I’ve been talking to my daughter on the phone today and I happened to mention Apple and being cool (my daughter owns an iMac). She related a conversation she had at work last week. She said she was admiring a work colleagues MBP (this was a twenty something). She said to her colleague how gorgeous her MBP looked and her colleague replied that she loved it and took it everywhere with her. My daughter asked her what she used it for and was shocked at the reply. “Oh just surfing the web doing emails and downloading from iTunes”. My daughter said “is that it as you’ve got iWorks loaded etc”. The girl replied that she had been persuaded to buy it when she bought the MBP and the staff at PC World had loaded it up but that she had never used it. At this point another young girl in the office remarked that this was all she used her MBP for but it was worth it for the admiring glances she got.
I have to say that this doesn’t surprise me and I don’t doubt that’s all plenty of Windows users use their computers and Laptops for but what a grievous waste of money and a waste of a good Laptop. Personally I think the world has gone stark staring mad.
I think that either platform will do more or less the same things and to the same competence for the average user. I also think that they will probably both last the users the same amount of time or at least until the users get tired of them and upgrades. However, one is often about half the price of the other so at the end of the day what price for so called coolness?
I have to say that this doesn’t surprise me and I don’t doubt that’s all plenty of Windows users use their computers and Laptops for but what a grievous waste of money and a waste of a good Laptop. Personally I think the world has gone stark staring mad.
I think that either platform will do more or less the same things and to the same competence for the average user. I also think that they will probably both last the users the same amount of time or at least until the users get tired of them and upgrades. However, one is often about half the price of the other so at the end of the day what price for so called coolness?