Mixed history
Apple has had some stunningly good designs, and some real stinkers.
I remember getting my first Power PC, a 9500(equivalent to an early Pentium). Of course, I bought extra ram, and was dismayed that I had to take out the drive framework to install RAM.
On the other hand I remember one of their earlier pizzabox style designs at a rpess launch, and a non techie demoed putting it together from components(Motherboard, case, power supply, hard disk, monitor keyboard mouse) without any tools and booting it within one minute - brilliant.
I also remember the fact that the early all in one macs (Mac Plus, SE)had some rough metal edges and i often cut myself when disconnecting the power supply.
I don't have a low opinion of proprietary hardware - it works.
James
