Thread: Something I noticed on Apple.com
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mattbutsko is offline mattbutsko
2011-06-13 , 15:17
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
That is something you need to watch when buying a Mac. Often you can save money by upgrading the harddrive and RAM yourself after it arrives. Sometimes though, it's cheaper buy the upgrades from Apple.

The new iMacs with the custom harddrives force the decision, unfortunately. That's a far greater concern to me than overpriced upgrades.
Doesn't make it right though. Special hard drive adapters are pretty effing stupid, totally unnecessary. I just don't like that even after the computer leaves the store, Apple still feels the need to dominate all control over it. I'd never buy an Apple for that reason. That, and the fact that they're not better at really anything over Windows and Linux. I mean, do they do what they do? Sure. Garage Band? FL Studio, LMMS. Photoshop? That's on Windows and can be Wine'd or the GIMP is a great alternative for 99% of the stuff. The internet? Opera, Firefox, Chrome, etc etc. Safari isn't even that great anyway. Easy to use? Windows and Linux aren't that hard.

Don't get me wrong, they're great at what they do, but better than everyone else? No way. Worth the money, hell no.