You Know Apple is Surging When…
Posted on October 31st, 2007 in Uncategorized | 8 Comments »
A Windows user tries to make the case that Macs aren’t good computers.
The Macintosh computer is the emasculated plaything of the effete, limp-wristed parlor liberals who have too much money and too little sense. Hopefully, when reality hits, it will go the way of POG caps, Beanie Babies, and Pokémon. Sure, itâs cute. It is, after all, just a very expensive paperweight.
The author, Harvard sophomore Eugene Kim, argues that Macs are too expensive, insufficiently powerful, don’t have enough games made for them, and break easily. (Huh?)
Hmmmm. Try telling that to my friend whose couple-months-old Dell just died on her. She spent four hours on the phone with a guy in India. His adviceâwhich, gasp, she followedâwas to erase her hard drive and everything on it.
And she wasn’t even using Vista!
Now, Mr. Kim is comping the Crimson, so he must be forgiven a little hyperbole. But do we really need a little gay-baiting (“effete, limp-wristed…) in there?
And, oh, by the way, Mr. KimâI just installed Leopard on both my Macs, and it’s running beautifully. How’s that Vista thing working for you? (Whichever version you shelled out for….)
8 Responses
10/31/2007 9:57 am
Richard - forget the gay-baiting and the adjectives; answer the power question. His point is: all style no substance. Everybody knows Apple looks best, and is best at showing off your “lifestyle” — photos, music, etc. But how about bigtime number crunching hard drive stuff? Business apps? Movie editing? raphic design? Desktop publishing? Any opinion on the across the board usability of Apples for power computing?
10/31/2007 1:24 pm
Well, I’m no expert on Windows machines. But as to Macs’ abilities, we publish 02138 on ’em, and most every magazine in the world is published on them, and most bands that use computers to make music use Macs, and I think Macs are pretty dominant in the filmmaking community,and I think most photographers use Macs…
10/31/2007 2:30 pm
Well, golly! Aren’t most photographers and filmmakers and writers gay? Isn’t that the point? Apple users are gay. Gay as the day is long. Gay and……happy with their Apples.
Kim threatened Richard’s manhood. hehehe
10/31/2007 2:51 pm
Takes more than that to threaten my, um, manhood.
10/31/2007 3:44 pm
The right click function alone gives PCs the edge…
10/31/2007 7:10 pm
My biggest problem with Kim’s article is this statement -
“at 6.8 pounds, itâs nearly as hefty as an AK-47 assault rifle”
huh?
Weird, just weird comparison.
10/31/2007 10:50 pm
I am not an IT guy, but computers are essential for my work. I also had some responsibility for IT administration at Harvard for a while. I have used PCs since the late 70s, did beta testing for all the early word processing programs, and always thought the MACs were for play not work. (The views of my friends in graphic design gave me pause, but I thought they were just anti establishment). But VISTA was the last straw. I have now converted to MA, and am surprised and a little embarrassed by how enthusiastic I am. The machine is in every way superior. More stable, more secure, more creative, no less powerful-and it runs all the Windows programs actually faster (on Parallels”) than my PC did. Richard has good taste in machines too, it seems. (if not in rock groups)
11/2/2024 2:52 am
Macs RULE!