When I stopped playing EQ my need for a Windows based home computer went away. Last April I bought a MacBook (the cheapest one) and I can even play WoW on it. So it is fair to say that I am well and truly in the Apple camp. For my birthday in December Marie bought me an iPod Touch which love for my music (over 5000 tracks on there) and my photos (almost 20000 on there now) and the apps are useful sometimes, but fun mostly.
All that said I have a work provided mobile phone, a Blackberry Pearl 8100 and it is a very robust phone but the tariff that IBM have us on is gprs only i.e. rubbish for internet use. A good friend of mine gave me a present this time last year of a Blackberry Bold 9000 and I went with O2 on a Simplicity 20 month to month contract with an unlimited Blackberry internet usage deal which costs me £20 a month. My good friend recently sent me the new Bold 9700 and it is great. My primary use of the internet on the Blackberry is email (linked to my googlemail account), facebook, twitter - I browse very little on it, the Bold is not great for that as it has a small screen compared with the iPhone. If you want browsing and need a bigger screen then the new Blackberry Storm 2 might be worth a look.
So by employer allocation and mega generous friendship I sit in the Blackberry camp and the iTouch keeps my wanting for an iPhone away.
Finally, regarding iTunes - I don't know why so many people knock it. It is the best and easiest to use "MP3" file manager that I have come across and I don't just buy my music from Apple. I buy from Amazon, Tesco, Sky and others - and most download managers provided by these other companies recognise that iTunes is becoming pervasive and automatically add their downloads into the iTunes library for you.
One of the biggest benefits I have found of moving into the Apple camp for my computing needs is that the computer just works. I don't get anywhere near the number of 'blue screen' or 'crash' events as I did on my windows PC.
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timeasmymeasure
Apple and Blackberry Pie
Date: 2010-02-15 12:26 am (UTC)When I stopped playing EQ my need for a Windows based home computer went away. Last April I bought a MacBook (the cheapest one) and I can even play WoW on it. So it is fair to say that I am well and truly in the Apple camp. For my birthday in December Marie bought me an iPod Touch which love for my music (over 5000 tracks on there) and my photos (almost 20000 on there now) and the apps are useful sometimes, but fun mostly.
All that said I have a work provided mobile phone, a Blackberry Pearl 8100 and it is a very robust phone but the tariff that IBM have us on is gprs only i.e. rubbish for internet use. A good friend of mine gave me a present this time last year of a Blackberry Bold 9000 and I went with O2 on a Simplicity 20 month to month contract with an unlimited Blackberry internet usage deal which costs me £20 a month. My good friend recently sent me the new Bold 9700 and it is great. My primary use of the internet on the Blackberry is email (linked to my googlemail account), facebook, twitter - I browse very little on it, the Bold is not great for that as it has a small screen compared with the iPhone. If you want browsing and need a bigger screen then the new Blackberry Storm 2 might be worth a look.
So by employer allocation and mega generous friendship I sit in the Blackberry camp and the iTouch keeps my wanting for an iPhone away.
Finally, regarding iTunes - I don't know why so many people knock it. It is the best and easiest to use "MP3" file manager that I have come across and I don't just buy my music from Apple. I buy from Amazon, Tesco, Sky and others - and most download managers provided by these other companies recognise that iTunes is becoming pervasive and automatically add their downloads into the iTunes library for you.
One of the biggest benefits I have found of moving into the Apple camp for my computing needs is that the computer just works. I don't get anywhere near the number of 'blue screen' or 'crash' events as I did on my windows PC.