The writer seems to assume too many things and makes too many mistakes. If he wants a system that does what he needs, then maybe he should build one himself.
There were issues he mentioned:
-noisy card reader: clearly an assembly problem, but it's strange that nobody ever tought of using soft spacers under the screws
-delivery and door bell: clearly a problem with the age of the writer, much like his bad eyesight
-euro connector: he should have bought the speakers with the right connector on the webpage
-vista problem: that's clearly the problem of creative and not even microsoft can do anything about it (they don't have the source for the drivers either)
-thin case: this is the result of cost and environmental impact reduction, today almost every computer case has this 'problem'
-firewire: the intel motherboard chipset he choose doesn't have firewire, but adding a firewire card would be the simple option (since then also available on the dell website)
And one more thing about apples: Apple computers are just pc-s these days, so there is really no difference between a dell, a hp or an apple, except that apples are allowed to run macos-x too, which is an easy to use unix variant. (mach kernel, nextstep desktop, bsd utilities and gnu tools) An alternative to buying an apple is assembling a linux system. And since macos-x is almost as compatible with non apple hardvare as any linux distro, you should compare macos-x with modern linux and not windows. Most people buy macs because they don't need more or don't want to learn how to use anything else, which is pretty important. The downside is a big difference in price. The famous stability of apple machines come from the fact that there are almost no third party drivers for macos-x. As soon as you start using one, the stability of a mac pc (intel mac) is the same as any other pc running windows.
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The writer seems to assume too many things and makes too many mistakes. If he wants a system that does what he needs, then maybe he should build one himself.
There were issues he mentioned:
-noisy card reader: clearly an assembly problem, but it's strange that nobody ever tought of using soft spacers under the screws
-delivery and door bell: clearly a problem with the age of the writer, much like his bad eyesight
-euro connector: he should have bought the speakers with the right connector on the webpage
-vista problem: that's clearly the problem of creative and not even microsoft can do anything about it (they don't have the source for the drivers either)
-thin case: this is the result of cost and environmental impact reduction, today almost every computer case has this 'problem'
-firewire: the intel motherboard chipset he choose doesn't have firewire, but adding a firewire card would be the simple option (since then also available on the dell website)
And one more thing about apples: Apple computers are just pc-s these days, so there is really no difference between a dell, a hp or an apple, except that apples are allowed to run macos-x too, which is an easy to use unix variant. (mach kernel, nextstep desktop, bsd utilities and gnu tools) An alternative to buying an apple is assembling a linux system. And since macos-x is almost as compatible with non apple hardvare as any linux distro, you should compare macos-x with modern linux and not windows. Most people buy macs because they don't need more or don't want to learn how to use anything else, which is pretty important. The downside is a big difference in price. The famous stability of apple machines come from the fact that there are almost no third party drivers for macos-x. As soon as you start using one, the stability of a mac pc (intel mac) is the same as any other pc running windows.