Figures. These jerkwads do crap like this all the time. How many frickin monitor ports have there been now? I have 4 different adapters because of these pricks.
The latest BS from them is with my 13" MBP and the Mini DisplayPort -> VGA adapter I bought from the Apple store. Their own adapter doesn't even work. I had to go out and buy yet another adapter (Mini DisplayPort -> DVI) and a DVI -> HDMI adapter cable just to use my MBP with my LCD TV (Samsung).
I know of no other company that pulls this kind of crap on their customers on a regular basis.
I think his point is that buying an adapter shouldn't be necessary at all. It doesn't help that Apple's adapter didn't work, either. If Apple would just suck it up and put an HDMI port on their computers, people wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit of having to use an adapter to connect a computer to anything not made by Apple in the last year. It is shit like this that makes me keep buying PCs.
So what do they exactly mean with 'All in one'? You buy a (seriously priced) computer with a stunning display, perfect for viewing HD contents, supposedly aimed at 'consumer' customers, which... *needs an external player to play HD contents (forget downloads or streaming, that might work for US but outside it's not much doable for lack of bandwidth or restrictions on the GB allowances, or simply lack of providers. And I'm writing from central London, not a sub-saharian village) *even when you got yourself a player, you need a series of adapters to connect it *camera quality seems to be so poor you end up considering an external one
I like Macs, but in my view this iMac is one of the less balanced designs they've done. It sounds better as a professional workstation (but then you'd wonder why not using i5 and i7 across the platform, rather than a Core2Duo, architecture introduced in 2006!) rather than as a consumer computer (which is supposed to be used also for entertainment, like say... play your blue-ray collection?)
Shame Apple, after waiting for this model to come out I'll have to go for a PC as I need to change right now, I won't buy your All-but-what-it-really-needs-in-one this time And no matter all you saying 'yes go for it, Apple doesn't want you', Apple is just like any other company: they just want to make more money, which translates in more buyers! And like me there are many many others disappointed by such lack of basic features, which nowadays you can expect form even lower-priced consumer products All those claiming that this is a product perfect like it is, and that 'Apple know what they do' seem to forget that the BR was to be included, and only just before the iMac went in production it was pulled out as it was still 'a bag of hurts'. If you change the design of a product at the very last moment, what you get is not perfection, but just a patch
Why the hell would you even want to go to VGA in the first place? On a nice LCD? VGA (analog) will look like ass compared to HDMI(digital). Just saying, you look kinda stupid crying about a VGA adapter not working for a LCD, and to add insult to injury you actually complain about having to go with a better cable. FAIL. Enjoy your nice picture quality, thanks to Apple's mistake.
You know, when I got two Macs in the Spring of '84 I heard the exact same thing from people screaming at Apple for not including a 360k 5 1/4" floppy. Same noise when Jobs later dropped the floppy altogether. Because *everybody knew* you had to have a floppy and Apple was screwing the user. And with firewire, etc. Yada, yada, yada.
Here's some simple advice. If you don't like Apple's product roadmap and claim to have all this 'non-working' stuff that you allege 'no other company' ever does, (i) don't buy another Apple product; and (ii) don't buy any other technology from anyone else. Because you will have the same 'problems'.
With new fangled things like The Google on the Interwebs there is no excuse to be 'pissed off' - a product is released, reviewed and torn down usually within a week. Apple is famously quirky. If one chooses to ignore all the information almost immediately out there and still buy a product that's certainly a choice. But it invalidates a claim to rational criticism.
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Figures. These jerkwads do crap like this all the time. How many frickin monitor ports have there been now? I have 4 different adapters because of these pricks.
The latest BS from them is with my 13" MBP and the Mini DisplayPort -> VGA adapter I bought from the Apple store. Their own adapter doesn't even work. I had to go out and buy yet another adapter (Mini DisplayPort -> DVI) and a DVI -> HDMI adapter cable just to use my MBP with my LCD TV (Samsung).
I know of no other company that pulls this kind of crap on their customers on a regular basis.
You know, you can get a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter from monoprice.com
Yeah, I had already bought the DVI adapter from Apple though and couldn't return it by the time I realized my TV didn't have DVI.
So it's Apples fault that you are too stupid to buy the right cable. Thats a first.
I think his point is that buying an adapter shouldn't be necessary at all. It doesn't help that Apple's adapter didn't work, either. If Apple would just suck it up and put an HDMI port on their computers, people wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit of having to use an adapter to connect a computer to anything not made by Apple in the last year. It is shit like this that makes me keep buying PCs.
The worst bit? There's no mini-DisplayPort -> standard DisplayPort adapter. At all. I mean, how did they miss the obvious one?
So what do they exactly mean with 'All in one'?
You buy a (seriously priced) computer with a stunning display, perfect for viewing HD contents, supposedly aimed at 'consumer' customers, which...
*needs an external player to play HD contents (forget downloads or streaming, that might work for US but outside it's not much doable for lack of bandwidth or restrictions on the GB allowances, or simply lack of providers. And I'm writing from central London, not a sub-saharian village)
*even when you got yourself a player, you need a series of adapters to connect it
*camera quality seems to be so poor you end up considering an external one
I like Macs, but in my view this iMac is one of the less balanced designs they've done. It sounds better as a professional workstation (but then you'd wonder why not using i5 and i7 across the platform, rather than a Core2Duo, architecture introduced in 2006!) rather than as a consumer computer (which is supposed to be used also for entertainment, like say... play your blue-ray collection?)
Shame Apple, after waiting for this model to come out I'll have to go for a PC as I need to change right now, I won't buy your All-but-what-it-really-needs-in-one this time
And no matter all you saying 'yes go for it, Apple doesn't want you', Apple is just like any other company: they just want to make more money, which translates in more buyers! And like me there are many many others disappointed by such lack of basic features, which nowadays you can expect form even lower-priced consumer products
All those claiming that this is a product perfect like it is, and that 'Apple know what they do' seem to forget that the BR was to be included, and only just before the iMac went in production it was pulled out as it was still 'a bag of hurts'. If you change the design of a product at the very last moment, what you get is not perfection, but just a patch
Why the hell would you even want to go to VGA in the first place? On a nice LCD? VGA (analog) will look like ass compared to HDMI(digital). Just saying, you look kinda stupid crying about a VGA adapter not working for a LCD, and to add insult to injury you actually complain about having to go with a better cable. FAIL. Enjoy your nice picture quality, thanks to Apple's mistake.
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You know, when I got two Macs in the Spring of '84 I heard the exact same thing from people screaming at Apple for not including a 360k 5 1/4" floppy. Same noise when Jobs later dropped the floppy altogether. Because *everybody knew* you had to have a floppy and Apple was screwing the user. And with firewire, etc. Yada, yada, yada.
Here's some simple advice. If you don't like Apple's product roadmap and claim to have all this 'non-working' stuff that you allege 'no other company' ever does, (i) don't buy another Apple product; and (ii) don't buy any other technology from anyone else. Because you will have the same 'problems'.
With new fangled things like The Google on the Interwebs there is no excuse to be 'pissed off' - a product is released, reviewed and torn down usually within a week. Apple is famously quirky. If one chooses to ignore all the information almost immediately out there and still buy a product that's certainly a choice. But it invalidates a claim to rational criticism.