NearWessSideHussra wrote:
Jobs destroyed Apple's desktop and laptop product lines when he returned in the late 90's.
First laptop I ever had was the Apple Mac Powerbook 3400, which came out in early 1997. Jobs was in the process of returning to Apple at that time (Next purchase etc), but the 3400 was based on the
5300 line of apple powerbooks and was truly an "insanely great" machine. I triple booted Mac/Windows (via SoftWindows emulator) and a version of Linux for PowerPC architecture some guy in Italy threw together.
Jobs comes back, reduces quality and increases prices. Apple laptops lost their edge over Windows laptops. Various mac forums have sticky threads for all the issues people have with just about every laptop Apple's released since Jobs returned. Everything from battery to hard drive to motherboard issues. Many white iBooks from the early 2000's died just over a year after purchase, requiring either a new mainboard or a new hard drive or both. And apple did nothing to compensate people or recall the defective products
And when Jobs moved the entire Apple desktop and laptop product line to intel i686 or whatever architecture, he rendered Apple's computers nothing but over-marketed windows boxes. More fashion choice than anything else. No longer did you have superior hardware combined with an OS tweaked for that particular hardware, but instead gimmicks like unibody lamp-style desktops with no upgrade path built on the same hardware as computers costing 1/5th the price.
I didn't know Bill Gates posted here.
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