I am not a member of the cult of Mac, I have never owned one but I have used one. They aren’t bad, just not my cup of tea. I am a Windows man, but you know what? If you say something bad about Windows, I won’t get my panties in a bunch. The reason for this is that while I might not be a beautiful and unique snowflake, I am also not my operating system. You can criticize my usage of Windows or Microsoft Word, or Adobe Photoshop or whatever games I like to play and I will remain truly unaffected. I don’t care, I learned long ago to form my own opinions and not to put too much stock into those of people that I have and never will meet.
Recently a Japanese engineer panned the Macbook Air on Nikkei Electronics. Brooke Crothers, who lived in Japan and has a seemingly good command of the Japanese language seems more than a little miffed that a Japanese engineer claims the Mac Air is beautiful on the outside but junk on the interior. She goes on in detail about the engineer’s specific complaints which seem more of an ego trip on her part in demonstrating her knowledge of Japanese than anything else. She seems convinced that this engineer is simply lambasting the Air because Japan does not have a similarly thin and sexy model. Could it not be because he genuinely believes that the internals of the Air are garbage? Why does Brooke Crothers even care?
For the record, I am going to say that the Macbook Air looks like a sweet piece of hardware. I won’t buy one because I need a bit more functionality from my systems. I would probably opt for a Lenovo or even a Dell before I bought a Mac. I have too much invested in software and am too comfortable in Windows to really contemplate a switch. Maybe one day I will give it a try, but not on my present budget.
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8 responses
Feb 23, 2008 at 5:06 am
Dumbass Maczealots are like Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Feb 23, 2008 at 5:49 am
C.S. sez: “I won’t buy one because I need a bit more functionality from my systems. I would probably opt for a Lenovo or even a Dell before I bought a Mac.”
You would probably opt, would you A hole gamer? I wouldn’t doubt that for a second. It’s not a gaming machine, and it’s not even that good for porn. What would you do with it?
Feb 23, 2008 at 8:07 pm
i love my mac, and i would not hit a dog in the ass with a windows machine and i agree with zato-san
Feb 23, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Hey schnook, there is no such thing as the cult of Mac so take a hike.
Feb 23, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Hey Sebheletc., that’s a pretty vague blanket statement, just the same as me saying like Dumbass Sebhelyesfarku is like Jehovah’s Witnesses.
This author started his article with a fairly insulting sentence and so I felt like correcting him. YOU need to talk with some reasonable, well-spoken Mac OS users to explain to you why they prefer using a Mac over a PC. I have dozens of reasons. What are your reasons (if true) that you prefer Windows?
Feb 24, 2008 at 9:59 am
Mac users are typically the most severe critics of Apple. Contrary to MS fanbois and other mythmakers, Mac users find actual problems and difficulties and want them remedied. Now.
The MS-paid (directly or indirectly) critics or “freetard” fans, on the other hand, literally make up falsehoods and lies about the Mac and repeat them ad naseum. If someone dares to question their stupidity, they are automatically part of the mythical “cult of the Mac!”
If you say something bad about the Mac, Mac users don’t get their panties in a bunch if it is an accurate critique. Just today I saw a “review” claiming that putting the menu bar at the top of the Finder, rather than at the top of each window, was “bad.” Actually, it’s not. If you have seven windows open it is easy to hit the wrong menu on a Windows box. You can’t do that on a Mac. The review claimed that the close button behaved “wrong” because instead of closing the window and application (as with Windows), it only closed the window. I would say it is a good idea and I prefer that functionality.
So this critic was not actually criticizing the Mac, he was actually saying he had been brought up used to one behavior and was upset that everything didn’t follow that behavior. It was about him, not the Mac, but he was incapable of recognizing it.
He also falsely claimed that the Mac didn’t have a right-click function and he hated the Mac mouse. Actually, the Mac has had such a function for many years and hasn’t shipped a Mac without a mouse that had a right click for a long time.
Do you get the difference? Preference vs. reality. Fact vs. fiction. Mac users point out facts and realities. Non-Mac-using critics focus on preferences and fiction. Pick your side.
Feb 24, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Don, that was excellent. Thank you
Feb 25, 2008 at 9:04 am
Hi Don
It seems that you really know the Mac system, and could perhaps clarify a few assumptions’ I have always had about Mac vs. PC. To clarify my requirements of a system, processing is probably the highest of my requirements, with a second very high part, throughput of data between the different parts of the system (loading files of the hard drive into memory). I don’t really care about games; a computer for me is to earn money.
I believe the older generation Mac’s was driven by a RISC based processor versus all of the windows machine’s at the time that was and still is CISC based. Because of the RISC even though the Mac’s had way less processor cycle’s for a given second, what they could do with those cycle’s was significantly higher, and way more efficient than their CISC counter parts. Users that had insane amounts of data to manipulate and do complex calculation found the Mac a natural choice, because of this.
But recently with the Mac being CISC based I think the difference between Mac and Pc has become a lot more superficial and cosmetic. That statement is not in disrespect for either system, but and observation that I recognize that people have different taste, and styles and prefer different things.
I think that because Mac still has control over their hardware they still do have a little bit of an edge because if you know exactly what hardware you dealing with, you can certainly tweak any OS to take advantage of that fact. But general if you build a machine, from the same quality of components that is found within a Mac you will get some really serious performance on windows or Linux or whole bunch of other OS that I can’t even pronounce, at a substantially lower price.
Please feel free to set me straight on any point or assumption I have made about Mac, my loyalty does not lie with Microsoft or the PC, and I will switch in a heart beat, if I am convinced that the tool, is the right tool for the job at hand.
As always, just my humble opinion
Regards, Rihan Meij
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