erm, dude, longevity has little to do with improper handling.. besides fixing an iPhone glass crack is a £10 job that you can do yourself.

you're thinking again as a gamer. Gamers will never love Macs because they're not moddable. I think a lot of people will prefer Macs as soon as game clouding will start to be distributed on a broader scale.

Of course the components are the same, what did you expect, Kryptonite processors? Apple develops their MoBos though, and that makes the difference.

Have a look at the interiors of a macbook air, it's a masterpiece of engineering, plus they offer you product warranties, support and even the possibility to run your beloved Windows if you really want to, all in a package which has specifically developed together with the OS, to ensure performance, safety and longevity.

Our procurement team has listed a looong list of advantages of Macs over PCs, you pay more for it yes, but it will last longer.

No I didn't, I was just showing that a Mac is the same as an equivalent store bought PC, just more expensive.

Really? I guess I never knew that. Although, some PC manufacturers do make their own too, most use other brands like Gigabyte, ASUS, MSI, ect.

That is definitely true, but you should understand that a PC has ALL of those to! They can run a different OS besides Windows, they (store bought PC's) have product warrenties, free support, ect. ect. its all the same.
You seem to think that a $1,000 MAC will magically blow a equivalent but less expensive PC away. But thats not true because they are the same thing.

I am NOT saying that Macs are bad or inferior, I'm just showing you that there really isn't ANYTHING unique to them that makes Macs a better...

Thats fine with me, really, I don't care if you're team uses Macs and not PCs.




EDIT. Lets get this thread back on topic before it gets locked/deleted.

tech moves fast....6 months is a long time in the world of hardware dev...

i have been building my own systems for years....i can upgrade when i choose...

its a freedom....i dont have to buy a pc. just to upgrade...i can run software of my choice.....

i dont have to put up with store pre installed bloat ....but in the end its what you want the machine to do, not the name on the box...

brands are for cattle..triumph

I read a lot of applism and microsoftism here. LOL. I have never imagined that one can make an ideology out of one's preference for a device brand.

I don't have apple stuff (except those that one actually can eat) as they are too expensive, a lot of software is incompatible and I prefer to have a say in how I build my computer and its software components.

But let the people buy Apple product like crazy if they like. Keeps the economy rolling.

@Baron: actually true. I have a five year warranty on my pc. That is more than for my car ...

Agreed. I didn't mean to come across as a Microsoft Fanboi in my earlier posts.

Actually, my first PC (the one I have now) I built myself in early 2010.
I bought the best parts I could afford on my small budget and made my computer the way I wanted, and later when I had more cash, I "upgraded" the GPU to a Radeon HD 5750 lol.
So now I have a decent rig that is customized to do what I want it to do, and that can play most games on medium settings. :-)

I definitely recommend that people build their own computers, Regardless of what brand, OS, ect. they prefer.
That way you can learn a new skill, save money, and make you're computer the way you want to. :-P



About the OP, I think that it is impossible to accurately tell what technology will be like in the future.

Remember, people in the early 20 century thought that people in the 21 first century would have flying cars, jet packs, houses on the moon, ect. :-P

It is all relative. I have a friend got a network manager job for a similar sized company. Spent every working hour putting out fires (service tickets). The situation improved when users at desktops were blocked from downloading and installing software or running utilities.

There were so many desktop users, and some were sharp enough to work around the lockouts. The service tickets persisted, but at a much lower level. My friend quit the job and moved onto a better life.

There are some fires you just can't put out.