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Hack&Lube · 03-26-2010, 05:47 PM

The Apple trolling is the best part of this thread. I've been anti-Apple since using Apple IIs in elementary school.

I am typing on an Apple aluminum keyboard right now though... but I've reverse bootcamped Windows to work with it's special keys and OSD. I still wouldn't own one of their computers or official products unless I modded the hell out of it so I wouldn't be another Apple fanboy/Apple hipster. People used to buy an Apple product because they wanted to be different. Nowadays, it's almost completely the opposite.

Doesn't mean that I like Windows or PC's that much either. I just like choice, I never like the the stock configurations or GUIs that manufacturers supply. I have much more freedom with a PC. Buying an Apple is so conforming these days and I don't like the freedom taken away from me and being stuck with their corporate image.

That's why I won't own an Xbox 360 or a PS3 either. You are stuck with the firmware they come with, if you try to mod it, they brick your system. If your drive fails, you lose all your data as it's non-transferrable. With Apple's products, the permanent battery thing is stupid as well.

Speaking about the ipad specifically - I love the concept of the pad, I love Apple's multitouch. I only wish you could create your own interface entirely and not have to use Apple's interface, their firmware, their systems. Normally I would hope that some Taiwanese company would just clone the ipad with an open platform but I don't know of any OSs that would work as well with this concept. Windows sucks with tablets and touch interfaces from the Asus one I used to own.

03-26-2010, 05:47 PM	#680
Hack&Lube Atomic Nerd Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Calgary Exp:	The Apple trolling is the best part of this thread. I've been anti-Apple since using Apple IIs in elementary school. I am typing on an Apple aluminum keyboard right now though... but I've reverse bootcamped Windows to work with it's special keys and OSD. I still wouldn't own one of their computers or official products unless I modded the hell out of it so I wouldn't be another Apple fanboy/Apple hipster. People used to buy an Apple product because they wanted to be different. Nowadays, it's almost completely the opposite. Doesn't mean that I like Windows or PC's that much either. I just like choice, I never like the the stock configurations or GUIs that manufacturers supply. I have much more freedom with a PC. Buying an Apple is so conforming these days and I don't like the freedom taken away from me and being stuck with their corporate image. That's why I won't own an Xbox 360 or a PS3 either. You are stuck with the firmware they come with, if you try to mod it, they brick your system. If your drive fails, you lose all your data as it's non-transferrable. With Apple's products, the permanent battery thing is stupid as well. Speaking about the ipad specifically - I love the concept of the pad, I love Apple's multitouch. I only wish you could create your own interface entirely and not have to use Apple's interface, their firmware, their systems. Normally I would hope that some Taiwanese company would just clone the ipad with an open platform but I don't know of any OSs that would work as well with this concept. Windows sucks with tablets and touch interfaces from the Asus one I used to own. Last edited by Hack&Lube; 03-26-2010 at 05:55 PM.