Michael Bryan Bell wrote:
> > What I find funny is the fact that PC users tend to bash Mac users openly, but
> > Mac users only bash PC's when they are defending themselves.
>
> Now Kyle, you know that one just isn't true when you think about it. :) If I
> kept a list of every "things microsoft stole from apple" or "why pc's suck"
> or "why a mac is better than a pc", etc...
>
> But man, what mac users do you hang out with? I want to be in your club. ;)
A PC user can argue with me about their platform superiority until they are blue in
the face...and they frequently do.
They argue that the Mac's are too expensive, which used to be true (a IIfx for
$10k?? I know because I bought one retail...it still stings) but is no longer the
case. They argue that they can accompish everything on a PC that a Mac user can.
That's a load of cr*p. ***ALL*** professional design studio's, Music Studio's,
most creative companies and publishing firms...all Mac. Half-assed designers can
try to design on the PC but they are the lower echelon of Graphic and web
designers. I know because I set up all the machines for Goodby Silverstein, and
DDB Needham, and Ketchum, and GGC & Y here in San Francisco. They make almost all
the print and TV ads you see. All Mac. Even the receptionists, and
accountants...Mac. Even the US Navy is changing over to Mac since a PC messed up a
calculation and locked up while trying to divide by zero and misguided a missile a
few years ago.
PC users brag up and tout the beauty of their platform and what it really comes
down to is this: There is only one area that PC's outperform Mac's... and that is
in the arena of Video games. The arguments always come back to that. And reason
that Mac's lag in the video game arena isn't even Apple's fault. It is the fault
of game developers writing code for the platform with the most users. I understand
it. It's a business. Same reason that hackers and Virus authors attack the PC
platform with 60,000 more virii than are written for the Mac (again, that's a plus
for a Mac user). I am glad that game developers write for the PC and then port
successful games over to the mac. If you really think about it, it works out in
our favor. The idiot 13 year old PC gamers (read ***beta testers***) get to try
100 different games each year and only the best 15 ever make it over to the Mac. I
don't mind a bit. I have my MCSE and my A+ certifications. I used to be a PC tech
for cripes sake (although I have always used a Mac as my personal computer).
The real beauty of the Mac is that if I need Windoze, I just boot into Windoze 98
SE on my G4. No problem. It was the whole reason I got VPC. So that I could run
a few Windoze progs. Try that with a PC...g'head... boot your Dell into Mac OS
9.1... not gonna happen. And don't even get me started on Winblows XP. I expect
a lawsuit form Apple. It is sooooooooo OSX "like" that it will probably be the
undoing of Microsoft. The antitrust suit was just the tip of the iceberg. Just
wait...you'll see.
-- Kyle H. Hansen
Apple Certified Technician
www.FrankenMac.com
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the
surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you
multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you
can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet
that follows the same pattern...do you know what it is? A virus. --Agent Smith,
from the Matrix.
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