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Originally Posted by ScotiaBurrell
What if you get more hardware and worse experience? Some things cannot be so easily measured.
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Worse by which standard?
I'm a Windows user through and through. I'm a PC gamer, and I am a hardware geek who likes to open the system and replace/repair part for part when I need to. I don't own a single apple product. The inevitable learning curve of starting on a new platform, the possible compatibility issues I might run into, not to mention the locked down OS and the apps it pushes me to use and the ones I won't be able to use--such as the Sony eReading app that last I looked wasn't available from Apple or the Kobo app that Apple also has crippled--means that the whole Apple experience may not be nearly as convenient for me as if I had gone with a less, eh, xenophobic, platform.
So if we're going by subjective standards, anything iOS is a negative to me. The fact that it has weaker hardware, in addition to being so locked into one specific echo system, just adds to it's many shortcomings.
But all of the above is one of the reasons that specs matter and will continue to matter. Because everything else is subjective. Apple fans love their computers because they "just work". I can barely stand using one (and believe me, I do on a daily basis) because it's so dumbed down and lacking in what it allows me to do beyond opening and using programs that I feel like I'm a passenger in the computer experience instead of the driver. As if Apple has deliberately done their best to keep me as powerless and ignorant as possible. Yeah, I know that it works. So what? My Windows computers work just as well, and I don't recall ever being plagued by all the horrific problems that the above mentioned Apple users mock my preferred platform for.
But the benchmark comparisons between a E8500 and an i7-720Q are objective numbers, and that makes it possible for us to compare them on a more objective level than "my experience", or "how I feel".