Windows v Mac

[arenean]

Ah, another good rant from Charlie Brooker in The Guardian here!

I admit it: I'm a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can't control it. It's Apple. I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one.

Seriously, stop it. I don't care if Mac stuff is better. I don't care if Mac stuff is cool. I don't care if every Mac product comes equipped a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head. I'm not buying one, so shut up and go home. Go back to your house. I know, you've got an iHouse. The walls are brushed aluminum. There's a glowing Apple logo on the roof. And you love it there. You absolute MONSTER. Of course, it's safe to assume Mac products are indeed as brilliant as their owners make out. Why else would they spend so much time trying to convert non-believers? They're not getting paid. They simply want to spread their happiness, like religious crusaders.

Consequently, nothing pleases them more than watching a PC owner struggle with a slab of non-Mac machinery. It validates their spiritual choice. Recently I sat in a room trying to write something on a Sony Vaio PC laptop which seemed to be running a special slow-motion edition of Windows Vista specifically designed to infuriate human beings as much as possible. Trying to get it to do anything was like issuing instructions to a depressed employee over a sluggish satellite feed. When I clicked on an application it spent a small eternity contemplating the philosophical implications of opening it, begrudgingly complying with my request several months later. It drove me up the wall. I called it a bastard and worse. At one point I punched a table.

Full article here:


Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?

[thunder rising]

1. LInux ... rules ... 'nuf said.

[johncoby2]

2. Uh-oh. Here we go.....

And let the games begin.

Personally I have had a Mac since 1989. Never once have had virus software or a virus attack. That alone is gold. GOLD I tell you!

The only damn thing that is wrong is that they dont break down. I am currently using an 8 year old 600 mHz iMac. Running strong.

Damn thing. If it would break I could get a new one.

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. At Least I Upgraded Mine!

Yeah! To a whopping 1 Ghz! LOL.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I find Macs quite usable, and there's not much wrong with LInux...

but I have a lot of Windows apps that I use and Windows machines are cheap, generally reliable and easily found, borrowed and/or replaced when needed.

What I really, really hate are people who think operating systems are important enough to argue about.

[Confusious]

7. I helped some people who wanted to run linux

After a while I told them " you need to get a MAC "

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Heh! I regularly end up with some Linux geeks who...

love to prod me about how great it is. Windows is for lowlifes who don't know any better.

OK, it's great for this and that and whatever, but I'm always hearing them arguing with each other how to get the Linux boxes working while I'm off getting stuff done on a Windows box.

The Linux distributions drive me crazy. I ran Red Hat years ago, but finally gave it up when I couldn't find a lot of apps for stuff I needed. Couple of months ago I installed Kubuntu just to check it out, and see how many cross-platform apps I could find. The first thing I ran into was a finding simple cross platform word processor so I didn't have to load Open Office, and found out the Ubuntu people don't get along with the AbiWord people. It wasn't that much faster doing what it did when XP was on that machine, either.

Screw it. If Linux had apps I can use that aren't available for Windows, I'd deal with the agida.

[Confusious]

4. Well, if enough people get MACs,

Viruses..

Those windows 7 people creeped me out also.

Too bad a MAC costs 10x more then a PC with the same hardware. I'm not into paying for cool.

I'll just install Linux and KDE.

[Journeyman]

6. Eh. You use the tools you're comfortable with that accomplish the task at hand. . . .

I've used Macs in my graphic design business since shortly after they were introduced. For me, there's no other option. Too much time and money invested in Macs to turn elsewhere at this late date. And no reason, to boot. Macs accomplish everything I desire . . . and then some. Can a Windows machine do as much? I've no idea. I haven't touched one in over a dozen years. But if it works for someone else, who am I to question their choice?

[rpannier]

11. Agree with you

I have a PC, have had for years.
I upgrade my stuff quite easily and fairly cheaply.

I know people with Macs and my attitude is "Good for you."
I knows people who swear by Linux -- good for them

Whatever someone is most comfortable with is the best OS out there

[Wilms]

8. I like the Mac I use at work. And I LOVE when it crashes, bogs down, and glitches.

I just call in our resident Mac evangelist and watch the smug look on his face melt as he squirms.

[MrModerate]

10. Blah-blah-blah. When, O when, will we put these religious arguments behind us?

Potato, potato,
Tomato, tomato,

Let's call the whole thing off.

[BlueJazz]

12. I like them both. Just don't care for the Mac Commercials

...but that's been talked to death.