What computer do you have?

[bennyboy]

What argument? All I've argued is that MacBooks are user-serviceable, as in, you can remove the parts that often need replacing (that is, HDD, RAM, battery).

I never made this into an argument about customer service. That's entirely different. Aractus started moving the goalposts and bringing up stuff completely unrelated to the discussion.

Also, I think you'll find that when it comes to laptops, replacing stuff like the CPU and GPU is hard whichever laptop you use. Unless the industry has changed in the last few years anyway.

Apple do sell their AppleCare warranty which supports all sorts of stuff. I've used it in the past to get a new battery, new power cable, etc.

Okay, okay. My hatred of Apple goes wayyyy back to the first Macs. I was doing an AP computer class (1st year uni credit) in programming, but Apple soooo cock-blocked programmers from having any access to features of the operating system, including graphical routines (drawing shapes etc.) and playing sounds in assembly language. They had a series of technical books you had to buy. So after hours of weedling and begging my school, they bought the books-- which Apple said they'd send "right away," but which arrived months and months later, at the end of the school year. So my computer had about $2000 worth of kindling, and I never got to make my 1st pro app while I was still in high school.

On my Radio Shack Color Computer, you could literally buy a commented print-out of the whole operating system, and you could ALTER IT to function how you wanted. Money at that time was actually made by people making cool new OS mods for that computer. PC computers were similarly easy-- you could buy a non-proprietary book on how to program for the early PCs, and get down to work.

So yeah-- proprietary bullshit, extra costs, shitty service, but all of it in a sparkly, futuristic-looking package.

My opinion of Apple users is that they consider the inflated prices a membership fee to inclusion in a cool vision of the future-- and other users are people who want a product they can use how they want, and for which they can expect reasonably-priced service.