Top 7 reasons I don’t use a Mac
7) You can’t upgrade the hardware except at purchase time. Minor upgrades like ram and hard drives aren’t the same thing as putting a 10x more powerful video card in.
6) The cases just aren’t that pretty or even particularly unique. They’re barely different from other notebooks and PC cases come in so many shapes, sizes and colours anyone who wanted one could build a Mac clone.
5) Being able to switch operating systems by shaking your weiner in front of the camera is a feature people don’t need unless the base operating system is inferior. Windows and the software available on it does pretty much everything you can think of. Windows itself would do more, but it would be anti-competitive if Microsoft shipped what Apple and Ubuntu are allowed to with their operating system.
6) iTunes is such a crappy application I have no faith in the rest of their suite. It’s slow, laggy and awkward to use. Sorry if you think otherwise.
3) I like to maximise windows. I also like to maximise videos. Add Quicktime to the list of Apple software that makes me hate them. $30 to play full screen video, a feature of pretty much every other free and commercial media player from the last decade? Right.
2) The culture is just plain irritating and unattractive. Nobody buys a PC so they can sit in a circle playing with their neighbour. A computer and operating systems are just tools to get to the applications you actually *want* to use. I spend nearly no time at all actually using Windows features, or just playing with the operating system. I wouldn’t feel comfortable joining a society that is obsessed with the second you see an operating system between deciding you want to open an application, and that application opening.
1) I’m not a trendy, hip, wanker.
Nice! I love it!
Can I add one more? The price is so high that you could upgrade your PC at least 2x.
Nanishma
May 25, 2007
What a looser. Your probly just being paid my microsoft 2 say this bull. You know you really want a mac and are just pissed you can’t get one right now. I’m no mac fanboy, i prefer linux, but you know when you see your buddies using a computer with a real OS like linux or mac your green with envy. Either that or you like restarting your computer every five minuets.
Linuxroxmisox
May 25, 2007
I don’t work for Microsoft. You can believe it or not. I do however work with MS technologies on a daily basis – Server 2003, Sql Server 2005 and the .NET Framework.
Aside from updates requiring a restart, which is scheduled to occur at 3am anyway, the only time I restart is when my battery dies.
As for “real” OS … you can read my opinion on what an OS should be. It sounds a lot like Linux, except with actual involvement and support from Microsoft and Apple, which would make it assloads better and take it assloads further than Ubuntu fans dream about.
cynicallyspeaking
May 25, 2007
You are probaly a one track user, being a designer and using autocad on a windows platform right next to my super stable os photoshop and illustrater suites works fantastic. I’m not here to say u are wrong or right just judgemental and selfish.
Christopher
May 28, 2007