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| One thing I find interesting about Apple's strategy is that all their computers now come with exactly the same ports. MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, iMac, and soon Mac Pro will all be expandable using USB 3 and Thunderbolt. Once you've bought into that ecosystem, you will be able to swap computers in and out easily, letting you determine which combination of price/performance/portability is right for you at any given time. They are doing a similar thing on the software side. Once you buy into the Apple ecosystem, you get all your media, iWork documents, photos, and apps synched across your computer, phone, iPad, and Apple TV. Each device is just one appliance you can use to access the ecosystem. You can have multiple devices and jump between them easily. Talk about ease-of-use. Of course, the problem is that maybe you find something about the Apple ecosystem too limiting. Apple is always going to have limitations, because they are targeting the mass market and because having a limited number of configurations has always been a key to keeping their platform cohesive and reliable. 64 GB of RAM and two GPUs would have been heaven not too long ago, and I seem to remember people doing some pretty quality work even before it was possible to equip a computer in that fashion. If what you're doing puts you in the rarified group of people who must have more, then by all means, jump ship. Apple is doing what they're doing for a reason. If you don't like it, don't use it. All the apps we talk about here are virtually identical across platforms anyway and now the licenses are platform-agnostic as well. What's the fuss? Brendan |
