Sorry. Your analogy is ridiculous. First, BMW is no longer that good. Second, comparing Windows to a Yugo shows you've never driven a Yugo.
I think this is incorrect for Europe. Apple's management in Europe maintained in the 80's and 90's extraordinary high prices, that nobody here would choose to afford, unless you were in a niche and had some strong desire for the range of applications that were made only for Apple at that time.
I wouldn't dispute that many people love them, but if all you do is surf and email, with the occasional letter, then you will be easily pleased no matter what you buy. I would also refer back to my previous comments about the Mac forums being full of gripes and groans: It's far from rosy over here.
I switched to Mac fifteen years ago to publish a photo magazine. Since then I've known, seen and read about an increasing number of folks who have also switched from PC to Mac.
Look up the thread a bit.
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True. Mac/Apple becomes some kind of crusade. Some years ago, I had a client who could only accept Mac files. I bought a Mac. I had problems with said Mac. I had problems with Mac experts because they didn't believe that particular problem was possible, so couldn't fix it (at a 10 or 12 year remove, don't ask me what the problem was). I apologized to the client and dumped the Mac (actually, it has been sitting in the damp corner of my basement for a decade, rotting too slowly).Look up the thread a bit.
There seems to be some very selective reading / hearing by outright
Mac proponents in this thread
You know, I watch 'The Dog Whisperer', more to see how incompetent the owners are. Many of them even know the theory, but fail to put it into practise. Maybe we should have a 'PC Whisperer', for owners of PC's who have problems.
On a Mac, you uninstall a program by simply dragging the program icon to the trash bin. Unlike Windows with its huge array of hidden files that are installed in multiple locations on the computer, the Mac programs are contained in a single file icon. Having an entire program contained in a single file ("icon") is a very simple concept, but one that Windows users are not familiar with.
Completely wrong. If you'd read through the thread, you would have realised that. Many applications do drop files over the disk, in areas other than the applications folder!
It's not completely wrong at all. For the majority of applications, dragging to the trash is sufficient.
You contradict me, and then contradict yourself, contradicting me. You also encourage leaving various unnecessary files littered around the hard drive. Do you really think this is a good idea? When space gets low, how do you know what files you can delete, and which you can't? Seems a lot simpler to me to use Cleanapp or similar and be done with it!
So, now it's not enough to drag to the bin; you have to use an uninstaller. How is this different from windows?
Where's the contradiction? With rare exception, there's absolutely no detrimental effect in leaving them, other than disk space. And most of the time, it's very little disk space.
There's no method to reliably find all of the parts so there's no guarantee that an uninstall utility will get it right. Most of the time it probably does, but what if it doesn't?
As I said, that's the exception. The vast majority of applications do not install drivers, kexts or other system level stuff and do not require a special uninstaller, so all it takes is dragging to the trash.
What consequences do you anticipate and how likely do you think they might be? It's a lot less than you might think. Also, some can be dynamically loaded, so even if they're installed, they aren't even active if they're not used.
I do.
