I hate Macs

The Guardian ^ | 2/5/07 | Charlie Brooker

[BunnySlippers]

PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people.

Commie ...

[tubebender]

I'm using a mouse with at least 2 buttons and a scroll wheel. The third button makes the cursor disappear and I haven't been able to figure that out in 2 years.

Those ads were written for a certain demographic and it's not the geriatrics I run around with...

[Fester Chugabrew]

One of the funniest things I've ever seen...

To me the ads are like an episode of Seinfeld. The humor zips right over my head, leaving me wholly unimpressed.

[Vermonter]

If you're using a third party mouse, go to the manufacturer's website and download the Mac version of their software for that mouse and then set the button/wheel preferences using their software (it should show up in the Mac preferences panel. This hould solve the disappearing cursor problem for you and make the mouse more useful. I personally have the scroll wheel button set to reload a page.

[Clemenza]

Mac is to computers what the Mini or Prius is to cars.

Steve Jobs is an a-shole and a Syrian to boot. ;-)

[vox_freedom]

Thanks for the ping, and for those who don't want/need to slog through the whole thing, here is the final excerpt -- LOL:

Of course, that hasn't stopped me slagging off Mac owners, with a series of sweeping generalisations, for the past 900 words, but that is what the ads do to PCs. Besides, that's what we PC owners are like - unreliable, idiosyncratic and gleefully unfair. And if you'll excuse me now, I feel an unexpected crash coming.

[Richard Kimball]

British dry wit? That's humor. Like the funny kind. Only different.

[jwh_Denver]

"The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye."

[jacquej]

You sure about that? I am an old lady... about 63, and love my two button Apple mouse! I am left handed, and every other two button mouse I have tried has been too big and two awkward for me to use.

And, just so you know, my sis recently retired from HP (software engineer) and has switched to a Mac after 30 years dealing with PCs. She "hates" to enjoy her iMac so much, by the way...

[speekinout]

Read the very end -

This week: Charlie watched some episodes of Larry Sanders (on his PC). He played the customised Fawlty Towers map for Counterstrike (on his PC). He listened to the Windows startup jingle every 10 minutes as his PC repeatedly rebooted itself.

Funny.

[antiRepublicrat]

Mac is to computers what the Mini or Prius is to cars.

Have you ever driven a Mini Cooper S? Those suckers are pretty quick, and quite fun.

[SunkenCiv]

:')

[peteram]

Oh, most definately sure. I have a background in marketing (work in the broadcasting field) and it is certainly plain to see by these commercials that they believe that the younger crowd would be more apt to buy a Mac than the older crowd (present company excluded, of course ;-)

I'm sure they have marketing guru's much more plugged in than myself, but it seems to me that they are making a mistake by almost alienating a large block of potential customers. The Baby-Boomers (of which I am one) are still the largest block of consumers out there - even as we grow more....refined. :-)

As a matter of fact, I have a 58 year old friend who just got tired of the spyware and virus problems with his old notebook PC so he intentionally crashed the hard drive, threw the system out and bought an Ibook. He loves it!

[big'ol_freeper]

Interesting, but ultimately wrong. I own both PC's and Mac's. Mac's are exponentially better machines than PC's (I know nothing of Vista though...probably never will). Anyone who can't sit down and compare these machines side-by-side and come to that conclusion is just a kool-aid drinker in the personal computer wars, or just plain..well I won't go there. Not to say there are not Mac kool-aid drinkers too, but they happen to be correct without actually comparing the products.

[cowboyway]

I saw that a poll thought the guy was a pretentious asshat and people felt somewhat sorry for the PC and identified themselves with him.

Who responds to polls? Liberals.

And what do liberals like? Victims.

Which is exactly what PC users are. And since, statistically, 90% +- of the viewers of the ads are PC users, it's logical that they would identify with the PC guy and feel sorry for him, which means the ads are working.

BTW, I think the ads are funnier than hell.

[smith288]

Who responds to polls? Liberals.

And what do liberals like? Victims.

Which is exactly what PC users are. And since, statistically, 90% +- of the viewers of the ads are PC users, it's logical that they would identify with the PC guy and feel sorry for him, which means the ads are working.

Wow... Nice generalizations there bud.

[cowboyway]

Wow... Nice generalizations there bud.

Was that your rebuttal?

[aruanan]

What's all this venom that anti-Mac people have over the second mouse button? I've seen several people list that as the primary reason not to get one.

My Mac mouse has a left and right button without buttons. I don't know what the problem is.

[highball]

I don't know either, but I have read several anti-Mac rants that list the mouse as a reason not to use it.

Bizarre.

[smith288]

Yea, Apparently im a liberal victim because I use a PC?

If you knew what you were talking about you would know the poll was a viewer group who were polled not phone calls.

I couldnt care less if you used a leapster, a commodore 64, a mac or a pc. I just think generalizing users of certain pcs is indicative of your personality.