I’m fairly tolerable of idiots. I mean, I call them on it if they bother me with their uselessness, but for the most part I really don’t care. For example, I have a mac fanatic friend. He enjoys explaining to me how macs work, which is great, because I don’t know shit about the mac OS. I take this as a learning experience. And then he starts talking hardware and I have to sit through a conversation that goes like this “Man, I have 4 cpu’s in my computer. That’s how you know mac’s are amazing. Intel has what, one? or two? I have 4.”
Dude. WTF? I tried asking him if he meant a quad-core cpu, because you know, that shit is easy to confuse. But no. He meant 4 cpu’s. Then came a rather long conversation where I explained to him that he was talking BS. I then proceeded to explain to him that intel supplied the cpu for mac. He was crushed, but that didn’t stop him from saying that mac’s don’t get viruses.
Hold on bitch. STFU. It’s next to impossible to get a virus on a mac for the simple reason that mac’s run a modified version of FreeBSD. Which, you know, is a modified version of Unix, which is you know, like the a safe. That’s right, your “awesome” mac, is really just built on Unix. The biggest geek tool out there. Oh also, here’s a link for you: Read this you smug bastards.
Another comment I love hearing about is “Who cares what it’s built on? Mac took it and made it pretty. And it costs so much less than windows!” True. But MacOS runs on MacHardware, which is fucking expensive. Don’t get me wrong, if something is worth it I’ll go out and spend the money. But there’s no way in hell I’m spending 1700 on a laptop because it looks pretty and has a unibody. I get that you use it daily, but I’d prefer something like a Thinkpad. You can throw that shit at someone in self defence and then you can pick it up and get right back to work. Lets see your shiny mac do anything but get you mugged. Now I can admit that the MacOS looks great! I mean, just, wow you know? Mac has come a long way. They’re on what? Version 10 now? Windows is on version 7. And we just caught up to you bitches. You remember what your OS looked like version 7? Not to mention that while you spent more time arguing over fonts, windows became the standard everywhere douchebags don’t live.
Mac fanboys also need to learn when to STFU. Like when someone says something that completely contradicts what you say, and then proceeds to show you that what they said was true. Don’t get me wrong, ALL fanboys are technically guilty of this, or else you wouldn’t be fanboys. But really. When I fucking correct you about ECC, don’t ask me what it means. You lose all cred.
Macs are great for design. Wrong bitch. Macs are great for design if you’re rich. Nowdays, Nvidia is great for design. Get with the times. (Coincidentally, Nvidia is also great for design if you’re not rich. Go figure.)
I can do anything on my Mac you can. Oh wait, except play a game. I’d stop there, but I don’t want to. You know what else you can’t do? Tinker. You can’t step into a Mac and replace a faulty RAM. Heck, you don’t even KNOW if your ram is faulty. It could just be your hard-drive dying. Maybe it’s just a loose psu? Who knows. Not you. Go drive to a Mac store and get their geniuses to take a look at it. Got a windows problem? Take it to your neighbour. Chances are he knows a shitload more about computers than you do and he will do it for a pizza.
I can give credit where credit is due though. I’m not ALL about bashing Macs. I mean, sure I can argue that “they’re not for me” or that they’re too expensive (which they are), but I’d prefer to just end with this. Mac fanboys need to learn about their shit before they start talking it up. If you KNOW your stuff, you KNOW that it’s not the most awesomest system around. You ALSO know that linux is above most people’s grasp and Macs are expensive for the public. This means you KNOW why Windows won, and will continue to win any OS wars. Think of all the Mac users living in the GTA. My company uses ONLY windows. There are more of us in one building.
Ok, so now that you see your OS is nothing more than ANYONES OS, what about your iPod? It’s just a really expensive mp3 player. No two ways about it. Actually it’s worse than mp3, you know why? It relies on that PoS music management system they call iTunes. Even iPod fans can agree that iTunes sucks. If music management software were people, iTunes would be the prostitute. When you tried to sleep with her, you also slept with everyone she ever slept with. It gets so bad she actually bogs you down and you can’t remember why you paid for her to begin with. Oh yea. You didn’t.
The iPhone? Dude. It can’t copy and paste. That’s been around since.. forever. And you can’t do it. Well done. Actually, that’s not entirely true. It’s what prompted me to write this piece. iPhone OS 3.0 now has copy-paste functionality! Yay! The headline touted “This is how updates should be done”. No actually. Basic functionality? That shouldn’t be added via update. That should be there from the start. That’s like windows mobile going “Oh erm.. here’s our os.. but.. no copying and pasting.. we haven’t quite worked that out yet” Oh wait. That’s what the iPhone did. Hey, even the G1 has copy-paste. Took you THREE versions to work that in Apple? Well done, you’re all geniuses.
Peace bitches.
Easter Egg. This post is now 1024 words long.
*Update* (1. Ignore anything from now on in your word counts)
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/03/19/theres-a-hole-in-safari-dear-liza/ Take that.
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Lmao wow, your MacBoy friend must’ve really got you all riled up to get such a schpiel going.
I unfortunately don’t know enough about computers either way to really argue. Any decisions I make are based on the few things that I might want out of a computer.
That being said, laptops are waaaay down on my list of things to want. I now want a good old sturdy desktop that I can Frankenstein to bits.
I used my laptop like a desktop now anyways since it’s decided to revoke its wireless card -.-
I feel dirty when I use my mac… like I’m doing something very wrong. Even HAVING a mac makes me feel cheap… cheap in the worth sense, as I paid way too much for it to feel cheap monetarily. It has trouble connecting to the net, I can’t figure out why, my touch pad is faulty, my mouse button is broken, and I really don’t feel like going to the mac store to get it fixed – I’m afraid to be seen there, to be honest. Apple and all of its divisions is a**holes. That is all.
@Imdolien – The thing is, it wasn’t even him, it was just a random article that I saw in reader stating that the iPhone OS 3.0 was out and how it was the perfect way to make an update and how Microsoft should take a page out of Apple’s book and it just pissed me off. MacBoys are ALL the same.. As for the way you decide on a computer, that’s exactly how it SHOULD be decided on. I can build a desktop for 1/2 the price of a Macbook pro that’s at least twice as good
Talk to me when you get back!
@Nick – There’s nothing wrong with Macs themselves, it’s just the fact that they’re all so elitist. Like if you’re going to be elitist, make sure it’s something that is actually HARD, you can’t be elitist about your OS if you’re using an OS who’s motto is “It Just Works”. That’s like being the smartest kid with down syndrome.
Wow. This is one hell of a post. I think the part about people not knowing when to shut up is true for every arrogant cow who lacks knowledge in a field that they choose to take some sort of bogus ‘pledge of allegiance’ to and, as if that wasn’t the height of idiocy already, throw their sick, ill-founded admiration of it in everyone else’s face just for show. It’s a complete waste of time to deal with people who so clearly cannot even be bothered listen to what you’re saying for no valid reason whatsoever. You’re right. They do lose all credibility… as basic cognitive humans. I find it almost fun when people disagree with your for valid reasons and debating an issue becomes fun.
I had a conversation with a friend about this a while ago. And he ended up exposing a lot of mac insecurities to me, which I had no idea of before. I think macs seduce everyone temporarily on an aesthetic basis… but that’s pretty much the only outstanding quality they have… and beyond that, their bordering compulsive ‘cleanliness’ is obnoxious. Perhaps they’re just created that way to distract from the complications hidden within. *shrugs*
Hehe. Overall I like the passion of this post. I learnt a fair deal. =) Thanks.
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