You're reading far too much into it.
All I know is that you had an experience many years ago that was unsatisfactory. And all I'm saying is that, if you took the time to look at it again, you might be pleasantly surprised. That's all I said.
Once more you are putting words in my mouth by saying my "experience was unsatisfactory" and that I have not looked at it recently. Here was the specific exchange:
You:
"There's a parallel here to the MacOS x Windows past. Microsoft was all too quick to add the kitchen sink to its OS, while dragging its performance down, and requiring beefier machines (and thus giving Intel incentive to create faster processors --- see, not such a bad thing). MacOS on the other hand frequently got FASTER between revisions, on the same harder."
Implication is that Apple cares about performance and Microsoft not. I acknowledged that Microsoft has made such mistakes and so has Apple:
"True of Vista that was a disaster...I have not used a Mac computer for years. But still remember the fiasco decisions they made. Remember when they switched from Motorola CPUs to PowerPC and *emulated* a ton of the old OS code including networking? Who has heard of emulating the OS code instead of recompiling it for the new CPU??? That was when I gave up and switched back to Windows and could not believe the huge performance boost. And oh, Apple had to switch CPUs yet again to X86 CPU which Windows used. So it is not all peachy there."
Clearly they no longer use an IBM processor and that problem is in the past. So the connotation that I am somehow holding that against Apple's current products or that they are junk now, is what you are over-reading into my response, not the other way around. Your position is very clear: "amir you are not current with the Mac. you need to fix that by looking at it again." There is nothing to fix there. I didn't tell you I am not using the Mac because of performance. Just a couple of months ago I bough a Retina Mac for my son, and paid almost $2,300 for it. I spent time researching which one of their systems to get and zoomed in on that unit. As beautifully as their machines are built, it was very frustrating to only be stuck picking between a handful of systems. I have recently been searching to get a new laptop for myself and it is wonderful how there are dozens of configurations, sizes, etc. to pick from.
BTW, the system board failed in that Mac laptop just a month later causing him major grief in the middle of the job. If the unit was out of warranty, the cost would have bee around $600 or more than what you could buy a whole new Windows laptop for.
Back to your comment, correcting your mischaracterization of my knowledge and preferences is not "reading too much into something." It is what we do here. You say something that I don't agree with and I am going to correct it. If you are accepting that, then we can move on but you keep repeating the same mischaracterization and put fault back at my feet which I thought was hugely fair and balanced since I acknowledged the screw ups from Google by slowing down Android and Microsoft with Vista.
*I* said they're junk, because I can relate to your past experience. I was there, buying and using that junk
Stop being on the defensive, man! You're not the enemy, nobody is. It's all a matter of experiences, and the choices we derive from them.
Then please act this way yourself. You seem to be heavily bothered by comments Keith or I about anything related to Apple to the point where you are now reading faults into Apple that we did not even position that way. Everything you said in this post applies completely to you. Please read your own post and reflect on how it comes across and whether you are having fun with your fellow posters here or taking war-like stance related to anyone saying anything bad about Apple.
As an observer, I read Kieth's posts and he sure is ruthless about Apple's weaknesses and huge champion of alternatives. And the same time, he seems to be exceptionally well read. I pride myself in knowing a lot about computers and he absolutely is not posting non-sense. When he says something I disagree with, I comment on it but it is not common for him to be wrong. If I were you, I would let a bit of what he says sink in and not be so defensive about it. He is not your enemy to use your words. By being critical of the platform you use, and voicing that, you increase the chances that something will get done to fix whatever deficiencies there is. Watch how improvements came to the Map App situation when Apple fans stopped blessing everything Apple does wrong as a feature.
I've always had bad experiences with Windows PCs, yet I still keep giving them a go, from time to time. Keeps things sane, you know...
alexandre
Got it. Not here to convince you to use Windows. Just here to provide data we have on the world not being perfect always on the other side you know...
