Addicted to Mac ?

Gentoo May 7th, 2006

MacBook ProI am always curious how many Muses Apple has hired in Palo Alto, why their engineers could design such a elegant desktop environment? I am totally addicted to the Mac Notebook, and would like to collect funds for a new MacBook, until I read this, summarized as:

  • Crippled FreeBSD kernel
  • Quasi-proprietary language — Objective C
  • Lame Finder, even Apple itself admits that
  • Mysterious configuration like Windows registry
  • Shareware community
  • Dedicated open-source

Ok, maybe the “MacBook foundation” can be used in other place…

Mac BookUPDATE: the latest Mac Book seems a good tradeoff between the performance and price, still considering…

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2 Comments to “Addicted to Mac ?”

  1. Martinez Marchand | March 28th, 2009 at 7:25 am

    Apple is always about style and simplification of use. The problems you mention occur probably because Apple products are at times too simple to use, but many people generally don’t mind so much.

  2. Amara Sedona | June 15th, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    Have to agree with @Martinez about Apple’s focus. Sacrifice customization for mass appeal. But this should not be considered a fault of Apple, but it’s strength. Those who desire a strong customization of an OS- Linux anyone?

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