If I was daft enough to buy an iPad, I'd feel pretty sh*t on right now.
Really? I'm not sure why people are that bothered, or if many actually are?
I don't see why a company shouldn't release new products? It's like saying to intel, no we don't want a new processor and getting pissed off when they do? Just because its apple there seems to be some need to see this as negative?
I've got an original iPad and it still does everything I want it to do?
Imagine you'd bought your original iPad. Shelled out £400 and 6 months later they released another iPad, same price, much better specced.
Basically wiping off a massive amount of the resale value before it's time...Kinda like buying an Alfa Romeo.
Using the intel analogy is flawed. They are releasing new stuff all the time. They aren't just refreshing one product over and over every other month.
They release new products, faster and more expensive than the last.
I disagree, Apple are well known for releasing upgraded products in this way, far more so than Intel but it is the same process. The sad truth is the Apple fans don't care and have money to burn. They just want the latest and greatest. Eventually some do get the idea that they are being pushed through the tech grinder, but then again, everyone else is to an extent.
The only thing I've ever bought from Apple is a keyboard, which wasn't as good as my old IBM one 
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One of the daftest posts for awhile TBH. If you really believe this you're kidding yourself. Yes there's a minority like this, but no different than there are fanboys of every brand. Most Apple users I know are average people who buy Apple because they know it will work for 4/5 years without any need to upgrade. It's covered by the best warranty policy there is on the market, and any software upgrades are free and easy to install. It works, it's easy and more often than not its years ahead of the competition. You're peddling stereotypes from South Park and the Daily Mail - and it's ridiculous. There are far, far more people upgrading their latest intel CPU with every release than there are people upgrading their iPads or MacBooks.
Agreed, there is still a lot of people that wont touch apple because it is apple, and have thoughts based on other things without even trying it.
Not perfect, nothing is, but totally right about how solid they are.
I will spend more money buying a macbook pro because I know when I use it day in day out it wont be broke in a few months time!
Based on what? It's built in the same factory as Dell and Acer, by the same people.
It's just a PC in a fancy case these days, there's nothing different about it other than the morons who happily pay over the odds for a bit of aluminium.
Lets look for a moment at the Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook. Screen quality aside, that's every bit as well made as a Mac. Same with the Lenovo X1, and the Dell XPS Ultrabooks.
There is just no need to pay that much for a PC in a fancy case.
I've got a Dell Inspiron 17 that I got 2.5 years ago. I've changed the HDD for something bigger and took advantage of some cheap ram and took it to 16gb. Which with a PC is easy.
Can't remember the last time a software update charged me, and I could have 3 year next day business replacement warranty if I wanted to shell out another £100 on top of the cost of my laptop.
Sure, it's made of plastic but it's nowhere near dead and has daily use, dog standing on it and chucked about in the car.
I'll be changing it next year, as 17" is too big. It still won't be a Mac, as I can get almost every single one of it's "benefits" in an Intel Ultrabook for a fraction of the cost.
