I used to support apple, but now they kinda suck. I don't really play computer games, but apple is ridiculous. My main gripes are the price and the chips. The powerpc chips were boss. The only flaw is that they always added some subprocessor thing like the g4's "velocity engine." Now as time goes by, there are less and less programs that will run on g4 chips let alone the whole powerpc platform. Intel chips are great. Now you can run both OSX and Windoze. But you still cant run OSX on a non apple machine. Wait, unless you have that super secret version of OSX that runs on PC architecture. I think it's time to give up the OS so anyone can use it, regardless of architecture. Stop being Nazis like that, Apple. You make enough money on iPods and shit.
As for the price, the newest apple i own is a powermac g4. Apple computers are fucking expensive. If i could afford a brand new apple i'd buy one. But for now i settle with used. When apple came back with the imac around 1999, they were the shit. The quality of the product was awesome. I recently was in an apple store and was not impressed particularly with the quality of the products. The new keyboards suck balls. It doesn't feel natural and feels cheap. The styling is lame and boring, unlike the imacs of yesteryear. The iPhone was all hype. iPods are overrated. Get rid of the fucking "i" shit. Here's a thought for apple: I challenge you to make a computer with a 150 gig,HD, 1 GB ram, at least a 1 GHz processor, support for 3 additional hard drives, at least four free whatever the equivalent of pci and agp slots are now, mouse, keyboard, and monitor for $600. And then I'll laugh "Ha, ha, ha!" because i know it cant be done.
There you have it. Lower quality, ever changing chips, boring styling, and repeated use of the "i" is getting stale. I hate to say it, but I think that this Apple has reached its expiration date. But that's just what I think.