but the MacBook Pro makes them look like plastic tat.

I'm a huge fan of my MacBook Pro, and I love my old school iPod classic too, but when my phone is due an upgrade in a years time Apple will really need to of upped their game on that front before I switch back from Sony!

 

[sebo_fan]

I went the opposite way - bought an Amazon Fire 7 and I really like it. It has limitations of course but it does the job for why I bought it and Id prefer to take that away with me for basic net surfing and various work on it rather than take out an expensive iPad.

I also replaced my 2008 6th gen 120GB iPod Classic with an iPod 5G which is like a mini iPad; the iPod Classic is just like yours Matt in terms of being used in the home with a sound bar/dock and sits there permanently.

iPod Classics are well sought after now, also helped by the fact that Apple no longer sell them. Out of the few possessions I have, my iPod Classic 120 is a definite keeper!

 

[human]

Amazon Fire 7 is good, but not all that good...

I got a Fire 7 a couple of months ago when Amazon had them on sale for $39.99 with free shipping, more out of curiosity than anything else. As a sub-$40 tablet, it's pretty good, but it's definitely no iPad killer. It's simply too tightly locked to the Amazon ecosystem, which it handles very well, but beyond that, its functionality falls off quickly; for example, you can't install common Web browsers like Chrome or Firefox, much less MS Office or most Google apps on the thing without jailbreaking it first. Side loading the Google Play store is supposed to be fairly easy and will solve some of these problems but at the sacrifice of future updates from Amazon, but I haven't succeeded in doing that yet. The best office productivity solution I was able to find for it was something called "Productivity Suite", which is kinda sorta compatible with MS Office. It retails for $14.99 but you can download it on the Fire 7 for free through the "Amazon Underground," which is a collection of games and apps that normally come with a modest price tag but Amazon offers for free to Fire tablet users. All in all, I don't regret purchasing the thing, if only because it's sometimes convenient to be able to carry around a smaller tablet, but if you have a six-inch 'phablet' phone, there really isn't a point. And honestly, more often than not, the thing eventually frustrates me into either grabbing my iPad or my MacBook Pro.