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.
Source: Crave
