Apple v’s PC & Gopro v Other POV ~ The Official Thread

deanobruce - 16 January 2013 09:51 AM

snowbum_spaz - 16 January 2013 08:50 AM

(you can even try using a male plug and give it a good old pumping)

This is how i live my life

Might wanna wait till March now?????

Oh of course, im celibate

I use Apple and own a few products. The first mac I owned was in 1998 and I haven’t bought a PC since but have owned and had to operate, fix and give heaps of tech support for.
Admittedly I love the aesthetics of mac and since I’m very visually influenced it’s a win on that front.

Been a fan of apple since I first used the IIe - its intuitive window layout and program sensibility simply amazed me.
I started fiddling and programming computers in about 1982 and have/had a sound understanding of Basic and how computers “think” ie: work (10110001100111)

The only reason I avoid “PC” is because of the dirty way microsoft sent Apple bankrupt and my early experience’s editing video.

My association to acting and transition into digital video coincided with Apple’s resurgence - which only happened because of the support and money injected into the company by Hollywood and it’s need to digitise video and have a digital editing platform. Microsoft was not able achieve the processing power (or have the smarts to digitise video) but Steve Jobs did! At the time Gates believed no computer would ever require more than a 64bit processor, ever, and refused to build a system for any market that required it.

So bam! overnight Apple came out of bankruptcy. This is why so many Apple products appear on film and TV. And because Jobs had been bitten once by Gates and had learned the importance of marketing, used the worlds most influential propaganda machine MOVING PICTURES. Having Hollywood icons as supporters and more important, geeky tech types who knew the history and were sick of slow laborious computers…. The rest is history and PC have played catch up ever since and struggled to steal Apple idea’s the way they did windows.

My first gen Powerbook cost $1200 in 1998, it still works (I dropped it down a flight of cement stairs in Thredbo 2000, it required a replacement HD and heaps of superglue). At that time I purchased Final Cut Pro (1) about $4000. But I had spent 2 years learning to edit with Adobe on PC desktop, this apple outperformed the desktop on every front. There was little difference between Adobe and FCP.

2002 - iMac that I traded-up for a Powerbook G4 in 2004 (last powerPC processor) I upgraded to FinalCutStudio for $2500. The G4 is now a paperweight as the cost of a logic board is to high, but it served me well into the next machine. I also bought iLife $100. When a logicboard comes up cheap I’ll bring it back to life - it was a really good machine.

2010 - MacBookPro it has issues but apple have extended the warranty. Cost $4500 + $400 for Aperture and $400 to upgrade FCStudio (last build).

Two months ago I bought a MacPro for $3700. It weighs 27kg and has room to upgrade hardware for years, and years. I’m hoping it’s the last computer I’ll ever need.

I do have a few PC’s laying around but I find them as useless as a GoPro.

Game-on.

Oh yeah, Apple have had customising components as standard since the mid 90’s.
Their Pro desktop systems have always had clip out bits and well priced parts (the pro gear is subsidised by consumer prices).

I just don’t see the user friendliness of Apple devices, I really don’t, every basic Android phone I have ever used has been easier to connect to everything and use in the way I want, even as a USB mass storage if required.  One of my workplaces gave me an Iphone 4S, I wanted to get a picture from my computer onto the phone, what a PITA that was.  I get the results I want from my PC stuff for a fraction of the cost of apple gear and I will continue to save myself time, money and sanity doing this until I die.

I had a go on a mates Galaxy S3 the other day, I think that may be my next phone, it shit all over the Iphone in every way imagineable.

To put a pic from ya computer onto ya iPhone ya just drag and drop via iPhoto into an allocated folder, then sync the phone!!!!!

When its coupled with a Mac, it is so easy it really isn’t funny!!!!!

Much the same as an Android, with Drag and Drop, only the sync is missin!!!!!

I still had to “tell” my Motorola Android what to do first, in order to do the same though!!!!!

With OS6 you don’t even connect the phone or hit sync it’s done over WiFi.

Or if you use iCloud all you iDevices are synced constantly wherever you are. If I take a photo or update my calendar at the beach, it’s on my computer at home within minutes.

My 160GB iPod classic not only plays my music but is used as an external drive that contains (and runs) iTunes, I edit video from it when on the road since the laptop is SSD and rather small so many video folders are stored on there.

The only reason PC are at all user friendly is because the copy mac operating systems. Which is an old argument these days. The way apple operated was so usefull the competitors had no choice.

I recken the Galaxy S3 is a great phone. Epic even!

yeah icloud is the tits!! you can customise your mac so its very similar to a windows pc anyway, you can even install windows on a mac anyway lol

And vice versa. Mac on a PC

I just don’t see the benefit in expensive wine, I really don’t. Sure, some really cheap wine may be totally undrinkable, but generally at a certain price point, it’s all reasonably quaffable. Every bottle pretty much the same basic ingredients, right? So what’s the big deal?

I can ignorantly write off these ‘sommelier fanbois’ who appreciate fine wine (and the price tag it commands) as gullible fools, blindly sucked in by highly effective marketing - or I can consider the possibility that perhaps the ‘problem’ is with me, not them? Perhaps I simply lack the capacity to adequately appreciate all that makes a wine “fine”? Perhaps, instead of jumping at every chance I have to ridicule these people, I open my mind a little to the possibility that we’re all different - and these passionate wine connoisseurs must simply see something in it that I don’t? Perhaps next time I try a ‘reasonably priced’ wine I really enjoy, I won’t make highly outlandish, completely unsubstantiated claims that it shits all over more expensive wine in every way imaginable, and just accept the fact that some people probably have very good reasons for preferring the top shelf stuff?

snowbum_spaz - 16 January 2013 11:25 AM

With OS6 you don’t even connect the phone or hit sync it’s done over WiFi.

Or if you use iCloud all you iDevices are synced constantly wherever you are. If I take a photo or update my calendar at the beach, it’s on my computer at home within minutes.

Yep, never have to even think about how to get the photos across from the phone, ipad, laptop, other family member’s computers etc it just happens. But most people I know who have difficulties are trying to work with 2 different platforms and it’s not quite as easy. It’s not just a computer issue, it’s a mindset too.

PC does exactly what I want it to do, reliably and easily for literally a fraction of the price of Apple, for me, thats the end of the story.  That way I have more money in my pocket for other things I value like expensive red’s and restaurant dinners, new surfboards, snowboards, accessories, more spare coin to spend on trips away.  I don’t see value in Apple products and never will.  My workplace has provided me with laptops and phones for the past 10 years and the only time that has been a problem was when I was given an Iphone, strange as it may seem to Apple fans I actually prefer the Blackberry I currently have to the 4S, I am in the process of trying to convince IT to swap me to a “trial” S3 though.

As far as the phones are concerned, Apple was caught and superceded some years ago and IMO are the ones playing catch up these days much like Toyota and their reputation for reliability, everyone else has caught up and surpassed them in many areas.  Apple and Toyota in this regard are trading on an outdated reputation and people are starting to wake up to it.

^ In your opinion. Millions think different.

what would happen if you installed windows onto a mac and then used it to edit a go-pro ad that you filmed with a drift??

The world as we know it would end and carbon based life forms would be overtaken by new and improved silicon based lifeforms known as Winapriftpros homo computus.