Veljo,
Enjoyed reading your comments, I am probably in the minority when I say I really like brushed metal, in fact, everyone I've spoken to in the 'real' world likes it too. More brushed metal for me! Get rid of the cheap, tacky plastic! It does seem like Apple are just using commercial products to beta-test ideas, this is disgusting. You wanna use MY Mac to beta test, fine - but don't bloody well charge ME for the inconvenience! THEN tell me I'm getting something better than I had before!
To me, I really feel disappointed by Apple and overall, I'm disappointed a bit by the switch back to Mac. There, I've said it. I never thought I would. The only thing which makes it worthwhile is iLife, it makes many tasks easy and pleasant, as do many Mac applications. I liked Panther, it ran well on my mini and was a joy to use, Tiger is patchy at best. One day it can boot up like lightning, the desktop can appear and it's ready to go, other times it will boot and the desktop appears but another 30 secs elapse before anything is usable because something is still chugging away.. what? where? why? Finder doesn't feel as I think it should, it feels slow, I cannot quantify that and I cannot give an example which is consistantly repeatable.
Consistancy is the word here. There seems to be a lack of it.
I may be wrong but it feels like Apple are far more interested in tempting spoilt brats of the 'iWhatever generation' with more and more and MORE F***ING music players than computers. Yup, another player doing EXACTLY the same job as the previous model, another player to be added to the growing signature lines of the click-kiddies, another player to cast into the drawer with the others within 3 months. Apple, what are you? Because I REALLY do not know. Get your priorities in order. Perhaps the company should split into two or something, one to play it's little music empire games and one to get on with the business of making decent computers. At the moment it feels like a half-arsed effort with the Mac, "Yeah, we'll just palm them off with this crap until we can sell them PCs, erm, I mean Intel Macs, they're so stupid they won't know the difference. Anyway, let's concentrate on something more fun, another music player!"
Apple, you are falling out of favour with me.
Rant over.
