Comments on: Reasons why I don’t own a Mac

By: mccormicky

mccormicky — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:51:29 +0000

Mac or PC?I don’t give a flying F! I just want a laptop.I am comfortable using both so I really don’t care.The mac price tag is outrageous.And right now anylaptop is out of my price range…
I keep putting off buying one because I keep hoping they will get cheap enough for my cheap ass to buy one.Should be all set in another 2 years! Ha ha.
I’m also not cool at all so the cool kids factor doesn’t do much for me.I can write a very long list of all the cool gadgets I don’t own,starting with a mini cooper and ending with an ipod.
Basically I’m a Luddite with a PC.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:00:19 +0000

Tell us how you really feel Josh . I like that you ran some tests. Scientific tests held in a controlled environment are really the best way to determine which is technically “better”.

How did the hardware compare between the two?

By: Josh Stodola

Josh Stodola — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:36:45 +0000

This is simple. I grew up using Macs, I’ve used the more recent ones too, so I need not a disclaimer. Bottom line: Macs are for idiots, and PCs are for people who need to get stuff done. Macs are slower than molasses, unstable, and they are incapable of accomplishing as many tasks in as short a time frame as PCs. There is NOTHING a Mac can do that my PC can’t. There are TONS of things that my PC can do that a Mac can’t. Enough said. If I had enough money to wipe my ass with, then I would purchase a Mac for spite. I will never have enough money to wipe my ass with.

Here are some honest facts about my wonderful machine that could never do me wrong. I have never had to hard boot my PC, that is now over 2 years old. I have never installed an anti-virus software package. I have never gotten a virus. I have never lost any data. I spent $965.17 on it. And best of all, my computer does more than “just work”. It slaves.

I love arguing with people out in public about Mac vs PC, becuase I always win. Mac fanboys have got to be the most dense and ignorant group of morons I’ve ever met, and they never seem to prove their point. They might as well start their own religion where they can congregate and high-five each other.

Finally in college I met one stubborn asshole who wouldn’t let me win the Mac vs. PC argument. I was in a programming course, he was in graphic design. Of course our level of nerdiness prevailed and we held a series of competitions in the dorm. My computer booted/shutdown faster, burned CDs and DVDs faster, loaded numerous programs faster (web browsers, file managers, development environments, word processing programs, and last but not least: Adobe Photoshop), opened/moved/deleted files faster, and the list goes on. We spent an entire snow day doing these tests, and that poor sap got humiliated. It took his Mac 45 seconds to exit Photoshop, for God’s sake! What a joke. I laughed my face off. And I also laugh everytime I see some lonely sucker sitting at the bar by himself with a MacBook in his face. Sheep. I make “bah” noises as I pass him on the way to the restroom.

This is not even an argument. I’m leaving.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:50:47 +0000

@Robin: There are some things that don’t “just work” on Windows, due to over-complication. Like the registry. When I first switched to Windows, being accustomed to the Mac method of deleting a program (just throwing it away), trying to replace my Compaq’s pre-installed Norton with Avast didn’t work very well. I had to spend hours on the phone with tech support just to get Windows Explorer operating almost-properly again, and it’s still prone to crashes if I’m in the Control Panel area for very long. There are advantages and disadvantages to both systems, but system preferences just work better than the registry.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:34:49 +0000

“It just works”
Tell me what doesn’t work on Windows.

The only advantages I see for Apple is the “mini mac”: a computer not bigger than an external harddisc which is very quiet. You can take it easily with you and attach it to any screen. I notice that a lot of photographers use Apple, but I haven’t heard any real arguments for that.

+ I hate that the menu bar is always on top of the screen instead of on top of the window.