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<blockquote data-quote="MarkOlsen" data-source="post: 1398143" data-attributes="member: 249881"><p>Thank you for the responses.</p><p></p><p>To answer the question as to why I would want a Mac (given my distaste for Apple's new direction): Apple does a few things that no other company seems to get right, for example, the all-in-one. The iMac is an all-in-one that actually offers some real computing power and a decent-looking screen. By contrast, most other computer brands tend to produce plastic machines with low performance specs, all paired with a cheap TN screen. The iMac is very possibly the best all-in-one computer on the market at the moment.</p><p></p><p>Something tells me that if I get an iMac, I will feel very much like Ghost Rider: I loved my old Apple computers, and I'll love my new Mac, though possibly for different reasons. </p><p></p><p>Thanks to J.Fo for correcting me on the iCloud integration in Mountain Lion. Based on some of the early reviews I got the impression that signing up for iCloud was mandatory.</p><p></p><p>The problem with Apple is that if you dislike their approach to something, you don't really have any option; there is this tendency to see the future as predetermined: this is the future, if you disagree, you are wrong. I've always liked Apple computers (even when I bought a Dell), but it just seems to me like Apple is leaning more and more away from computers, and becoming something entirely new. I'm sure people will rave about their new iTVs and will want all their media delivered, managed, and stored by some kind of huge Apple conglomerate, but I'm just wanting a decent desktop computer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkOlsen, post: 1398143, member: 249881"] Thank you for the responses. To answer the question as to why I would want a Mac (given my distaste for Apple's new direction): Apple does a few things that no other company seems to get right, for example, the all-in-one. The iMac is an all-in-one that actually offers some real computing power and a decent-looking screen. By contrast, most other computer brands tend to produce plastic machines with low performance specs, all paired with a cheap TN screen. The iMac is very possibly the best all-in-one computer on the market at the moment. Something tells me that if I get an iMac, I will feel very much like Ghost Rider: I loved my old Apple computers, and I'll love my new Mac, though possibly for different reasons. Thanks to J.Fo for correcting me on the iCloud integration in Mountain Lion. Based on some of the early reviews I got the impression that signing up for iCloud was mandatory. The problem with Apple is that if you dislike their approach to something, you don't really have any option; there is this tendency to see the future as predetermined: this is the future, if you disagree, you are wrong. I've always liked Apple computers (even when I bought a Dell), but it just seems to me like Apple is leaning more and more away from computers, and becoming something entirely new. I'm sure people will rave about their new iTVs and will want all their media delivered, managed, and stored by some kind of huge Apple conglomerate, but I'm just wanting a decent desktop computer. [/QUOTE]
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